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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Information era"”.
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Information resources, information skills and education : an exploratory study of information literacy education in community junior secondary schools in the North-East district of Botswana and the role of teacher-librarians and school libraries
One of the fundamental challenges of the information era is how to ensure that the majority of the members of a given society are information literate in order to deal with problems of inequitable access to and use of information as an empowerment tool for socio-economic progress. A variety of …
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National parking
The mobility afforded by the rise of the information era solicits a reexamination of possible modes of mobile living. Mobility has always been closely tied to American life. Westwaid expansion defined United States history until the frontier was declared closed in the 1880s. Frederick Jackson …
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Bidding strategies in reverse auctions for the automotive industry procurement
The Information Era has brought along a myriad of revolutionary changes. The Internet in particular has given new forms to old paradigms. It is quite a challenge for companies to decide which of all these options best suit their business model and their strategies, hopefully one that also provides …
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Clustering-Based Pre-Processing Approaches To Improve Similarity Join Techniques
… challenge and a significant task in the digital information era. Dissimilar extracts may indeed represent the same real-world entity because of inconsistent values and naming conventions, incorrect or missing data values, or incomplete information. Therefore discovering efficient and accurate …
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Mediated urban civic space : info deck of the Hong Kong SAR Government Info-tainment Headquarters
… The focus will be the mediated interface of the information spaces and communicative facades in shaping the civic plaza - the Info Deck - along the harbour waterfront. This high tech communication, media intensive mixed-use civic complex aims to enhance both participatory and representative …
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Strategies and revitalisation for survival of trade unions in Africa : the role of Information Communication Technologies
… of the trade unions have seen the need to use information and communication technology (ICT) as a strategy to reverse the membership decline. There has been a discussion based on the way trade unions use the new ICT, particularly the Internet. However, the discussion has been restricted to …
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An exploration into the role of public libraries in the alleviation of information inequality and poverty in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
English: This study investigates information inequality and poverty in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Its purpose is to explore and elucidate strategies for public libraries to support the alleviation of this type of inequality and poverty within their communities. In Chapters 1 and …
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Uncertainty in Recommender Systems
… Systems have emerged as a powerful tool in the information era. Due to the overwhelming number of items (products and services) currently offered on digital platforms, it is often necessary to use a system capable of ranking the items and offering those that are most relevant to each user. These …
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Gain and Noise Performance of Bi/Er Co-Doped Fibre Amplifiers
In this information era, optical communication technology is vital for telecommunications. Signal transmitted through optical medium suffers attenuation. To solve this problem, optical fibre amplifiers, which have broadband amplification, high efficiency and high gain, are applied in optical …