This paper considers the potential problems that may militate against the adoption of organic poultry production in Nigeria. Factors identified include: higher risk of diseases like coccidiosis and Newcastle disease, disease prevention and control / herd health management, disease containment in times of outbreak, land acquisition (land tenure system), market economies / cost-benefit ratio, pas...

Research has identified the significant effect of new ventures’ signaling information management on their ability to secure private equity financing. This study adopts an integrated and screening perspective investigate investors’ differing perceptions signals from ventures, across early financing stages. It proposes a three-step interpretation process. Based inductive multiple case signaler‒re...

The government’s aspirations of making Malaysia a leading international educational centre in the Asian Region has put a strong pressure on local universities to improve the quality of education they offer. One of the major steps that has been identified by the government to achieve this goal is to enhance the performance of local universities through the application and implementation of an ex...

The knowledge engineering (KE) and software communities have several evaluation methods, and techniques, unfortunately, we have not reach an agreement about what the proper object of evaluation should be. We try to unravel the mystery around evaluation methods, exposing several important models, synthesizing their most important features into an evaluation process that keeps the best of them al...

Knowledge acquisition is the process of acquiring knowledge from sources. There are many varied techniques to populate ontologies. This paper explores techniques in knowledge acquisition from user dialog using opencyc. We look at techniques to constrain the relationship when entering concepts and developed a system which allows the user to interact with opencyc without any knowledge of ontologi...

Information management relies on knowledge acquisition methods for extraction of knowledge from data. Statistical methods traditionally used for data analysis are satisfied with predictions, while understanding of data and extraction of knowledge from data are challenging tasks that have been pursued using computational intelligence (CI) methods. Recent advances in applications of CI methods to...

The purpose of the study is to develop an integrated knowledge management system for the domains of genome and nano-technology, in which terminology-based literature mining, knowledge acquisition, knowledge structuring, and knowledge retrieval are combined. The system supports integrating different databases (papers and patents, technologies and innovations) and retrieving different types of kn...

Based on an analysis of six high-tech firms in mainland China, this chapter examines knowledge management issues by focusing on its acquisition, dissemination, and commercialization. We found that most firms emphasized knowledge acquisition. SOE-based firms relied more on their parents for early key technologies, confirming that institutional support and social capital are influential in knowle...