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Showing 1 to 20 of 291 for “"Literature Search"”.
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GoPubMed: Ontology-based literature search for the life sciences
… is only accessible through texts. The biomedical literature grows exponentially and PubMed comprises over 18.000.000 literature abstracts. Recently much effort has been put into the creation of biomedical ontologies which capture biomedical facts. The exploitation of ontologies to explore the …
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A Relevance Feedback-Based System For Quickly Narrowing Biomedical Literature Search Result
<p>The online literature is an important source that helps people find the information. The quick increase of online literature makes the manual search process for the most relevant information a very time-consuming task and leads to sifting through many results to find the relevant ones. The …
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Community Classification of the Protein Universe
… identification of families, and the curation of literature related to the family. This labour is currently performed by skilled professional curators, whose abilities are a scarce resource. In this thesis, I have developed methods to enable some of this labour to be performed by the community of …
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History and Analysis of Food Guides in the United States
… Dietary Allowances revised by the National Research Council in 1989. This qualitative historical research chronicles the development and subsequent revisions of nutrient-based food guides and food guidance models issued in the United States between 1916 and 1991. A literature search of …
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Some mathematical societies and journals
… in mathematics to acquire a feeling for the literature of his field and thus carry out a more efficient literature search. As the field of mathematics developed, the number of journals carrying mathematical articles grew. Today there are over 120 journals devoted in whole or in part to …
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Investigating a geometry course for in-service teachers
… Space. The course was conducted over 5 days. A literature search revealed a few different tools in designing the course, the majority of which referred to either Van Hiele or Hoffer. Our course design however was instructed by the requirements of the Revised National Curriculum Statement (RNCS) …
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Development and design of a test device for cartilage wear studies
… diseases. Within the framework of this thesis. a literature search focused on the key words joint lubrication and cartilage wear was conducted. The result of this search was that almost all studies and experiments which have been carried out to investigate tribilogical processes in synovial joints …
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Summerfield kindergarten school/community center
… Lubbock, Texas. Through knowledge gained from a literature review of Montessori and Piaget, this kindergarten is to be an environment that stimulates learning in children. Through the investigation of factors identified in the literature search and in case study evaluations, such as the use of …
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Investigation of the stability of short arcs
The research described in this thesis is an investigation of stability of short arcs. It is on fault tolerant medium voltage distribution networks. It serves to describe experimental findings of the investigation of stability of short (1000mm) arcs. The instability of short arcs with high source …
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Dissemination patterns of scientific abstracts presented at the first and second African Conferences of Emergency Medicine
… health care practices. Ongoing biomedical research is needed to expand existing knowledge and improve quality of care, but it needs to reach clinicians to drive change. Journal articles and conference presentations are dissemination tools. The aim of the study was to establish the publication …
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An analysis of social studies skills in state curriculum guides
… social studies skills in actual curricula? The researcher examined curriculum guides to see how the states defined, classified, and organized the skills - determining whether patterns of agreement existed. Materials for the analysis were received from 39 states via letters sent to states' social …
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Nonlinear PID controller
… as well as a complex nonlinear controller. A literature search for similar nonlinear controllers concluded that the nonlinear PID controller presented in this thesis did not provide a unified framework for previous work.
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Child and adolescent obesity: A review of community-based approaches to a growing problem
… The specific aims are as follows:\r\n• Conduct a literature search to identify the established nutritional and physical fitness guidelines that address child or adolescent obesity.\r\n• Conduct a literature search of community based programs from 1990-2006 that used physical activity as a …
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Accounting for the financial instruments listed on the South African futures exchange in the context of the International Accounting Standards Committee conceptual framework
… The objectives of the study were achieved by a literature search related to financial instruments and SAFEX, as well as empirical data collection through the use of postal questionnaires and the evaluation thereof.
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The effects of parent training interventions on parental self-efficacy for parents with young children with an autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities : a systematic review
Background: A leading research priority worldwide is the need to improve the lives of those with disabilities through the effective development of interventions that can be carried out by non-specialists. Recent research has indicated that parent training interventions have shown to benefit both …
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A systems view of quality
… amongst the business units. Benchmarking and a literature search are used to identify possible variables and provide frameworks and a basis for comparison. The problem is explored from a systemic perspective with a focus on market served and organizational learning. Conclusions regarding the …
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A critical review of the implementation of the Namibian public service charter
… collected using interviews, questionnaires and literature search
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Inovação nas licitações: pregão, vantagens e desvantagens
… trading. It was carried out for this study a literature search. First, from the historical survey of the bids, relevant points of the bidding were presented as the concept, mandatory bid on the modalities and principles. Later, focus was given to trading mode, showing its historical aspects, …
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The role and value of fieldwork in education for library and information science
… for library and information science. Following a literature search, the researcher undertook a philosophical investigation of the educational rationale of fieldwork as it relates to other components of the educational programme The second part of the investigation comprised an empirical …
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