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Identifying communities of practice: analysing ontologies as networks to support community recognition
No full textCommunities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this paper we set out ONTOCOPI, a system that applies ontology-based network analysis techniques to target the problem of identifying such communities
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis
No full textCommunities of practice—groups of individuals interested in a particular job, procedure, or work domain—informally swap insights on work-related tasks, often through quick chats by the water cooler. They act as corporate memories, transfer best practice, provide mechanisms for situated learning, and act as foci for innovation.1,2 Increasingly, organizations are harnessing communities of practice to carry out important knowledge management functions.3 However, a significant first step is identifying the community, which often doesn’t designate itself as such, and its members, who don’t know they belong! So, this step involves determining which people in a community of practice have common interests in particular practices or functions and producing sets or clusters of related individuals. Community identification traditionally demands heavy resources and often includes extensive interviewing. In this article, we describe Ontocopi (Ontology-Based Community of Practice Identifier), a tool to help identify communities. Ontocopi lets you infer the informal relations that define a community of practice from the presence of more formal relations. For instance, if A and B have no formal relation but they have both authored papers with C (formal relation), they might share interests (informal relation). Because Ontocopi works in this way, we cannot claim without qualification that it identifies communities of practice. Significant informal relations might have little or no connection to the formal ones. Here, we refer to the networks uncovered by Ontocopi as COPs and to informal social networks as communities of practice. We work under the assumption that COPs are sometimes decent proxies for communities of practice
PATHOLOGICAL STUDY ON STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
No full textMaktabat Al Muthanna Baghdad Feb-May 1962
No full textOn the same date, Ali Al-Mansouri issued an official financial statement confirming that the Al-Khanji Foundation owed a total of 11.375.أصدر علي المنصوري بيانًا ماليًا رسميًا بتاريخ 25 نيسان 1962 يُفيد بأن مؤسسة الخانجي مدينة بمبلغ إجمالي قدره 11,375
Fundamentals of entrepreneurship (ENT300) : Proposal Borneo home stay / Dzarul Harith Osman … [et al.]
No full textOur company is Borneo home stay. The business has been decided on the form of partnership. Each of us contributes certain amount of capital as agreed in our agreement. Our main business activity is to give services and to support our local product at Santubong area. We will open our company at Taman Sri Sarawak, Jalan Padungan, Kuching, Sarawak and our business will be commence by 1st June 2014. All four of us have to agreed to participate in all the business management that will establish that is Dzarul Harith Osman as a General Manager/ Administration Manager, Caroline Anak Francis as a Financial Manager, Norita Anak Jelimang as a Marketing Manager, and Mohammad Fadzli Uteng as a Operational Manager
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction
No full textThe great success of Web 2.0 is mainly fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge easily. The tools for developing structured knowledge in this manner have started to appear as well. However, there are few, if any, user studies that are aimed at understanding what users expect from such tools, what works and what doesn't. We organized the Collaborative Knowledge Construction (CKC) Challenge to assess the state of the art for the tools that support collaborative processes for creation of various forms of structured knowledge. The goal of the Challenge was to get users to try out different tools and to learn what users expect from such tools /features that users need, features that they like or dislike. The Challenge task was to construct structured knowledge for a portal that would provide information about research. The Challenge design contained several incentives for users to participate. Forty-nine users registered for the Challenge; thirty three of them participated actively by using the tools. We collected extensive feedback from the users where they discussed their thoughts on all the tools that they tried. In this paper, we present the results of the Challenge, discuss the features that users expect from tools for collaborative knowledge constructions, the features on which Challenge participants disagreed, and the lessons that we learned
Lead bioremoval by Bacillus spp. Isolated from industrial wastewater
No full textFour samples were collected from the wastewater of State Battery Manufacturing Company (SBMC); Babylon 2 factory in AL-Waziriya district, as triplicates. Physical and chemical measurements were carried out such as temperature, pH, Lead concentrations and their ranges were: (19.5-34.5) °C, (6.1-6.4) and (4.5-6.5) mg/L, respectively. Six dominant Bacillus spp. isolates were isolated from these samples; namely, Bacillus subtilis N1, Bacillus subtilis N2, Bacillus subtilis N3, Bacillus cereus N4, Bacillus cereus N5 , Bacillus cereus N6. These isolates were capable of removing Lead from aqueous solutions in a capacity reached 27.6 ± 1.4, 10.1 ± 1.7, 74.5 ± 0.7, 8.93 ± 2.8, 8.1 ± 3.5, 1.6± 0.7 mg/L, respectively. Whereas cell walls, extracted from the same isolates, were able to remove Pb with high efficiency reached 77.7 ± 0.3, 18.6 ± 1.2, 9.5 ± 0.7, 42.4 ± 6.3, 9.9 ± 0.9, 6.7 ± 2.1 mg/L, respectively. This study showed that there is high variation (
In vivo lung injury caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa DNA
No full textAbstract Noticeable inflammatory reactions in rats lungs were caused by DNA isolated from Pseudomonas aeruginosa include infiltration of macrophages, neutrophiles and lymphocytes. Additionally, fibromuscular hypertrophy of smooth muscles in respiratory bronchiols was seen as well. Since lung homogenate shows no bacterial growth in all samples. Consequently, these inflammatory signs were attributed to DNA effect rather than any other cause. In conclusion, apart from live bacteria, P. aeruginosa DNA has the ability to cause inflammatory response in rat model airways
Colonization of Staphylococcus xylosus in the kidneys and bladder of mice
No full textTwo isolates of Staphylococcus xylosus (urease producer and non urease producer) were injected in mice at a dose of 2 × 108 colony-forming units (CFU) intraurethrally. Results showed that both isolates were able to colonize kidney and bladder of the injected mice, regardless of their urease production. Moreover, there were insignificant differences between the two groups. These results emphasized the pathogenicity of this bacteria in UTI
The movement of harith b. surayj
No full textHAris bin Süreyc, uzun yıllar Emevîler'e hizmet etmiş bir kişi idi. Özellikle 110/729 yılında Beykend'de Türk güçlerine karşı yapılan savaşta askerleri cesaretlendiren kişilerden biri olarak hatırlanır. Daha sonra 116/734 yılında HAris bin Süreyc Horasan'da Emevî yönetimine karşı isyan etti. Fakat Horasan yöneticisi olan 'Asım b. Abdullah onu, Merv'de mağlup etti. O, Esed bin Abdullah el-Kasrî zamanında tekrar isyan etti. İkinci defa mağlup oldu. HAris bin Süreyc ve taraftarları Türgiş Hanı'na katıldı. Nasr bin SeyyAr Horasan yöneticisi olunca, Emevî halifesi Yezîd bin Velîd onu affetti. Böylece o, 127/745 yılında Merv'e geri döndü. Sonra Cuday el-KirmAnî ile birlikte Nasr bin SeyyAr'a karşı savaştılar. Ancak el-KirmAnî ile anlaşmadılar. Nihayetinde o, 128/746 yılında el-KirmAnî tarafından öldürüldü. HAris'in kAtibi olan Cehm bin SafvAn Mürcii idi. Bu yüzden o Mürcii mezhebinin bir üyesi olarak bilinir. Gerçekte ise; o, insanları Kuran ve Sünnete tabi olmaya çağıran dini bir ihyacıdır.Harith b. Surayj was a man who served for Umayyads in several years. Especially He is mentioned as one of courageous warriors in the battle against the forces of Turks at Baykand in 110/729. After Harith b. Surayj rebelled in Khurasan against Umayyad administration in 116/734. But Khurasan Administrator, 'Asım b. Abdillah defeated him at Marw. He rebelled again during Asad b.'Abdallah Al-Kasri. He was defeated twice. Harith b. Surayj with his adherents joined the Khakan of Turgesh. When was Nasr b. Sayyar Khurasan administrator, Umayyad Caliphate Yazid b. Valid pardoned him. Thus He came back to Marw in127/745. After Harith b. Surayj with Djuday al-Kirmani fougt against Nasr b. Sayyar. But He did not agree with al-Kirmani. Eventually he was killed by al-Kirmani in 128/746. Harith's secretary; Djahm b. Safwan was Murdji'i. For his reason he is mentioned as a member of this sect. In fact he was a religious revivalist who called upon people to follow the Quran and Sunnah
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