Open Source Software projects base their operation on collaborative structure for knowledge exchange in the form of provision or reception of information, expertise and feedback on the creation of source code. Here, we address the direction of these knowledge flows…

The purpose of this study was to investigate sources of knowledge acquisition of high school team sport coaches. Six teacher/coaches were interviewed using a semi-structured open-ended interview format. Cote, Salmela, and Russell's (1995) guidelines were used to inductively analyze and…

In this thesis we follow two directions: Zero Knowledge Protocols and the Discrete Logarithm Problem. In each direction we present the necessary background and we give a new approach for some parts of the existing protocols., The new parts are…

Metacognitive knowledge is a critical piece of the information literacy puzzle. In a world of exploding information and communications possibilities, the difficulty for users of information systems and services may not lie in finding information but in filtering and integrating…

Esta es una aproximación conceptual al constructo estilo de vida; se constata que el estilo de vida, bajo un enfoque socioeducativo, no se limita a una conducta exterior, el estilo de vida lleva implícitamente una forma de conocer, de aprender,…

El inicio de relaciones diplomáticas de Venezuela con el
continente africano se remonta a mediados del siglo XX. Sin embargo,
dicha temática no ha sido objeto de interés por parte de la historiografía
venezolana dedicada a esta área del conocimiento…

En este artículo se exponen diversos puntos de vista acerca del devenir de las Ciencias Sociales, a partir del estudio de las revoluciones sucedidas en América Latina desde 1989. Se muestran algunos mitos y tabúes sobre los linderos de las…

The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge and successful strategies utilized by intercollegiate team sport coaches who have worked with a large number of international athletes. Six head coaches were selected to participate in a semi-structured open-ended…

This dissertation is a study of organizational learning. Organizational learning is a cyclical process through which knowledge that has been learned on an individual or group level is institutionalized on the organizational level. Organizational learning is at the heart of…

The Listener is an automated system that unintrusively performs knowledge acquisition from informal input. The Listener develops a coherent internal representation of a description from an initial set of disorganized, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and possibly inconsistent statements. The Listener can…