production of science is only made possible through research, and the only form of sustainable development is one based on knowledge and science, one which follows an active economics. the purpose of the present paper is to study the factors affecting the production of science by faculty members of universities. to do so, the writer, taking inspiration from the theories of such scholars as mert...

We are all familiar with stories of the daring voyages of discoverers and researchers who braved the seas and severe privation in the service of truth and enlightenment. The title of this article, "Knowledge Transfer and Science Transfer", and the fact that it is included in the "Europe and the World" thread may conjure up similar images but hopefully also the counter reaction: these clichés, w...

The basic characteristic of an educational process is knowledge sharing. In this context it is important to have an efficient method for knowledge representation that uses the concepts specific to the educational domain. Ontologies provides a solution for solving the problem of knowledge representation. In the last years it was highlighted the great importance of using ontologies when developpi...

The role of ontologies in chronic disease management and associated challenges such as defining data quality (DQ) and its specification is a current topic of interest. In domains such as Diabetes Management, a robust Data Quality Ontology (DQO) is required to support the automation of data extraction semantically from Electronic Health Record (EHR) and access and manage DQ, so that the data set...

In this paper, we introduce a set of methodological steps for knowledge acquisition applied to the organization of biomedical information through ontologies. Those steps are tested in a real case involving Human T Cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV), which causes myriad infectious diseases. We hope to contribute to providing suitable knowledge representation of scientific domains.