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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Information use"”.
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Information use by levels in human service organizations
This exploratory study used a mailed questionnaire to collect data on the frequency with which information about clients, services, staff, and finances are used by human service workers. The 241 questionnaire items were developed from 66 information items determined to meet minimum information …
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Information use, risk perception, and stress in wildlife populations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Alarm Calls and Information Use in the New Holland honeyeater
… Individuals have access to multiple sources of information on predation risk: they can detect danger directly themselves, and they can attend to behavioural cues or warning signals produced by others. Rapid responses are vital when hunted by aerial predators in particular, as split-second …
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Essays on information production and information use in financial markets
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1998
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Post-breeding public information use in a ground-nesting songbird community
… quality to make settlement decisions by using information obtained from social cues emitted by other organisms. Public information (PI) from performance-based social cues reveals territory quality by advertising the current inhabitants’ reproductive success. I studied PI use in the Veery …
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Information use in anurans: how conspecifics and predators influence reproductive decisions
The student, Valerie Buxton, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-03-24 at 10:47.
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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 …
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Information Use with Paper and Electronic Nursing Documentation by Nurses Caring for Pediatric Patients
<p>This dissertation aimed to investigate the use of electronic nursing documentation as a strategy to improve the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients. The literature to support the use of electronic nursing documentation on the quality of care delivered to patients is limited to …
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A comparative study of hospital management in Great Britain and Brazil : cost information use
… managerial planning and control using cost information in Great Britain and Brazil. This investigation was conducted in two stages entailing quantitative and qualitative techniques. The first stage was a survey involving managers of 26 NHS Trusts in Great Britain and 22 public hospitals in …
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Message and context: A study of political information use in the 1993 Canadian federal election.
… a small group of voters obtained their political information during the 1993 Canadian federal election. It adapted a new qualitative method for use in a longitudinal study, using non-leading interviewing techniques and barometer opinion forms to capture how collaborators perceived the election …
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UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION USE IN ONLINE CONSUMER-HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS: A LOOK INTO INTERACTIVE HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
<p>UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION USE IN ONLINE CONSUMER HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS: A LOOK INTO INTERACTIVE HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS</p> <p> The exponential growth of the Internet in the past two decades has been accompanied by an increased interest by Internet users in communicating among each other …
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Understanding and Enhancing Information Use in the Public Sector: Insights from Politicians and Public Employees
My thesis explores the use of information in the public sector, focusing on how it is used and how this use could be incentivized. Information, understood as data transformed through appropriate dissemination and interpretation, is crucial for enhancing public organizations’ efficiency, …
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The screening of new product concepts: information use and the effects of experience and expertise
… experience and expertise on managers' search for information while screening new product concepts were investigated using a computer interactive screening simulation. Relationships between respondents' attributions about product success and failure, their judgments of the diagnosticity (predictive …
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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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INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENTS AND INFORMATION USE TASKS WITH RESPECT TO DOCUMENT GENRES IN THE CONTEXT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING
<p>Higher education requires intense information practices for knowledge diffusion, application, and innovation. Faculty assess and use a variety of documents when they teach their students. They make complex credibility assessments, and they use information with varying degrees of perceived …
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Conceptions of effective information use and learning in a tele-health organization: a phenomenographic study of information literacy and knowledge management at work.
… study investigates the concept of workplace information literacy (IL) theoretically and empirically, focusing on the connections between information literacy and knowledge management (KM). This dissertation examines the relevance and applicability of current IL frameworks in a workplace …
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Performance information utilisation in The City of Cape Town Metro Municipality
This study looked into performance information (PI) utilisation behaviour of senior officials in the City of Cape Town Metro Municipality (CoCT). Inspired by comments around performance information having minimal effects despite its prodigious production, the study sought to determine how …
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The Information Environment of Academic Library Directors: Use of Information Resources and Communication Technologies
This study focuses on the use of information resources and communication technologies, both traditional and electronic, by academic library directors. The purpose is to improve understanding of managerial behavior when using information resources and communication technologies within a shared …
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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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Tax expenditures: report utilization by state policy makers
… tax expenditures. This study investigated report use in ten states by (1) examining tax expenditure reporting processes and report use and (2) applying three path models of technical information use to tax expenditure reports. Data were gathered from report preparers-legislative staff persons and …
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