IN this editorial, the third in a series of four on excellence in anesthesiology, I will give a brief introduction to the concept of tacit knowledge and discuss how qualitative studies can clarify its role in anesthesia. The series was introduced by Andrew Smith, F.R.C.A. (Consultant Anesthesiologist and Honorary Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster, United ...

In the context of knowledge-intensive work, fluctuation of employees may involve the loss of a key asset. New employees often have to painfully learn from experienced ones when the key knowledge is tacit. In the spirit of corporate knowledge management, we present a bottom-up approach to modeling business knowledge for an organizational memory. The implemented Web representation in the intranet...

Models of work processes and of organizations’ activities are an important part of workflow systems and simulations. However, acquiring and maintaining these models can be difficult. To assist the acquisition and maintenance of organizational models, we have developed a set of knowledge-acquisition tools suitable for use in the domain of medical organizations. In modeling medical organization p...

Animal models for testing different vaccine candidates have been developed since a long time for studying tuberculosis. Mice, guinea pigs and rabbits are animals most frequently used. Each model has its own merits for studying human tuberculosis, and none completely mimics the human disease. Different animal models are being used depending upon the availability of the space, trained manpower as...

introduction: knowledge management is one of the most important implements for organization's success in data age and competition situations. nowadays, the notability (importance) of subject is to the extent that some of the organizations measure their available knowledge and reflect these measurements in reports as organization's mental investment and as an index for organization's classificat...

Organizational culture has a significant influence on the success of organizations. Culture determines the kinds of responses that the organization makes to required changes and will make to new problems. It can help predict how well the organization will deal with change. One of these changes is a knowledge management project. Knowledge is viewed as a driver in the definition and development o...

lifestyles, since their emergence as constructive parts of modernity changes, have formed cultural and economic procedures and they even represent a quest for personal identity and have also affected social communications. therefore sociologists are paying more attention to the subject of lifestyle these days and are studying the factors like religiosity of people influencing it. in this study ...

to empower the farmer villagers, execution of training programs including semi-presence training, open training and virtual training is essential. the main purpose of the present research is to determine the factors affecting the enabler trainings to farmer villagers with an emphasis on the component of culture and education technology using the interpretative structural modeling together with ...