The purpose of this study is two-fold: to explore the differences in online medical information searching behaviors, including evaluative standards and search strategies, of the general public (general group) and those of hospital patients and their relatives (hospital group); and to compare the predictive relationship between the evaluative standards and search strategies of the two groups. A ...

The purpose of the current study was to determine if test reactivity is a concern in empirical studies of identity. That is, the goal was to establish if the process of measuring identity provokes identity exploration. Should measuring an individual’s identity lead him or her to begin considering identity-relevant issues, the experimenter has unintentionally altered the degree to which one is e...

The purpose of the present study was to find out if children between 8 and 10 years of age, from Croatia and Finland, are (i) able to identify appropriate voices from non-appropriate voices and (ii) are abusive in their voices. The third (iii) aim was to compare girls’ and boys’ vocal identity to each other. A structured questionnaire (BolfanStosic, 2000) was used to investigate the children’s ...

Journal of Futures Studies, November 2006, 11(2): 35 60 It is widely accepted in the literature dealing with social and educational change, that the world is experiencing an information and technology revolution. Globally, more and more people are entering a "post-industrial, globalized, pan-capitalist" world and a "post-information" and "networked" society (Milojevic 2002: 166). Rapid changes ...

Action video game players (AVGPs) have been shown to outperform non-action video game players (NVGPs) on tasks of perception and attention. Here we set out to investigate if these benefits also extended to another cognitive domain, memory. In particular, while there is some previous evidence suggesting AVGPs demonstrate better visual short-term memory, it is unclear whether this extends to long...

The challenge of the next decade is to effectively expend our limited resources to continually deliver better information resources through e-publishing mechanisms. This keynote will focus upon the benefits of collaboration and the means by which collaboration is particularly benefiting digital preservation strategies for the e-publishing community. We need to build sustainably, providing publi...

The idea of left(right) palindromic permutations(LPPs,RPPs) and left(right) generalized Smarandache palindromic permutations(LGSPPs,RGSPPs) are introduced in symmetric groups Sn of degree n. It is shown that in Sn, there exist a LPP and a RPP and they are unique(this fact is demonstrated using S2 and S3). The dihedral group Dn is shown to be generated by a RGSPP and a LGSPP(this is observed to ...