ABSTRACT
Culture shock, a psychic and physiological phenomena which affects the ability of people to work and adapt to a different culture, is an obvious constraint in the transfer of technical knowledge. Time, in all of its various dimensions and shades of meaning, constituted a formidable barrier to the process of the transfer of knowledge. From the beginning of a project until its end, the amount of time allotted for the multitudinous tasks involved in data collection, correction and write-up acted as the proverbial sword which hung over everyone's head. Time descended incrementally, but no less threateningly, every day the project proceeded towards completion. A large area of misunderstanding of what "knowledge" should and could be transferred, lay in the different perceptions that each major administrative group had as to the project's overall "tasks" or objectives. The language barrier unquestionably was a constraint in the transfer of knowledge.
