Studies show that only 10% of corporate training is ever applied within the workplace. This is because organisations tend to use school based methods of learning which are not appropriate. Our approach, based on theories of learning in the workplace , supports organisational learning and knowledge sharing by enriching web documents with informal and formal representations. This enrichment captu...

The USL/DBMS NASA/PC R&D Working Paper Series contains a collection of formal and informal reports representing results of PC-based research and development activities being conducted by the Center for Advanced Computer Studies of the University of Southwestern Louisiana pursuant t o the specifications of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract Number NASW-3846 and NASA Training ...

Patients 100 patients who were > 65 years of age (mean age 79 y, 53% women), entitled to payments from the Social Insurance Institution for community care because they had dementia, and lived at home with primary support from an informal caregiver (mean age 64 y, 69% women). Exclusion criteria were other severe diseases that might lead to institutionalisation or inability of patients and caregi...

Behavioral information systems security governance entails managing the informal structures in an organization to ensure an appropriate security environment. Informal structures in an organization comprise the individual values, beliefs and behavior prevalent in an organization guiding the norms and employee perception of job responsibilities. Five consistent themes arise from a critical review...

A wise decider D uses the contents of his mind fully, accurately and efficiently. D’s ideal decisions, i.e., those that best serve his interests, would be embedded in a comprehensive set of totally coherent judgments lodged in his mind. They would conform to the norms of statistical decision theory, which extracts quantitative judgments of fact and value from D’s mind contents and checks them f...

In times of rapid technological and socioeconomic changes, knowledge sharing and learning have become critical assets for most organizations and companies. New ways of learning and training are needed to cope with the rising demand of information. The Microtraining method developed on basis of recent learning theories and concepts is an answer to the need of flexibility of learning settings rel...

During the past three decades, our knowledge about brain functions and its structures underlying music perception, performance, and emotions has accumulated relatively quickly. Cortical and subcortical brain areas involved in these musical functions have been identified using various techniques and paradigms. In the present talk, I will introduce recent findings revealing enhanced brain mechani...

The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award is being awarded to Gregg Semenza, William Kaelin, and Peter Ratcliffe for discovery of the pathway by which human and animal cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability-an essential requirement for survival. Bill and Peter joined Cell editor João Monteiro in an informal conversation about science, medicine, designing experiments, ...

This study offers a new evaluation methodology for peer-education programs. Peer educators' knowledge, self-esteem, peer pressure, and the number of friends, neighbors, and relatives given HIV/AIDS information were compared before and after training using self-administered questionnaires. Significant changes were observed in knowledge, peer pressure, self-efficacy, numbers of people given condo...

P a t i e n t s 100 patients who were ≥ 65 years of age (mean age 79 y, 53% women), who were entitled to payments from the Social Insurance Institution for community care because they had dementia, and who lived at home with primary support from an informal caregiver. Exclusion criteria were other severe diseases that might lead to institutionalization or inability of caregivers to participate ...