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Background. The paper reports on the development of the WHOQOL-BREF, an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100 quality of life assessment. Method. The WHOQOL-BREF was derived from data collected using the WHOQOL-100. It p...

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This work describes the ontology construction process for the development of an Intelligent System for the Organization and Retrieval of Knowledge in Biodiversity – SISBIO. The system aims at the production of strategi...

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This collaborative publishing project was built following those trends; it embraced the participation of diverse international authors, whose perception, rationale and research development helped signify the interest and...

Reputation has become an essential strategic asset for companies. Those businesses that enjoy a good reputation are able to differentiate themselves, thus attracting investments and retaining customers and employees, whi...

Diagnostic procedures are emblematic of medical work. Scholars in the field of social studies of medicine identify diverse dimensions of diagnosis that point to controversies, processual qualities and contested evidence....

First, it is essential to recognize that new technologies are not a magic bullet on their own. While they offer great opportunities, they also pose ethical challenges that must be addressed responsibly. Privacy, confiden...

Lo primero que hicimos para iniciar la redacción de este libro fue realizar distintos ejercicios de autorreconocimento de nuestras propias funciones. Para ello, nos apoyamos en la matriz A center for teaching and learni...

Green Belts are agents of change trained in Lean Six Sigma methodologies and as such, can implement high-impact projects. After completing this certification course, participants will be able to apply Lean Six Sigma to a...

For organizations that wish to remain competitive, Lean Six Sigma offers a highly flexible approach to meeting demand in low-volume, high-mix environments. LSS Yellow Belt training focuses on preparing individuals to de...

The document Southern Catalonia, Knowledge Region argues that Catalonia needs to develop its own internal regional policy, which would provide a framework for a decision-making system of regional planning and development...

The Medium Term Strategy Project 2014-2021 from United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization- UNESCO, defines the need to support the inclusive social development and to promotion of intercultural di...

Title: "Institutional Autonomy of Educational Centers: Premises, Organization, Strategies" (Translation). "The proceedings of a conference dedicated to exploring institutional autonomy as it concerns Spanish educational ...

The third world conference of the United Nations for Habitat, held in Quito in October 2016, showed that currently the concerns of authorities of international organizations, government, public policy managers and planne...

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, end...

The rapid growth of research on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) has resulted in some conceptual confusion about the nature of the construct, and made it difficult for all but the most avid readers to keep up ...

This study analyzes Argentina’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) initiative, driven by IDERA a community of practice, through a system thinking approach. Using Soft Systems Methodology, it explores organizat...

This paper reports on the development of an instrument designed to measure the various perceptions that an individual may have of adopting an information technology (IT) innovation. This instrument is intended to be a to...

Este artículo reporta el trabajo de investigación realizado en base a datos extraídos de la Encuesta Anual realizada por la CESSI durante el año 2007 entre organizaciones dedicadas al desarrollo de Software en Argent...

This paper considers the relation between the exploration of new possibilities and the exploitation of old certainties in organizational learning. It examines some complications in allocating resources between the two, p...

I. Introduction 1. Self-Determination Theory: An Introduction and Overview II. Philosophical and Historical Considerations 2. Organismic Principles: Historical Perspectives on Development and Integration in Living Entiti...

Scholars of the theory of the firm have begun to emphasize the sources and conditions of what has been described as “the organizational advantage,” rather than focus on the causes and consequences of market failure. ...

This paper combines the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of complex knowledge to explain the role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organization subunits in a multiunit organization...