Technology Management Capability measurement is being emphasized as an important research field in the Technology Management discipline which continues to be developed by interdisciplinary interactions. Companies which improve technology management capabilities and become mature in this sense may improve their competitive powers and in turn their performances. To test these hypothesis; which de...

Foreign language (FL) knowledge has been shown to contribute significantly to FL reading performance. Studies have contrasted the contribution of FL vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, following a dichotomous view of these components, producing mixed results. Despite the increasingly recognized formulaic nature of language, the contribution made by phraseological knowledge to reading ability ha...

Biasing properly the hypothesis space of a learner has been shown to improve generalization performance. Methods for achieving this goal have been proposed, that range from designing and introducing a bias into a learner to automatically learning the bias. Multitask learning methods fall into the latter category. When several related tasks derived from the same domain are available, these metho...

The information society has reached a new era of communication and knowledge management. Virtual communities are emerging as a requirement in this new information distribution scheme. We investigate the concept of virtual knowledge communities using an agent-based abstraction. In this field, there is a need for evaluating the performances and the quality of a global system resulting from the be...

In my view, music is one of the most complex, difficult to study, and important to study of all cultural phenomena—in fact, among the most complex, difficult, and important of any phenomena whatsoever. Six features of music make it so: (1) Music is an art, so many musicians try to use its elements in interesting and original ways, not standardized and ordinary ways. (2) Music is a performing ar...

This paper provides an overview of emerging activity patterns on Cloudworks, a specialised site for sharing and debating ideas as well as resources on teaching, learning and scholarship in education. It provides an overview of activities such as ‘flash debates’, ‘blended workshops’ and ‘open reviews’ and seeks to situate dialogic interchanges and structures of involvement within the following t...

In almost all urban contexts and in many extra-urban conurbations, where road traffic is the main noise pollution source, the use of barriers is not allowed. In these cases, low-noise road surfaces are the most used mitigation action together with traffic flow reduction. Selecting the optimal surface is only the first problem that the public administration has to face. In the second place, it h...

This study aims at developing a conceptual model depicting the interrelationship of employee performance monitoring, stress, knowledge management, and worker productivity. In this study, past research related to monitoring productivity is used as base identify study's constructs develop model. The final emerges model, which may be tested quantitatively, has four constructs. These are finally ev...