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Showing 1 to 20 of 316 for “"Information Needs"”.
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The information needs of informal carers
This thesis is concerned with the information needs of informal carers, or, as they are now increasingly referred to, carers Within this thesis, the appellation carer is defined in terms chosen by carers themselves. In their words, • A carer is someone whose life is restricted by the need to assist …
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Information needs and rights of shareholders
… with the fundamental issues of knowledge, information and communication. The author develops fundamental definitions of each of these. In particular the author defines communication as the endeavour of passing knowledge by information from one person to another. This definition is purposive …
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The information needs of contemporary academic researchers
This thesis looks at the information component of the research endeavour at a particularly interesting point in time, when strikingly new developments in both the scholarly world and its information environs cast doubt on the validity of anything and everything we have traditionally been holding …
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Autonomous agents for serving complex information needs
… the past few decades two prominent paradigms for information seeking in the form of search engines and recommendation systems have been developed. However neither of these is well suited to serve queries representing complex information needs (eg. medical case-based queries). As a result users …
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Information Needs of Art Museum Visitors: Real and Virtual
… with a variety of users. While studies of information seeking behavior, retrieval systems and metadata in library science have a long history; such research studies in museum environments are at their early experimental stage. There are few studies concerning information seeking behavior …
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Anticipating and resolving ad hoc information needs during discourse
The ability to access information is the foundation of a functional society, but this access is sometimes hindered by the challenges of resolving ad hoc information needs - those that arise spontaneously while a user is exposed to new information (e.g., while a student listening to a lecture). …
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Carer Information Needs Following a Family Member's Right Hemisphere Stroke
… </em>Previous studies have explored information needs for carers of persons with aphasia; however, there is minimal research on information needs of carers with right hemisphere disorder (RHD). RHD describes cognitive and communication impairments a person experiences following a …
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The information needs of finance executives in the hospitality industry
… exploratory and descriptive study examined the information needs, sources and uses of Chief Financial Officers in the Hospitality Industry, for strategic capital investment decision making. The amount of environmental scanning currently being conducted for use in the strategic capital investment …
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The information needs of people with albinism in Khomas region, Namibia
… is a report of an investigation of the information needs of people with albinism in Khomas region, Namibia. The investigation aims to ascertain the information needs of people with albinism (PWA), including the kind of information needs they have. It also seeks to establish the …
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An Inquiry Into the Socioeconomic Accounting Information Needs of Federal Legislators
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The information needs of people with albinism in Khomas Region, Namibia
… is a report of an investigation of the information needs of people with albinism in Khomas region, Namibia. The investigation aims to ascertain the information needs of people with albinism (PWA), including the kind of information needs they have. It also seeks to establish the …
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Modeling Software Developer Expertise and Inexpertise to Handle Diverse Information Needs
… with a change request. But not all expertise needs can be easily classified into one of these groups, and having different techniques for every possible task type would be difficult and confusing to maintain and use. We find that inexpertise exists, can be measured, and that it can be used to …
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Health Information Needs of Patients Living with Myasthenia Gravis: A Narrative Inquiry
… living with MG. The aim was to understand the information-seeking practices from the onset and duration of their disease. Research and available studies of information-seeking in patients living with rare diseases are limited, but there is a complete absence of studies exploring the …
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The information needs of attorneys in a large South African law firm
… study, which was carried out to investigate the information needs of the attorneys in a large South African law firm. The survey research method was employed and a single survey conducted within a particular time-span. Two methods of data collection were employed, namely the analysis of …
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The information needs and challenges of agricultural researchers and extension workers in Zimbabwe
… The aim of this study was to investigate the information needs and challenges of agricultural researchers and extension workers in the public sector in Zimbabwe. The government is responsible for agriculture in Zimbabwe through the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation …
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