TO THE EDITOR: We read with great interest the report by Nonaka et al about the effects of histamine-2 receptor antagonists and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) on gastric emptying. The authors clearly showed that a single intravenous injection of famotidine and omeprazole had no effects on gastric emptying using the continuous real-time C breath test (Breath ID System) in a randomized placebo-con...

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Most scholars agree that intangible assets are far more important for a firm’s success than their tangible counterparts. As well as the traditional production factors crucial for a firm’s success (land, labor, and capital), knowledge is nowadays considered as equally important (Wickramasinghe and Von Lubitz, 2007). Numerous authors have stressed the critical role knowledge has for a firm’s sust...

Aleksandar Donev, ∗ Andy Nonaka, Yifei Sun, 3 Thomas G. Fai, Alejandro L. Garcia, and John B. Bell Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012 Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720 Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, N...

organizational culture has a considerable impact on investment and acceptance of a new technology system such as knowledge management and especially it can be led to success or failure of knowledge management programs in organization. according to scientific evidences, human characteristics are effective on knowledge management and the process of knowledge management by people contains their pe...

Question generation (QG) is the problem of automatically generating questions from inputs such as declarative sentences. The Shared Evaluation Task Challenge (QG-STEC) Task B that took place in 2010 evaluated several state-of-the-art QG systems. However, analysis of the evaluation results was affected by low inter-rater reliability. We adapted Nonaka & Takeuchi’s knowledge creation cycle to the...

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In response to the concern regarding the evaluation of knowledge management initiatives, this study introduces the concept of ‘knowledge creating capabilities‘. This concept refers to the balance of the four knowledge creation modes proposed in the SECI Model by Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995). The relationship of this concept with corporate financial performance is explored using two financial indi...