The pilot study reported here applies content analysis techniques to twenty interviews carried out in preparation for mediated searches as part of the 'Uncertainty in Information Seeking' project. The tools used in the analysis (Atlas.ti and TEXTStat) are described and their contribution assessed. TEXTStat, a free program, was used to produce frequency counts of the words used in the interview ...

purpose: this study aims to assess the information seeking behavior of medical science university researchers using neural network in khorasan razavi. methodology: the study is an applied and descriptive survey which is conducted through the quantitative approach using neural networks.the data were collected through the questionnaire to examine the information seeking behavior of medical scienc...

In this paper we1 introduce our novel method for utilizing web mining and semantic categories for determining automatically if a given act is worth praising or not. We report how existing lexicons used in affective analysis and ethical judgement can be combined for generating useful queries for knowledge retrieval from a 5.5 billion word blog corpus. We also present how semantic categorization ...

Feedback is an essential part of the teaching/learning processes. This statement especially true in introductory communication course where students receive feedback throughout presentational speaking process. paper explores how define useful based on 1,600 qualitative questionnaires that asked about their perceptions feedback. A thematic analysis a randomly selected subset 163 responses uncove...

The protection of personal privacy is paramount, and consequently many efforts have been devoted to the study of data protection techniques. Governments, statistical agencies and corporations must protect the privacy of the individuals while guaranteeing the right of the society to knowledge. Microaggregation is one of the most promising solutions to deal with this praiseworthy task. However, i...

aim and background: personality traits are among the factors affecting the tendency to substance abuse. personality evaluations have shown sensation seeking to be a particularly strong predictor of initial substance abuse across a variety of drug use categories. the aim of this study was to determine levels of sensation seeking in addicted and normal subjects while considering gender. methods a...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of large employers, aims to use its collective purchasing power to motivate hospitals to implement particular measures designed to improve patient safety and the quality of care. While these criteria are meant to be purely aspirational, and while Leapfrog's effort is praiseworthy, we caution that the articulation of these standards of care may have unintended le...

ne of the more praiseworthy trends in the recent history of psychology has been an increased illingness among cognitive and differential psychologists to seek inspiration in theories and echniques developed outside their own fields. In particular, workers in these two, traditionally eparate fields now realise that they have mutual interests and that there is much to be gained by tudying the lit...