During the last years more and more businesses have realized that knowing their employees competencies is an essential factor in order to stay competitive within the market. A knowledge management system based on ontologies can help a company to build up and manage skill profiles of its employees. For this reason a joint research project currently develops a suite consisting of a process model ...

This research considers two theoretical perspectives on employees’ motivation associated with diminished self-esteem from abusive supervision. The self-defense view of diminished selfesteem suggests that abusive supervision motivates destructive behavior in an attempt to reassert personal control and protect victims’ self-image. The self-presentational view of diminished self-esteem suggests ab...

During the last years more and more businesses have realized that knowing their employees competencies is an essential factor in order to stay competitive within the market. A knowledge management system based on ontologies can help a company to build up and manage skill profiles of its employees. For this reason a joint research project currently develops a suite consisting of a process model ...

Knowledge management facilitates the firms and employees to deliver better products and services and hence achieve competitive advantages and profits. The issues of knowledge management have drawn much attention form industry and academia. However, few reports have been found available investigating how knowledge management is adopted and diffused in organizations. This paper adopts structural ...

Chick embryos are a great historical research model in basic and applied sciences. Along with other animal models, avian and specifically chicken embryo has been attended, as well. Avian fertilized eggs as a natural bioreactor are an efficient tool for producing recombinant proteins and vaccines manufacturing. Due to the limitations of birds' eggs for viral replication, avian stem cells culture...

Inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) (where STEM is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) admit students on the basis of interest rather than competitive examination. This study examines the central assumption behind these schools-that they provide students from subgroups underrepresented in STEM with experiences that equip them academically and attitudinally to enter and stay in th...

The article defines the role of creative management in ensuring sustainable competitive advantages for organization. It is emphasized that intellectual activity plays a vital business processes organization.
 concept management, which performs an organizational and guiding achieving set goals organization, has been developed.
 significance using tools as effective lever solving comple...

The Drosophila testis is a well-established system for studying stem cell self-renewal and competition. In this tissue, the niche supports two stem cell populations, germ line stem cells (GSCs), which give rise to sperm, and somatic stem cells called cyst stem cells (CySCs), which support GSCs and their descendants. It has been established that CySCs compete with each other and with GSCs for ni...