This research paper reports the results of a Web-based survey designed to explore the attitude of Library and Information Science (LIS) academics to Web 2.0. It investigates their familiarity with Web 2.0 concepts, tools and services and applications as these relate to LIS education, and the barriers to their use. A Web-based questionnaire was administered to 44 academic staff in three LIS scho...

Ice sheets play a fundamental role within Earth’s climate system and in shaping landscapes. Despite extensive research, the maximum extent and basal dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the last glacial cycle remain elusive and debated in many areas. Recently, cosmogenic nuclides (e.g., 36Cl, 26Al, 10Be) have played an important role in improving our understanding of LIS extent and...

Chlorhexidine (CHX) and Listerine (LIS), an essential oil compound, are the two commonly used adjunctive agents for mechanical debridement, for reducing the bacterial load in the treatment of peri-implant inflammation. However, antimicrobial agents have been reported to be cytotoxic to the alveolar bone cells and gingival epithelial cells. The present study was performed to examine the effects ...

A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF 1,160 Library and Information Science (LIS) articles published in six LISjournals between 1993 and 1998 was conducted to examine the use of theory in LIS research. Overall, 34.2 percent of articles incorporated theory in either the title, abstract, or text for a total of 1,083 theory incidents or an average of .93 incidents per article. Articles dealing with topics from th...

CONTEXT Mechanical ventilation with positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) is associated with unequal aeration of lungs in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients. Therefore, patients may develop asymmetric atelectasis and postural hypoxemia during lateral positioning. AIMS To validate proposed lung infiltration score (LIS) based on chest x-ray to predict postural hypoxemia and l...

Article history: Available online 12 October 2008 Mixed methods research (M improve the study's qualit MR)—which integrates qualitative and quantitative methods in one study to y—is not common in library and information science (LIS) and has not been discussed in its literature. While still evolving and generating much discussion about its nature and standards for its evaluation, MMR has been e...

This paper examines aspects of journal articles published from 1967 to 2008, located in eight databases, and authored or co-authored by academics serving for at least two years in Australian LIS programs from 1959 to 2008. These aspects are: inclusion of publications in databases, publications in journals, authorship characteristics of publications, productivity, and subject content of publicat...

This paperdescribes the framework for a new abstraction method that utilizes event-tmits written in sentences. Event-units are expressed in Language Information Structnrc (LIS) form and the projection of LIS from a sentence is f)cffonned by a semantic engine. ABEX (ABstraction EXtraction system) utilizes the LIS outpttt of the s e m a n t i c e n g i n e . A B I ' ; X can e x t r a c t e v e n ...

The locked-in syndrome (LIS) describes patients who are awake and conscious but severely deefferented leaving the patient in a state of almost complete immobility and loss of verbal communication. The etiology ranges from acute (e.g., brainstem stroke, which is the most frequent cause of LIS) to chronic causes (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS). In this article we review and present new...

This paper presents an ongoing project about the symbolic translation from Italian to Italian Signed Language (LIS) in the rail stations domain. We describe some technical issues in the generation side of the translation, i.e. the use of XML templates for microplanning, the implementation of some LIS linguistic features in the grammar.