Advances in information technology provide opportunities to inform users in ways that were only imagined twenty years ago. However, information providers need to inform themselves concerning the best way to deliver resources to these users. Often assumptions are made about users that are inaccurate and untrue. With a view to these shortcomings, a team came together to collect information from u...

Although there are many teaching styles in higher education, they can usually be reduced to two: the traditional, on campus attendance, lecturing, student-passive style and the newer, distance education, self-paced, student-active style. It is the contention of this paper, illustrated by two case studies of one Spanish and one Australian university, that the differences in technology seem to ha...

Antibodies are highly functional glycoproteins capable of providing immune protection through multiple mechanisms, including direct pathogen neutralization and the engagement of their Fc portions with surrounding effector immune cells that induce anti-pathogenic responses. Small modifications to multiple antibody biophysical features induced by vaccines can significantly alter functional immune...

dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans is an uncommon malignant mesenchymal tumor of the dermis, which most commonly appears on the body and extremities. a preoperative diagnosis of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans is extremely difficult, because it is a very rare entity and its appearance is often similar to that of benign breast lesion. here, we presented a case of breast dermatofibrosarcoma protuber...

takab-e afshar in the north – west of iran. it is in a mountainous area near the cities of dandi in zanjan, and takab in west azerbaijan, lies a complex of historical and natural properties among which stands the world heritage properties of takht-e soleyman with all its features. the present protective buffers for this site have been defined without considering the natural and cultural landsca...

This position paper describes a survey of expertise management systems, with the focus on competencies, and their use in four companies. Our interest lies in informing design by investigating features in the systems. Through this we hope to contribute with practical CSCW applications and concepts.