Aghoutane Elmouhtadi*, MD; Fezzazi Redouane, MD Department of Orthopedic Pediatric Surgery, Medical University Hospital Mohammed VI, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Marrakech, Morocco Received: Oct 19, 2011; Accepted: Apr 08, 2012; First Online Available: Jan 17, 2013 Kabuki make-up syndrome (KMS) is a rare multiple congenital anomalies/mental retardation syndrome of unknown cause, first desc...

This paper examines possible shortfalls in the design of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and proposes a way to design more effective KMS using meta-knowledge. We develop a theoretical framework for identifying the best design features necessary to support effective KM in organizations. We then apply this framework to identify possible weaknesses of 40 KMS in four different categories of tool...

Knowledge management systems (KMS) are increasingly becoming popular and important in managing organizational knowledge. This motivates a closer inspection of the degree of usability of various types of KMS. This paper is an analysis of KMS from a philosophical angle: with the help of veritistic social epistemology we analyze which KMS are likely to be used more in comparison to others. Veritis...

Organizations are increasingly adopting Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) to realize firm and operational level benefits. Many KMS fail to yield desired outcomes due to the lack of understanding of the antecedents of successful KMS. Prior studies have established organizational culture as a key antecedent of successful KM. This study investigates the relationship between KMS effectiveness, in ...

In 2006, the Government Department participating in this study deployed its Knowledge Management System (KMS): this case study describes the lessons learned by this public sector organisation in its journey towards becoming a knowledge organisation. Extant research on the implementation of KMS in organisations operating in the private sector posits a range of factors that are correlated with su...

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of pre-treatments (0.1%KMS, 0.2%KMS, 0.3%KMS and blanching) and drying methods (mechanical drying and solar drying) on the dehydration and rehydration characteristics of carrot. The two drying methods yielded dehydrated products with different dehydration ratio, rehydration ratio, co-efficient of reconstitution and moisture content in both the dehy...

India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a culture marked by a high degree of syncretism and cultural pluralism. The nation is a federal republic consisting of 28 states and seven Union Territories. The Indian peninsula has an area of 3.28 million sq kms (about 1/3 the land mass of the US), and its coastline stretches about 5,700 kms on the mainland and about 7,500 kms includi...

A key objective of knowledge management system (KMS) implementations is to facilitate job outcomes, such as job performance and job satisfaction. Prior KMS research indicates many KMS implementations have failed to achieve their intended job outcomes, such as job performance and job satisfaction, and one important reason for failure could be that employees do not know how to use a KMS to enhanc...

We use the recently completed redshift-distance survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ENEAR) to measure the dipole component of the peculiar velocity field to a depth of cz ∼ 6000 kms. The sample consists of 1145 galaxies brighter than mB = 14.5 and cz ≤ 7000 kms, uniformly distributed over the whole sky, and 129 fainter cluster galaxies within the same volume. Most of the Dn − σ distances were...

We reported previously the enhanced phosphoinositide metabolism and constitutive activation of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) in two colorectal carcinoma cell lines, KMS-4 and KMS-8, derived from familial adenomatous polyposis patients. To study the physiological role of enhanced PLC activity in these cells, we analyzed the effect of PLC inhibitor (PCI) peptides on their growth...