This dissertation is located in the area of information retrieval (IR), a discipline that deals with the task of satisfying a person’s information need with the help of a computer. IR systems let a user specify an information need, which is evaluated against large collections of digital documents. Techniques for satisfying information needs have meanwhile become ubiquitous, be it in the form of...

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‘Information need’ is a notion in IR that is ubiquitous, important, and intuitively clear. So far, surprisingly, the term seems to have defied formal definition. Of course, IR can continue to prosper without a formalization of ‘information need’. Yet when a field gets more mature there comes a time that frequently used notions should be formalized to make them susceptible of scrutiny. For IR su...

One of the central questions of spatial reasoning research is whether the underlying processes are inherently visual or spatial. The article reports a dual-task experiment that was conducted to explore the visual and/or spatial nature of human spatial reasoning. The main tasks were inferences based on a spatial version of the interval calculus introduced by Allen (1983). The secondary tasks wer...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To obtain detailed information about the preferences of patients with cancer and their need for information about side effects of cancer treatment to design an interactive multimedia educational program. DESIGN Qualitative. SETTING Regional rural academic medical center. SAMPLE 51 patients and 14 spouses of patients who either currently were undergoing or recently had c...

As other deyeloping countries, Thailand has a great demand for chemicals to be used in industry as well as for other various purposes. Most chemicals used in Thailand are imported from developed or industrialized countries with the avarage of 600,OOO metric tons per year. Pesticides are recognized as a major group of imported chemicais. Chemicals which have been regarded as industrial toxic sub...

1. Introduction The Internet has become the virtual reality of mankind – a world that we shape without many of the imperfections of reality. We can jump to literally every place in no time and reach every resource anywhere anytime. In particular this last promise of information at your fingertips is under siege. The growing complexity of information space overwhelms the wired consumer and the v...

BACKGROUND This article was written to determine the extent of consumers' needs for physician information and what information consumers use in decision making when selecting a physician. METHODS To collect data, a self-administered questionnaire was hand-delivered to 700 patients who visited the general surgery outpatient departments of seven hospitals during June 2003. A multiple logistic r...

BACKGROUND Reliable medicine information is important not only for physicians and pharmacists, but also for patients [6]. However, the results of studies implemented in some countries show that patients may have slightly different needs and preferences in using sources of information [1, 4, 5, 7]. The main objective of patient medicines information is assisting consumers to achieve safe and eff...

In this paper we discus Information Assurance (IA) curri level IA programs. Existing IA sta professional training as opposed t general enough for typical underg present curriculum development e existing standards, which demons these standards. We propose a pro standardized IA curriculum that c college IA programs. The process IA model is based on a successful from MIT.