Nowadays communication exchanges are an integral and time consuming part of people’s job, especially for the so called knowledge workers.

Abstracts: Information and knowledge (IK) are very important for any institution including education higher institution. Those IK are stored in every single individual in organization in the form of experiences, skills, etc. The growth of the higher education institution nowadays relies on how an institution manage the dissemination of those IK over the organization by using information technol...

Despite being an ancient disease, leprosy remains a public health problem in several countries -particularly in India, Brazil and Indonesia. The current operational guidelines emphasize the evaluation of disability from the time of diagnosis and stipulate as fundamental principles for disease control: early detection and proper treatment. Continued efforts are needed to establish and improve qu...

Endogenous opioid peptides take part in various functions as hormones or neuromodulators. In 1979, Takagi and his co-workers identified a new morphine-like substance “kyotorphin” (Kyo) a dipeptide synthesized in specific brain regions. The highest levels were found in the lower brain stem and dorsal spinal cord areas closely associated with the pain regulatory system. The peptide binds to a spe...