Knowledge Management (KM) on its surface may appear to be a dichotomous dis-synchronization with Community of Practice (CoP) development. KM is systematic and intentional, and presumes the defined body of facts. CoP, on the other hand, is based, as its name intends, on skill-based practice. It is the above oversimplified definition, though, that prompted the case study referred to herein. CoP b...

This article intends to give an overview of the lexicographic scene in Estonia from the perspective of modern lexicography, i.e. e-lexicography. We have been developing our in-house Dictionary Writing System EELex for some time already. However, the modern lexicography expects more: the multifunctionality of the database, special needs of the specific user, etc. I will briefly characterise some...

July 2010, important decisions were taken to ensure the continuity Held for the first time in 1996, the Global Summit of National of activities between the Summits. This article intends to briefly Ethics Committees (NECs) is a key platform for dialogue and retrace the history and analyse the role and functioning of the fostering consensus on ethical issues at a global level. At the Global Summi...

Direct oral anticoagulants emerge as the most innovative and promising drug toward preventing and treating cardiovascular disease, raising great interest among the scientific community. Numerous studies and meta-analysis generated much data clarifying clinicians' doubts; however, uncertainties remain regarding their use in particular groups such as patients with prosthetic valves, in valvular a...

Fractal geometry has proven to be a useful tool in quantifying the structure of a wide range of idealized and naturally occurring objects, from pure mathematics, through physics and chemistry, to biology and medicine. In the past few years fractal analysis techniques have gained increasing attention in signal and image processing, especially in medical sciences, e.g. in pathology, neuropsychiat...

This mini review article, intends to provide the essential information about microemulsion technique as a reliable approach toward the synthesis of zeolitic nano crystallites. The strategy discussed here provides a unique, effective, and potentially general methodology to the preparation of uniform and high purity nano crystallites of template-free zeolitic materials including LTA, faujasite ty...

As the CORBA Component specification has been adopted by the OMG, it is now necessary to provide CORBA Component platforms in order to offer environment to build component-based distributed applications. This article presents one possible approach to build such a platform. This approach intends to provide a dynamic platform that would allow the incremental building of distributed applications u...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine has great potential to improve health care in Africa as well as other developing areas, especially when medical expertise is urgently needed in emergency situations. Yet resistance from healthcare professionals could prevent telemedicine's social value from being materialized. OBJECTIVE This article intends to understand why healthcare providers resist using telemedici...