This paper discusses the state of the art in networking, and explains the way existing networks can support tele-education applications. Chapter 1 identifies which tele-education parameters have the biggest impact upon the underlying network, and proposes a classification of teleeducation applications. Chapter 2 discusses the various networks that are used for tele-education purposes: Local Are...

BACKGROUND Cost consequences analysis was completed from randomized controlled trial (RCT) data for the Just-in-time (JIT) librarian consultation service in primary care that ran from October 2005 to April 2006. The service was aimed at providing answers to clinical questions arising during the clinical encounter while the patient waits. Cost saving and cost avoidance were also analyzed. The da...

With the huge increase in online learning at colleges around the country, libraries need to consider how to serve the growing contingent of online students. Some typical library services include a Web site, remote access to databases, e-mail assistance, a toll-free phone number, a procedure for supplying library materials to students, FAQs, interlibrary loan, and online tutorials. Tutorials com...

This paper describes the UJI Librarian Robot, a mobile manipulator that is able to autonomously locate a book in an ordinary library, and grasp it from a bookshelf, by using eye-in-hand stereo vision and force sensing. The robot is only provided with the book code, a library map and some knowledge about its logical structure and takes advantage of the spatio-temporal constraints and regularitie...

This first part of 'The Data Librarian' describes the current situation in analytical laboratories and the need for the Data Librarian. The second part of the paper (Liscouski, J., 1997, Journal of Automatic Chemistry, 19, 199-204) will examine the features of the Data Librarian.

This work is part of a learning environment that has virtual laboratories are designed for distant practical (Tele-PW). In these environments, Tele-PW performed in two modes: individual and/or collaborative. this paper, we concentrating on the tele-collaborative model. The work, presented proposes an artificial agent called Synchronizer Coordinator Agent (SCA) to synchronize and coordinate acti...

Last September, the Health Care Financing Adminktration (HCFA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services rewrote the federal requirements for hospitals to participate in Medicare and Medicaid p~ograms. The proposed changes are intended to give hospitals more flexibilhy in delivering quality health care to patients at a lower cost .1 The new rules were published in the Fedeml Register on...

BACKGROUND Previous research looking at published systematic reviews has shown that their search strategies are often suboptimal and that librarian involvement, though recommended, is low. Confidence in the results, however, is limited due to poor reporting of search strategies the published articles. OBJECTIVES To more accurately measure the use of recommended search methods in systematic re...