When we were given the challenge of expressing our views of research as the researcher‟s story, we intended to talk primarily about the ways in which our personal lives mediated our research work. While this remains one of the aspects of what we want to share, in our negotiations and conversations about writing this column we became aware of what brought us together to write a common article on...

Knowledge is recognized as a key resource for organizational success. Making the best use of this resource is an important concern for both researcher and practitioner (Barthelme-trapp and Vincent 2001). To obtain all Knowledge Management (KM) benefits, it is necessary to measure the KM performance (Ragab and Arisha 2013). Since there are no standards in measuring KM performance, many approache...

Sponsored by the CNPq (Processes ns. 132203/98-7 and 301596/79-4 – National Research Council Master and Researcher I Grants) and from the Association Fund of Incentive to Psychopharmacology (AFIP). Part of the Master thesis “Study on the Bioavailability and Chronobiology of Lithium in Healthy Volunteers”, presented to the Department of Psychobiology of the Unifesp/EPM, 2000. This study was part...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Born in Pavia, Italy, on May 13, 1970. ”Laurea” degree in Nuclear Engineering from the ”Politecnico” of Milano, Italy, July 1995. Ph.D. in Mathematics at the International School for Advanced Studies (S.I.S.S.A.), Trieste, October 2000. From October 2001 to October 2004: Researcher at the ”Instituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo M. Picone”, CNR Rome, Italy. From November 2004 to October 2007:...

Definition. Microarray Experiment: "A set of one or more hybridisations, each of which relates one or more samples to one or more arrays." (Brazma et al., 2001) The steps to individual microarray experiment are outlined in Figure 1. Figure 1. Basic stages of a microarra y experimen t. It is important to note that, apart from the analysis stage, the researcher must document concisely all stages ...