these days knowledge and information play a vital role in promoting of productivity and sustainability. the main purpose of this descriptive– survey research was to analysis information seeking behavior of carp farmers in sangar’s area of rasht county. information seeking behavior of farmers including definition process and gathering information of usage technology, evaluation, information savi...

this study investigates how contextual factors such as culture, geographical location and religious status may either encourage, determine or prevent information seeking behavior. the study applied both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection as a mixed-method. fifteen catholic clergymen from northern nigeria were interviewed and 109 participated in a survey. findings show that ...

Many researchers in the area of information seeking behavior have highlighted the importance of context in influencing information-seeking behavior. However, few have elaborated on how contextual factors influence information-seeking in practice. This chapter explores the impact of disciplinary traditions of non-western, developing country external environments on patterns of information seekin...

Information seeking is a form of human behavior that involves seeking for information by means of the active examination of information sources or information retrieval systems to satisfy the information need or to solve a problem. This study explores the information seeking behavior of visually impaired students in Maulana Azad Library, AMU. The purpose of the study is to examine the informati...

This paper provides a set of criteria to evaluate the usability of trader user interfaces with respect to resource discovery. The criteria were identified because trader user interface developers sometimes make unrealistic assumptions about the information seeking behavior of their users, leading to interfaces that are difficult to use for resource discovery. This paper uses some insights from ...

Alcohol addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite adverse consequences. A main challenge of treatment prevent relapse, which occurs in more than >50% newly abstinent patients with disorder within 3 months. In people suffering from addiction, stressful events, drug-associated cues and contexts, re-exposure small amo...

Background and Objective: Identifying the details of the injurious effects of alcohol seems to be decisive in nowadays with growing abuse of the substance. This study mainly aimed to assess the adverse effects of ethanol on the recalling of information in the Wistar rats. Materials and Methods: Male Wistar rats (Pasteur Institute of Iran) were evaluated using the novelty seeking behavior based ...