Knowledge has long been recognized as an essential prerequisite for quality decision making [9]. An individual's knowledge can be transferred to others through different modes, such as socialization, externalization, combination, internalization—mechanisms that create and expand organizational knowledge [7]. Knowledge management (KM) can be viewed as a class of managerial processes that creates...

Cervical lipomyelomeningocele is a rare congenital spinal pathology. Lipomyelomeningocele is the commonest cause of congenital tethering, which causes neurological deterioration due to the conus medullaris and root ischemia. Early intervention is recommended even in cases with normal neurological examinations in order to prevent deterioration but our patient with cervical lipomyelomeningocele h...

Research Article Tibert Verhagen VU University Amsterdam [email protected] Bart van den Hooff VU University Amsterdam [email protected] Selmar Meents Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences—International Business School [email protected] The semantic differential is a widely applied measurement technique in the information systems field. As we demonstrate in this study, however, there is evi...

Some of the difficulties and misunderstandings that happen in accounting theory, practice, regulation and education are grounded in language and linguistics. As an illustration of this the Persian equivalent of 'accounting' is linguistically analysed to reveal how a mistranslation may cause difficulties in understanding and improving Iranian Accounting. This paper shows how Hesaabdaaree is not ...

BACKGROUND Meaning and purpose in life are fundamental to human beings. In changing times, with an aging population and increased life expectancy, the need for health care services and long-term care is likely to grow. More deeply understanding how older long-term care residents perceive meaning and purpose in life is critical for improving the quality of care and the residents' quality of life...

ions have universal value, still requires the aid of instances, analogies and metaphors. The fewness of these abstractions saves the linguistic situation. If we employed, say, a hundred radically different types of connections (still a small number) the task of limiting the misunderstandings due to the variety in our references would have proved impossible. The fundamental connections being thu...

Tune of words and music of sentences in the Holy Quran are not the same and they change in accordance with their meaning and intentions. Type of letters, combination of words in the verses and their increase and decrease have an important effect in tune of the verses. This musical reflection will affect readers‘thought and emotion and also sometimes it illustrates a live and dynamic image...