This article introduces the synoptic catalog, a computerized combination of a hospital library catalog and a bookseller's catalog. Majors Scientific Books and Richmond Memorial Hospital Libraries in Virginia collaborated to develop the model. A logical evolution in catalog theory and practice, the design expands the identification, collocation, and evaluation functions of the traditional librar...

Web catalog integration has become an integral aspect of current digital content management for Internet and e-commerce environments. The Web catalog integration problem concerns integration of documents in a source catalog into a destination catalog. Many investigations have focused on flattened (one-dimensional) catalogs, but few works address hierarchical Web catalog integration. This study ...

The present study investigates the effect of e-mail on Iranian learners of English and focuses on teaching thewriting skillvia e-mail. More specifically, the study investigates (a) whether using e-mail has any statistically significant effect on improving high school students' writing skill, and (b) whether the proficiency level has any relation with students’ writing improvement through using ...

the present study provides information about the cryptinae and ichneumoninae (hymenoptera: ichneumonidae) species collected from kerman province, during 2013. a total of 12 species belonging to 10 genera of these two subfamilies were collected and identified. they were cryptus inculcator (linnaeus, 1758); dichrogaster longicaudata (thomson, 1884); dichrogaster saharator (aubert, 1964) and mesos...

Abstract Multichannel retailers need to understand how allocate marketing budgets customer segments and online offline sales channels. We propose an integrated methodological approach assess email direct mail effectiveness vary by channel value segment. apply this international beauty retailer in six countries apparel the United States. estimate multi-equation hierarchical linear models find th...

This presentation will report on the results of a study of 245 publications and reports which were (1) classified to both LCSH for inclusion in a standard library catalog and classified and indexed to an economic development related topic classification scheme and institution specific thesaurus; (2) both manually classified and automatically classified using natural language processing (NLP) se...

With the emergence of the e-Catalog, there has been an increasingly wide application of commodities query in distributed environment in the field of e-commerce. But e-Catalog is often autonomous and heterogeneous, effectively integrating and querying them is a delicate and time-consuming task. Electronic catalog contains rich semantics associated with products, and serves as a challenging domai...