September 2015

Volume 40 Issue 09

/Editorial/

Emilio Rodríguez-Ponce

SCIENCE IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

586
 /Articles/

Exequiel Fontáns, Lucía Simón and María Gladys Ceretta

ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION FINANCED BY PUBLIC FUNDS: THE CASE OF RESEARCHERS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN URUGUAY’S SNI (in Spanish)

588

Débora Spenassato, Blênio C. Severo Peixe, Andréa C. Trierweiller, Antonio C. Bornia and Rafael Tezza

ADVANTAGES OF THE USE OF COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING FOR MATURITY EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN INDUSTRIES (in Portuguese)

596

Ingrid Oliveros Pantoja, Máximo López Toledo, Sergio Martínez González and Elvin Jiménez Matos

TOPOLOGY ANALYSIS AND SECURITY CONSTRAINTS IN COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKETS: APPLICATION TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC POWER SYSTEM (in Spanish)

604

David Castillo-Quiroz, Diana Yemilet Avila-Flores, Francisco Castillo-Reyes, Adriana Antonio-Bautista and Oscar Ulises Martínez-Burciaga

Nolina cespitifera Trel. NON-TIMBER FORESTRY RESOURCE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPORTANCE IN NORTHEASTERN MEXICO (in Spanish)

611
/Reports/

José Ribamar de Farias Lima, Antônio Honório do Nascimento Filho, Carlos Antônio Belarmino Alves, Viviany Teixeira do Nascimento, José da Silva Mourão, Rodrigo Silva de Oliveira and Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena

FENCE USAGE AND HANDLING IN A RURAL COMMUNITY OF THE PARAIBA SEMI-ARID, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL (in Spanish)

618

Thassya Geórgia Lucas de Souza, Tsunao Matsumoto and Iván Andrés Sánchez Ortiz

UTILIZATION OF A SLUDGE BLANKET SETTLER FLOCCULATOR SYSTEM ON FISH CULTURE PONDS EFFLUENTS TREATMENT (in Portuguese)

626

Emilio Rodríguez Ponce and Liliana Pedraja Rejas

THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL MISSION DESIGN ON UNIVERSITY QUALITY (in Spanish)

634

Uirá do Amaral, Victor Martins Maia, Rodinei Facco Pegoraro, Marcos Koiti Kondo and Leonardo Carvalho Brant Maia

DRY MATTER, CARBON AND NITROGEN CONTENT IN IRRIGATED CULTURE OF ‘PEROLA’ PINEAPPLE (in Portuguese)

639
/Essays/

Julio E. Pérez, Carmen Alfonsi and Sinatra K. Salazar

SOME MISLEADING CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (in English)

644