This paper presents a review of the organisational learning literature that points to process improvement (PI) groups as an appropriate tool for organisational knowledge communication. Based on this review, the impact of support provided by a class of groupware systems, e-mail conferencing (EC), on knowledge dissemination in organisations is examined in the context of PI groups. Data was collec...

This paper presents a review of the organisational learning literature that points to process improvement (PI) groups as an appropriate tool for knowledge dissemination. Based on that review, the impact of support provided by a class of groupware systems, electronic conferencing (EC), on knowledge dissemination in organisations is examined in the context of PI groups. Data was collected through...

BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional bowel disorder. The post-infectious IBS (PI-IBS) occurs in IBS patients with a history of intestinal infection preceding the onset of symptoms. However, the underlying cause of PI-IBS is not fully understood, and the purpose of this study was to investigate the immune regulatory mechanism of PI-IBS. METHODS Participants enrolled...

The use of inorganic phosphate (Pi) and dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) by different bacterial groups was studied in experimental mesocosms of P-starved eastern Mediterranean waters in the absence (control mesocosms) and presence of additional Pi (P-amended mesocosms). The low Pi turnover times in the control mesocosms and the increase in heterotrophic prokaryotic abundance and production up...

in this paper, at first we mention to some results related to pi and vertex co-pi indices and then we introduce the edge versions of co-pi indices. then, we obtain some properties about these new indices.

The recent proliferation of low-cost computer networks has driven the development of a new type of organization, in which geographical and time constraints to collaboration among process teams have been gradually removed. As these organizations have to cope with a fast pace of change, they rely increasingly on distributed and asynchronous process improvement (PI) groups to redesign their proces...