Communities of Practice (CoPs) provide a good medium for effective utilization of knowledge workers and group innovation in an organization. It is also an organizational instrument for developing competitive advantage based on chosen business strategy. For effective operation of CoPs and utilization of organizational resources business strategy and knowledge sharing attributes of knowledge work...

A gambler moves between the vertices 1, . . . , n of a graph using the probability distribution p1, . . . , pn. Multiple cops pursue the gambler on the graph, only being able to move between adjacent vertices. We investigate the expected capture time for the gambler against k cops as a function of n and k for three versions of the game: • known gambler: the cops know the gambler’s distribution ...

A simple, fast, and sensitive method for the extraction through direct saponification, separation, quantification, and identification of 12 cholesterol oxidation products (COPs) and cholesterol in a single isocratic, normal-phase, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was developed. Three detectors were compared for determination of COPs and cholesterol in fish samples: refractive index...

BACKGROUND Communities of practice (CoPs) have been used in the health sector to support professional practice change. However, little is known about how CoPs might be used to influence a system that requires change at and across various levels (i.e. front line care, organizational, governmental). In this paper we examine the experience of a CoP in the Canadian province of Ontario as it engages...

Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are the most important class of problems, with great practical significance. This is concerned identifying best solution from a discrete set all available options. The transportation (routing) and distribution (scheduling) systems considered challenging examples COPs. Given importance routing scheduling many methods have been proposed to address them. ...

The influence of the unsaturation degree of different triacylglycerols (tristearin, triolein, trilinolein and trilinolenin) on cholesterol oxidation at 180 °C, was evaluated. Cholesterol degraded faster when heated alone than in the presence of triacylglycerols; moreover, the more unsaturated the matrix, the slower the degradation of cholesterol. Both cholesterol and triacylglycerols degradatio...

Purpose – Communities of practice (CoPs) have gained a great deal of attention from practitioners and scholars alike. However, critical antecedents of knowledge sharing in CoPs have not been fully researched yet. Particularly, empirical results are still scarce. The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of community members’ motivation to participate in CoPs, the importance of the community ...

Symbiotic computing leads to a proliferation of computing devices that allow linking people, favoring the development of distributed Communities of Practice (CoPs). Their members, being dispersed geographically, have to rely strongly on technological means to interact. In this context, coordinating distributed CoPs is more challenging than coordinating their collocated counterparts. Hence, the ...

Christian Blum, Niels Zijlstra, Ad Lagendijk, 3 Martijn Wubs, Allard P. Mosk, Vinod Subramaniam, and Willem L. Vos Nanobiophysics (NBP), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands∗ Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands FOM-Institute AMOLF, Science Park, 1098 XG...