Knowledge and Social Service

KaaS Knowledge Service Platform Facilitating Innovation in Social Infrastructure

INTRODUCTION WHILE most of the things that managers have sought to achieve with IT (information technology) in the past have related to business efficiency improvements achieved through the replacement of human labor, in more recent years these expectations have been undergoing a steady shift from business efficiency improvement toward the creation of high added value. When one considers the ch...

Knowledge and Information Service

Knowledge and Information Service

BACKGROUND: Preterm prelabour rupture of the membranes (PPROM) is an important clinical problem and a dilemma for the gynaecologist. On the one hand, awaiting spontaneous labour increases the probability of infectious disease for both mother and child, whereas on the other hand induction of labour leads to preterm birth with an increase in neonatal morbidity (e.g., respiratory distress syndrome...

Knowledge Sharing via Social Login: Exploiting Microblogging Service for Warming up Social Question Answering Websites

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites such as Quora are widely used for users to get high quality answers. Users are the most important resource for CQA services, and the awareness of user expertise at early stage is critical to improve user experience and reduce churn rate. However, due to the lack of engagement, it is difficult to infer the expertise levels of newcomers. Despite that ne...

Lincolnshire Knowledge and Resource Service

We present our experience in the management of hip fracture patients after the application of a value-stream approach, the Lean framework, in our trust. This system uses available resources in an efficient manner whilst eliminating waste. A statistically significant reduction of 5% and 9.3% was noted in the 30-day and overall mortality, respectively, after implementing 'Lean thinking'. Further ...