considering the essential role that product development plays in fast- growing firms learning how to perform its activities can be highly valued, whereas product development activities are per se a proper context for knowledge acquisition. in this study, the narrative approach and the technique of deep and targeted interviews have been used to narrate the stories expressed by nine of the sales ...

The process of setting up a digital preservation repository in compliancy with the OAIS model is not only a technical challenge: libraries also need to develop and maintain appropriate skills and organizations. Digital activities, including digital preservation, are nowadays moving into the mainstream activity of the Library and are integrated in its workflows. The Bibliothèque nationale de Fra...

Knowledge work is a demanding activity caused on the one hand by the increasing complexity of today’s information spaces. On the other hand, knowledge workers are acting correspondingly to an individual creative workflow, which involves multifaceted characteristics like diverse activities, locations, environments and social contexts. Although it is important to find solutions to specific aspect...

The late 1980s witnessed the debut of DNA on the stages of the world’s judiciaries. In the United Kingdom, DNA ‘‘minisatellites’’ (discovered by Sir Alec Jeffreys and chronicled previously in this series of PLOS Genetics interviews) made their breathtaking appearance in two compelling stories: an immigration case and a double rape-murder case in which a village’s entire male population offered ...

To evaluate the diagnostic application of serum a-fetoprotein (AFP) and circulating immune complexes (CICs), AFP, 3% polyethylene glycol (PEG)-CICs, 4% PEG-CICs, and Clq-CICs were determined in 101 patients with cirrhosis alone, 101 sex-matched and age-matched cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 54 healthy controls. Multivariate analysis indicated that AFP (odds ratio 1.0...

In this exclusive interview, Dr. Robert K. Logan talks about the past, present, and future of book reader from a Media Ecology perspective. He describes influences that internet, World Wide Web social media exert on readers consequently formats books. The interview is focused his library: electronic to digital media, which was originally co-authored with Marshall McLuhan in late 1970s. work hal...

The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series began in 1995 with an invitational workshop which brought together librarians, digital library researchers, content experts, and text-markup experts to promote better discovery standards for electronic resources. The Dublin Core is a 15-element set of descriptors that has emerged from this effort in interdisciplinary and international consensus building....