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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Information Access"”.
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Information access and retieval with semantic background knowledge
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Built Heritage Interface Models Multipurpose information access and data exchange
… forms and strategies for multipurpose information access and data exchange to enhance collaboration among practitioners and promote communication with stakeholders and generic audiences. After analyzing the research keywords through a theoretical framework, the study focuses on …
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How does investors’ perceived ease of information access affect their investment judgments?
By manipulating the perceived ease of information access through use of a search engine, I provide experimental evidence that investors are more likely to rely on information gist and use shallow processing after using an online search engine to access a firm’s financial information. Results show …
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MedLAN: Compact mobile computing system for wireless information access in emergency hospital wards
As the need for faster, safer and more efficient healthcare delivery increases, medical consultants seek new ways of implementing a high quality telemedical system, using innovative technology. Until today, teleconsultation (the most common application of Telemedicine) was performed by transferring …
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The effects of different interface presentation modes and users' individual differences on users' hypertext information access performance
… and computer experience) on users' hypertext information access performance. The study employed a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. The three independent variables were cognitive style (field dependent, field independent), level of computer experience (less experience, more experience), and …
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Barriers to information access and provision in academic libraries with special focus on the Cape Technikon Library
… the moment they enter the library to search for information, up to the point where they achieve the objective of their search. It also explores the processes that happen "behind the scenes", before the sought information can be located and utilized. These include the requisite funding to obtain …
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Equity of Access to Information: A Comparative Exploration of Library Accessibility and Information Access From Differently-Able Patrons' Perspectives
<p>The government and information agencies designed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and statements of Intellectual Freedom to help ensure the inalienable right to access information. While these documents were not designed with physical access in mind, they establish the principle of equity …
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Socio-Cultural Communication System--a Communication Mechanism For Multi-Media Information Access System for Non-Literate and Linguistically Diverse Users
Current Internet services are not optimal for the access of information for non-literate or linguistically diverse users. Almost all Internet content is available only in written form and still in a limited number of languages. However, there is a growing need to provide network services to …
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Development of an Information Base Tool for IDT Research
… insufficient metacognition, or insufficient information access skills. This study addressed these problems by developing an information base tool using strategies and tools investigated by previous studies. The tool includes conceptual modeling, guided search, experimental variables and …
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Caracteríticas dos pesquisadores brasileiros de química e de sua produção científica no período de 1973 a 1977
… formal education, institutional coverage and information access. The IBICT's directory of researchers on chemistry and the Chemical Abstracts have been the basic tools for data collecting, which after being tabulated showed the relationship among the variables studied according to the …
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Information Technology and Wealth: Cybernetics, History and Economics
… where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high information access because of a major advance in information technology--the press. Where the technology was not controlled by the "powers that be" there was economic growth and a shift in the entire social …
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Issues concerning an assisted-access information model for Africa
… of people in developing countries are without information access, despite the significant potential this access has to improve their standard of living and to enable local efforts at environmental conservation and participatory government. This thesis seeks to identify a practical means of …
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Revealing the Information-Seeking Experiences and Needs of Older Adults in a Rural Saskatchewan Community
… supports and services needed to age in place. Access to information and awareness of available resources is essential for successful aging in place. Despite living in an era where information seems readily available and accessible, research has shown older adults are often uninformed and …
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Privatisation and public access to information in the united Kingdom
… relationship between privatisation and public access to official information in the United Kingdom. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, it addresses two main questions: (1) How does privatisation, broadly defined to include outsourcing, affect information access under …
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The Voice Web : a strategic analysis
… to technologies that enable continuous or ad hoc information access in mobile situations, such as driving in a car or walking down the street. These technologies are primarily viewed as complements to, and not replacements for, the traditional modes of information access. As the name would …
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Social media literacy for empowering children with new literacy skills for reading, writing and interacting in the networked digital setting: An Action Research Study of teenage students in Mumbai
… presents as social media circuit—platform use, information access, platform knowledge, visibility management, information management, creative self-expression, and participation and citizenship. In this framework, the traditional concepts of media literacy—representation, language, audience, and …
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Soft systems approach to information problems at the structural level of health care
… the process/operational level. Accordingly, the information/decision processes are usually supported at the operational/managerial level. The information bases for decisions and action-taking at the structure and policy level however, require further analysis and research. In this research, a …
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Data-driven assistance for user decision making on mobile devices
… indispensable for supporting billions of users' information access activities such as searching, browsing news, and shopping. Among those activities, users may often need to make decisions when the mobile device is the only available channel for their information access. However, users' mobile …
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Usability engineering of interactive voice responsive (IVR) systems in oral users of Southern Africa
… feasibility of using the telephone as a tool for information access in the oral communities of Southern Africa. The OpenPhone and BGR systems are used as case studies and their designs have been influenced by field studies with the targeted users. The OpenPhone project aims to design an …
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Exploiting syntactic relations for question answering
… resurgent interest in syntax-based approaches to information access, as a means of overcoming the limitations of keyword-based approaches. So far attempts to use syntax have been ad hoc, choosing to use some syntactic information but still ignoring most of the tree structure. This thesis describes …
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