These recommendations were endorsed by APC together with a proposal by the Convener of the Expert Panel (N.McC. Graham) and the Director of the Australian Feeds Information Centre (T.F. Leche) that a national committee be formed to implement them. The Standing Committee on Agriculture (SCA) at its 116th meeting in January 1979, following receipt of the APC recommendations, agreed to the establi...

AFSTRACT THREEMAJOR ISstrES AM. .~DRF.SSEDin this discussion: (1) the role, status, and compensation of such nonprofessionals as library clerks or technicians vis-$-vis professionals, the organization, and the public, particularly in their claims for, or realization of, professional status; (2) the role, authority, status, and compensation of nonlibrarian professionals appointed as directors or...

In the last 50 years, very many new energetic compounds have been made as potential ingredients for explosive, propellant and pyrotechnic formulations. Of these compounds very few have come to be used in military munitions. To obtain a better understanding of why this has been the case and to help address the discrepancy, the NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Centre (NIMIC) held a workshop...

Received July 17, 1997; accepted May 1, 1998. Communicated by Wen-Lian Hsu. *A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’97) Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 890-896, 1997. Research supported in part by NSC under Grant 83-0408-E-008-004. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEER...

In 2007, a worldwide analysis was published that assessed the types of HPV infection found in women without cervical disease (1). Of the 291 million women suffered with cervical diseases around the world, it was found that 32% are infected with either HPV16 or HPV18, or both. Data regarding the HPV burden and incidence rates are available on the WHO/ICO Information Centre on HPV and Cervical Ca...

The role of service quality has become critical to the success of organizations. Therefore, it is important to use a reliable instrument to measure information service quality. SERVQUAL is a popular instrument for doing this, but, though widely used, it has been criticized for its reliability and validity. Use of the performance measures from SERVQUAL to form SERVPERF has addressed some of thes...

The UK Technical Information Centre (TIC, URL-3 1999) is one of a set of Internet-based services developed in the EC funded project CONNET (URL-1 1999). The TIC aims to provide a single source of information on any purchasable publication of relevance to the built environment in the UK. Over 220 publishers have been identified and it is estimated that information on about 50,000 publications wi...