We investigated the learning behavior of undergraduates with e-book logs. E-book logs from 99 undergraduates taking an information science course were collected. First, we analyzed differences between nine high-achieving students and three low-achieving students. A log recorded before a class session in which the same e-book was used as a textbook was considered a preview log, and one recorded ...

In a study at Helena; Arkansas, sprinkling hardwood logs during summer storage greatly reduced degrade caused by stain and insects. Logs of four Southern species were stored for 16 weeks starting July 18, 1962. The study was conducted cooperatively by the Southern Hardwoods Laboratory and the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company. While Western softwood and Northern hardwood mills have been using thi...

Rates of terrestrial wood decomposition are known to vary widely depending on regional and local climatic conditions, substrate characteristics and the organisms involved but the influence of many factors remain poorly quantified. We sought to determine how bark and insects contribute to decomposition in a southeastern U.S. forest. Open-topped stainless steel pans with screened bottoms were use...

In web search applications, queries are submitted to search engines to represent the information needs of users. However, sometimes queries may not exactly represent users specific information needs since many ambiguous queries may cover a broad topic and different users may want to get information on different aspects when they submit the same query. To define user search goals as the informat...

In this paper, we summarize our analysis of the large log of multilingual image searches in Flickr provided to iCLEF 2009 participants, focusing on the UAIC group.