Science2.0 can radically change how researchers connect and collaborate. In this paper, we focus on researchers who attend academic events, such as workshops or conferences. We have developed a mobile social discovery tool, called More!, that presents academic and Web2.0 information sources and enables researchers to explore information about speakers and their work. More! also supports follow-...

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The report develops best practices to guide local governments in implementing business intelligence (BI) systems. Fifteen academic sources were reviewed and categorized as: challenges in BI implementations, best practices in BI implementations, and lessons learned from local government IT projects. The sources examine BI from the private and public sector. There are limited sources specific to ...

ijāza a term describing a variety of academic certificates that giving, receiving, and collecting such certificates grew from the science of prophetic tradition and became an essential part of islamic education in nearly all academic fields. the certificate of transmission (“ijāzat al-riwāya”) is a kind of these certificates that granted the recipient (mujāz) the right to pass a specific text o...

This study aimed to investigate sources of motivation of English language teachers in Iranian public and private language schools. To this end, a Language Teacher Motivation Source (LTMS) questionnaire was developed on the basis of the related literature. The LTMS examined four sources of motivation, i. e., extrinsic (economic, social, emotional, educational), intrinsic, altruistic, and subject...

In this study, we propose a novel way to explore the patterns of people’s visits to academic articles. About 3.4 million links to referral source of visitors of 1432 papers published in the journal of PeerJ are collected and analyzed. We find that at least 57% visits are from external referral sources, among which General Search Engine, Social Network, and News & Blog are the top three categori...

With the advent of the Internet and more recently the high-speed academic networks, has created a dynamic that has allowed the academic, scientific and research worldwide for greater interaction in order to develop collaborative, relevant research and cooperatively competitive. Thus, Teleoperation stems from the need to keep people away from sources of changing radiation. ——————————  ——————————

The technological advancement and proliferation of information resources has precipitated the increase of information stored in electronic format, providing wider and varied information choices to individuals. Lack of necessary computer competencies and skills are contributing factors in hindering the users from accessing, retrieving, evaluating and selecting relevant information from electroni...

The purpose of this study was to analyse Portuguese coaches' perceptions of, and preferences for, knowledge sources as related to professional background; namely academic education level, coach education level and coaching experience. The study's participants comprised 336 Portuguese coaches from twenty-two sports. A questionnaire was used to identify coaches' demographic characteristics and re...

results the overall perceived stress mean was 32.02 (sd = 5.08). eighty-three percent of the medical students perceived stress. students in clinical phase perceived more stress than basic sciences ones [or 2.25, 95% ci 1.809 - 4.032]. logistic regression analysis showed demographic (including gender and residential status), psychosocial and academic factors and the phase of study as sources of ...