This paper integrates expectancy disconfirmation theory and justice theory to construct a model for investigating the motivations behind people’s knowledge sharing in open professional virtual communities. The study holds that three dimensions of positive disconfirmation (i.e., knowledge quality, self-worth, and social interaction), three dimensions of justice (i.e., distributive, procedural ju...

This study aims to describe the construction of knowledge as a component of professional power in gerontological nursing in Brazil between 1970 and 1996. It is a descriptive study with qualitative socio-historical approach that used oral history and was developed with 14 nurses, who are pioneers in the area. The categories found are: 1. The origin of gerontological nursing studies; 2. The inclu...

This paper surveyed the impact of customer knowledge management (CKM) on continuous innovation and financial and non-financial performance of Noor Credit Institution. This paper is fieldwork and in terms of methodology is causal and in terms of the purpose is practical. The statistical population of this study is consists of the employees of the Noor Credit Institution in the country which were...

In the legal domain, ontologies enjoy quite some reputation as a way to model normative knowledge about laws and jurisprudence. While there is a multitude of ontological models to represent theoretical legal knowledge, no previous attempt to construct ontologies based on professional knowledge exists, capturing judicial expertise. We define the epistemological and ontological levels as separate...

On the base of deep study of domain ontology’s evolution’s principle,gist,method and model , this paper reconstructs and uses such recognized ontology knowledge as professional thesaurus, professional dictionary and textbook and realizes knowledge collection and manipulation to build auto-learning system of depended text’s ontology finally to set up automatic construction of domain ontology’s c...

The MLA Knowledge and Skills Task Force was appointed in May 1989. The task force decided to survey a sample of the membership to define the knowledge and skills required for competent professional performance and to enable MLA to establish educational policies which would ensure acquisition and maintenance of the necessary knowledge and skills throughout a professional career. This report pres...

The Evaluation of Current Conditions of Schools in Tehran in terms of Counterproductive Behaviors of Teachers S. Hosainpoor Toolaazdehi H.R. Zainaabaadi, Ph.D. A. Alimardaani F. Kord Firoozjaaee To evaluate the current conditions of schools in Tehran in terms of counterproductive behaviors of teachers initially a number of teachers and experts were interviewed from which a set of...

In their contribution to Perspectives on Medical Education, Ng, Baker, and Leslie provide a novel and clear perspective on faculty development in health profession education (HPE) by conceptualizing it as a space for sharing research and practical knowledge [1]. The process of sharing these two types of knowledge implies that both are mobilized during faculty development and, in the end, become...