Our study uses a number of fundamental provisions modern economics to ensure business excellence enterprises, as well used mathematical methods based on the use integrated indicators in direction of: leadership scientific and technical cooperation, strategy people knowledge, partnership resources that matter, processes, products services, research results, customer community society vision. The...

This paper describes a methodology to semiautomatically acquire a taxonomy of terms and term definitions in a specific research domain. The taxonomy is then used for semantic search and indexing of a knowledge base of scientific competences, called Knowledge Map. The KMap is a system to support research collaborations and sharing of results within and beyond a European Network of Excellence. Th...

Please cite this paper as: Aloosh M. " Excellence " and " equity " : key elements in medical education. I n Iran, similar to most countries, medicine is a prestigious and high income profession. Moreover, traditionally " best and the brightest " candidates have been considered suitable to enter medical schools. In fact, the excellency of the applicants has been measured in a highly competitive ...

Abstract Background Africa’s economic transformation relies on a radical of its higher education institutions. The establishment regional Centres Excellence (CoE) across Africa through World Bank support aims to stimulate the needed in and research. However, excellence is vague, often indiscriminately used concept academic circles. More importantly, manner which aspiring institutions can achiev...

Some of the leading models and frameworks about Excellence from the last 25 years are presented and discussed: Peters and Waterman’s eight excellence attributes (1982), Peters and Austin’s simplified excellence model (1985), Lists of Best Practices, Xerox Excellence Models (1990, 2002), the European Excellence Model (1992) and two different but overlapping “4P Models” (1999, 2004). At the end o...

Excellence is a talent or quality, which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. Ophthalmology in India today has reached a level that is considered to be on par with the best in the world. Moreover, a lot of the credit for this goes to the founding ophthalmology institutes in India that have been imparting quality training and education to ophthalmology trainees over the years. ...

As the awareness of the importance of managing organizational knowledge grows, the issue of how to build information and communication technology (ITC)-based systems to support knowledge management activities, i.e., knowledge management support systems (KMSSs), has been raised. However, knowledge and its manipulating activities, by their very nature, are sociotechnical phenomena in which social...