methodological approaches and knowledge systems

... scales and knowledge systems in an assessment But, in fact, a tremendous depth of research and experience exists in relation to each of these dimensions of scale, stakeholders, 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 ... one hand, and biomes and ecosystems, on the other, related to such issues as biocomplexity; economists considering relationships between individual consumers and firms, on the one hand, and national...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SOCIAL SCIENCES AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Edited by Asunción López-Varela Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Social Sciences and Knowledge ... understand how changes that we cause in our atmosphere and oceans may change Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Social Sciences and Knowledge Management the climate in which we live and ... quantitative and qualitative research Journal of Mixed 30 Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Social Sciences and Knowledge Management Campbell, D T., and Stanley, J C (1963) Experimental and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... and suggests further research KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE MANAGING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Numerous views of knowledge are discussed in the information systems (IS), strategy, management, and ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... 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.,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 09:20

... that a query might link to; (3) candidate ranking – rank the probabilities of all candidates and NIL answer Table summarizes the systems which exploited different approaches at each step In the ... Zhengyan He and Houfeng Wang 2010 ICL_KBP Approaches to Knowledge Base Population at TAC2010 Proc TAC 2010 Workshop F M Suchanek, G Kasneci, and G Weikum 2007 Yago: A Core of Semantic Knowledge ... task (Artiles et al., 2007) and ACE2008 (e.g Baron and Freedman, 2008) Compared to WePS and ACE, KBP requires linking an entity mention in a source document to a knowledge base with or without...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... 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 ... systems There are diverse approaches to understanding knowledge systems in diverse contexts of governance Each of these approaches emerge from particular disciplinary and cultural contexts, and ... scientific approaches therefore, emphasise on dialogues and negotiation among all pertinent systems of knowledge around the issue of governance While a range of approaches to understand and promote knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... between real and emergent or possible properties of structures and agents: The (local) mix of conditions and events (social agents, objects, and interactions) that characterize open systems, and whose ... settings and interventions, and facilitate understanding of the outcomes that may or may not result, depending on whether and how the mechanisms are triggered, blocked, or modified by structural and ... interventions make use of approaches that facilitate critical self-reflection by professionals about how contextual and cultural factors influence and shape their understandings, assumptions and practices...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... constrained PWLBD systems, two approaches are proposed under the time optimal control (TOC) and MPC frameworks Both approaches require the proper handling of the piecewise nature of PWL systems and the ... is restricted to (1) constrained LBD systems; (2) constrained PWL systems with bounded disturbances (PWLBD systems) and (3) general constrained nonlinear systems 1.4 Contributions of the Thesis ... performance and robustness of model predictive control (MPC) controllers for (1) constrained linear systems with bounded disturbances (LBD systems) ; (2) constrained piecewise linear systems with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 14:29

... 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 ... become the most critical concern for the Web user, and e-commerce developer The lack of regulations in the use and deployment of Web mining systems and the widely spread privacy abuses reports related...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2012, 16:46

... 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 ... 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, ... LHT LMK PDL PHS PSM NCD Hand washing with soap before eating Hand washing without soap before eating No hand washing before eating Hand washing after defecation with soap Hand washing after defecation...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... 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 ... include blower and oxidation ditch, pump and trickling filter, and clarifier Based on the literature review, specifications, operating time, and capacity, it was estimated that blower and oxidation ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 19:10

... (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 ... 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, ... integrated circuit and micromachining silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenic technologies have been developed and used to manufacture ICs and motion microstructures (microscale actuators and sensors)...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 11:15

... 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)

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 18:15

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 18:15

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 16:15

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... (software and personnel) in standby mode Place “call pre-emption” capability (software and personnel) in standby mode * *Review and update INFOCON ORANGE and INFOCON RED contingency plans Review and ... target and lethality of the attack, and the effectiveness of system and network countermeasures • Impact is calculated by the analyst • Delays in detection and reaction can increase severity and ... ORANGE and INFOCON RED contingency plans Owners and Operators: Owners and Operators: * *Report new Category I,I,II, and III incidents immediately to Sector Center Report new Category II, and III...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 13:15

... described by two vectors g1 = 101] and g2 = 111] and the corresponding code word c2 c1 ], where c1 =4 b2 b1 b0 7g and c2 =4 b2 b1 b0 (1.17) 7g (1.18) and where b0 , b1 , and b2 are the three bits in ... g1(z) = + z2 and g2(z) = + z + z2 (1.19) where denotes the present input bit, and z and z2 represent the previous input bits having one and two clock period delays, respectively, and + is modulo ... Walsh code 0, or w0 ; row and column are w1 ; row and column are w2 ; and row and column are w3 The Walsh code number w j is the average number of zero crossings between +1 and If the numbers are...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 16:15