October 2012

Volume 37 Issue 10

/Editorial/

Miguel Laufer

THE SOCIAL PERCEPTION OF SCIENCE

722
 /Articles/

João Varajão, Jorge Pinto, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Luís Amaral

SCORING MODEL FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL PERFORMANCE OF CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICERS (in Portuguese)

724

Antonio Baena-Extremera, Antonio Granero-Gallegos, Pablo Luque Valle and Socorro Rebollo Rico

ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MEASURES IN ADVENTURE RACES IN SPAIN (in Spanish)

729

María Elena Luna-Morales

DETERMINANTS OF THE MATURING PROCESS OF THE MEXICAN RESEARCH OUTPUT: 1980-2009 (in English)

736

Daniela I. Gallardo-Correa, José R. Hernández-Barajas, Raúl G. Bautista-Margulis and Agustín R. Uribe-Ramírez

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF THE INCINERATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC SOLID WASTE IN AN PROTOTYPE FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTOR (in Spanish)

743
/Reports/

Cristian Mardones, Jorge Jiménez and Marcela Alegría

COST-EFFECTIVE REDUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS IN THE METROPOLITAN CONCEPCION, CHILE: NATURAL GAS VS END-OF-PIPES TECHNOLOGIES (in Spanish)

751

Petra Beatriz Navas H. and Armando Carrasquero-Durán

KINETIC AND THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF REFINED SOYBEAN OIL AUTOOXIDATION IN THE PRESENCE OF A PONSIGUÉ EXTRACT (Ziziphus mauritiana) (in Spanish)

757

Raúl Uribe-Hernández, Myriam A. Amezcua-Allieri, Marco A. Montes De Oca-García, Carlos Juárez-Méndez, Juan A. Zermeño Eguia-Lis, Mauricio Suárez Izquierdo and Marco A. Tenorio-Torres

ECOLOGICAL INDICES FOR BIRDS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OF A WETLAND IMPACTED BY WASTE OIL (in Spanish)

762

Sueli do Carmo Bettine, Fábia Ricatto, Abimael Cereda Júnior and Antonio Carlos Demanboro

ECOLOGICALLY STABLE AREAS AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING INSTRUMENT (in Portuguese)

769

Vicente Sánchez-Reyes, Carmen Zepeda Gómez, F. Javier Manjarrez and Laura White-Olascoaga

EFFECT OF WATER LEVEL ON THE SIZE AND LEAF BIOMASS OF Sagittaria macrophylla (ALISMATACEAE) (in Spanish)

775

Carmen Infante and Fernando A. Morales García

TOXICITY EVALUATION OF PETROLEUM CONTAMINATED SOILS AND OILY WASTES USING Lactuca sativa L seeds (in Spanish)

782