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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"information evaluation"”.
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Export Credit Guarantees: Information Evaluation, Valuation, and Portfolio Management
The third aspect examined is the management of a guarantee portfolio. A framework is needed to understand the tradeoff between extending guarantees and their expected liability to the guarantor. The actions of a guarantor are modeled, and it is shown that a risk-efficient guarantee program would …
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Prediction Achievement and the Use of Simulated Decision-Makers in Information Evaluation
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Collection, evaluation, and diffusion of information in online communities
In this thesis, I study a number of online information communities to understand how open practices are currently used in supporting community functions. By examining how communities operate, I hope to provide individuals and corporations interested in creating such communities with a good starting …
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Educational Materials in a Private School Setting: An Industrial Ethnography and Document Analysis of One School’s Presently-Used Educational Documents
… used in the classroom.<br /><br />Qualitative information was gathered using an instrument created for this study, the Educational Document Design and Information Evaluation (EDDIE) form. EDDIE forms in the areas of Supplemental Documents, Adopted Textbooks, and Lesson Plans were used to …
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PoEM : a parser of emotion metaphors
… lexical database for supplemental semantic information. Evaluation of PoEM demonstrates fairly high accuracy but low recall.
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Development and Validation of Pre-service Teachers' Personal Epistemologies of Teaching Scale (PT-PETS)
… personal epistemologies of teaching, while their information evaluation self-efficacy is positively related to them. However, the mediating role of information evaluation self-efficacy was found to enhance the positive indirect effect of knowledge sharing self-efficacy, while simultaneously …
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A field test of computer assisted instruction on fetal alcohol syndrome
… treatment optimism, and non-moralism, and information about the usefulness of the educational information, evaluation of the CAI, and the participants plans to further utilize the educational information for patient education. A comparison of the pre- and post-test scores was determined …
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The Formative Evaluation of a Family Life Education Website
… and families unprecedented access to FLE information. Evaluation is critical to ensuring the quality of and improving FLE websites, yet few FLE website evaluations have been conducted. This study formatively evaluated a new family life education website, called Forever Families …
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A descriptive study of the centralized system of higher education in China
… interviewing. The secondary analysis consists of information collection in both Chinese and American libraries, information evaluation, categorization, and analysis. The telephone interviewing has been used to strengthen secondary analysis. The interviews were conducted with 15 Chinese scholars …
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An Information-Theoretic Framework for Consistency Maintenance in Distributed Interactive Applications
… of PCMs using concepts and methods derived from information theory. This information theory perspective results in a novel information model of PCMs that quantifies and analyzes the efficiency of such methods in communicating the reduced state information, and a new adaptive multiple-model-based …
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Information-seeking behaviour of Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources' students at Neudamm Campus, University of Namibia
This study investigated the information-seeking behaviour of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources' (FANR) students at Neudamm Campus, University of Namibia (UNAM). It determined their information needs, informationseeking patterns, information use and information evaluation including …
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Nurses Information Appraisal Within the Clinical Setting
<p>Information appraisal is foundational to information literacy, a necessary skill to support evidence-based practice. Little discussion in nursing literature exists regarding how nurses appraise information. If nurses lack information appraisal skills they cannot safely and effectively apply …
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Consumer Search Behaviour and Adoption of Online Booking of Travel Services in Saudi Arabia
… privacy. The second phase results indicated that information search and evaluation emerged as a single highly integrated process, however behavioural elements within the process varied across individuals, according to their search strategy and level of prior experience. In phase three, the key …