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Showing 1 to 20 of 38833 for “"Knowledge"”.
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Contextual Knowledge Ascriptions and Non-Contextual Knowledge
In this paper I pair a contextualist theory of knowledge ascriptions with a non-contextual definition of knowledge, specifically the principle that knowledge is infallible belief. This combination is unusual because proponents of contextualism, understood as a semantic thesis, either do not engage …
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Knowledge management within a multinational knowledge led company
The semiconductor industry relies on knowledge sharing and collaboration between its employees and amongst subsidiary companies to remain competitive in an ever changing, market driven environment. Practise has changed from workers supplying labour to workers supplying knowledge. Technology …
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Transforming knowledge, crossing boundaries: exploring educational knowledge brokering
Aim: To investigate the concept of educational knowledge brokering (activities aimed at better connecting research to practice and policy in the educational ecosystem) in terms of its processes and implications for practice, with a focus on mathematics education but with broader implications for …
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Knowledge management in research organisations : a knowledge audit
This dissertation focuses on a knowledge audit that was conducted in a research organisation (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. A knowledge and information audit provides a framework that examines the ways in which an organisation handles and leverages its …
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Knowledge repair
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.
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Essays on Knowledge Spillovers and Transfer of Technical Knowledge
… dissertation explores the localized nature of knowledge spillovers and the role of intellectual property rights, particularly patents, in facilitating transfer of technical knowledge embodied in inventions. The first study examines the assumption that localization of patent citations reflects …
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Reasoning with models of probabilistic knowledge over probabilistic knowledge
In multi-agent systems, the knowledge of agents about other agents’ knowledge often plays a pivotal role in their decisions. In many applications, this knowledge involves uncertainty. This uncertainty may be about the state of the world or about the other agents’ knowledge. In this thesis, we …
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The Tree of Knowledge: Children's Knowledge and their Perceived Morality
… that people perceive that children who are more knowledgeable are less innocent and pure, and therefore less moral. Two studies in this thesis tested whether increased knowledge held by a hypothetical child was negatively linked to perceptions of that child's moral behavior and whether perceived …
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Integrating knowledge seeking into knowledge management models, frameworks, and strategies
Knowledge management (KM) is something that we as humans have practiced for generations by means of sharing stories around the fireplace, passing down recipe books, teaching trade crafts to children and showing young adults how to hunt. This primitive version of KM was not described as an area of …
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Effective knowledge extraction and knowledge-enhanced machine learning for health
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research
Abstract: Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research In this thesis, I have taken an English independent school as a case study and used an evolving design to explore teachers’ views of school education, teacher knowledge and teacher research, …
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Outsourced knowledge: knowledge transfer and strategic implications from design outsourcing
… means to transfer organizational product knowledge; yet, design outsourcing, or the contracting of a supplier to perform the design of a product or product component, has grown in acceptance and practice. Empirical evidence suggests that there are strategic risks for the contracting …
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Online Knowledge Community Mining and Modeling for Effective Knowledge Management
… for people all over the world to seek and share knowledge in domains that interest them. Such communities are called online knowledge communities (OKCs). Large-scale OKCs may comprise thousands of community members and archive many more online messages. As a result, problems such as how to …
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Contrastive knowledge how
… empiricists are notorious for claiming that knowledge-how is a complex disposition or ability that is directly exhibited in action. This dissertation evaluates that claim against the background of contemporary cognitive science. More specifically, it develops a broadly cognitivist theory of …
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Representing musical knowledge
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Global Knowledge Network
… of Digital Economy, Globalization, and Knowledge-based Economy, creates the potential for Global Knowledge Networks and e-Knowledge Commerce. "The e-knowledge markets will grow to be a $1 trillion global micro-economy by 2010," estimated by Kaieteur Institute For Knowledge Management in …
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Knowledge Through Making
Perhaps the quintessential project for an architect is the design of a house. This thesis takes the approach of designing a house by way of a unique construction method. Influenced by the strickbau, or woven wood, method of stacking timber most commonly seen in the Swiss chalet, the project …
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