Theme development evolution analysis of literature is a significant tool to help the scientific scholars find and study the frontier problems more efficiently. This paper designs and develops a visual mining system for theme development evolution analysis to deal with the large number of literature information. The analysis of related themes based on sub-themes, together with the dynamic thresh...

We develop two related themes, learning procedures and knowledge transfer. This paper introduces two methods for learning procedures and one for transferring previously-learned knowledge to a slightly different task. We demonstrate by experiment that transfer accelerates learning.

People have always used tools and technologies creatively. Technology appropriation concerns on how users adopt technologies for personal purposes. In this paper, we review the appropriation literature and explicate four varieties of this concept. Then we explore these varieties in the empirical setting of a citywide network of multipurpose interactive public displays. This network was designed...

25 This chapter starts with a brief discussion of the paucity of data and information on human development in the region and the challenges these gaps pose. It then summarizes the status of core human-development measures for the region compared to those for other regions of the world and over time, based primarily on the HDI. The chapter introduces three deficits that are considered to be defi...

Even as firms continue to invest substantially to develop and maintain their information technology assets, the means of judging the impact of those investments remain highly fragmented. The focus of scholars and their assessment methods varies substantially. To gain better insight into the business value returned from the spending of companies for information technology, an investigation invol...

Despite much research into mate selection, non-heterosexual populations are often only included for comparison purposes, while trans people and their partners are overlooked. This study attempts to address this using qualitative methodology to explore the mate selection of the partners of trans people. Six participants were recruited from online communities and interviewed via instant messaging...

OBJECTIVE Get to know the nursing undergraduates perception, from a public university in southern Brazil, on the inclusion of the theme violence against women in the curriculum and about that thematic approach during graduation. METHODOLOGY Descriptive exploratory qualitative research, made with 18 students of Nursing Graduation in Federal de Santa Maria University. Semi-structured interview ...

background and purpose: clinical knowledge management (ckm) is considered as a dominant approach for information management and expansion of knowledge in clinical settings. health care executives have recently begun to focus on ckm. therefore, identification of challenges against proper ckm planning is of paramount importance. the aim of this study was to explore challenges in clinical knowledg...

OBJECTIVES This focus theme deals with the various aspects of health information search that are necessary to cope with the challenges of an increasing amount and complexity of medical information currently produced. METHODS This editorial reviews the main challenges of health information search and summarizes the five papers of this focus theme. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS The five papers of t...