Current knowledge management systems focus on knowledge acquisition, storage, retrieval and maintenance. Yet, for that knowledge to be operational, to become knowledge rather than information, requires internalization and learning. Elearning systems and courseware, on the other hand, are all too often monolithic and inert and fail to facilitate the development and sharing of knowledge. In this ...

Software testing is an important activity in quality assurance and it generates large amount of knowledge. Software testers need to gather domain knowledge to be able to successfully conduct a software testing activity. Not having a proper knowledge base within its own context by software testing environments cause software testers to query limited knowledge available or consult peer software t...

Introduction: A large amount of pesticides is used worldwide in different locations including homes. Considering that using pesticides in the home is mainly done by women, this study was conducted to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of women regarding health hazards and proper methods of storage and use of pesticides in the home in Abarkouh. Materials and Methods: In this descr...

Personal knowledge hold on within the Cloud could contain account numbers, passwords, to be different necessary info that would be used and misused, a contender, or a court of law. These knowledge area unit cached, and archived by Cloud Service suppliers (CSPs), typically while not authorization and management. Self-destructing knowledge in the main aims at protective the user data’s privacy. D...

diatomaceous earth (de) is a dust composed of fossilized bodies of unicellular algae used as an insecticide. in this study, the insecticidal potential of four iranian de deposits was assessed in adults of oryzaephilus surinamensis (l.). three of de deposits were collected from maragheh, mamaghan, and khorasan jonoobi mines and sayan® formulation was obtained from kimia sabz avar company. the in...

the aim of this study was to determine the structural equation model of knowledge management and organizational innovation. the statistical population consisted of all employees of sport and youth offices in khorasan razavi province (n=380). the sample was selected by simple random sampling method using morgan table (n=191). to collect data, two questionnaires of knowledge management (sheron an...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a complete knowledge system researches into human health conditions via a different approach compared to orthodox medicine. We are developing a unified traditional Chinese medical language system (UTCMLS) through an ontology approach that will support TCM language knowledge storage, concept-based information retrieval and information integration. UTCMLS is ...

A key step for success of marketer is to discover influential users who diffuse information and their followers have interest to this information and increase to diffuse information on social media. They can reduce the cost of advertising, increase sales and maximize diffusion of information.  A key problem is how to precisely identify the most influential users on social networks. In this pape...

This paper investigates the integration of ontology storage and ontology-based applications through the example of the EnerSearch case study conducted within the On-To-Knowledge research project. We look at the problem of integrating the Sesame storage and query facility with its client application and identify both functional and technical needs for a new software package for client-side query...