Academic consulting is recognised as an important and effective means of knowledge transfer with the public and private sectors. These interactions with external sectors offer opportunities for research application but also raise concerns over their potentially negative consequences for academic...

Relevant advances in the mitigation of environmental impact could be obtained by the appropriate diffusion of existing environmental technologies. In this paper, we look at the diffusion of knowledge related to environmental technologies developed within the oil and gas industry. To assess...

Data is processed into information, and information is utilized for decision-making as knowledge. So knowledge should be represented in a familiar manner. There are various ways of knowledge representation in a knowledge base system. Since our world is moving towards enhancement in technology...

Reproductive problems among dairy animals are one of the major causes of loss in dairy sector. These problems can be tackled by imparting appropriate knowledge to the livestock owners. An attempt was made to measure the knowledge of livestock owners by developing a knowledge test on reproductive...

A collaborative enterprise is a more agile organization. The ability of employees to quickly share their insights contributes to an organization's collective knowledge, and has a direct impact on its success. Successful companies continually seek and refine ways to make effective use of their...

A chorus of proclamations have arisen in recent years about the potential of games and simulations to facilitate learning. Yet few discussions focus on the fundamental issue surrounding the implementation of games and simulations: to what learning objectives and pedagogical strategies are they...

Libraries as knowledge organizations excel in organizing knowledge for the sake of its efficient retrieval. A Library, since being a storehouse of interdisciplinary knowledge and information, access to the universe of knowledge constitutes an essential precondition for information dissemination....