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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Information context"”.
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Only connect: a phenomenographic study exploring stakeholders' conceptions of information literacy across an international middle school community.
The dynamic information context is challenging school communities to calibrate their ways of understanding information literacy. However empirical research reports a lack of shared understanding and vision around information literacy that is negatively impacting its development. The solution it is …
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Context identification in electronic medical records
… it is important to identify the correct context of the extracted information. Context in medical documents is provided by the layout of documents, which are partitioned into sections by virtue of a medical culture instilled through common practice and the training of physicians. …
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A theory of the use of information for environmental planning : the case of Botswana
This study is about the use of information by people work roles. Although the use of information is a key issue in information systems theory and practice, it has received little attention from information systems researchers. Information systems research has been biased towards technology and its …
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A dual-route model of proactive interference in working memory and its application in schizotypy
… (PI), the negative impact of previously encoded information on the ability to represent current information that is similar in some way, has recently been shown to impair working memory (WM) performance. In this thesis, two types of interference were separated, one related to the content of …
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Privacy preserving context-aware framework for cardiac health monitoring
… the health condition of a patient using relevant contextual information. Context-aware reasoning is particularly important in cardiac health monitoring because of the increasing number of deaths resulting from cardiac diseases. As a result, several efforts have been made to develop intelligent …
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Information and environmental policy
… distinct essays linked by the commonality of how information is utilized in decision-making and its effect on environmental policy. In the first essay, I evaluate the price to which consumers respond under complicated billing structures. I exploit a natural experiment to estimate a causal effect …
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Mobile Carbon Footprinting: Sensing and Shaping the Carbon Emissions of Daily Activities Using Digital Technologies
… emissions remain illegible in the public’s daily information context and built environment. In this dissertation, I examine whether digital technologies can make personalized emissions information more accessible and actionable in everyday life, by developing and evaluating a digital system for …
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Mnemonic Representations of Transient Stimuli and Temporal Sequences in the Rodent Dentate Gyrus In Vitro
… in processing, maintaining, and recalling information. The ability to maintain information for a short period of time is known as working memory, and behavioral experiments in vivo have highlighted the role of persistent neural activity in several brain regions, including the hippocampus, …
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Investigating language preferences in improving multilingual Swahili information retrieval
Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) systems are designed to retrieve information from multiple languages in response to a query posed in another language or in one of the languages in which a user is looking for information. Researchers have proposed several approaches for combining the …
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Metodología para la integración basada en ontologías de información de bases de datos heterogéneas en el dominio hidrográfico
… focuses on the ontology-based integration of information related to geospatial heterogeneous databases with the purpose of providing an integrated view of the stored information into different datasets. Nowadays, there are different proposals for ontology-based integration information. …