In: International journal of knowledge society research: IJKSR ; an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 20-31
This paper focuses on knowledge management stressing an individual project manager's point of view. First, the authors outline two knowledge management strategies as well as the notion of project manager. The authors concentrate on the project manager's knowledge creation and communication using the so-called theatre metaphor for conscious experience. According to this metaphor, the human brain and consciousness work together like a theatre. With the help of the metaphor, the authors describe and attempt to understand important aspects of the project manager's mental action in the above tasks.
In: Knowledge and process management: the journal of corporate transformation ; the official journal of the Institute of Business Process Re-engineering, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 3-12
The aim of this study was to investigate the application of elicitors (500 μM ascorbic acid, 50 μM folic acid, 5 mM glutamic acid and 50 ppm chitosan in 5 mM glutamic acid) during lentil germination up to 8 days as a strategy to increase germination rate and to enhance the accumulation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and phenolic compounds. The effect of elicitation on the protein profile and antioxidant and angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activities of sprouted lentils was also evaluated. The application of elicitors did not negatively affect the germination yield of lentils and no significant changes on the protein pattern of lentils germinated in the presence of elicitors were observed. Chitosan/glutamic acid increased by 1.6-fold the GABA content in lentil sprouts, whilst ascorbic and folic acids as well as chitosan/glutamic acid were highly effective to enhance the total content of phenolic compounds and the antioxidant activity of sprouted lentils. All elicited lentil sprouts showed ability to inhibit ACE activity (IC50: 9.5–11.9 μg peptides/mL). Therefore, elicitation can be considered a promising approach to improve the content of compounds with antioxidant and potential antihypertensive activities in lentil sprouts. ; This work was cofounded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) through the project AGL2010-16310 and the European Union through FEDER programme. E. Peñas in indebted to Spanish "Ramón y Cajal" Programme for financial support and R.I. Limón to CSIC and European Social Fund providing a PhD fellowship. ; Peer reviewed