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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Information Work"”.
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‘Where life is precious’: Towards reproductive justice in information work
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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“Procure, propagate, and distribute among the people”: the information services of the U.S Department of Agriculture, 1862–1888
… ways of sharing and communicating agricultural information. Some of that information was rooted in experimental practice but much of it was anecdotal and based on years of farming experience. The historiography of U.S. agriculture demonstrates that farmers both needed and used that information – …
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Scientific communication, information flows in industry - exemplified by pharmaceutical information in China & the UK
This study compare information flows in China and the UK with the example of pharmaceutical information. The general objective is to explore the relationship between information situation and the status of science and industry in a country. In China scientific information has long dominated …
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Scientific Data Collections: Use in Scholarly Communication and Implications for Data Curation
… and scholarly communication is changing: Networked connectivity, the availability of data in digital forms and the development of computing tools are helping to bring about changes in the way science is conducted and communicated. These changes are having an impact on the range of scientific …
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Re-envisioning community policing: Histories, discourses, and practices in the People’s Republic of China
… of nonconfrontational interactions such as information work, population management, and social service work. These work stands out to promote a certain social order which is consistent with strengthening bureaucratic centralization promoted by the CCP regime.
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An approach to the value of information : effectiveness and productivity of information use in research work.
The economics and value of information have been analysed in this study. Efforts have been made to deepen our understanding of the value of information in information work. The literature of information science and economics were reviewed but suitable ready-to-use methods and techniques for the …
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Techno-Territories : the spatial, technological and social reorganization of office work
… examine the current reorganization of office or information work in its technological, spatial, social and cultural aspects. Based on ethnographic and historical methods, I explore how information and communication technologies, and spatial designs combined with specific organizational visions …
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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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Work 'n' play in the informational city : F2F interaction and emerging work and leisure patterns
… technological shift --from post-industrial to informational. And contrary to popular belief, new telecommunications infrastructure will increase the significance of some cities as important physical meeting places. A host of new network cities have emerged from this new global infrastructure …
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The meaningfulness of work : improving the quality of work life through job enrichment.
… perceptions and attitudes towards their work. One objective of the study was to discover if work had meaning to Library Assistants, working in University libraries, other than that of earning a living or money. It was discovered that most Library Assistants perceive that money is more …