Background: The present study aimed to analyze the situation of knowledge management among the faculty members in the four components, including creation, linking, organization and storage, and application. Methods: This is a survey research and the results are presented descriptively and analytically. The study tool was a questionnaire of knowledge management with 84 questions (creation of kno...

proteases are important enzymes that their role in various industries is undeniable. however, keeping enzymes stable during its activity in harsh conditions is so important. in this study, protease enzyme was immobilized on the porous silica particles and its stability in different temperatures and phs was evaluated. first silica particles were aminated by 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane then the ...

during last two decades, polysaccharides such as alginate (alg) alone and in combination with other biopolymers are widely used in vaccine and drug delivery systems. the aim of the present work was to investigate the potential utility of microparticles made of alginate (alg) as new vehicles for improving nasal vaccine delivery. for this purpose, diphtheria toxoid (dt) was chosen as a model anti...

This paper describes our approach to the 2012 Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Knowledge Base Population (KBP) entity linking track. For this task, we turn to a state-of-the-art system for entity linking in microblog posts. Compared to the little context microblog posts provide, the documents in the TAC KBP track provide context of greater length and of a less noisy nature. In this paper, we adap...

— We examine the relationship between resource abundance and several indicators of human welfare. Consistent with the existing literature on the relationship between resource abundance and economic growth we find that, given an initial income level, resource-intensive countries tend to suffer lower levels of human development. While we find only weak support for a direct link between resources ...

Overlapping tile automata and the associated notion of recognizability by means of (adequate) premorphisms in finite ordered monoids have recently been defined for coping with the collapse of classical recognizability in inverse monoids. In this paper, we investigate more in depth the associated algebraic tools that allows for a better understanding of the underlying mathematical theory. In par...

(a) David Cameron could refer to the British politician, the English actor or any other namesake. “The Ford Motor Company, founded in 1903 by Henry Ford, is one of the largest auto makers in the world. During a time of crisis throughout the auto industry in recent years, Ford emerged as the sole American automaker in a position to survive the steepest sales downturn in decades without a governm...

Manufacturers of consumer goods are trying to establish a direct link to consumers and to strengthen their competitive position by offering additional services. Even for simple services like a free warranty extension, manufacturers often rely on old-fashioned mailin coupons and have to encourage consumers to reach out to them over inefficient channels. We suspect that the transaction costs for ...

This paper briefly reports our submissions to the three tasks in TAC KBP 2011, i.e., Slot Filling (SF for short), Entity Linking (EL for short) and Cross-lingual Entity Linking (CEL for short).

The development of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is accelerating globally and provides significant revenue opportunities depending on user adoption. Hence, user adoption of IPTV constitutes a field of interest for IPTV providers. This paper extends prior research by proposing a research model for studying the driving forces of users' adoption of IPTV. Examining IPTV as a hedonic IT system...