conclusions despite the relatively high level of knowledge in the context of the general principles of a diet to prevent ramadan-related complications, practical training in regard to the amounts of nutrients associated with ramadan-related complications is both necessary and recommended. background ramadan fasting is associated with some lifestyle changes. a lack of nutritional needs knowledge...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Fellowship examination assesses competence for unsupervised clinical practice anywhere in Australia through three segments, each with a unique focus. The applied knowledge test (AKT) is a written examination that tests candidates' applied clinical knowledge. Other segments assess clinical problem solving skills and ability to perform...

introduction: diseases of the dental pulp and periapical tissues are chiefly caused by microorganisms. antibiotics are used in some endodontic cases; however, successful cases can predominantly be achieved by mechanical and chemical cleaning of the canal or surgical intervention. materials & methods: the aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of general dental practitioners (gdps) in ...

Knowledge acquisition is concerned with finding and structuring knowledge in such a way that it can be used in a variety of intelligent decision-making tools. Knowledge of a domain can be encoded as a taxonomy (i.e., a hierarchically organized set of categories). Therefore, taxonomies can play an important role in analyzing and modeling knowledge. The focus of this study is to derive knowledge ...

Objective To explore in depth how primary care clinicians (general practitioners and practice nurses) derive their individual and collective healthcare decisions. Design Ethnographic study using standard methods (non-participant observation, semistructured interviews, and documentary review) over two years to collect data, which were analysed thematically. Setting Two general practices, one in ...

In Knowledge Representation, a field interested in storing and reasoning about information contained in ontologies, there is good support for the final stages of ontology creation, such as adding logical definitions and finding inferences, but little support for the early creation stages, such as deciding on the structure of the ontology. In this report the creation of a Simple Knowledge Organi...

We introduce a methodology for automating the maintenance of domain-specific taxonomies based on natural language text understanding. A given ontology is incrementally updated as new concepts are acquired from real-world texts. The acquisition process is centered around the linguistic and conceptual “quality” of various forms of evidence underlying the generation and refinement of concept hypot...

This paper shows that the use of adaptation knowledge in CBR systems is heavily dependent on certain task and system constraints. Furthermore, the type of adaptation knowledge used in particular systems performing specific tasks is quite regular and predictable. These conclusions are reached by reviewing forty-two CBR systems in the literature and classifying them according to specified taxonom...

With knowledge management systems (KMS) containing large repositories, a major issue is content organization. The ease of finding relevant information depends on the effectiveness of knowledge organization. Ontology, thesauri, and taxonomy are some of the key words that relate to knowledge organization. In this article we propose a schema for organizing knowledge that represents lessons learned...