Given the drive in higher education institutions to employ web-based learning (WBL) technologies in their curricula, this article sets out to address the question of how staff experience the incorporation of such technologies into their educational practice. The study focuses on an initiative involving four institutions in South and West England that aimed to encourage the strategic development...

Knowledge Management (KM) is an important issue in organizations. However there are several barriers to successful KM. In particular, knowledge hoarding, difficulties in identifying organizational knowledge, not understanding KM requirements, and technical difficulties of knowledge representation. In this work we focus on a connection between the managerial and technical aspects of knowledge ma...

AIM Poor nutritional status is common in older adult patients. The present study aimed to explore barriers and facilitators to nutritional care of elderly patients in acute care settings. METHODS Data were collected through individual face-to-face interviews with 12 registered nurses, and analyzed using interpretive description methodology. RESULTS Two core themes emerged from the analysis ...

The purposes of this paper are to develop a comprehensive understanding of how ‘learning organizations’ can be created and to provide a partial evaluation of the literature with a view to developing propositions for the future research agenda. To these ends, the paper analyzes the components of ‘learning organizations,’ deals with the barriers to organizational learning and several strategies f...

This manuscript presents a comprehensive managerial model of a sustainable university created with empirical data collected from eighty higher education institutions around the world. The sustainable university model offers a clear perspective about how people responsible for sustainability initiatives get from their initial momentum to advanced steps in the process to become a sustainable univ...

We are presenting a description of the UNL initiative based on the Universal Networking Language (UNL). This language was conceived to be the support of the multilingual communication on the Internet beyond the linguistic barriers. This initiative was launched by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in 1996. The initial consortium was formed to support 15 languages...

Published research evidence does not automatically diffuse into clinical practice but requires active processes of translation that start with clinicians' awareness of the science and end with patient adherence to the recommended care. Many barriers thwart the uptake of valid and clinically important research into practice, with cognitive, motivational and sociological factors on the part of he...

In this paper, we present a variant of Datalog language (we call it Datalog ) able to deal with weights on ground facts and to consequently compute a feedback result for the goal satisfaction. The weights are chosen from a proper c-semiring. In our context, our goal is to use this language as a semantic foundation for languages for expressing trust relationships. As a matter of fact, many of th...

Sharing sensitive information across security domains is an important requirement for knowledge intensive collaborative work, but such sharing may impose risks on security and privacy integrity. Research has increasingly recognized the role of trust in minimizing the risk of information sharing across untrusted or unknown entities. To this extent, trust negotiations[1][3][15][20] have emerged a...

Grounded Theory provides a useful approach for eliciting and justifying subjective characteristics of individuals. A Grounded Theory analysis is carried on individuals who share pictures, with a view to developing a trust management policy model of indiscretion regarding the sharing of photographs.