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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"information users"”.
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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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Wireless Authentication Using Remote Passwords
… mechanisms for both administrators and end-users. Administrators grant access by simply adding users' personal messaging identifiers (e.g., email addresses, IM handles, cell phone numbers) to an access control list. There is no need to store passwords or other account information. Users …
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Exploiting Data Locality in Dynamic Web Applications
… retrieval system to a dynamic medium where users are both consumers and producers of information. Users may experience above-average website latencies due to the physical distances information must travel. Because user satisfaction is related to a website's responsiveness, e-commerce may be …
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Computer-Aided Information support system for the Management of Forestry in Zambia
The study is aimed at designing a Computer-based information support system for the management of forestry in Zambia. For this purpose, a survey was conducted to ascertain the information flow structure in the industry and the information seeking pattern of the various categories of forestry …
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Arcana: Private tweets on a public microblog platform
… Twitter now has 320 million monthly active users. Accompanying the large user group and abundant personal information, users increasingly realize the vulnerability of tweets and have reservations of showing certain tweets to different follower groups, such as colleagues, friends and other …
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Entre demandas e desejos: necessidades informacionais de jornalistas no cenário de jornais paraibanos
Studies on journalists, while information users are scarce in Brazil. In spite of these professionals have as object of work information, the literature indicates that the study of their needs, use, access, barriers etc., has awakened the interest of researchers to explore this theme. This research …
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An investigation of intellectual capital disclosure in annual reports of UK firms. Practices and determinants.
… the UK firms sampled provide considerable IC information in their annual reports, mainly in text form, with popular use of numerical information, while the use of graphs and pictures for many IC elements remains low. The distribution of IC disclosures, captured in three categories, varies by …
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Multi-party privacy risks in social networks
As the popularity of social networks expands, the information users expose to the public has potentially dangerous implications for individual privacy. While social networks allow users to restrict access to their personal data, there is currently no mechanism to enforce privacy concerns over …
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Extraction of ontology and semantic web information from online business reports
CAINES, Content Analysis and INformation Extraction System, employs an information extraction (IE) methodology to extract unstructured text from the Web. It can create an ontology and a Semantic Web. This research is different from traditional IE systems in that CAINES examines the syntactic and …
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Dematerialisation of a photographic collection at the concrete institute’s information centre
The Concrete Institute’s information centre houses special collections and information about concrete and various aspects of concrete technology, including photographs that need to be managed effectively for retrieval purposes. The photographic collection has to be recorded and preserved according …
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Uso da biblioteca do CCSA/ UFPB pelos alunos concluintes do curso de Arquivologia 2015.1
… to the longings and to the attendance of information needs of their users. The present text is a relate of a research whose general objective is to investigate the use of the Library of the Center for Applied Social Sciences (CCSA) in the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) by the …
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Practical application of the Information Seeking and Communication Model (ISCM) in Higher Education - Westminster Business School Module Leader practice
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to test the Information Seeking and Communication Model’s (ISCM’s) validity in higher education (HE) and identify insights into the provision of a framework for a more integrated and aligned (structured) module leader practice (MLp). Design and Methodological …
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Predicting soil properties using machine learning: a smartphone solution for stakeholders
… land managers with instant, site-specific soil information. Users can obtain site-specific soil property predictions by simply capturing a geotagged soil image. In cross validated tests, our best models achieved R² of 0.64 for bulk density, 0.61 for moisture content, 0.39 for pH, and 0.50 for …
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Considerations for Automating Salmonella Serovar Identification within an Electronic Public Health Reporting Environment
… has been a multistep manual process for users. Our goal was to determine whether a degree of automation could be achieved using an ontology based on K-W. We investigated information artifacts presently available, namely K-W, SNOMED CT and CDC's Public Health Information Network - …
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Determinantes de punibilidade nos processos administrativos de fiscalização no âmbito do Sistema CFC/CRCs
… transparency and reliability in financial information, which is used to support important decisions. Consequently, transgressions of ethical and legal principles can result in various consequences for information users, as well as for society and the accounting profession itself. Thus, the …
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Investigating the use of a web-based open source GIS prototype system for low-income communities in Cape Town
The implementation of Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA, 2000), by the South African government in the public domain gave effect to "the constitutional right of access to any information held by the state and any information that is held by another person and that is required for the …
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Building biodiversity data infrastructure for science and decision-making: information needs and information-seeking patterns in South Africa
Biodiversity information is critical to inform science-based policy development as well as to support responsible and accountable land-use planning and decision-making practices. The uptake of available information for these uses is, however, not yet quantified or understood. Here, the extent to …
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Ativismo digital antirracismo e a mediação implícita da informação no Twitter: análise da hashtag #VidasNegrasImportam
… of racial democracy. In the field of Library and Information Science, the hashtag #VidasNegrasImportam is configured as a device for the implicit mediation of information, therefore, it can act to support the construction and updating of information representation instruments, which historically …
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You don't know what you don't know: Investigating the information needs of clients of web based public sector information services
… frustration experienced when attempting to find information on websites; especially government websites. Often the sites were loaded down with all sorts of information such as corporate organisation charts and press releases but lacked the information which would allow clients to interact …
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An Investigation into the Suitability of International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs) in Jordan
… the most frequent and important SMEs’ financial information users while both employees and shareholders were found as rare users of financial statements presented by SMEs. Furthermore, the current applied standards are substantially characterised to embrace many problems such as; the complexity …
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