This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…

The authors of this article established the goal to provide a research of the innovative knowledge usage situation in the practice, to analyse origin and concept of innovative knowledge, and to foresee the ways how to develop this phenomenon to…

Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…

World of science Joining scientific Sharing knowledge and technologies with developing countries efforts to develop better solutions., 2011

The concept of interaction between systems of research, teaching and practical businesses in the context of knowledge- based economy and management are presented in the article. The article shows how the general trends of the global knowledge- based economy can…

Although we represent other people in terms of both what they look like and how they behave, these two aspects of person knowledge have rarely been studied together. While vision scientists have focused on the processing of faces and bodies,…

In this article we examine and expose some of the results of a research work based on the appropriation of knowledge through visual expression, activity attended by teachers and students outside the schooleducational method called "Open Classroom".After the investigation, it…

Com o avanço das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), configura-se um novo cenário que favorece o compartilhamento e a construção coletiva de conhecimento, especialmente em espaços virtuais. Na sociedade da informação, o paradigma é a participação, a colaboração e…

Japan is one of the most active users of ART in the world. Infertile women in Japan have shared
a complex relationship with the technology due to paternalistic and pronatalist influences. ART
has given a means for the medical and…

In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper…