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Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

IT and KM

One company that has successfully used KM to integrate thousands of employees and the skills they bring to the office is Pricewate...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Corporate Culture, Leadership, and Price Waterhouse Coopers

that could be shared and disseminated (E-commerce Awards, 2000). In addition, knowledge about clients, skills, expertise, methods ...

The Knowledge Curve in the context of Change Management

information to bring value to the company, to clients and to the general public (Havens and Knapp, 1999). Also of issue in determi...

BayesiaLabs Data Mining System

customer loyalty are operating at the highest levels possible. Increasingly popular is the use of data mining to discover a...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

E-Systems and the Addition of a KMS or Knowledge Management System

was below $8 at the end of 1999; it last closed near $4.50, which represents an increase of nearly 100 percent. Revenues are repo...

Child Language and Knowledge of Syntax

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

Online Classes and Oral Presentation Challenges

other, in smooth succession, presenting the students ideas in a visually amazing performance. Sometimes, in these presentations, h...

United States' Defense Industry and Knowledge Management

projects which are "sponsored by functional proponents" (1999, p.23). Using online methods does help the defense industry to trans...

Global Setting and Small Business

may be good examples of how, in the past, companies would establish their home market, but then look to expand as a result of both...

International Knowledge Outsourcing and an Investigation of Its Impact

system used was not reliable. Since a measurement system can not be valid if it is not reliable, the amount of validity is limite...

Spiritual Development of Children

that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...

Locke and Hume on Knowledge

do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

The Theme of Dangerous Knowledge in “Frankenstein”

that set up the story. Frankenstein appears some little way into the novel, when he is picked up by Waltons ship, emaciated and dy...

Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Information Literacy in Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership

For students to be adequately informed about the value of the university library and resources such as the Internet in information...

Medical Knowledge/Medieval Europe v. Arab World

texts, such as the works of Hippocrates and Galen, were held by the Roman Catholic Church, whose policies toward medicine were des...

The Spelman Experience

much interest sparked. Perhaps the primary reason for this is the low student to teacher ratio as well as the caliber of the staff...

2 Questions/Review of a Speech

impact if it was Powerpoint versus a movie clip? No, a Powerpoint presentation would not have had the emotional impact of the m...

The Radiant Mind by Jean Smith

This is only one method of discovering Mindfulness. Maurice Walsh describes the five aggregates of Mindfulness laid out by the Bud...

French Business People and Negotiations

a good lunch, 2000). One thing that will offend the French quickly is failing to maintain strict formality in addressing in...

Obstacles of Knowledge According to Francis Bacon

were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...

Simulation on Critical Thinking

is not a new concept. It is actually one which dates from ancient times but with the speed with which information can be passed t...

Project Management and Communications

to communicate knowledge gained during the project. BioWare, a small game company, found ways to communicate in a multiproject en...

Soul Concepts of Plato

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

Knowing Receipt and Knowledge

would be expected of a reasonable and honest man (Matthews, 2001). This is a step beyond type ii, but is also a failure on the par...