This study has aims i.e. (1) to investigate the role of inherent personal knowledge in affecting trust, (2) to investigate whether mavens play a role in improving recipient’s knowledge level and trust. We have conducted a study, which involved a total of 134 students as respondents. Correlation between subjective knowledge and trust achieved a medium level, while objective knowledge related to ...

nutritional care is an important part of medical care of patients and plays a key role in improvement, prevention and control of malnutrition in hospitals. the current study aimed to determine the nutrition knowledge level of doctors, nurses and nutritionists in some teaching hospitals in tehran in 2008. in a cross-sectional study a total of 198 samples including 28 nutritionists, 81 nurses and...

Knowledge is one of the most important organizations' assets. To manage knowledge effectively, it is necessary to be able to measure knowledge. There are few methods for knowledge measurement with certain limitations. One important weakness of current methods is their insufficient attention to definition, dimensions and attributes of knowledge.&#10In this paper, we propose a new method for meas...

Knowledge is one of the most important organizations assets. To manage knowledge effectively, it is necessary to be able to measure knowledge. There are few methods for knowledge measurement with certain limitations. One important weakness of current methods is their insufficient attention to definition, dimensions and attributes of knowledge. In this paper, we propose a new method for measuri...

This document presents a theory for knowledge level reeection together with experimental results, proving that it is possible to design knowledge systems intended to build, verify or control other knowledge systems. Furthermore, this may be done in a very simple way and still produce surprisingly eecient results.

BACKGROUND: Increased dental caries and dental lesions have made preventive measures, especially among children, inevitable. This study investigated elementary schoolgirls’ mothers’ level of knowledge on preventive methods against dental caries. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, mothers of 250 schoolgirls were randomly selected from five regions of Tehran, Iran. Their knowledge about fiss...

Programming knowledge has become necessary for people. There are several methods describing how to teach programming but the success of the usage of these methods depends on the students’ preliminary knowledge and the teachers’ attitude. Moreover, the groups are usually not separated by knowledge level or skills and are therefore very heterogeneous. Every student is different and has their own ...