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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Information seekers"”.
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Understanding and conceptualising the document triage process through information seekers' visual and navigational attention
Information, is a valuable commodity and its effective use is a vital part of everyday life. With the advancements of the internet and the increasing accessibility to it, the location of information is no longer the primary concern of information seekers. Digitisation techniques have made a wide …
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Social Comparison And Information Seeking: College Students' Sexual Health Information Management In The Context Of Online Support Groups
<p>Considering that information seekers often search and pay attention to others' stories and narratives about their health issues, the purpose of this dissertation is to investigate college students' information seeking process with regards to sexual health information in online support groups. …
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Third sector telephone housing options service for older people : a realist evaluation
… to the service setting, analysis of imparted information and realist/semi-structured interviews (n=31) with older information-seekers (n=16) one month (n=16) and four months (n=15) after engaging with the service. Tenure and access to deliberative networks are key areas of context. Against a …
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Third sector telephone housing options service for older people: a realist evaluation.
… to the service setting, analysis of imparted information and realist/semi-structured interviews (n=31) with older information-seekers (n=16) one month (n=16) and four months (n=15) after engaging with the service. Tenure and access to deliberative networks are key areas of context. Against a …
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Sustaining the virtual commons : end user support for Apache web server software on the Usenet
… in the form of technical opinions. A majority of information seekers receive their first public Usenet reply within the next day of the original posting. Survey results indicate that the technical help provided is relatively low-cost to the provider, and typically involves transferring information …
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TASK- AND DOMAIN-DEPENDENT NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR SUPPORTING SPOKEN DOCUMENT USE
… to spoken content in multimedia documents. Information seeking in electronic environments is a highly variable process shaped by information-seeking factors. It is shown that incorporating knowledge about these factors into the design process—task- and domain-dependent (TDD) …
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Topic mining and categorization in online discussion forums
… wide variety of topics, as well as gather custom information for which an exact source may not be available, using a combination of knowledge and human interpretation. Usually forums have categories which cater to a particular topic of interest, allowing information seekers and topic experts to …
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Sense-making in theory and practice: a metatheoretical foundation and application for health information seeking
… illustrating its applicability to practical information seeking research. In Chapter One I trace the philosophical origins of Brenda Dervin’s theory known as “sense making,” reaching beyond current scholarship that locates the origins of sense-making in twentieth-century Phenomenology and …
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Practices and conditions of boundary crossing research work: A study of scientists at an interdisciplinary institute
… addressing problems by importing and exporting information, methods, and tools across disciplinary boundaries and by working together to apply more powerful and sophisticated approaches to broad problems. This study examines the research process of scientists at an interdisciplinary institute. …
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Framework for Improving Access to Medical Libraries using Mobile Technologies
Health information are rapidly increasing every day due to the vast amount of medical researchers related to diseases, drugs and diagnosis. Currently, huge databases and medical websites provide medical related - information to the users. Despite the considerable number of these resources, …
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The Farming Community in Crisis: The Information Needs of Cumbrian Farmers During the UK 2001 Foot and Mouth Outbreak and Role of Information and Communication Technologies (Icts)
… the country. The crisis unfolded as a series of information and communication problems, primarily from government to farmers with consequences for action in a time of crisis. This study explores the multiple informational needs that faced the Cumbrian farming community, during the crisis. Already …
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Art information use and needs of non-specialists: evidence in art museum visitor studies
… have created dramatic changes in art museum information systems which have in turn invited an expanding diversity of non-specialist art information seekers. Research is needed to support the organization of and access to basic art information content, and the vocabularies which frame this …
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The development of a model of information seeking behaviour of students in higher education when using internet search engines.
This thesis develops a model of Web information seeking behaviour of postgraduate students with a specific focus on Web search engines' use. It extends Marchionini's eight stage model of information seeking, geared towards electronic environments, to holistically encompass the physical, cognitive, …
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Information-seeking and sharing behaviors among fire service field staff instructors: a qualitative study
… service field staff instructors seek and share information and use information sources during their instructional work of teaching, training and curriculum development. This study is the first attempt to study their information-seeking and sharing behaviors, which have not previously been …
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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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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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Narrated Experiences of Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary - Infertility from a Multimethod Perspective
… practical with women having more access to the information flow from professionals and the fertility institutions. • • Contradicting international research findings, while male partners proved to be supportive during the treatment process, they did not take on the role of information seekers but …
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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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Inequalities in the Common European Asylum System: The role of Greek libraries as information resources in the midst of asylum system shortcomings
… currently experiencing high volumes of asylum seekers. This inability to address the needs of these member states was particularly highlighted in 2015, when Greece burst at the seams from asylum seekers arriving on their shores. To be sure, to date the CEAS has failed Greece, who was unprepared …