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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"ZA4050 Electronic information resources"”.
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The use of computerised personnel information systems by human resource specialists in the public sector
… of the lack of use of computerised personnel information systems by personnel specialists to develop the human resource management function. The literature of strategic management, human resource management and the fit between them are reviewed together with the history and the development of …
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Older people as equal partners in the creative design of digital devices
This thesis describes research which explores the importance and feasibility of involving older people as equal partners in the creative design of digital devices for an ageing population. In exploring this topic, I have carried out two preliminary studies, a pilot study and a major empirical …
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Regulating competence-based access to agent societies
… have to use a number of applications offering information on smartphones so that it finds the requested one. This, in turn, raises a number of issues regarding the organisation and the degrees of access to these services as well as the correctness of their descriptions. In this work, we propose …
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Studying online support communities: Investigating network patterns and characteristics of social support
… internet have expanded from mainly retrieving information to communicating with each other in virtual settings. Thus, research investigating social interactions in online communities is becoming more and more important. However, the multi-faceted approaches of existing studies for the analysis …
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A model of scientists' information seeking and a user-interface design
Information systems that are available today do not optimally address the information-seeking behaviour of scholars, particularly those who belong to scientific communities; as a result, scholarly discovery is often cumbersome and incomplete. The hypothesis of this study is that an …
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The distinctive nature of making news online: A study of news production at latimes.com and salon.com
This thesis provides an inside, in-depth look at how journalists at latimes.com and salon.com came together to create content for their websites over a six month period. It vividly unveils the process of newsmaking by journalists working for organisations whose output is the world wide web. It uses …
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Blood Vessel Segmentation and shape analysis for quantification of Coronary Artery Stenosis in CT Angiography
This thesis presents an automated framework for quantitative vascular shape analysis of the coronary arteries, which constitutes an important and fundamental component of an automated image-based diagnostic system. Firstly, an automated vessel segmentation algorithm is developed to extract the …
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Djembe in the field: An exploration of the evolution of the djembe habitus and the emergent djembe paradigm within Facebook.
The thesis addresses the evolution of West Africa’s djembe drumming, with particular reference to the changing habitus of the djembefola. It investigates how the djembe has developed from the rural system of tribal ritualistic music intended for ceremonies to a practice enacted in the Western …
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Chord Sequence patterns in OWL
… of the World Wide Web that aims at describing information that is distributed on the web in a machine-processable form. Existing approaches to modelling musical knowledge in the context of the Semantic Web have focused on metadata. The description of musical content and reasoning as well as …
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The development of electronic resources in libraries : effective marketing and communication
This submission addresses the change to the electronic environment in libraries. It presents eight selected research papers which cumulatively contribute to knowledge regarding the management issues arising from this change. The specific elements of the research programme focused primarily on …
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Hierarchical Visual Content Modelling and Query based on Trees
In recent years, such vast archives of video information have become available that human annotation of content is no longer feasible; automation of video content analysis is therefore highly desirable. The recognition of semantic content in images is a problem that relies on prior knowledge and …
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Computer aided mathematical modelling of turbulent flow for orifice metering
The time-averaged Navier-Stokes' partial differential equations have been used in the mathematical modelling of fluid flow for steady, incompressible non-cavitating, high Reynolds number turbulence through an orifice plate. The model developed for orifice plates was based on a particular closed …
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Digital art in digital libraries: a study of user-oriented information retrieval
… collected and maintained in structured electronic repositories. The thesis addresses a fundamental question: How to provide description and retrieval services, which are based on the needs of digital art user communities? This raises three research issues. One is the need to combine DL …
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Signal Processing for Early Warning Arrhythmia Detection and Survival Prediction for Clinical Decision
… that the critical care teams have adequate information about the patient’s health status at remote location following an ambulatory response. A real-time trauma scoring algorithm was developed, and correlation and regression analyses were performed to arrive at these scores using the …