temporomandibular joint ankylosis causes limitation in mouth opening and establishes severe deformity and asymmetry in patient’s face, especially in children. surgery is the only treatment. this study was conducted to compare the effect of two surgical approaches, gap arthropasty and interpositional gap arthroplasty, on rate of maximum interincisal opening in temporomandibular joint ankylosis. ...

in today's economy of knowledge and globalization, innovation as the ability to apply new knowledge to improve the production process and create new goods and services has been recognized as an undeniable efficiency. a dynamic economy is in need of efficient human capital which includes elites, professionals and entrepreneurs to come up with innovative and competitive ideas. brain drain in some...

Usability knowledge exists in many forms today, both and explicitly within people, guides, and tools: guidelines, patterns, design rules, conventions, and standards. Although this knowledge is supposed to be used continuously throughout the development life cycle, there is often a gap between the constitution of this knowledge and its true usage during design and evaluation. This gap is also of...

Humans and machines are not using today the same formats of knowledge representation. This gap makes a serious problem in the interaction human-machine. We are exploding intelligent methods to minimize this gap showing at different human users, specifically and personalized, the knowledge used by machines.

Biomedical discoveries could improve people's health only if they are suited to the diverse political and social contexts, health systems and population groups. Knowledge generated through evidence-informed health policy and practice when applied to the local situation enhances the quality and efficiency of health care. This article describes four case studies on bridging the gap between knowle...

this study aims to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial behavior and tacit knowledge sharing through 314 questionnaires provided by university incubators. for data analysis, pearson correlation is used. the study has found that there are meaningful relationships between entrepreneurial behavior and tacit knowledge sharing in university incubators. existing research has concentrated ...

We examine three related ways in which the gap between theory and practice has been framed. One approach views it as a knowledge transfer problem, a second argues that theory and practice represent distinct kinds of knowledge, and a third incorporates a strategy of arbitrage—leading to the view that the gap is a knowledge production problem. We propose a method of engaged scholarship for addres...