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Showing 1 to 20 of 1011 for “"public access."”.
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Public access to urban waterfront developments
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies, 1987.
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An expert selector of online public access catalogues.
… creating an expert system which would aid with access to OPACs available on the JANET network. This system would aid access by being able to select the OPAC most suited for a search in a particular subject area. Looked at initially are the OPACs available and the JANET network. The problems with …
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Beyond boundaries : building public access to an urban waterfront
… city with its waterfront through the building of public space and access. This thesis proposes a design as an investigation of the following: -- how spatial and visual access between inland and waterfront public places can enrich one's experience and understanding of a city -- how waterfront …
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Privatisation and public access to information in the united Kingdom
… the relationship between privatisation and public access to official information in the United Kingdom. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, it addresses two main questions: (1) How does privatisation, broadly defined to include outsourcing, affect information access …
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Evaluation of speaker adaptation algorithms for public access IVR server
IVR servers are telephony-based applications that allow a user to interact with a series of menus in order to retrieve information. For many years users have commonly used key pads to interact with IVR servers. As a result users have experiences numerous benefits in obtaining information from these …
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User-generated tagging and the public library online public access catalog
… of this study was to survey southern New Jersey public librarians' attitudes towards the feasibility of including user-generated tagging in the public library online public access catalog (OPAC). The research questions of the thesis concerned the advantages and disadvantages of user-generated …
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The initial development of public access television in the United Kingdom
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Television and Radio, 1975
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Integration of public access : the adaptive re-use of Alcoa's waterworks
… the complex. To create the journey, a system of access was combined with the physical form of the existing buildings. As the diversity of the plant context lends itself to different user groups, it is the collective spaces that help organize a framework to make the journey continuous. This …
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Creating public access to the shoreline : the California coast and Boston's waterfront
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Marginal strips : how best to allow public access to lakes, rivers and the sea?
… as the "Queen's Chain". The analysis identifies public access as the "historic" objective of marginal strip legislation and the one that is fuelling current public debate about marginal strips. It is suggested that proposed marginal strip provisions are a compromise between access and …
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Balancing Acts : Public Access And Archaeology In The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District
… world. The interpretation of these wrecks for public outreach constitutes a valuable opportunity to educate members of the public using a material culture assemblage connected with the historical framework of the Wilmington blockade. This thesis explores ways to develop public stewardship …
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A study of public access television as a means to increase the health awareness of adults
… to establish the extent to which the local public access television programs produced by the Wayne County Health Department, Richmond, Indiana had been an effective source of health information in helping raise health awareness for adult residents who have access to cable television. The …
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Undergraduate students’ awareness, utilization and satisfaction with the Copperbelt university (CBU) library’s online public access catalogue (OPAC).
The purpose of this study was to investigate the awareness, utilisation, and satisfaction of CBU undergraduate students with the Library’s OPAC. The specific of objectives of the study were to: determine levels of OPAC awareness among students; determine the extent to which students utilize it; …
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Policy provisions for public access to television : democratic and educational implications in Canada and the United States
… and to what degree they make provision for the public's access to television. Government policies and policy documents are examined at the federal and local level, and a case study of two cable systems, one in Vancouver, B.C. the other in Seattle, Washington, supplies empirical data to …
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The development of public access to environmental information: An attempt to overcome the problems associated with traditional enforcement methods
… European and National levels, the development of access to information legislation, from the difficulties associated with traditional enforcement methods through to the implementation of the legislation into British statute and how such legislation sits with other environmental protection measures.
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Subject searching behaviour at the library catalogue and at the shelves: evaluating the impact of an online public access catalogue
… of interaction between the different subject access elements: the indexing language, the classification and the titles. The study concludes that to improve retrieval effectiveness online catalogues should cater for both matching and contextual approaches to searching. Recent research indicates …
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Out-of-commerce, out of mind: widening public access to out-of-commerce copyright works in film archives through the DSM Directive.
… heritage institutions (“CHIs”) to provide public access to these copyright works in certain circumstances. Art. 8 enables CHIs to obtain licences from collective management organisations (“CMOs”), avoiding the need to negotiate with each individual rightholder. Art. 8(2) expands this and …
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An assessment of the effectiveness of the academic library online public access catalogue (OPAC) by students: a case of University of Venda Library
1 online resource (ix, 65 leaves): illustrations
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The Concept of Public Access to Meetings of Local Legislative Bodies in the United States and Its Applicability to Local Legislatures in Russia
This study seeks to examine public access to meetings of local legislative bodies in the United States, as well as the applicability of the idea of open meetings to local legislatures in Russia.Open meetings are not as controversial in Russia as they are in the United States, and the topic has …
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