Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of…

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Reverse logistics activities require the ability to generate new knowledge to reduce high uncertainty and to solve problems resulting of these activities. In this sense the purpose of this research is to understand how the modes of knowledge conversion (Nonaka…

In this work we present a theoretical study of the spontaneous capillary flow of a viscous liquid, developed in the gap between a couple of parallel corrugated plates (corrugated Hele-Shaw cell). The periodical corrugation of the interior walls of the…

This paper presents an intelligent, hybrid system for stamping process planning in progressive die design. The system combines the flexibility of blackboard architecture with case-based reasoning. The hybrid system has the advantage that it can use past knowledge and experience…

This thesis describes two programs for generating tests for digital circuits that exploit several kinds of expert knowledge not used by previous approaches. First, many test generation problems can be solved efficiently using operation relations, a novel representation of circuit…

The editorial discusses the need to update our knowledge and skills to meet up to the challenges of our evolving role as an anaesthesiologist.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/slja.v22i1.6281

Sustainable development in the knowledge economy faces new challenges. Sustainable development has its stakeholders and drivers; some of them are more important than the others. Financial cooperatives do not seem a substantial stakeholder of sustainable development, but only at the…

Background Every medical practitioner has ethical, professional and legal responsibilities to respect patients’ autonomy with regard to informed consent. Methodology Intern Medical Officers (IMO) in the first 6 months of internship at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) were…

The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social and economic development in ruralAfrica. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to the information gap…