Foraging desert ants return to their starting point, the nest, by means of path integration. If the path-integration vector has been run off but the nest has not yet been reached, the ants engage in systematic search behavior. This behavior results in a system of search loops of ever increasing size and finally leads to a search density profile peaking at the location where the path integration...

Before starting to formulate design concepts, designers usually gather relevant information to explore design problems and facilitate concept development. The information can also be traced back in the later design stages. The information search is a behavior of comprehensive consideration, which differs from the specific search of design methods. By exploring related theories, the research ana...

This paper presents the results from a research project conducted by the research group Computer Supported Engineering Design (CSED) in Jonkoping University in Sweden. The project has the aim of increasing companies’ ability to respond to fluctuating requirements when developing new products and product variants. The companies participating in the project represents automotive, aerospace and pr...

OBJECTIVE To guide physicians in their communications with children about medications. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library were searched from 1980 up to August 2009 for qualitative and quantitative research that investigated children's knowledge of and beliefs about medications (levels of evidence II and III). Findings presented relate to healthy children aged 6 to 12...

OBJECTIVES Clinicians and patients are increasingly accessing information through Internet searches. This study aimed to examine clinicians' current search behavior when using the Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database to examine search engine use and the ways it might be improved. METHODS A Web log analysis was undertaken of the TRIP database-a meta-search engine covering 150 health ...

Few issues are of such grave importance to society and to the science and practice of psychology as child maltreatment. Our goal in editing this issue of JSI was to inform scientists across various sub-fields of psychology about the most current knowledge in the field of child maltreatment, broadly defined. The authors of the articles have gone further, pushing past the edge of current knowledg...

The present study seeks to examine the factors affecting information search of heads of households in purchasing an outbound package tour. A sample of 60 academics and non-academics in the field of tourism was chosen. Sampling methods were judgmental and snowball sampling. In order to gather data, we used a semi-structured interview.  Thematic analysis was applied for data analysis, and the col...

In this paper we introduce improvements of bee hive metaphor model for web search. We identified critical areas in this model and designed several methods to improve behavior in web search. Then we compared experimentally these new methods with existing solutions and original model. Performed experiments demonstrate that both behavior of the bee hive and results of web search have been improved.