The author of this paper seeks to explore what strategies are available for a multinational organization to manage knowledge, and to what extent a non-profit organization (NPO) have applied the same tools for managing knowledge within the organization as a multinational corporation (MNC). Through studying how knowledge flows within a MNC (Nonaka et al. and then analyzing the strategies for hand...

INTRODUCTION Despite some evidence that anxiety may affect length of stay (LOS), relatively little inquiry exists regarding this in neurosurgical literature. OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of anxiety on LOS after elective lumbar decompression and fusion (LDF) surgery. METHODS The medical records of 307 patients who consecutively underwent elective LDF surgery from October 1, 2010, thr...

For a real number p ≥ 2, an integer k > 0 and a set of terminals X in the plane, the Euclidean power-p Steiner tree problem asks for a tree interconnecting X and at most k Steiner points such that the sum of the p-th powers of the edge lengths is minimised. We show that this problem is in the complexity subclass exp-APX (but not poly-APX) of NPO. We then demonstrate that the approximation algor...

We investigate the complexity of an optimization problem in Boolean propositional logic related to information theory: Given a conjunctive formula over a set of relations, find a satisfying assignment with minimal Hamming distance to a given assignment that satisfies the formula (NearestOtherSolution, NOSol). We present a complete classification with respect to the relations admitted in the for...