FORUM: October 2002

The Importance of Strategic Fit

One of the issues of importance raised by members of the Henley Knowledge Management Forum when it was launched in June 2000 was that of knowledge management (KM) strategy. A working group co-championed by the authors was set up and started deliberations on the topic at the second Forum meeting in October 2002. The main aims of the project were to highlight the nature of different organizations...

First Expert Forum of the Roland Hetzer International Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Society. Lisbon, Portugal, October 1, 2011

In 2011, co-workers and colleagues, mostly from Berlin, and around the world, formulated the idea of establishing the “Roland Hetzer International Cardiothoracic and Vacsular Surgical Society (RHICS)”. Despite the fact that unlike in the United States or Japan scientific societies named after highly-recognized and respected individuals are uncommon in Europe, this idea quickly gained support fr...

The healing power of presence: respite from the fear of abandonment.

Message from the Program Chair

The Third NTCIR Workshop is the third venture in a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance research in information access technologies including text retrieval, cross language information retrieval, automatic text summarization, information extraction, and question answering on Japanese and Asian language text. The goals of the NTCIR Workshops are as follows: 1. to encourage research...

Incidence of pruritic dermatoses of pregnancy in women referred to two antenatal clinics of Shiraz from October 1999 to October 2000

Background: Pruritic dermatoses of pregnancy are important and common dermatoses during pregnancy. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and specificity or non-specificity of pruritic dermatoses of pregnancy and their effects on health of mother and fetus, during a period of one year. Patients and Methods: The data were gathered by questionnaires completed by midwi...