The paper investigates how top R&D; investors differ in the production impact of their inputs and in their rate of technical change. We use the EUIndustrial R&D; Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb-Douglass production function for a panel of morethan 1,000 companies, covering the period 2002-2010. The results for the pooled sample are contraste...

Learning objects are under discussion in the context of electronic and in particular Web-based learning. Intuitively, they represent reusable units of learning content that can be consumed or studied within a single learning session, and that can be sequenced into larger units such as classes and courses if necessary or desired. To achieve these goals, making learning objects amenable to the te...

Knowledge Management is an essential element for the successful implementation of projects. Due to temporary nature projects and teams that participate in them, transfer, integration, management knowledge among vital promote sharing best practices, avoid repetition previous mistakes, order increase probability success organization. For this reason, Project tools can play a significant role supp...

Aiming at the current status of the agricultural information service business, this paper elaborates the characteristics of the agricultural short-message resources, and puts forward a kind of framework and a design method that sets up the agricultural short-message management system, and the key technique of carrying out the system. Especially in the upper-level applications of analyzing, proc...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a pragmatic definition of clinical excellence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a conceptual review of key studies relating to clinical excellence. Findings – The pursuit of clinical excellence can be profitably considered in terms of 15 pillars of excellence comprising “technical” pillars, “personal” pillars, and “future” pillars. The f...

Citation Coleman, J. J., H. van der Sijs, W. E. Haefeli, S. P. Slight, S. E. McDowell, H. M. Seidling, B. Eiermann, et al. 2013. “Correction: On the alert: future priorities for alerts in clinical decision support for computerized physician order entry identified from a European workshop.” BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 13 (1): 122. doi:10.1186/14726947-13-122. http://dx.doi.org/10...

Most previous creativity support systems sustain short-term temporal thinking that is separate from users' daily activities. In this article, we describe a system to support long-term idea-generation in daily life. The system consists of two subsystems: a management system for problems and ideas called IdeaManager; and a personal information storage system called iBox. When information is regis...