It uses its World Network of Biosphere Reserves as vehicles for knowledge-sharing, research and monitoring, education and training, and participatory decision-making.
That alone produces an extraordinary economic distortion: between 1992 and 2000 the number of colleges in Russia increased by 75%, but many of them, education experts say, are of poor quality, there to satisfy their students' hunger for staying alive as much as their thirst for knowledge.
Since his return, Mr Mack has remarked that broad-based financial firms seem to do particularly well meaning, presumably, firms with the balance-sheet strength needed for lending as well as the knowledge needed for underwriting.
Being site-specific, local languages serve as vehicles for sharing knowledge and experiences about a dynamic and potentially risky environment that is now subject to rapid and unpredictable climate change.
As a starting point, attention to diet, exercise, sleep and mindfulness might be just as important for change leadership as is a knowledge of basic strategy concepts.
This is a problem for the executive suite every bit as much as it is for the average knowledge worker sitting in his or her cube.
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Video is emerging as a powerful medium for knowledge, community building, live events, niche media, and education.
It is hoped it will constitute a reference point for policy makers at the local level, as well a basis for the exchange of knowledge between researchers, city professionals and local authorities on developing inclusive cities.
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Mr Deutsch is firmly of the opinion that science is infinite, as is the human thirst for knowledge.
He said social processes act as an organising framework for our knowledge and let us know which facts are important at particular times.
Oracle has many overlapping and competing assets for CRM and customer service as well as for point solutions (ex email, chat, knowledge management).
As the workforce ages, and key staff retire in greater numbers, and as the market for talented individuals is heating up, effective knowledge management is crucial to ensure that as people leave the corporation, knowledge remains.
This Casebook thus serves as a key knowledge resource, providing a valuable learning opportunity for journalists and media professionals, as well as for journalism trainers and educators.
Moussaoui has assumed a role as Greek chorus for his own trial, as he skewers Western culture with his own knowledge of it.
But, as with Logie Baird, the search for knowledge seems to have been more important than money.
They attack what they see as a lack of knowledge and respect for their own cultural and social norms.
There's also a long history of seemingly rational scientists who were willing to sacrifice their physical comfort, as well as their lives, for the sake of knowledge.
As the Bush administration winds down, there's likely to be an exodus of political appointees seeking to use their knowledge for higher wages as representatives of the private sector.
As for the claim that exhibitions contribute to knowledge, the practice of having catalogues that cause no offence hastily written by committees usually discourages original research or the expression of controversial ideas.
In its 120 pages, Weathering Uncertainty references 280 publications from the scientific literature (peer-reviewed and grey) and covers themes at the core of the Fifth AR such as foundations for decision-making on indigenous knowledge, traditional livelihoods, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation policy and planning.
The BLS describes this particular group of salespeople as those who sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers where technical or scientific knowledge is required, in such areas as biology, engineering, chemistry, and electronics.
The Global Platform for Disaster Reduction was established in 2007 as a biennial forum for information exchange, discussion of latest development and knowledge and partnership building across sectors, with the goal to improve implementation of disaster risk reduction through better communication and coordination amongst stakeholders.
Vivendi, however, has said that the information was public knowledge as Mr Davis' offer for the US assets had already been rejected by Vivendi's board.
Cambridge University was founded not to increase a passion for knowledge, but to serve as a refuge for misbehaving students chased off by the citizens of Oxford.
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The panel on Indigenous Knowledge noted the expanding recognition of indigenous and traditional knowledge as an essential building block for global sustainability in numerous domains such as biodiversity conservation and management, food security, natural disaster preparedness, climate change assessment and adaptation, amongst others.
It would be foolish of us as a culture to miss the pain the Dr. Pepper soft drink is meant to alleviate during an era where traditionally male jobs are disappearing (construction, manufacturing) and there is increasing competition for knowledge work from women, as well as a general feminization of the culture (a topic too big to talk about in a comment).
They will have no incentive to acquire the knowledge and skills important for life as an informed citizen, or as a reflective and culturally literate human being.
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