Knowledge has been considered an important asset for an organization to gain competitive advantages. Research on knowledge management processes and development of knowledge management systems has gained much attention recently. In this study, an ecological view of knowledge management is proposed to integrate the role of information technology, knowledge management, and their impact on firm per...

Nurse managers work in environments in which conflict is likely to arise due to both the nature of their work and the need to interact with a wide range of individuals. Although the management of conflict has been studied previously, no research has examined the conflict management styles of nurse managers in Oman or any other Arab country. The present study sought to address this issue by exam...

Fish species diversity can be lost through interacting stressors including habitat loss, stocking and overfishing. Although a multitude of stressors have played a role in the global decline of coregonid (Coregonus spp.) diversity, a number of contemporary studies have identified habitat loss stemming from eutrophication as the primary cause. Unfortunately, reconstructing the role of fishing and...

A novel field experiment is used to evaluate two competing strategies for managing ethnic diversity: (1) assimilationist strategies, which encourage the construction of shared, superordinate social identities (e.g., based on a team or nation), and (2) multiculturalist strategies, which aim to foster beliefs that ethnic differences are valuable. Results from Kenya indicate that assimilationist a...

The search ability of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) depends on the variation among the individuals in the population [3, 4, 8]. Maintaining an optimal level of diversity in the EA population is imperative to ensure that progress of the EA search is unhindered by premature convergence to suboptimal solutions. Clearer understanding of the concept of population diversity, in the context of evolut...

Semi-natural grassland communities are of great interest in conservation because of their high species richness. These communities are being threatened by both land abandonment and nitrogen eutrophication, and their continued existence will depend upon correct management. However, there is a distinct lack of studies of the ecological mechanisms that regulate species diversity and productivity i...

Translocations, especially assisted colonizations, of animals are increasingly used as a conservation management tool. In many cases, however, limited funding and other logistic challenges limit the number of individuals available for translocation. In conservation genetics, small populations are predicted to rapidly lose genetic diversity which can deteriorate population survival. Thus, how wo...

Over the last decade, a large degree of consensus has been reached within the research community regarding the physical layer design that should underpin state-of-the-art and future wireless systems (e.g., IEEE 802.11a/g/n, IEEE 802.16e/m, 3GPP-LTE, LTE-Advanced). In particular, it has been found that the combination of multicarrier transmission and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna...

d isparities in care continue to be a major problem in the healthcare system. This issue will no doubt continue to grow in importance, considering the fact that racial and ethnic minorities currently represent one third of the U.S. population and are projected to become a majority of the population in 2042. This is why five major healthcare organizations—the american hospital association (aha),...