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Socialization of doctoral students refers to the learning and adjustment process through which they acquire information and knowledge about their work, department, university, and discipline. This dissertation explores characteristics...
The ontology approach has been accepted as a very promising approach to semantic integration today. However, because of the diversity of focuses and its various connections to other research domains, the core concepts, theoretical and...
Previous studies indicated inadequate health literacy of American adults as one of the biggest challenges for consumer health information services provided in public libraries. Little attention, however, has been paid to public users'...
While access to images in general has improved in the last 20 years, due to both advances in electronic storage and dissemination and to improvements in the intellectual provisions of them, access to editorial cartoons lags behind access...
Interdisciplinary research is often problem-based, arising to serve needs that cannot be fulfilled without crossing domain boundaries. Interdisciplinary researchers face a number of issues such as poor communication, methodological...
Web-based tailored approaches hold much promise as effective means for delivering health education and improving public health. This study examines the effects of interactive tailored health videos on attention to health messages using...
Given the expanding use of clinical registries for a spectrum of uses that range from quality improvement, clinical research, identification of the most effective treatments, post market surveillance of drugs and medical equipment, to...
The rapid accumulation of genome annotation data, as well as their widespread re-use in clinical and scientific practice, poses new challenges to scientific data quality management. In particular, there is a lack of understanding the...
The purpose of this research was to contribute to an important research and practice issue, how users use evaluative metadata (i.e., end-user ratings, annotations, opinions, usage, and experts' recommendations) when searching for...
With the aim of improving information retrieval system design, this study explored the effect of cognitive load on the propensity to reformulate queries during information seeking on the Web, specifically the effect of manipulating three...
This dissertation is a descriptive case study of information security governance in higher education institutions. It is a qualitative study that describes, through institutional theoretical constructs, the information security...
The Scholarly Use of Journals Offered Through the Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) Programs as Suggested by the Journal-Citing Patterns of Authors in the Leastdeveloped Nations
The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) and the Access to Global Online Resources in Agriculture (AGORA) programs provide free access to academic journals through the internet to researchers in the developing world...
The growing importance of information and communication technologies in public sector organizations drove this study. Many governments around the world have recognized social media as a valuable information and communication tool. The...
Behavioral economics has become a significant perspective in the evaluation of human judgment and decision-making. In the limited research literature of cognitive biases in online health information seeking (OHIS) behavior, researchers...
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