In this paper we argue that the plain old “dumb” paper is overlooked as a platform for media. In addition to technology-centric innovations, such as smart paper, the pulp and paper industry should adapt a human-centric approach as well. By using our research on photo books as an example, we bring forth the qualities of paper media from a user-centric perspective. This perspective is critical in...

BACKGROUND In 1998, ICPC-2 was published as a book. In the process of translating the book, and preparing an electronic version of chapter 10 (the actual classification), ICPC-2 proved to contain many errors and inconsistencies. Particularly, major problems were identified in the conversion between ICPC-2 and ICD-10, which could lead to major errors when used in electronic patient records. OB...

This paper presents the results of two separate studies into electronic book production. The Visual Book (Landoni, 1997) which explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor in the production of “good” electronic books, and the Hyper-TextBook (Crestani and Melucci, 1998a) which instead concentrated on the importance of hypertext models for the automatic production of funct...

This book is a revised and expanded edition of a work previously published in 2000. It is aimed particularly at practitioners coming new to the electronic resources area, as well as at more experienced professionals interested in new approaches. Eight chapters of varying length cover collection development policies; selection criteria and the selection process; budgeting and acquisitions; organ...

Want to get experience? Want to get any ideas to create new things in your life? Read electronic texts in the humanities principles and practice now! By reading this book as soon as possible, you can renew the situation to get the inspirations. Yeah, this way will lead you to always think more and more. In this case, this book will be always right for you. When you can observe more about the bo...

OBJECTIVE This research study sought to determine the formats (print or electronic) of articles and book chapters most-preferred by first-year medical students, third-year medical students entering clinical clerkships, and incoming residents and to determine if these preferences change during the course of the medical curriculum. These trends will enable academic health sciences libraries to ma...

Reading a book is also kind of better solution when you have no enough money or time to get your own adventure. This is one of the reasons we show the the electronic privacy papers documents on the battle for privacy in the age of surveillance as your friend in spending the time. For more representative collections, this book not only offers it's strategically book resource. It can be a good fr...

Electronic materials such as e-book have become increasingly accepted as learning tools in the classroom nowadays. This study investigated the relationships between the big five personality traits: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extroversion with e-book adoption among college students. Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regressions were c...

The emergence of visual programming and processing environments and the raw power of computers now makes it possible to present technical subjects with interactive involvement of the student. We report on a development that is the analogy of a science laboratory for geometry. The result is an electronic book which contains text navigation facilities, supplementary menu driven modes, and in part...

Computerisation is a process taking place in all segments of human society. Croatian law courts will have to undergo implementation of new sophisticated computer technologies. Bad working conditions in law courts are the primary problems requiring judicial system computerisation. In computerisation of the court register of commercial courts all data should come from a central database, immediat...