Knowledge Translation (KT), a core priority in Canadian health research, policy, and practice for the past decade, has a long and rich tradition within Indigenous communities. In Indigenous knowledge systems the processes of "knowing" and "doing" are often intertwined and indistinguishable. However, dominant KT models in health science do not typically recognize Indigenous knowledge conceptuali...

healthcare decisions are often made under pressure, with varying levels of information in a changing clinical context. with limited resources and a focus on improving patient outcomes, healthcare managers and health professionals strive to implement both clinical and cost-effective care. however, the gap between research evidence and health policy/clinical practice persists despite our best eff...

Ever since Thomas Kuhn’s brilliant postulate that scientific progress is generated in the context of paradigms (commonly accepted notions), and that scientific revolutions manifest as paradigm shifts, we not only work along paradigms but are striving to consciously create them. Moreover, paradigms emerge not only within science but also about science, i.e., paradigms about how science should be...

abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

13 editorial Systematic reviews are reproducible synthesis of the best available evidence to facilitate sounder clinical decisions. From the triad of factors that encompass evidence-based Dentistry — clinician's experience, patient's needs and preferences , available scientific evidence — systematic reviews clearly fit into the latter. What is important to underline is that scientific evidence ...

Innovation, particularly in technology development, is a crucial aspect of nanotechnology R&D and, although several approaches to effective innovation management exist, organizational structures that promote knowledge exchange have been found to be most effect in supporting new and emerging technologies. This paper discusses Integrated Knowledge Networks (IKNs) and evaluates its use within nano...

This demo abstract describes the SmartWeb Ontology-based Annotation system (SOBA). A key feature of SOBA is that all information is extracted and stored with respect to the SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (SWIntO). In this way, other components of the systems, which use the same ontology, can access this information in a straightforward way. We will show how information extracted by SOBA is visual...

Software development involves several people with very different skills: customers, managers, accountants, business analysts, systems analysts, designers, developers, etc. Each one of them tends to focus on his or her specific aspect and to consider it the cornerstone of the whole development process. To involve these people in the software development there are many different views of the same...