The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culture has been continuously articulated since mid-1920s. The goal of DIY has been gradually shifted from the solution of the “time-rich and money-poor” situation into the confirmation of personal creativities and the needs of outsourcing and social contact. This paper addresses the design of a DIY environment for managing data semantics from different intelligent comp...

Our experiences with basing application architectures on component structures have shown us that component based architectures result in several advantages such as greater reuse and consistency, ease of maintenance etc. But there are also a number of problems arising when using binary components. We see most of these problems falling in one of the following categories: Culture and organisation,...

Knowledge Management is widely used for developing strategic alliances in an organization. This leads to effective use of resources and infrastructure so that the organization can reap more benefits from the investments with respect to both people and technology. Further this helps to maintain the overall quality of the organization. In order to build a robust and thriving knowledge environment...

The guiding thesis of Angus Hawkins’s Victorian Political Culture: ‘Habits of Heart & Mind’, is the beguilingly simple one that Victorian political values rested on the Shibboleths of history, morality and community, and that the differing political outlooks of radicals, Liberals, Conservatives and even socialists throughout the century can be traced back to their very different interpretations...

The present article inquires into the ways in which a presumed Brazilian “managing” of sexual categories or identities (mainly related to male homosexuality) has been conceived of in anthropology since the end of the 1970, sometimes becoming an axis for building and maintaining a national identity characterized as exotic, backward and non-Western. We also trace parallels between two historical ...

In addition to microbial culture, cytology, and immunological studies, physicians rely on the clinical chemistry laboratory for biochemical analysis of patients' cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). However, apart from routine glucose and protein determinations, the clinical value of other CSF analytes is often unclear. Here, we review the literature pertaining to the use of CSF biochemical measurements ...

Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a major cause of death in developed countries and the detection of microorganisms is essential in managing patients. Despite major progress has been made to improve identification of microorganisms, blood culture (BC) remains the gold standard and the first line tool for detecting BSIs. Consensus guidelines are available to ensure optimal BSI procedures, but BC pr...

As multi-culture virtual teams become more prevalent in organizations, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand knowledge sharing dynamics. This paper uses Adaptive Structuration Theory extended to address proactive structuration as a foundation from which a model is developed to include aspects of knowledge sharing. Propositions are established, and evidence is provided based on a proj...

The origins of contemporary exclusion of surgical methods from patenting lie in the complexities of managing credit claims in operative surgery, recognized in the nineteenth century. While surgical methods were not deemed patentable, surgeons were nevertheless embedded within patent culture. In an atmosphere of heightened awareness about the importance of 'inventors', how surgeons should be rec...

The advent of the digital explosion should lead to the formulation of new goals in artificial intelligence and in particular knowledge management. I more traditional AI settings, the problem space and the operators are well defined. In the real world, the concept of good enough solutions is prevalent and requires a contextual analysis as well as a risk taking perspective in everyday activities....