Delivering e-content as a service to end users involves addressing various cross-cutting aspects, including the heterogeneity of source and data, user needs, business rules as well as the evolution of the content itself. Catering for these aspects when modeling information systems calls for an architecture that accommodates evolution through separation of concerns and tailorability, and provide...

organizational culture has a considerable impact on investment and acceptance of a new technology system such as knowledge management and especially it can be led to success or failure of knowledge management programs in organization. according to scientific evidences, human characteristics are effective on knowledge management and the process of knowledge management by people contains their pe...

The emergence of the WWW as the main source of distributing content opened the floodgates of information. The sheer volume and diversity of this content necessitate an approach that will reinvent the way it is analysed. The quantitative route to processing information which relies on content management tools provides structural analysis. The challenge we address is to evolve from the process of...

New information and communication technologies improve education providing several new features, like time independence or content adaptation. The success of this approach to learning makes web-based education or e-learning a generally accepted concept. E-learning proliferates, but course development costs are generally high. As a consequence, the trend is to develop interoperable e-learning so...

BACKGROUND There is a need to develop an in vitro skin models which can be used as alternative system for research and testing pharmacological products in place of laboratory animals. Therefore to study the biology and pathophysiology of pigmentation and vitiligo, reliable in vitro skin pigmentation models are required. AIM In this study, we used primary cultured melanocytes and keratinocytes...

In this essay, I study MySpace and Facebook pages, as well as interviews with the university students who created them, in order to address how online literacy practices of contemporary convergence culture both use and are filtered through popular culture. Though their answers to questions of intent, audience, and rhetorical choices varied, students shared a common reliance on popular culture c...

BACKGROUND Many instruments for evaluating clinical teaching have been developed but almost all in Western countries. None of these instruments have been validated for the Asian culture, and a literature search yielded no instruments that were developed specifically for that culture. A key element that influences content validity in developing instruments for evaluating the quality of teaching ...