the study analyzed farm households’ access and utilization of government health facilities in kogi state, nigeria. specifically, it described the socioeconomic characteristics of farm households, determined the level of accessibility to health facilities by farm households, and determined the factors that drive farm households’ utilization of government health facilities. a two staged random sa...

abstract background: according to professionalization in nursing profession, the nursing researches expanded dramatically and rapidly in a very short period. research results showed improvement in quality of provided care by using research findings. but there is still a gap between nursing research and practice, which led scientists to explore the barriers and facilitators of research utilizati...

nowadays, the utilization of organizational knowledge and sharing it with other employees in governmental project-based organizations, have become a strategic source of gaining and preserving competitive advantage. acquiring competitive advantage requires means and approaches that make the governmental project-based organizations capable of improving their knowledge sharing performance and gain...

today service organizations operate in highly dynamic and competitive environment where improving performance depends on effective utilization of intangible assets. accordingly, this study investigated the intervening role of social capital in the effect of social media assimilation on the quality of organizational knowledge and innovational performance. this study has been done in a sample of ...

Recent research has shown that under some circumstances, the conventional minimal change methods were inappropriate for updating knowledge bases with disjunctive eeects. In this paper we propose a new method for the knowledge base update based on a persistence principle , which provides conservative results for updating knowledge bases with implicit and disjunctive eeects. As it will be shown, ...

Increasingly sophisticated knowledge requires an inclusive knowledge representation that facilitates the integration of independently-generated information arising from different kind of efforts. The use of semantic web technologies addresses the reality of diverse interests on an ontology merging and supports knowledge discovery over that. Significant research efforts in the Semantic Web are r...