Immunoglobulin haplotypes are highly polymorphic and are useful for analyses of both macro- and microdifferentiation of populations. The origins of this diversity are not known, but recent reports suggest strong selection at this locus. Increased rates of first-trimester spontaneous abortions have been reported when parents share GM phenotypes. Reduced fertility has been observed in mixed Europ...

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008, 8:110–114 Purpose of review This review examines the relationship between exposure to workplace allergens and the risk of developing occupational allergy. Recent findings Evidence suggests that the risk of developing occupational allergy increases with allergen exposure; however, with some occupational allergens, this exposure–response re...

The rapid innovation rate of industrial equipment, coupled with diversity of industrial processes and application areas, has introduced new constraints for management and workers in industrial settings. As a result, it is difficult to present a generic framework for knowledge management (KM) support in industrial environments. In this contribution, the authors briefly discuss KM in customer bas...

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are typically built with a departmental focus, making it difficult to share and utilize knowledge across departmental boundaries. Integrating such " knowledge pockets " into a knowledge network requires resolving structural differences and coordinating both knowledge processes and software components. Here we identify a set of coordination requirements for the...

The process of innovation depends heavily on knowledge, and the management of knowledge and human capital should be an essential element of running any type of business. Recent research indicates that organisations are not consistent in their approach to knowledge management (KM), with KM approaches being driven predominantly within an information technology (IT) or humanist framework, with lit...

Knowledge management (KM) has evolved from different disciplines and can be observed from various perspectives. The most important KM perspectives are personal communication and information technology (IT). Most IT companies have renamed their groupware and business intelligence products to fit the KM concept and to further develop them as knowledge management systems (KMS). In fact, they devel...

Louay Karadsheh, Lawrence Technology University, Southfield, MI, USA, [email protected] Ebrahim Mansour, Applied Science Private University, Jordan, [email protected] Samer Alhawari, Applied Science Private University, Jordan, [email protected] Ghassan Azar, Lawrence Technology University, Southfield, MI, USA, [email protected] Naser El-Bathy, Lawrence Technology University, Sout...

Recently the ESA Corporate KM Initiative has been launched and in this context a framework of KM projects to be undertaken at different ESA sites has been drawn. The paper presents those KM projects implemented at ESOC as services offered to the community. These services are related to increasing knowledge transfer, sharing and collaboration in particular within and across projects, assessing t...

In Greece, the training system and education can be adapted to distance lifelong e-learning and the teachers, the society and the economy can be benefited via the introduction and training of in-service teachers in a) the Video Conferencing (VC) technology and mode of distant training, granted that VC is put into a learning framework, and b) Knowledge Management (KM) methodology, through lectur...