Closing the knowledge gaps.

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Closing the Knowledge Gap in Irish Manufacturing – A North- South Comparison

For regions or nations which historically have had low levels of domestic R&D investment, such as Ireland, North and South, inward investment represents a potentially of inward knowledge transfer. Using data from large multi-national plants throughout Ireland this paper examines the geography of knowledge within Irish manufacturing focussing particularly on knowledge gaps and knowledge transfer...

Behaviour-based Knowledge Systems: An Epigenetic Path from Behaviour to Knowledge

In this paper we expose the theoretical background underlying our current research. This consists in the development of behaviour-based knowledge systems, for closing the gaps between behaviour-based and knowledge-based system s, and also between the understandings of the phenomena they model. We expose the requirem ents and stages for d eve loping behaviour-based knowledge system s and discuss...

Telephone Conversation Closing Strategies Used by Persian Speakers: Rapport Management Approach

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...

Closing system-wide yield gaps to increase food production and mitigate GHGs among mixed crop–livestock smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa

In this study we estimate yield gaps for mixed crop-livestock smallholder farmers in seven Sub-Saharan African sites covering six countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Senegal and Burkina Faso). We also assess their potential to increase food production and reduce the GHG emission intensity of their products, as a result of closing these yield gaps. We use stochastic frontier analysis t...