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Research field: Knowledge Management and Innovation Management. Purpose: Describe the role of knowledge management for innovation in companies and organizations from a systemic point of view, and to review recent literature on knowledge management and innovation management. Methodology: The research question posed in this document is: what critical knowledge management patterns and components hinder I promote innovation management in companies and organizations, a model is formulated from particular fields of literature, i.e. knowledge management processes and structures, management frameworks, knowledge management systems, services. Findings: It was found that the implications for applying the model are in the emphasis on orienting the relationships between the elements that make up the model and in applying various strategies, processes, services and practices of knowledge management. Conclusions: which patterns and critical components of knowledge management hinder/promote innovation management in companies and organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the international organization World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (WFNMB) and mentions the change in organizational structure. Topics include the need for countries to develop nuclear medicine practices and experts, the personnel change at WFNMB, and the efforts to improve networking of nuclear medicine community. A map and graph on the number of physicians and the clinical volume of nuclear medicine procedures is provided.

This paper explores the presence of correspondances and allegory in Walter Benjamin's thoughts on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. It compares these thoughts with other contemporary critical approaches and points up the relationship, which Benjamin considered essential, between the form of Baudelaire's work and the historical changes of the mid-nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the work of a group of Colombian contemporary poets from a double perspective: on the one hand, it explores the contradictions that the actual crisis of poetry entails (its marginalization as an artistic form in the context of a cultural industry that privileges other literary forms) and, on the other, the double pressure this poetry is subject to, torn between the will to sing, the discovery that poetry is a specific form of knowledge that gives a glimpse of a different, more comprehensive, reality than social reality, and a critical intention, which conceives poetry as a tool for social criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

this paper analyzes the articles and reviews by Fernando Charry Lara to clarify how his points of view on the nature and function of modern poetry were built as well as his ideas about the composition of the poem, the relationship between individual expression and the conscious construction of the work, the language of poetry and the tasks of the modern poet. Charry structured those ideas by means of reading and discussing the critical work of other contemporary poets such as Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Octavio Paz, in the context of debates about modernism, the Piedracielismo movement and poetry in the mid-20th century in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates the organochlorine pesticide levels in blood serum samples taken at autopsy from auto accident victims in Veracruz, Mexico, during the years 2000 and 2001. Approximately 10 milliliter of blood from the ventricular cavities of 44 persons in the year 2000 and 74 in 2001 were obtained during routine autopsies performed by the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Veracruz, Mexico. The presence of hexachlorobenzene (HCH), beta-hexachlorocyclohexane (beta-HCH), 2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloroethylene (p,p'- DDE), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl)ethane (p,p'-DDT), and o,p'-DDT was confirmed by gas-liquid-electron-capture detection chromatography. During the years 2000 and 2001, the respective mean levels of HCB, beta-HCH, p,p'-DDE, o,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDT, and total DDT were 2.1 nanogram/milliliter (ng/ml) and 1.4 ng/ml, 3.0 ng/ml and 3.6 ng/ml, 21.1 ng/ml and 23.8 ng/ml, 1.2 ng/ml and 0.8 ng/ml, 3.3 ng/ml and 2.5 ng/ml, and, finally, 25.4 ng/ml and 27.1 ng/ml, respectively. High levels of persistent organochlorine pesticides were present in the blood of individuals who live in Mexico.

The goal is to make clear how important it is for engineers to reach appropriate literacy in Statistics. This way, engineers would successfully cope with phenomena like variability and uncertainty appearing on most common Engineering problems. The framework from which we suggest to rebuild the statistical dimension in the engineering curriculum is based on thoughts by Koen (1985) The statistical dimension is developed from the need of the availability of some heuristics that may help the engineer in the making of reasonable decisions. We emphasize the convenience and need of the inclusion of a solid basic instruction in Statistics, as an essential component in the engineering curriculum. A set of subjects is proposed, flexible enough to adapt itself to the specific needs of the different academic programs in Engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]