Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) such as electronic knowledge repositories (EKR) have brought substantial changes to the way organizations leverage their knowledge resources. Despite the importance of KMS, organizations are faced with a challenge to realize the benefits of KMS. One challenging issue that has not been extensively investigated by prior KMS studies is the factors that drive empl...

I discuss results from the recent spectroscopic survey for solar-type preMS stars in the Lower Centaurus-Crux (LCC) and Upper CentaurusLupus (UCL) OB subgroups by Mamajek, Meyer, & Liebert (2002, AJ, 124, 1670). LCC and UCL are subgroups of the Sco-Cen OB association, and the two nearest OB subgroups to the Sun. In the entire survey of 110 pre-main sequence stars, there exists only one Classica...

Knowledge Management (KM) and Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) have been positioned as strategies and tools that enable organizations to create and transfer knowledge in order to sustain competitive advantage. While Knowledge Management as a strategy was able to gain legitimacy, KMS struggled to prove a causal relationship to knowledge creation and knowledge transfer. KMS contribution to the ...

Fresnel transform meteor speed estimation is investigated. A spectral based technique is developed allowing the transform to be applied at low temporal sampling rates. Simulations are used to compare meteoroid speeds determined using the Fresnel transform and alternative techniques, confirming that the Fresnel transform produces the most accurate meteoroid speed estimates for high effective pul...

Sir, Kasabach-Merritt syndrome (KMS) is a condition of consumption coagulopathy in patients bearing vascular tumours and malformations. KMS is seen not only in infants bearing large haemangiomas, but has also been observed in various vascular diseases, such as bluerubber-bleb nevus syndrome (1) and Osler-Weber-Rendu disease (2). Angiosarcoma is a rare malignancy of vascular or lymphatic endothe...

To investigate the correspondence of theory and practice, a successfully implemented Knowledge Management System (KMS) is explored through the lens of Alavi and Leidner’s proposed KMS framework for the analysis of an information system in knowledge management (Framework-AISKM). The applied KMS system was designed to manage curricular knowledge in a distributed university environment. The motiva...

Many enterprises encounter difficulties during the process of KMS diffusion and thus fail to gain benefits from KMS adoption. This study aims to explain why some enterprises succeed while others fail in KMS diffusion. Based on technology diffusion theory and technologyorganization-environment (TOE) framework, we propose an integrated model to examine the influence of factors from the technologi...

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are predominant in both theory and practice. However, are the same systems discussed in theory actualised in practice? By comparing and contrasting KMS in theory and practice, this paper demonstrates that they are indeed dissimilar. In theory, KMS have both subjective and objective components. In practice, only the objective component of KMS appears to be actu...

The transmembrane 4 superfamily member KAI1 (CD82) has been shown to inhibit pulmonary metastases in experimental metastasis models of prostate cancer and melanoma. KAI1 expression is decreased in the progression of common solid epithelial tumors of adulthood, including lung, prostate, breast, esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, and bladder cancers. The purpose of our study was to investigate KAI1...

Knowledge is lost by organizations when it is not used or when knowledgeable individuals leave the organization. Knowledge Management Systems or KMS are designed help organizations capture and retain the knowledge embedded within their people. The effectiveness of KMS is dependent the match between the match between the KMS design and the learning preferences of the user. This study aims to det...