purpose – the purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. design/methodology/approach – the study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive south isfahan (iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

The purpose of this paper is to present work in progress as part of the analysis of the South African SITES 2006 data which forms the basis for an ongoing PhD study. The PhD study aims to examine how teachers in classrooms representing the majority of South African schools use ICT when they teach science and to explore factors which may be used as predictors of ICT use by science teachers in si...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW We seek to describe the relationship between diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk in migrant South Asians compared to native white Europeans, and to determine the temporal change in this relationship over recent years. RECENT FINDINGS Recent evidence suggests that the excess mortality risk associated with diabetes is lower in the migrant South Asian population compared ...

The purpose of this study was to compare physical activity levels between white and South Asian children in the UK. The data were obtained from 606, 11-14 year old schoolchildren (397 white; 209 Asian). Physical activity was assessed using the 'four by one day' recall questionnaire from which the time spent in moderate and vigorous physical activity was calculated. Boys were significantly more ...

This essay attempts to capture the spirit of our recent meeting in Chile entitled "Emerging Concepts in Neuronal Cytoskeleton." The purpose of the meeting was to bring together scientists from South American countries with colleagues from the USA and the global community, to inspire and motivate the next generation of scientists from South America who share a fascination of the internal archite...

ReaderBench is a multi-purpose, multi-lingual and flexible environment that enables the assessment of a wide range of learners’ productions and their manipulation by the teacher. ReaderBench allows the assessment of three main textual features: cohesion-based assessment, reading strategies identification and textual complexity evaluation, which have been subject to empirical validations. Reader...

cercarial dermatitis or swimmers’ itch is an itchy inflammatory response to the penetration of the skin by non-human schistosome parasites. in the hot season, may to september, in khuzestan province in the south west of iran, swimming in canals and agriculture activities in swampy areas are common. this survey was made on people from villages north of ahwaz city in south west iran, to estimate ...