Case studies are used by the Knowledge Management Society (KMS) as a tool in promoting the dissemination of Knowledge management to other agents. To begin with, case studies are used in teaching. Here the relationship between university and firm facilitates the externalization of tacit Knowledge. What is new is that these case studies relate to Basque firms, are mainly SMEs. This is an important point, since the managerial practice in question is described in its proper context. Moreover, the purpose of these case studies, from the point of view of the Knowledge Management Society, is to promote new Knowledge on the basis of the socialization, internalization, and combination of knowledge through such agents as consultancies, universities, and management-related institutions and other firms. MANAGEMENT AND CONTEXT Ideas about management need to be proved useful in practice. Managers and other professionals refer constantly to what works and what does not. The problem is less a scientific one than one of social acceptance. Social acceptance is a cultural phenomenon in which social agents must modify ideas for adaptation to the requirements of the local culture. Arboníes, A.; Landeta, J.; Rivera, O. (1999)-Case studies as a tool for the externalization of tacit managerial knowledge-There is a system in which agents and institutions interact in this process. No one has control over management. Rather managers, politicians, and consultants are value creators,

's presence versus difficult identifi-cation of its size and position. Distractors ' interference was found only under low-load conditions. Because the distractor was usually clearly distinct from the target, it is concluded that physical separation is not a sufficient condition for selective perception

generation to generation is a necessary condition for evolution to take place. Now let’s consider the necessary condition for information to exist. Information cannot exist without being encoded. Information encoding cannot be random, because randomly encoded information would not be retrievable. Encoding

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in showing that certain conditions on skew shapes A and B are sufficient for the difference sA − sB of their skew Schur functions to be Schur-positive. We determine necessary conditions for the difference to be Schur-positive. Our conditions

in use, offer a rich theory for reasoning without exploring a state space. Among the techniques is the so-called state equation which forms a linear algebraic necessary condition for reachability of states. In this article, we show how the state equation can be applied for a necessary condition

is the rule-of-three [Suremain de Missery 1841]. In the 1960s the description of the solitaire cone [Boardman and Conway] provides necessary conditions: valid inequalities over this cone, known as pagoda functions, were used to show the infeasibility of various peg games. In this paper, we recall

beams on COSY (IKP, Juelich) and S-LSR which have the aim to formulate the necessary conditions for the achievement of the ordering state. The experimental studies on S-LSR and numerical simulation with the BETACOOL code [4] were done for the dependence of the momentum spread and transverse emittances

Subdivision surfaces are considered which consist of tri- or quadrilateral patches in a mostly regular arrangement with finitely many irregularities. A sharp estimate on the lowest possible degree of the patches is given. It depends on the smoothness and flexibility of the underlying subdivision scheme. Keywords Subdivision, piecewise polynomial surface, arbitrary topology, extraordinary point. 1 Introduction This paper deals with subdivision algorithms acting on arbitrary 2D control nets as the schemes described in [Doo78, DS78, CC78, Loo87, Qu90, DGL90, Kob94, PR96]. Here we will generalize the degree estimate in [Rei94]. A surface S generated by one of the above mentioned algorithms consists of infinitely many either tri- or quadrilateral patches which are locally arranged as illustrated in Figure 1 schematically. Note that these patches may consist of smaller patches themselves as indicated by the broken lines. For our analysis it suffices to consider such a local patch configur...

In order for an artificial life (Alife) system to evolve complex creatures, an artificial environment prepared by a designer has to satisfy several conditions. To clarify this requirement, we first assume that an artificial environment implemented in the computational medium is composed

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