Is There a Future for Family Farming in West Africa?

Is There a Future for Knowledge Management?

Many are questioning whether KM has any chance to become a viable tool with real business applications and impact on organizations work. Others believe that knowledge is the real engine of wealth generation and hence KM is the central driver of organizational competitiveness. Facts collected from a wide range of corporations show that KM is facing serious challenges. In this paper we analyze th...

Is There a Future for Ann Hardware?

In this paper we examine the practical usefulness of hardware for artificial neural networks (ANN). ANN algorithms are good solutions for some wide classes of problems but, when one needs a physical implementation, one has the choice among a high number of architectural solutions and design approaches. We present an overview of the situation, trying to point out the existing difficulties for po...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Vitamin D: Is There a New Era?

  Background: In recent decades, much interest has been focused on investigating new roles of vitamin D in human body beyond the mineral-ion homeostasis. Methods: By searching medical databases such as PubMed, over 16000 articles were found which have been published since 2000 on novel aspects of vitamin D in health and diseases. Results: Of great interest was the effects of vitamin D on ...

Farming in South Africa