Intergenerational solidarity is and important phenomenon for strengthening  social cohesion and is an important immediate mechanism that has major role in the transfer of knowledge from generation to generation. But the distance between parents and youth, among generations, and this gap exists between the social system, with profound social problems facing the generation gap in the process in t...

The current study was carried out to evaluate the quantity and quality of rural domestic waste generation and to identify the factors affecting it in rural areas of Khodabandeh county in Zanjan Province, Iran. Waste samplings consisted of 318 rural households in 11 villages. In order to evaluate the quality and quantity of the rural domestic waste, waste production was classified into 12 groups...

  One of an important factor in the success of organizations is the efficiency of knowledge flow. The knowledge flow is a comprehensive concept and in recent studies of organizational analysis broadly considered in the areas of strategic management, organizational analysis and economics. In this paper, we consider knowledge flows from an Information Technology (IT) viewpoint. We usually have tw...

Computational efficiency is a central concern in the design of knowledge representation systems. Compiling a knowledgebase into a more tractable form has been suggested as a way around the inherent intractability of many representation formalisms. Because not all theories can be put into an equivalent tractable form, Selrnan and Kautz (199 1) have suggested compiling a theory into upper and low...

Productions systems, traditionally mainly used for developing expert systems, can also be employed for implementing chart generators. Focusing on bottom-up chart generation, we describe how the notions of chart algorithms relate to the knowledge base and Rete network of production systems. We draw on experience gained in two research projects on natural language generation (NLG), one involving ...

Research in patient education suggests that tailored educational materials can improve patient’s understanding of a treatment plan and help to achieve patient engagement and compliance. The goal of the HealthDoc Project has been the creation of automated Natural Language Generation systems for producing educational materials that are tailored to an individual patient’s medical condition and per...