Knowledge management (KM) has emerged as a strategic imperative to improve organizational competitiveness. Aligning KM initiatives with business strategy through appropriate KM strategy is a vital beginning for the successful exploitation of knowledge for business success. In this research paper, we explore the key dimensions of evolving KM strategy through a case study of an Indian organizatio...

The manufacture of jewellery is an old-established industry in Birmingham which is still carried out in the jewellery quarter of the town where jewellery and badges are enamelled by women in well-lit workshops, some of which retain the graceful features of early industrial architecture. At the work bench the enamel is contained in a small jar, and the designs, which are often small and complica...

BACKGROUND Nickel in metallic items has been regulated in Denmark since 1990; however, 10% of young Danish women are still sensitized to nickel. There is a need for continuous surveillance of the effect of regulation. OBJECTIVES To identify current self-reported metallic exposures leading to dermatitis in nickel-allergic patients, and the minimum contact time needed for dermatitis to occur. ...

DEAR EDITOR Photography is an essential part of plastic surgery given the visual nature of our specialty. Its uses are innumerable; it enables us to document form and function, helps us plan an operation, assists us in teaching, serves a medico-legal purpose and may even assist with research.1 This is by no means an exhaustive list. Yet, despite its indispensability to the proper practice of pl...

This paper builds on existing research investigating CSR and ethical consumption within luxury contexts, and makes several contributions to the literature. First, it addresses existing knowledge gaps by exploring the ways in which consumers perform ethical luxury purchases of fine jewellery through interpretive research. Second, the paper is the first to examine such issues of consumer ethics b...

INTERNATIONAL GROUPING Standard, innovative and unusual gold bars, manufactured around the world, can be grouped into 55 categories. This supplement provides concise information and a photograph of each category. The grouping by Grendon International Research (GIR) relies on information derived from associated GIR projects: The Industry Catalogue of Gold Bars Worldwide and The Industry Collecti...

Recognizing the patterns of users is necessary for every designer who wants to succeed in field design general and jewelry particular, as secret benefit from solutions innovations that help user developing new product while studying problems they face avoid them modern products, differ Patterns according their different inclinations attitudes environment, culture, work, psychological aspects, f...

BACKGROUND Nickel allergy is frequent and cause morbidity and increased health care costs. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of inexpensive earrings randomly purchased from stores and street markets in two capitals that gave positive dimethylglyoxime (DMG) test reactions and to determine whether the degree of nickel release was related to shop category. METHODS...

Handwashing is a hugely important infection control measure in clinical, manufacturing and domestic environments. A great deal of research has focussed on such aspects as handwashing technique, efficacy of antimicrobial handwash agents, how to improve compliance and the effect of wearing jewellery (Pittet 2000; Jumaa 2005; Pittet et al. 2006; Rotter et al. 2009). In contrast, comparatively litt...