The information age dramatically changed the modern battlefield. The U.S. military has been deploying a new network-centric framework characterized by information sharing – shared situational awareness and knowledge of the commanders’ intent throughout the force, regardless of the individual’s or unit’s precise location. Under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Office of ...

Partners in E-View project developed and piloted a European Virtual Campus aimed at learners in the work place which focused on enhancing their management skills and competences within a European context. The project began with a needs analysis followed by the creation of the Virtual Campus Framework. This framework utilized a customised open source delivery methodology and a workbased learning...

The principle of polyrepresentation and document clustering are two established methods for Interactive Information Retrieval, which have been used separately so far. In this paper we discuss a cluster based polyrepresentation approach for information need and document based representations. In our work we simulate and evaluate two possible cluster browsing strategies a user could apply to expl...

During crises such as natural disasters or other human tragedies, information needs of both civilians and responders often require urgent, specialized treatment. Monitoring and summarizing a text stream during such an event remains a difficult problem. We present a system for update summarization which predicts the salience of sentences with respect to an event and then uses these predictions t...

Critical software needs to obtain an assessment before commissioning in order to ensure compliance with standards. This assessment is given after a long task of software analysis performed by assessors. They may be helped by tools, used interactively, to build models using information-flow analyses. Tools like SPARK-Ada exist for Ada subsets used for critical software. But some emergent languag...

objectives the aim of this study was to identify the health-related counseling needs of adolescent girls to assist them in this period of development. materials and methods forty teenage (13 - 19-year-old) girls, who had at least experienced 3 menstrual cycles, participated in this qualitative study. in-depth semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. the content analysis method ...

This paper argues that effectively communicating information to users who are involved in timecritical activities requires specialized capabilities for evaluating situations, filtering out the appropriate information, and producing easily accessible output. Simply displaying advice under such circumstances is unlikely to have a significant impact since it requires having the user’s full attenti...

There is a growing recognition that nanoparticles and other nanostructured materials are sometimes inadequately characterized and that this may limit or even invalidate some of the conclusions regarding particle properties and behavior. A number of international organizations are working to establish the essential measurement requirements that enable adequate understanding of nanoparticle prope...

During the past two decades, our knowledge of bark beetle behavior and ecology has greatly expanded. In particular, stud­ ies of pheromone communication, host plant relations, and population dynamics have increased our basic knowledge of bark beetle biology, improved our ability to manage pest spe­ cies, and provided strong models for research on other insect groups. However, bark beetles remai...

As a first step in developing a resource system for students enrolled in graduate education courses at George Fox University, School of Education personnel surveyed students regarding their competence and perceived importance of a number of skills determined to be important for success in online learning. A review of the literature revealed a number of needed skills and characteristics. A web-b...