The evolutionary process in which knowledge objects are transformed from informal and highly contextualized artefacts into explicitly linked and formalized learning objects, together with the corresponding organisational learning processes, have been termed Knowledge Maturing. Whereas wikis and other tools for collaborative building of knowledge have been suggested as useful tools in this conte...

The hyperspectral imaging technology is used to detect early-maturing pear’s effective acidity nondestructively, and effective prediction model is established. 145 pears’ hyperspectral images are obtained in the wavelength range of 400nm-1000nm. Total 145 pears are separated into the calibration set (77 samples) and prediction set (68 samples). Early-maturing pear’s effective acidity partial le...

Since 2003 the research on Personal Learning Environments has increased. These environments support problem based, situated and informal learning in social networks within organisations and educational institutions and in subject related communities. The EU project MATURE [1] enhanced this idea with the concept of a Personal Learning and Maturing Environment (PLME), which shall support and fost...

The authors of this paper position pratice-led research (PLR) as an effective agent in the transformation of the seemingly inherent and natural acts found in casual practice into the formal arrangement of accepted truths and regulated practices of a discipline for user experience design (UXD) and information architecture (IA) communities of practice. The paper does not intend to exhaustively de...

In a mature water market with many active buyers and sellers and with a free flow of information about supply, demand and prices paid, prices should not vary greatly at any given time. Willing buyers should always be prepared to pay the going price set by the most efficient and highest value producing irrigators. This paper will analyse the prices paid in two water markets in Australia and iden...

The risk management of non-maturing account positions in a bank’s balance like savings deposits or certain types of loans is complicated by the embedded options that clients may exercise. In addition to the usual interest rate risk, there is also uncertainty in the timing and amount of future cash flows. Since the corresponding volume risk cannot directly be hedged, the account must be replicat...

In Ethiopia, the use of traditional and improved grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] variety as green forage crop is limited mainly by large stalk thickness low nutritive values. An experiment was conducted to explore if biomass accumulation values could be managed seeding rates. Two dual-purpose varieties (Melkam Chelenko), one local (Masugi) each representing early late maturity group...

Jointly working on shared digital artifacts – such as wikis – is a well-tried method of developing knowledge collectively within a group or organization. Our assumption is that such knowledge maturing is an accommodation process that can be measured by taking the writing process itself into account. This paper describes the development of a tool that detects accommodation automatically with the...