17 conclusions bridging scales and knowledge systems

... conference, which was held in March 2004 and hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt This book Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment—is ... 297 CLARK MILLER AND PAUL ERICKSON CHAPTER 17: Conclusions: Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems FIKRET BERKES, WALTER V REID, THOMAS J WILBANKS, AND DORIS CAPISTRANO NOTES 333 LIST OF AUTHORS ... 10 Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems • Better understanding of causality The relationships among environmental, social, and economic processes are often too complex to fully understand when...

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... section presents conclusions and suggests further research KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE MANAGING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Numerous views of knowledge are discussed in the information systems (IS), ... network-based knowledge processes and flows, to create new knowledge and to share and employ existing knowledge to solve problems, make decisions, and take actions 195 Knowledge and Process Management ... absorptive capacity That is, to use ICT and KMS to identify and acquire external information and knowledge, and to process, analyse and interpret this information and knowledge An example of the former...

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... administer its knowledge effectively (Bhatt, 2001; Thomas and Kleiner, 1995) Currently, the world and human life has been transformed from information age to a knowledge age (Syed-Ikhsan and Rowland, 2004: ... statements Knowledge Management System Creation of knowledge Knowledge Conversion Explicit to Tacit Creation of Knowledge Explicit to Tacit Storing of Knowledge Tacit to Explicit Disseminating of Knowledge ... (i.e knowledge) in order to survive and compete in the knowledge society’ Indeed, knowledge management is concerned with the exploitation and development of the knowledge assets (Davenport et al.,...

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... techno-bureaucratic knowledge systems, knowledge systems of development agencies, knowledge systems of politicians, and knowledge systems of civil society networks In the processes of political interaction and ... civil society knowledge Encounter between techno-bureaucratic knowledge and civil society knowledge systems Deliberative innovation in integrating civil society and scientific knowledge systems Techno-bureaucrats ... Deliberative Knowledge Interface: Lessons and Policy Implications Hemant R Ojha, Krishna P Paudel, Netra P Timsina and Ram B Chhetri Introduction Four systems of knowledge and perspectives Deliberative knowledge...

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... predicted EHTC and the test one reduced gradually 647 Conjugate Flow and Heat Transfer of Turbine Cascades Fig 17 Temperature distribution (condition and 2) Fig 18 EHTC distribution (condition and 2) ... the left and right of the wall JL, R defined by eq (15d) k thermal conductivity L, H thickness and height of the wall Nu( L , R ) Nusselt numbers associated with the left- and right-hand surface ... transition, and the maximum 646 Heat Transfer - Theoretical Analysis, Experimental Investigations and Industrial Systems a） condition b） condition Fig 16 Contours of Mach Number and Temperature...

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... Information and Knowledge Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp 178 -196, 2002 Maimon, O and Rokach, L., Decomposition Methodology for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Theory and ... 37(9), pp 175 7 -177 1, 2004 Buja, A and Lee, Y.S., Data Mining criteria for tree based regression and classification, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data ... for Data Mining, Proc 22nd Int Conf Very Large Databases, T M Vijayaraman and Alejandro P Buchmann and C Mohan and Nandlal L Sarda (eds), 544-555, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996 Valiant, L G (1984) A...

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... traditional knowledge systems and helps understand plant’s efficacy in its cultural context Second, research on traditional knowledge systems can improve our understanding of how ethnopharmacological knowledge ... traditional knowledge systems Theoretical contributions of the study of traditional knowledge systems to ethnopharmacology I use the terms traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge systems ... including anthropology and the study of traditional knowledge systems (but see, for example, the work of Giovannini and Heinrich [2], Thomas, Vandebroek, and colleagues [3,4], Pieroni and colleagues...

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... clear boundary exists between systems biology and systems medicine, it could be stated that systems biology is aimed at a fundamental understanding of biologic processes and ultimately at an exhaustive ... practice if standards could be broadly adopted in our knowledge representation, data collection, publication, and reasoning, and if fundamental chemical, physical, and biologic entities and processes ... models bridging embedded levels of organization from molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and all the way to individuals, environmental factors, populations, and ecosystems, systems...

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... Figure 17. 6 Screenshot of ArcInfo and ArcFM Copyright © 2005 by Taylor & Francis 2097_C 017. fm Page 360 Friday, December 17, 2004 1:33 PM pressure zone evaluation, and for comparing measured and ... Haestad, Waterbury, CT Walski, T.M and Male, J.W (2000) Maintenance and rehabilitation replacement In Water Distribution Systems Handbook, L.W Mays Ed., McGraw-Hill, 17. 1 17. 28 Walski, T., Toothill, ... 2097_C 017. fm Page 350 Friday, December 17, 2004 1:33 PM Figure 17. 2 Map of mean defect ratings for sewer pipes Copyright © 2005 by Taylor & Francis 2097_C 017. fm Page 351 Friday, December 17, 2004...

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... objects (products, service, pages etc) and subjects (users), categorization of objects and subjects, mapping between and across objects and/ or subjects, and determination of the set of actions ... Cooley, B Mobasher, and J Srivastava Data preparation for mining world wide Web browsing patterns Knowledge and Information Systems, 1(1), 1999 [5] R Cooley Web Usage Mining: Discovery and Application ... can be referred to [17] What is on earth the structural information, and how to discover it ? S Madria et al [17] gave a detailed description about how to discover interesting and informative facts...

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... many Append is the comparison with Thailand and Malaysia: Table 3.3 – Plastic product structure compared with Thailand and Malaysia Description Vietnam Thailand Malaysia (%) (%) (%) Household Products ... vision and the limitation of information about foreign market and competitors for strategic management in the long term 1.2 Problem statement Based on the examination and analysis the external and ... rationale of the study, and statement, the objectives, the scope and limitations as well as the methodology and framework of the study Chapter summarizes the literature review and contains the fundamental...

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... Short-term and Heavy rainy, SDG: Short-term and Drainage, LSD: Long-term and Stagnant, LHT: Long-term and Heavy rainy, LMK: Long-term and Monsoon flood, PDL: Persistent and Drainage, PHS: Persistent and ... high and low density settlements in Kampala – Uganda Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 29, 1153–1159 Park K (1997) Preventive and Social Medicine M/s B Bhanot Publishers, Jabalpur, pp .171 -174 ... supply and (c) sanitation systems and attitudes for (d) water treatment at home, (e) children’s defecation habits and (f) hygiene practices Note: Communities code name, SRM: Short-term and Rainy,...

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... efficiency and renewable investments Conclusions and future work This research evaluates the relationship between environmental and energy factors and explores the value in tracking energy and environmental ... Rolla South East WWTP [17] These include blower and oxidation ditch, pump and trickling filter, and clarifier Based on the literature review, specifications, operating time, and capacity, it was ... management and pollution controls Contamination of raw water source Implement and enforce water and land protection zones Water stress/ insufficient water allocation Study water yields; draft and conclude...

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... Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and C Mazidi, Mazidi and McKinlay Chung-Ping Young 楊中平 Home Automation, Networking, and Entertainment Lab Dept of Computer Science and Information ... Numbering and coding systems Digital primer Inside the computer Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN NUMBERING AND CODING SYSTEMS Decimal and ... Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and C Mazidi, Mazidi and McKinlay Chung-Ping Young 楊中平 Home Automation, Networking, and Entertainment Lab Dept of Computer Science and Information...

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... (N), • cylindrical (C) and • asymmetrical (A) Using the possible electromagnetic systems and geometry, actuators and sensors (motion nano- and microstructures as well as nano- and microdevices) can ... SYNTHESIS OF NANO- AND MICROELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS AND SENSORS New advances in micromachining and microstructures, nano- and microscale electromechanical devices, analog and digital ICs, provide ... ICs, provide enabling benefits and capabilities to design and manufacture NEMS and MEMS Critical issues are to improve power and thermal management, circuitry and actuator/sensor integration,...

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... closed-loop systems use the data from different sensors, feedback commands (controls) are generated and executed, and intelligent updates and evolution are performed The feedback for sensor and control ... because V (e, x ) > and dV (e, x)

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... the stator and rotor circuitry dynamics As the control and state variables we use the voltages applied to the stator (as and bs) and rotor (ar and br) windings, as well as the stator and rotor ... following relation and frequency f of the supplied voltages To attain the acceleration and settling time specified, overshoot and rise time needed, the general purpose (standard), soft- and high-starting ... the following variables and symbols are used: uas , ubs and ucs are the phase voltages in the stator windings as, bs and cs; uqs , uds and uos are the quadrature-, direct-, and zero-axis stator...

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... standard There are several network standards, PDA standards, browsing standards, protocol standards…etc In the wireless world, airwaves are the only vehicle to send and receive data Depending on the ... enhanced voice and data and even video It is bandwidth can be as high as Mbps and will operate at GHz Will Wireless banking play a major role in new markets? P2P (Person to Person), and P2A (Person ... The WebSphere application server will handle the data dynamically and adapt it to the handheld device Also it can run multiple applications and requests, and can be easily integrated to the backend...

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... crudely functional whole and then to remove and replace less reliable subsystems Challet and Johnson estimate that one-half of the components could be significantly imperfect and yet the system as ... attention self-organization and emergence in complex natural systems Both ID and hyper-adaptationist Darwinian (HD) theorists share assumptions about the nature of organisms and systems These shared ... Design, and Complex Systems Dynamics 1:5 183 sources for such molecules and their spontaneous self-organization into membranous vesicles have been demonstrated (Deamer and Pashley 1989; Deamer and...

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