This paper describes an assistant tool for concealing personal information in text. This is an important procedure for protecting privacy when public documents are disclosed, preventing accidental leaks of personal information, and other purposes. However, finding personal information in text is very time-consuming and laborintensive. To make it easier to conceal personal information, we have d...

A growing body of studies is developing approaches to evaluating human interaction with Web search engines, including the usability and effectiveness of Web search tools. This study explores a user-centered approach to the evaluation of the Web search engine Inquirus – a Web metasearch tool developed by researchers from the NEC Research Institute. The goal of the study reported in this paper wa...

purpose: the main objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between information literacy skills and effectiveness of primary school teachers in sari city. methodology: due to the nature of the study, descriptive-correlational survey method has been used. for data collection two researcher-made questionnaires have been employed. the population of the study was all the primary sc...

Background and Aim: Cardiovascular diseases and medication errors are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality around the world. Electronic prescribing and Medication Administration(ePMA) systems can prevent medication errors to some extent. This study aimed to determine the information requirements of ePMA systems. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in Imam...

Questionnaires are an important medium for collecting information in diverse areas in society (scienctific surveys, tax filing, auditing guidance etc.). We are interested in a domain-specific language (DSL) to automatically generate questionnaire software from declarative specifications. This note describes an important aspect of the semantics of such a DSL: what goes on when a users fill out a...

Three studies demonstrate that mutual facilitation and interference among personal goals are distinct characteristics rather than mutually exclusive opposites and have different functions for psychological well-being and goal pursuit. The three studies vary in design (cross-sectional, short-termlongitudinal) and follow a multimethod approach using questionnaires, diaries, and objective behavior...

background burnout is a syndrome, include with emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal competence. it has negative impact on the physical, psychological and vocational aspects of the nurses life. the study was carried out to determine burnout and its associated factors in operating room nurses from qom teaching hospitals. material and methods a descriptive –analytical study...

The e-book reader revolution is here already. The questions we asked ourselves were: what are the reading preferences of information science students at the beginning of the second decade of the 21 century? How do different variables such as relative advantage, comprehension and learning strategies affect students' reading preferences? The research was conducted in Israel during the first semes...