Abstract – By their competence, village officials are professionals who function to carry out government activities at the level where in carrying duties they required run efficiently. To these efficient community service activities, qualified personnel required. In Sibatua Village, Pangkajene District, Pangkep Regency, apparatus's ability is still lacking, so related technological capabilities...

We present the findings of research conducted by way of a complete pilot study on two teams within an organisation we choose to label organisation X. Certainly from a knowledge management perspective, tacit knowledge is vital in preventing knowledge loss from skilled staff leaving the workplace and taking the ‘soft’ knowledge with them. More proficient means of capturing this knowledge by mappi...

Received: 1 December 2007 Accepted: 5 January 2008 Online publication date: 14 February 2008 Abstract During emergency response events, situational awareness is critical in effectively managing and safe-guarding civilians and in-field personnel. To better support both command center controllers and in-field operators, we have developed a mobile visual analytics tool to help enhance situational ...

Spatial awareness is one of the fundamental decision making capabilities for human beings. Two key information technologies, Internet Geographic Information Services (GIServices) and wireless mobile Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can enhance the spatial awareness of decision makers and facilitate more efficient and comprehensive decision making processes. Internet GIServices provide a col...

AbstractDengue virus infections have adversely impacted U.S. military operations since the Spanish-American War. The erosion of mission capabilities and lost duty days are underestimated. Appreciating the incidence and prevalence of dengue infections in U.S. military personnel is important to inform disease prevention strategies. Banked pre- and post-deployment serum samples from 1,000 U.S. mil...

INTRODUCTION Humanitarian aid provision and early medical response missions to areas ravaged by natural disasters are as essential nowadays as in the past, and medical personnel play a pivotal role in these delegations. CASE DESCRIPTION In November 2013, tropical cyclone Haiyan (Yolanda) slammed the Philippines archipelago, leaving more than an estimated 6000 dead in its wake while demolishin...

This chapter examines a comprehensive list of intellectual capital (IC)-related indicators for developing corporate R&D capabilities along the input-process-result (IPR) processes. Via factor analysis, 43 R&D related IC indicators were abstracted into 11 factors. Corporate R&D managers prioritized these IC factors by completing analytical hierarchy process (AHP) questionnaires. The results of A...

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has assumed an important role in the management of certain types of respiratory failure in acute-care hospitals. However, the optimal location for NIV has been a matter of debate. Some have argued that all patients begun on NIV in the acute-care setting should go to an intensive care unit (ICU), but this is impractical because ICU beds are often unavailable, and it...

Cloud Computing is a model of both service delivery and consumption for increasing the capabilities of enterprises dynamically without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. It refers to everything delivered as services over the Internet. Although the benefits of Cloud Computing are evident, security is one of the major issues which hamper the growth...

HELPDESK is a software solution that enables a customer service organization to expand its first-tier problem-resolution capabilities without adding additional personnel or requiring additional training. It is an integrated approach to customer support, encompassing a diagnostic expert system, a hypertext reference facility, and a trouble-ticketing database system. The effectiveness of the syst...