Importance of intrinsic and non-network contribution in PageRank centrality and its effect on PageRank localization

OpenAIRE

Deyasi, Krishanu

2016-01-01

PageRank centrality is used by Google for ranking web-pages to present search result for a user query. Here, we have shown that PageRank value of a vertex also depends on its intrinsic, non-network contribution. If the intrinsic, non-network contributions of the vertices are proportional to their degrees or zeros, then their PageRank centralities become proportion to their degrees. Some simulations and empirical data are used to support our study. In addition, we have shown that localization ...

Monte Carlo methods of PageRank computation

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Litvak, Nelli

2004-01-01

We describe and analyze an on-line Monte Carlo method of PageRank computation. The PageRank is being estimated basing on results of a large number of short independent simulation runs initiated from each page that contains outgoing hyperlinks. The method does not require any storage of the hyperlink

Thomas Jefferson, Page Design, and Desktop Publishing.

Science.gov (United States)

Hartley, James

1991-01-01

Discussion of page design for desktop publishing focuses on the importance of functional issues as opposed to aesthetic issues, and criticizes a previous article that stressed aesthetic issues. Topics discussed include balance, consistency in text structure, and how differences in layout affect the clarity of "The Declaration of…

Finding Specification Pages from the Web

Science.gov (United States)

Yoshinaga, Naoki; Torisawa, Kentaro

This paper presents a method of finding a specification page on the Web for a given object (e.g., ``Ch. d'Yquem'') and its class label (e.g., ``wine''). A specification page for an object is a Web page which gives concise attribute-value information about the object (e.g., ``county''-``Sauternes'') in well formatted structures. A simple unsupervised method using layout and symbolic decoration cues was applied to a large number of the Web pages to acquire candidate attributes for each class (e.g., ``county'' for a class ``wine''). We then filter out irrelevant words from the putative attributes through an author-aware scoring function that we called site frequency. We used the acquired attributes to select a representative specification page for a given object from the Web pages retrieved by a normal search engine. Experimental results revealed that our system greatly outperformed the normal search engine in terms of this specification retrieval.

Exploiting link structure for web page genre identification

KAUST Repository

Zhu, Jia

2015-07-07

As the World Wide Web develops at an unprecedented pace, identifying web page genre has recently attracted increasing attention because of its importance in web search. A common approach for identifying genre is to use textual features that can be extracted directly from a web page, that is, On-Page features. The extracted features are subsequently inputted into a machine learning algorithm that will perform classification. However, these approaches may be ineffective when the web page contains limited textual information (e.g., the page is full of images). In this study, we address genre identification of web pages under the aforementioned situation. We propose a framework that uses On-Page features while simultaneously considering information in neighboring pages, that is, the pages that are connected to the original page by backward and forward links. We first introduce a graph-based model called GenreSim, which selects an appropriate set of neighboring pages. We then construct a multiple classifier combination module that utilizes information from the selected neighboring pages and On-Page features to improve performance in genre identification. Experiments are conducted on well-known corpora, and favorable results indicate that our proposed framework is effective, particularly in identifying web pages with limited textual information. © 2015 The Author(s)

Exploiting link structure for web page genre identification

KAUST Repository

Zhu, Jia; Xie, Qing; Yu, Shoou I.; Wong, Wai Hung

2015-01-01

As the World Wide Web develops at an unprecedented pace, identifying web page genre has recently attracted increasing attention because of its importance in web search. A common approach for identifying genre is to use textual features that can be extracted directly from a web page, that is, On-Page features. The extracted features are subsequently inputted into a machine learning algorithm that will perform classification. However, these approaches may be ineffective when the web page contains limited textual information (e.g., the page is full of images). In this study, we address genre identification of web pages under the aforementioned situation. We propose a framework that uses On-Page features while simultaneously considering information in neighboring pages, that is, the pages that are connected to the original page by backward and forward links. We first introduce a graph-based model called GenreSim, which selects an appropriate set of neighboring pages. We then construct a multiple classifier combination module that utilizes information from the selected neighboring pages and On-Page features to improve performance in genre identification. Experiments are conducted on well-known corpora, and favorable results indicate that our proposed framework is effective, particularly in identifying web pages with limited textual information. © 2015 The Author(s)

Google and the mind: predicting fluency with PageRank.

Science.gov (United States)

Griffiths, Thomas L; Steyvers, Mark; Firl, Alana

2007-12-01

Human memory and Internet search engines face a shared computational problem, needing to retrieve stored pieces of information in response to a query. We explored whether they employ similar solutions, testing whether we could predict human performance on a fluency task using PageRank, a component of the Google search engine. In this task, people were shown a letter of the alphabet and asked to name the first word beginning with that letter that came to mind. We show that PageRank, computed on a semantic network constructed from word-association data, outperformed word frequency and the number of words for which a word is named as an associate as a predictor of the words that people produced in this task. We identify two simple process models that could support this apparent correspondence between human memory and Internet search, and relate our results to previous rational models of memory.

Entertainment Pages.

Science.gov (United States)

Druce, Mike

1981-01-01

Notes that the planning of an effective entertainment page in a school newspaper must begin by establishing its purpose. Examines all the elements that contribute to the makeup of a good entertainment page. (RL)

[An evaluation of the quality of health web pages using a validated questionnaire].

Science.gov (United States)

Conesa Fuentes, Maria del Carmen; Aguinaga Ontoso, Enrique; Hernández Morante, Juan José

2011-01-01

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the quality of general health information in Spanish language web pages, and the official Regional Services web pages from the different Autonomous Regions. It is a cross-sectional study. We have used a previously validated questionnaire to study the present state of the health information on Internet for a lay-user point of view. By mean of PageRank (Google®), we obtained a group of webs, including a total of 65 health web pages. We applied some exclusion criteria, and finally obtained a total of 36 webs. We also analyzed the official web pages from the different Health Services in Spain (19 webs), making a total of 54 health web pages. In the light of our data, we observed that, the quality of the general information health web pages was generally rather low, especially regarding the information quality. Not one page reached the maximum score (19 points). The mean score of the web pages was of 9.8±2.8. In conclusion, to avoid the problems arising from the lack of quality, health professionals should design advertising campaigns and other media to teach the lay-user how to evaluate the information quality. Copyright © 2009 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

Full page insight

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Cortsen, Rikke Platz

2014-01-01

Alan Moore and his collaborating artists often manipulate time and space by drawing upon the formal elements of comics and making alternative constellations. This article looks at an element that is used frequently in comics of all kinds – the full page – and discusses how it helps shape spatio......, something that it shares with the full page in comics. Through an analysis of several full pages from Moore titles like Swamp Thing, From Hell, Watchmen and Promethea, it is made clear why the full page provides an apt vehicle for an apocalypse in comics....

The sources and popularity of online drug information: an analysis of top search engine results and web page views.

Science.gov (United States)

Law, Michael R; Mintzes, Barbara; Morgan, Steven G

2011-03-01

The Internet has become a popular source of health information. However, there is little information on what drug information and which Web sites are being searched. To investigate the sources of online information about prescription drugs by assessing the most common Web sites returned in online drug searches and to assess the comparative popularity of Web pages for particular drugs. This was a cross-sectional study of search results for the most commonly dispensed drugs in the US (n=278 active ingredients) on 4 popular search engines: Bing, Google (both US and Canada), and Yahoo. We determined the number of times a Web site appeared as the first result. A linked retrospective analysis counted Wikipedia page hits for each of these drugs in 2008 and 2009. About three quarters of the first result on Google USA for both brand and generic names linked to the National Library of Medicine. In contrast, Wikipedia was the first result for approximately 80% of generic name searches on the other 3 sites. On these other sites, over two thirds of brand name searches led to industry-sponsored sites. The Wikipedia pages with the highest number of hits were mainly for opiates, benzodiazepines, antibiotics, and antidepressants. Wikipedia and the National Library of Medicine rank highly in online drug searches. Further, our results suggest that patients most often seek information on drugs with the potential for dependence, for stigmatized conditions, that have received media attention, and for episodic treatments. Quality improvement efforts should focus on these drugs.

Recognition of pornographic web pages by classifying texts and images.

Science.gov (United States)

Hu, Weiming; Wu, Ou; Chen, Zhouyao; Fu, Zhouyu; Maybank, Steve

2007-06-01

With the rapid development of the World Wide Web, people benefit more and more from the sharing of information. However, Web pages with obscene, harmful, or illegal content can be easily accessed. It is important to recognize such unsuitable, offensive, or pornographic Web pages. In this paper, a novel framework for recognizing pornographic Web pages is described. A C4.5 decision tree is used to divide Web pages, according to content representations, into continuous text pages, discrete text pages, and image pages. These three categories of Web pages are handled, respectively, by a continuous text classifier, a discrete text classifier, and an algorithm that fuses the results from the image classifier and the discrete text classifier. In the continuous text classifier, statistical and semantic features are used to recognize pornographic texts. In the discrete text classifier, the naive Bayes rule is used to calculate the probability that a discrete text is pornographic. In the image classifier, the object's contour-based features are extracted to recognize pornographic images. In the text and image fusion algorithm, the Bayes theory is used to combine the recognition results from images and texts. Experimental results demonstrate that the continuous text classifier outperforms the traditional keyword-statistics-based classifier, the contour-based image classifier outperforms the traditional skin-region-based image classifier, the results obtained by our fusion algorithm outperform those by either of the individual classifiers, and our framework can be adapted to different categories of Web pages.

PageRank for low frequency earthquake detection

Science.gov (United States)

Aguiar, A. C.; Beroza, G. C.

2013-12-01

We have analyzed Hi-Net seismic waveform data during the April 2006 tremor episode in the Nankai Trough in SW Japan using the autocorrelation approach of Brown et al. (2008), which detects low frequency earthquakes (LFEs) based on pair-wise waveform matching. We have generalized this to exploit the fact that waveforms may repeat multiple times, on more than just a pair-wise basis. We are working towards developing a sound statistical basis for event detection, but that is complicated by two factors. First, the statistical behavior of the autocorrelations varies between stations. Analyzing one station at a time assures that the detection threshold will only depend on the station being analyzed. Second, the positive detections do not satisfy "closure." That is, if window A correlates with window B, and window B correlates with window C, then window A and window C do not necessarily correlate with one another. We want to evaluate whether or not a linked set of windows are correlated due to chance. To do this, we map our problem on to one that has previously been solved for web search, and apply Google's PageRank algorithm. PageRank is the probability of a 'random surfer' to visit a particular web page; it assigns a ranking for a webpage based on the amount of links associated with that page. For windows of seismic data instead of webpages, the windows with high probabilities suggest likely LFE signals. Once identified, we stack the matched windows to improve the snr and use these stacks as template signals to find other LFEs within continuous data. We compare the results among stations and declare a detection if they are found in a statistically significant number of stations, based on multinomial statistics. We compare our detections using the single-station method to detections found by Shelly et al. (2007) for the April 2006 tremor sequence in Shikoku, Japan. We find strong similarity between the results, as well as many new detections that were not found using

Sleep Apnea Information Page

Science.gov (United States)

... Page You are here Home » Disorders » All Disorders Sleep Apnea Information Page Sleep Apnea Information Page What research is being done? ... Institutes of Health (NIH) conduct research related to sleep apnea in laboratories at the NIH, and also ...

Is Recent Warming Unprecedented in the Common Era? Insights from PAGES2k data and the Last Millennium Reanalysis

Science.gov (United States)

Erb, M. P.; Emile-Geay, J.; McKay, N.; Hakim, G. J.; Steig, E. J.; Anchukaitis, K. J.

2017-12-01

Paleoclimate observations provide a critical context for 20th century warming by putting recent climate change into a longer-term perspective. Previous work (e.g. IPCC AR3-5) has claimed that recent decades are exceptional in the context of past centuries, though these statements are usually accompanied by large uncertainties and little spatial detail. Here we leverage a recent multiproxy compilation (PAGES2k Consortium, 2017) to revisit this long-standing question. We do so via two complementary approaches. The first approach compares multi-decadal averages and trends in PAGES2k proxy records, which include trees, corals, ice cores, and more. Numerous proxy records reveal that late 20th century values are extreme compared to the remainder of the recorded period, although considerable variability exists in the signals preserved in individual records. The second approach uses the same PAGES2k data blended with climate model output to produce an optimal analysis: the Last Millennium Reanalysis (LMR; Hakim et al., 2016). Unlike proxy data, LMR is spatially-complete and explicitly models uncertainty in proxy records, resulting in objective error estimates. The LMR results show that for nearly every region of the world, late 20th century temperatures exceed temperatures in previous multi-decadal periods during the Common Era, and 20th century warming rates exceed rates in previous centuries. An uncertainty with the present analyses concerns the interpretation of proxy records. PAGES2k included only records that are primarily sensitive to temperature, but many proxies may be influenced by secondary non-temperature effects. Additionally, the issue of seasonality is important as, for example, many temperature-sensitive tree ring chronologies in the Northern Hemisphere respond to summer or growing season temperature rather than annual-means. These uncertainties will be further explored. References Hakim, G. J., et al., 2016: The last millennium climate reanalysis project

A Survey on PageRank Computing

OpenAIRE

Berkhin, Pavel

2005-01-01

This survey reviews the research related to PageRank computing. Components of a PageRank vector serve as authority weights for web pages independent of their textual content, solely based on the hyperlink structure of the web. PageRank is typically used as a web search ranking component. This defines the importance of the model and the data structures that underly PageRank processing. Computing even a single PageRank is a difficult computational task. Computing many PageRanks is a much mor...

Buying a Constant Competitive Ratio for Paging

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Csirik, János; Imreh, Csanád; Noga, John; Seiden, Steve S.; Woeginger, Gerhard; Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm

2001-01-01

We consider a variant of the online paging problem where the online algorithm may buy additional cache slots at a certain cost. The overall cost incurred equals the total cost for the cache plus the number of page faults. This problem and our results are a generalization of both, the classical

Buying a constant competitive ratio for paging

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Csirik, J.; Imreh, Cs.; Noga, J.; Seiden, S.S.; Woeginger, G.J.; Meyer auf der Heide, F.

2001-01-01

We consider a variant of the online paging problem where the online algorithm may buy additional cache slots at a certain cost. The overall cost incurred equals the total cost for the cache plus the number of page faults. This problem and our results are a generalization of both, the classical

In-Degree and PageRank of web pages: why do they follow similar power laws?

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Litvak, Nelli; Scheinhardt, Willem R.W.; Volkovich, Y.

2009-01-01

PageRank is a popularity measure designed by Google to rank Web pages. Experiments confirm that PageRank values obey a power law with the same exponent as In-Degree values. This paper presents a novel mathematical model that explains this phenomenon. The relation between PageRank and In-Degree is

In-degree and pageRank of web pages: Why do they follow similar power laws?

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Litvak, Nelli; Scheinhardt, Willem R.W.; Volkovich, Y.

The PageRank is a popularity measure designed by Google to rank Web pages. Experiments confirm that the PageRank obeys a 'power law' with the same exponent as the In-Degree. This paper presents a novel mathematical model that explains this phenomenon. The relation between the PageRank and In-Degree

Web page sorting algorithm based on query keyword distance relation

Science.gov (United States)

Yang, Han; Cui, Hong Gang; Tang, Hao

2017-08-01

In order to optimize the problem of page sorting, according to the search keywords in the web page in the relationship between the characteristics of the proposed query keywords clustering ideas. And it is converted into the degree of aggregation of the search keywords in the web page. Based on the PageRank algorithm, the clustering degree factor of the query keyword is added to make it possible to participate in the quantitative calculation. This paper proposes an improved algorithm for PageRank based on the distance relation between search keywords. The experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the method.

Creating Web Pages Simplified

CERN Document Server

Wooldridge, Mike

2011-01-01

The easiest way to learn how to create a Web page for your family or organization Do you want to share photos and family lore with relatives far away? Have you been put in charge of communication for your neighborhood group or nonprofit organization? A Web page is the way to get the word out, and Creating Web Pages Simplified offers an easy, visual way to learn how to build one. Full-color illustrations and concise instructions take you through all phases of Web publishing, from laying out and formatting text to enlivening pages with graphics and animation. This easy-to-follow visual guide sho

The changing pages of comics : Page layouts across eight decades of American superhero comics

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Pederson, Kaitlin; Cohn, Neil

2016-01-01

Page layouts are one of the most overt features of comics’ structure. We hypothesized that American superhero comics have changed in their page layout over eight decades, and investigated this using a corpus analysis of 40 comics from 1940 through 2014. On the whole, we found that comics pages

The relative worst order ratio applied to paging

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Boyar, Joan; Favrholdt, Lene Monrad; Larsen, Kim Skak

2007-01-01

The relative worst order ratio, a new measure for the quality of on-line algorithms, was recently defined and applied to two bin packing problems. Here, we apply it to the paging problem and obtain the following results: We devise a new deterministic paging algorithm, Retrospective-LRU, and show...

On Page Rank

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Hoede, C.

In this paper the concept of page rank for the world wide web is discussed. The possibility of describing the distribution of page rank by an exponential law is considered. It is shown that the concept is essentially equal to that of status score, a centrality measure discussed already in 1953 by

PageRank of integers

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Frahm, K M; Shepelyansky, D L; Chepelianskii, A D

2012-01-01

We up a directed network tracing links from a given integer to its divisors and analyze the properties of the Google matrix of this network. The PageRank vector of this matrix is computed numerically and it is shown that its probability is approximately inversely proportional to the PageRank index thus being similar to the Zipf law and the dependence established for the World Wide Web. The spectrum of the Google matrix of integers is characterized by a large gap and a relatively small number of nonzero eigenvalues. A simple semi-analytical expression for the PageRank of integers is derived that allows us to find this vector for matrices of billion size. This network provides a new PageRank order of integers. (paper)

The Faculty Web Page: Contrivance or Continuation?

Science.gov (United States)

Lennex, Lesia

2007-01-01

In an age of Internet education, what does it mean for a tenure/tenure-track faculty to have a web page? How many professors have web pages? If they have a page, what does it look like? Do they really need a web page at all? Many universities have faculty web pages. What do those collective pages look like? In what way do they represent the…

Web Page Recommendation Using Web Mining

OpenAIRE

Modraj Bhavsar; Mrs. P. M. Chavan

2014-01-01

On World Wide Web various kind of content are generated in huge amount, so to give relevant result to user web recommendation become important part of web application. On web different kind of web recommendation are made available to user every day that includes Image, Video, Audio, query suggestion and web page. In this paper we are aiming at providing framework for web page recommendation. 1) First we describe the basics of web mining, types of web mining. 2) Details of each...

Automatic comic page image understanding based on edge segment analysis

Science.gov (United States)

Liu, Dong; Wang, Yongtao; Tang, Zhi; Li, Luyuan; Gao, Liangcai

2013-12-01

Comic page image understanding aims to analyse the layout of the comic page images by detecting the storyboards and identifying the reading order automatically. It is the key technique to produce the digital comic documents suitable for reading on mobile devices. In this paper, we propose a novel comic page image understanding method based on edge segment analysis. First, we propose an efficient edge point chaining method to extract Canny edge segments (i.e., contiguous chains of Canny edge points) from the input comic page image; second, we propose a top-down scheme to detect line segments within each obtained edge segment; third, we develop a novel method to detect the storyboards by selecting the border lines and further identify the reading order of these storyboards. The proposed method is performed on a data set consisting of 2000 comic page images from ten printed comic series. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves satisfactory results on different comics and outperforms the existing methods.

Using shadow page cache to improve isolated drivers performance.

Science.gov (United States)

Zheng, Hao; Dong, Xiaoshe; Wang, Endong; Chen, Baoke; Zhu, Zhengdong; Liu, Chengzhe

2015-01-01

With the advantage of the reusability property of the virtualization technology, users can reuse various types and versions of existing operating systems and drivers in a virtual machine, so as to customize their application environment. In order to prevent users' virtualization environments being impacted by driver faults in virtual machine, Chariot examines the correctness of driver's write operations by the method of combining a driver's write operation capture and a driver's private access control table. However, this method needs to keep the write permission of shadow page table as read-only, so as to capture isolated driver's write operations through page faults, which adversely affect the performance of the driver. Based on delaying setting frequently used shadow pages' write permissions to read-only, this paper proposes an algorithm using shadow page cache to improve the performance of isolated drivers and carefully study the relationship between the performance of drivers and the size of shadow page cache. Experimental results show that, through the shadow page cache, the performance of isolated drivers can be greatly improved without impacting Chariot's reliability too much.

Page sample size in web accessibility testing: how many pages is enough?

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Velleman, Eric Martin; van der Geest, Thea

2013-01-01

Various countries and organizations use a different sampling approach and sample size of web pages in accessibility conformance tests. We are conducting a systematic analysis to determine how many pages is enough for testing whether a website is compliant with standard accessibility guidelines. This

PageMan: An interactive ontology tool to generate, display, and annotate overview graphs for profiling experiments

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Hannah Matthew A

2006-12-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Microarray technology has become a widely accepted and standardized tool in biology. The first microarray data analysis programs were developed to support pair-wise comparison. However, as microarray experiments have become more routine, large scale experiments have become more common, which investigate multiple time points or sets of mutants or transgenics. To extract biological information from such high-throughput expression data, it is necessary to develop efficient analytical platforms, which combine manually curated gene ontologies with efficient visualization and navigation tools. Currently, most tools focus on a few limited biological aspects, rather than offering a holistic, integrated analysis. Results Here we introduce PageMan, a multiplatform, user-friendly, and stand-alone software tool that annotates, investigates, and condenses high-throughput microarray data in the context of functional ontologies. It includes a GUI tool to transform different ontologies into a suitable format, enabling the user to compare and choose between different ontologies. It is equipped with several statistical modules for data analysis, including over-representation analysis and Wilcoxon statistical testing. Results are exported in a graphical format for direct use, or for further editing in graphics programs. PageMan provides a fast overview of single treatments, allows genome-level responses to be compared across several microarray experiments covering, for example, stress responses at multiple time points. This aids in searching for trait-specific changes in pathways using mutants or transgenics, analyzing development time-courses, and comparison between species. In a case study, we analyze the results of publicly available microarrays of multiple cold stress experiments using PageMan, and compare the results to a previously published meta-analysis. PageMan offers a complete user's guide, a web-based over-representation analysis as

Identify Web-page Content meaning using Knowledge based System for Dual Meaning Words

OpenAIRE

Sinha, Sukanta; Dattagupta, Rana; Mukhopadhyay, Debajyoti

2012-01-01

Meaning of Web-page content plays a big role while produced a search result from a search engine. Most of the cases Web-page meaning stored in title or meta-tag area but those meanings do not always match with Web-page content. To overcome this situation we need to go through the Web-page content to identify the Web-page meaning. In such cases, where Webpage content holds dual meaning words that time it is really difficult to identify the meaning of the Web-page. In this paper, we are introdu...

WebScore: An Effective Page Scoring Approach for Uncertain Web Social Networks

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Shaojie Qiao

2011-10-01

Full Text Available To effectively score pages with uncertainty in web social networks, we first proposed a new concept called transition probability matrix and formally defined the uncertainty in web social networks. Second, we proposed a hybrid page scoring algorithm, called WebScore, based on the PageRank algorithm and three centrality measures including degree, betweenness, and closeness. Particularly,WebScore takes into a full consideration of the uncertainty of web social networks by computing the transition probability from one page to another. The basic idea ofWebScore is to: (1 integrate uncertainty into PageRank in order to accurately rank pages, and (2 apply the centrality measures to calculate the importance of pages in web social networks. In order to verify the performance of WebScore, we developed a web social network analysis system which can partition web pages into distinct groups and score them in an effective fashion. Finally, we conducted extensive experiments on real data and the results show that WebScore is effective at scoring uncertain pages with less time deficiency than PageRank and centrality measures based page scoring algorithms.

Can Facebook pages be a mode of blended learning to supplement in-class teaching in Saudi Arabia?

Science.gov (United States)

Anwar, Khurshid; Sajid, Muhammad Raihan; Cahusac, Peter; Shaikh, Abdul Ahad; Elgammal, Ahmad; Alshedoukhy, Ahlam; Kashir, Junaid

2017-09-01

The aim of this study was to examine the potential of a self-designed Facebook page on Neuroscience, to supplement in-class teaching as a mode of blended learning. Posts were split into multiple choice questions (MCQs), general interest articles, neuroscience-related external links and resources, and lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations. The study was divided into three distinct phases: before, during, and after the Neuroscience block. Student responses were evaluated via a self-developed questionnaire. Grades achieved by students undertaking the block in 2015 and 2014 were recorded, as were the grades achieved by the same cohort in concurrent blocks in the same year of study. Results showed that ~80% of students reported that use of the page enhanced their overall subject knowledge and exam preparation. Highest page activity occurred during the Neuroscience block. Peak activity occurred directly before summative assessments, with MCQ posts having the highest impact. The cohort of students with access to the Facebook page achieved better grades in the block compared with the previous cohort, despite similar average performance in other subjects. We demonstrate the utility of Facebook as a powerful tool for undergraduate education, supplementing in-class teaching, and assisting in exam preparation, potentially increasing average student performance. Copyright © 2017 the American Physiological Society.

Upgrade of CERN OP Webtools IRRAD Page

CERN Document Server

Vik, Magnus Bjerke

2017-01-01

CERN Beams Department maintains a website with various tools for the Operations Group, with one of them being specific for the Proton Irradiation Facility (IRRAD). The IRRAD team use the tool to follow up and optimize the operation of the facility. The original version of the tool was difficult to maintain and adding new features to the page was challenging. Thus this summer student project is aimed to upgrade the web page by rewriting the web page with maintainability and flexibility in mind. The new application uses a server--client architecture with a REST API on the back end which is used by the front end to request data for visualization. PHP is used on the back end to implement the API's and Swagger is used to document them. Vue, Semantic UI, Webpack, Node and ECMAScript 5 is used on the fronted to visualize and administrate the data. The result is a new IRRAD operations web application with extended functionality, improved structure and an improved user interface. It includes a new Status Panel page th...

Insights into Facebook Pages: an early adolescent health research study page targeted at parents.

Science.gov (United States)

Amon, Krestina L; Paxton, Karen; Klineberg, Emily; Riley, Lisa; Hawke, Catherine; Steinbeck, Katharine

2016-02-01

Facebook has been used in health research, but there is a lack of literature regarding how Facebook may be used to recruit younger adolescents. A Facebook Page was created for an adolescent cohort study on the effects of puberty hormones on well-being and behaviour in early adolescence. Used as a communication tool with existing participants, it also aimed to alert potential participants to the study. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the development of the study Facebook Page and present the fan response to the types of posts made on the Page using the Facebook-generated Insights data. Two types of posts were made on the study Facebook Page. The first type was study-related update posts and events. The second was relevant adolescent and family research and current news posts. Observations on the use of and response to the Page were made over 1 year across three phases (phase 1, very low Facebook use; phase 2, high Facebook use; phase 3, low Facebook use). Most Page fans were female (88.6%), with the largest group of fans aged between 35 and 44 years. Study-related update posts with photographs were the most popular. This paper provides a model on which other researchers could base Facebook communication and potential recruitment in the absence of established guidelines.

The mediating role of facebook fan pages.

Science.gov (United States)

Chih, Wen-Hai; Hsu, Li-Chun; Wang, Kai-Yu; Lin, Kuan-Yu

2014-01-01

Using the dual mediation hypothesis, this study investigates the role of interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention) attitude towards the news, in the formation of Facebook Fan Page users' electronic word-of-mouth intentions. A total of 599 Facebook fan page users in Taiwan were recruited and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that both perceived news entertainment and informativeness positively influence interestingness attitude towards the news. Interestingness attitude towards the news subsequently influences hedonism and utilitarianism attitudes towards the Fan Page, which then influence eWOM intentions. Interestingness attitude towards the news plays a more important role than hedonism and utilitarianism attitudes in generating electronic word-of-mouth intentions. Based on the findings, the implications and future research suggestions are provided.

PageRank, HITS and a unified framework for link analysis

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Ding, Chris; He, Xiaofeng; Husbands, Parry; Zha, Hongyuan; Simon, Horst

2001-10-01

Two popular webpage ranking algorithms are HITS and PageRank. HITS emphasizes mutual reinforcement between authority and hub webpages, while PageRank emphasizes hyperlink weight normalization and web surfing based on random walk models. We systematically generalize/combine these concepts into a unified framework. The ranking framework contains a large algorithm space; HITS and PageRank are two extreme ends in this space. We study several normalized ranking algorithms which are intermediate between HITS and PageRank, and obtain closed-form solutions. We show that, to first order approximation, all ranking algorithms in this framework, including PageRank and HITS, lead to same ranking which is highly correlated with ranking by indegree. These results support the notion that in web resource ranking indegree and outdegree are of fundamental importance. Rankings of webgraphs of different sizes and queries are presented to illustrate our analysis.

Classifying web pages with visual features

NARCIS (Netherlands)

de Boer, V.; van Someren, M.; Lupascu, T.; Filipe, J.; Cordeiro, J.

2010-01-01

To automatically classify and process web pages, current systems use the textual content of those pages, including both the displayed content and the underlying (HTML) code. However, a very important feature of a web page is its visual appearance. In this paper, we show that using generic visual

Improving Interdisciplinary Provider Communication Through a Unified Paging System.

Science.gov (United States)

Heidemann, Lauren; Petrilli, Christopher; Gupta, Ashwin; Campbell, Ian; Thompson, Maureen; Cinti, Sandro; Stewart, David A

2016-06-01

Interdisciplinary communication at a Veterans Affairs (VA) academic teaching hospital is largely dependent on alphanumeric paging, which has limitations as a result of one-way communication and lack of reliable physician identification. Adverse patient outcomes related to difficulty contacting the correct consulting provider in a timely manner have been reported. House officers were surveyed on the level of satisfaction with the current VA communication system and the rate of perceived adverse patient outcomes caused by potential delays within this system. Respondents were then asked to identify the ideal paging system. These results were used to develop and deploy a new Web site. A postimplementation survey was repeated 1 year later. This study was conducted as a quality improvement project. House officer satisfaction with the preintervention system was 3%. The majority used more than four modalities to identify consultants, with 59% stating that word of mouth was a typical source. The preferred mode of paging was the university hospital paging system, a Web-based program that is used at the partnering academic institution. Following integration of VA consulting services within the university hospital paging system, the level of satisfaction improved to 87%. Significant decreases were seen in perceived adverse patient outcomes (from 16% to 2%), delays in patient care (from 90% to 16%), and extended hospitalizations (from 46% to 4%). Our study demonstrates significant improvement in physician satisfaction with a newly implemented paging system that was associated with a decreased perceived number of adverse patient events and delays in care.

AUTOMATIC TAGGING OF PERSIAN WEB PAGES BASED ON N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS USING MAPREDUCE

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Saeed Shahrivari

2015-07-01

Full Text Available Page tagging is one of the most important facilities for increasing the accuracy of information retrieval in the web. Tags are simple pieces of data that usually consist of one or several words, and briefly describe a page. Tags provide useful information about a page and can be used for boosting the accuracy of searching, document clustering, and result grouping. The most accurate solution to page tagging is using human experts. However, when the number of pages is large, humans cannot be used, and some automatic solutions should be used instead. We propose a solution called PerTag which can automatically tag a set of Persian web pages. PerTag is based on n-gram models and uses the tf-idf method plus some effective Persian language rules to select proper tags for each web page. Since our target is huge sets of web pages, PerTag is built on top of the MapReduce distributed computing framework. We used a set of more than 500 million Persian web pages during our experiments, and extracted tags for each page using a cluster of 40 machines. The experimental results show that PerTag is both fast and accurate

Typing of Typhoidal Salmonella Using Extraction of Water Soluble Whole Cell Proteins and Analysing by SDS-PAGE

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

R. Yousefi Mashouf

2005-10-01

Full Text Available Introduction & Objective : Salmonella is one of the most important genus of Enterobacteriacea family. The aim of this study was typing of typhoidal Salmonella by SDS-PAGE and comparing the results with those of serotyping method.Materials and Methods: In this study, 4 reference strains of Salmonella species, 5 reference strains of Enterobacteriacea family and 100 clinical isolates of Salmonella that were previously collected from laboratories of Hamadan medical centers were studied. Serotyping of strains were performed by Biomereux and Difco monovalent antisera. Whole-cell proteins of strains were also separated on 10% poly acrylamide gel. Gels were stained by Coomassie Brilliant Blue and analyzed by densitometry. Results: Of 100 cases of Salmonella species, 43 cases (43% were S. typhi, 20 cases (20% were S. typhymurium, 12 cases (12% were S. para typhi B, 10 cases (10% were S. para typhi C, S. para typhi A 1 case (1% and other cases were non-typhoidal Salmonella. The results of serotyping were compared with the results obtained by SDS-PAGE. Many protein bands from 220 KDa to 18.5 KDa were detected by SDS-PAGE and they were used to differentiate the strains. S. typhi serotypes were divided into 5 sub-species and S. para typhi B and C were divided each into 3 sub-species. Protein profiles of the reference strains of Salmonella were compared with protein profiles of Enterobacteriaceae species and showed some differences in major protein bands, however, they had a very similar protein band in 43 KDa area. Conclusion: Since our data was able to divide Salmonella species to sub-types and differentiate them from Enterobacteriacea species, we concluded that analsying SDS-PAGE profile of water soluble whole-cell proteins can be used for typing of these organisms and it is comparble with serotyping, nevertheless, further researches are needed to establish SDS-PAGE method and to replace it with serotyping method.

Near-Duplicate Web Page Detection: An Efficient Approach Using Clustering, Sentence Feature and Fingerprinting

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

J. Prasanna Kumar

2013-02-01

Full Text Available Duplicate and near-duplicate web pages are the chief concerns for web search engines. In reality, they incur enormous space to store the indexes, ultimately slowing down and increasing the cost of serving results. A variety of techniques have been developed to identify pairs of web pages that are aldquo;similarardquo; to each other. The problem of finding near-duplicate web pages has been a subject of research in the database and web-search communities for some years. In order to identify the near duplicate web pages, we make use of sentence level features along with fingerprinting method. When a large number of web documents are in consideration for the detection of web pages, then at first, we use K-mode clustering and subsequently sentence feature and fingerprint comparison is used. Using these steps, we exactly identify the near duplicate web pages in an efficient manner. The experimentation is carried out on the web page collections and the results ensured the efficiency of the proposed approach in detecting the near duplicate web pages.

Search Results | Page 130 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

... to support Canada's role in the multilateral peace process in the Middle East ... Previous IDRC-funded research, as well as the relevant literature, indicates that ... key agenda-setting bodies if international governance mechanisms are to be ...

Automatic Hidden-Web Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison

Science.gov (United States)

Tao, Cui; Embley, David W.

The longstanding problem of automatic table interpretation still illudes us. Its solution would not only be an aid to table processing applications such as large volume table conversion, but would also be an aid in solving related problems such as information extraction and semi-structured data management. In this paper, we offer a conceptual modeling solution for the common special case in which so-called sibling pages are available. The sibling pages we consider are pages on the hidden web, commonly generated from underlying databases. We compare them to identify and connect nonvarying components (category labels) and varying components (data values). We tested our solution using more than 2,000 tables in source pages from three different domains—car advertisements, molecular biology, and geopolitical information. Experimental results show that the system can successfully identify sibling tables, generate structure patterns, interpret tables using the generated patterns, and automatically adjust the structure patterns, if necessary, as it processes a sequence of hidden-web pages. For these activities, the system was able to achieve an overall F-measure of 94.5%.

Search Results | Page 158 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

This project builds on previous (IDRC) partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for establishing a knowledge-sharing network of IFAD rural poverty alleviation projects and partners in the Asia-Pacific region to b. Project ...

Detection of spam web page using content and link-based techniques

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Spam pages are generally insufficient and inappropriate results for user. ... kinds of Web spamming techniques: Content spam and Link spam. 1. Content spam: The .... of the spam pages are machine generated and hence tech- nique of ...

Ultra-processed food product brands on Facebook pages: highly accessed by Brazilians through their marketing techniques.

Science.gov (United States)

Horta, Paula M; Rodrigues, Fernanda T; Dos Santos, Luana C

2018-06-01

To analyse the content and extent of marketing of ultra-processed food products (UPP) and their brand pages on Facebook, which are highly accessed by Brazilians. Descriptive. Sixteen UPP brand pages on Facebook were selected from 250 pages that were the most liked by Brazilians in October 2015. We analysed the frequency of 'likes' and members 'talking about' each one of the pages, in addition to fifteen marketing techniques used in the previous year (September 2014 to October 2015). The number of posts, likes, 'shares' and 'commentaries', and the mean number of likes, shares and commentaries per post, were collected for one month, from 23 September to 23 October 2015. The two most liked pages were: Coke® (93 673 979 likes) and McDonald's® (59 749 819 likes). Regarding the number of people talking about the pages, McDonald's led with 555 891 commentaries, followed by Coke (287 274), Burger King® (246 148) and Kibon® (244 523). All pages used marketing techniques, which included photos, user conversations, presence of brand elements and links. Videos were observed on 93·8 % of the pages; promotions on 68·8 %; and celebrities on 62·5 %. In one month, Garoto®, Outback® and Coke were brands that published more than one post per day. Kibon achieved the highest ratio of likes per post (285 845·50) and Burger King had the highest mean shares per post (10 083·93), including commentaries per post (7958·13). UPP marketing is extensively used on Facebook pages and is highly accessed by Brazilians, with UPP companies employing a diversity of marketing strategies.

The effect of new links on Google PageRank

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Avrachenkov, Konstatin; Litvak, Nelli

2004-01-01

PageRank is one of the principle criteria according to which Google ranks Web pages. PageRank can be interpreted as a frequency of visiting a Web page by a random surfer and thus it reflects the popularity of a Web page. We study the effect of newly created links on Google PageRank. We discuss to

Measuring consistency of web page design and its effects on performance and satisfaction.

Science.gov (United States)

Ozok, A A; Salvendy, G

2000-04-01

This study examines the methods for measuring the consistency levels of web pages and the effect of consistency on the performance and satisfaction of the world-wide web (WWW) user. For clarification, a home page is referred to as a single page that is the default page of a web site on the WWW. A web page refers to a single screen that indicates a specific address on the WWW. This study has tested a series of web pages that were mostly hyperlinked. Therefore, the term 'web page' has been adopted for the nomenclature while referring to the objects of which the features were tested. It was hypothesized that participants would perform better and be more satisfied using web pages that have consistent rather than inconsistent interface design; that the overall consistency level of an interface design would significantly correlate with the three elements of consistency, physical, communicational and conceptual consistency; and that physical and communicational consistencies would interact with each other. The hypotheses were tested in a four-group, between-subject design, with 10 participants in each group. The results partially support the hypothesis regarding error rate, but not regarding satisfaction and performance time. The results also support the hypothesis that each of the three elements of consistency significantly contribute to the overall consistency of a web page, and that physical and communicational consistencies interact with each other, while conceptual consistency does not interact with them.

Using Shadow Page Cache to Improve Isolated Drivers Performance

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Hao Zheng

2015-01-01

Full Text Available With the advantage of the reusability property of the virtualization technology, users can reuse various types and versions of existing operating systems and drivers in a virtual machine, so as to customize their application environment. In order to prevent users’ virtualization environments being impacted by driver faults in virtual machine, Chariot examines the correctness of driver’s write operations by the method of combining a driver’s write operation capture and a driver’s private access control table. However, this method needs to keep the write permission of shadow page table as read-only, so as to capture isolated driver’s write operations through page faults, which adversely affect the performance of the driver. Based on delaying setting frequently used shadow pages’ write permissions to read-only, this paper proposes an algorithm using shadow page cache to improve the performance of isolated drivers and carefully study the relationship between the performance of drivers and the size of shadow page cache. Experimental results show that, through the shadow page cache, the performance of isolated drivers can be greatly improved without impacting Chariot’s reliability too much.

Universal emergence of PageRank

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Frahm, K M; Georgeot, B; Shepelyansky, D L, E-mail: frahm@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr, E-mail: georgeot@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr, E-mail: dima@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr [Laboratoire de Physique Theorique du CNRS, IRSAMC, Universite de Toulouse, UPS, 31062 Toulouse (France)

2011-11-18

The PageRank algorithm enables us to rank the nodes of a network through a specific eigenvector of the Google matrix, using a damping parameter {alpha} Element-Of ]0, 1[. Using extensive numerical simulations of large web networks, with a special accent on British University networks, we determine numerically and analytically the universal features of the PageRank vector at its emergence when {alpha} {yields} 1. The whole network can be divided into a core part and a group of invariant subspaces. For {alpha} {yields} 1, PageRank converges to a universal power-law distribution on the invariant subspaces whose size distribution also follows a universal power law. The convergence of PageRank at {alpha} {yields} 1 is controlled by eigenvalues of the core part of the Google matrix, which are extremely close to unity, leading to large relaxation times as, for example, in spin glasses. (paper)

Universal emergence of PageRank

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Frahm, K M; Georgeot, B; Shepelyansky, D L

2011-01-01

The PageRank algorithm enables us to rank the nodes of a network through a specific eigenvector of the Google matrix, using a damping parameter α ∈ ]0, 1[. Using extensive numerical simulations of large web networks, with a special accent on British University networks, we determine numerically and analytically the universal features of the PageRank vector at its emergence when α → 1. The whole network can be divided into a core part and a group of invariant subspaces. For α → 1, PageRank converges to a universal power-law distribution on the invariant subspaces whose size distribution also follows a universal power law. The convergence of PageRank at α → 1 is controlled by eigenvalues of the core part of the Google matrix, which are extremely close to unity, leading to large relaxation times as, for example, in spin glasses. (paper)

Data Extraction Based on Page Structure Analysis

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Ren Yichao

2017-01-01

Full Text Available The information we need has some confusing problems such as dispersion and different organizational structure. In addition, because of the existence of unstructured data like natural language and images, extracting local content pages is extremely difficult. In the light of of the problems above, this article will apply a method combined with page structure analysis algorithm and page data extraction algorithm to accomplish the gathering of network data. In this way, the problem that traditional complex extraction model behave poorly when dealing with large-scale data is perfectly solved and the page data extraction efficiency is also boosted to a new level. In the meantime, the article will also make a comparison about pages and content of different types between the methods of DOM structure based on the page and HTML regularities of distribution. After all of those, we may find a more efficient extract method.

A thorough spring-clean for CERN's Web pages

CERN Multimedia

2001-01-01

This coming Tuesday will see the unveiling of CERN's new user pages on the Web. Their simplified layout and design will make everybody's lives a whole lot easier. Stand by for Tuesday 17 April when, as announced in the Weekly Bulletin of 2 April (n°14/2001), the new newly-designed users welcome page will be hitting our screens as the default CERN home page. But don't worry, if you've got the blues for the good old blue-green home page it's still in service and, to ensure a smooth transition, will be maintained in parallel until 25 May. But in all likelihood you'll be quickly won over by the new-look pages, which are so much simpler to use. Welcome to the new Web! The aim of this revamp, led by the WPE (Web Public Education) group, is to simplify and introduce a more logical hierarchy into the menus and welcome pages on CERN's Intranet. In a second stage, the 'General Public' pages will get a similar makeover. The fact is that the number of links on the user pages, and in particular the welcome page...

Page 5

African Journals Online (AJOL)

ezra

Page 5. Stress Management By Library And Information Science Professionals In Nigerian University Libraries. BY ... relationships, and other considerations that can be ... Building a dynamic ... and maintaining current awareness of emerging.

Ranking nodes in growing networks: When PageRank fails.

Science.gov (United States)

Mariani, Manuel Sebastian; Medo, Matúš; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

2015-11-10

PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its outstanding popularity and broad use in different areas of science, the relation between the algorithm's efficacy and properties of the network on which it acts has not yet been fully understood. We study here PageRank's performance on a network model supported by real data, and show that realistic temporal effects make PageRank fail in individuating the most valuable nodes for a broad range of model parameters. Results on real data are in qualitative agreement with our model-based findings. This failure of PageRank reveals that the static approach to information filtering is inappropriate for a broad class of growing systems, and suggest that time-dependent algorithms that are based on the temporal linking patterns of these systems are needed to better rank the nodes.

Ranking nodes in growing networks: When PageRank fails

Science.gov (United States)

Mariani, Manuel Sebastian; Medo, Matúš; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

2015-11-01

PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its outstanding popularity and broad use in different areas of science, the relation between the algorithm’s efficacy and properties of the network on which it acts has not yet been fully understood. We study here PageRank’s performance on a network model supported by real data, and show that realistic temporal effects make PageRank fail in individuating the most valuable nodes for a broad range of model parameters. Results on real data are in qualitative agreement with our model-based findings. This failure of PageRank reveals that the static approach to information filtering is inappropriate for a broad class of growing systems, and suggest that time-dependent algorithms that are based on the temporal linking patterns of these systems are needed to better rank the nodes.

Probabilistic relation between In-Degree and PageRank

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Litvak, Nelli; Scheinhardt, Willem R.W.; Volkovich, Y.

2008-01-01

This paper presents a novel stochastic model that explains the relation between power laws of In-Degree and PageRank. PageRank is a popularity measure designed by Google to rank Web pages. We model the relation between PageRank and In-Degree through a stochastic equation, which is inspired by the

Reporting on post-menopausal hormone therapy: an analysis of gynaecologists' web pages.

Science.gov (United States)

Bucksch, Jens; Kolip, Petra; Deitermann, Bernhilde

2004-01-01

The present study was designed to analyse Web pages of German gynaecologists with regard to postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT). There is a growing body of evidence, that the overall health risks of HT exceed the benefits. Making one's own informed choice has become a central concern for menopausal women. The Internet is an important source of health information, but the quality is often dubious. The study focused on the analysis of basic criteria such as last modification date and quality of the HT information content. The results of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) were used as a benchmark. We searched for relevant Web pages by entering a combination of key words (9 x 13 = 117) into the search engine www.google.de. Each Web page was analysed using a standardized questionnaire. The basic criteria and the quality of content on each Web page were separately categorized by two evaluators. Disagreements were resolved by discussion. Of the 97 websites identified, basic criteria were not met by the majority. For example, the modification date was displayed by only 23 (23.7%) Web pages. The quality of content of most Web pages regarding HT was inaccurate and incomplete. Whilst only nine (9.3%) took up a balanced position, 66 (68%) recommended HT without any restrictions. In 22 cases the recommendation was indistinct and none of the sites refused HT. With regard to basic criteria, there was no difference between HT-recommending Web pages and sites with balanced position. Evidence-based information resulting from the WHI trial was insufficiently represented on gynaecologists' Web pages. Because of the growing number of consumers looking online for health information, the danger of obtaining harmful information has to be minimized. Web pages of gynaecologists do not appear to be recommendable for women because they do not provide recent evidence-based findings about HT.

Multiplex PageRank.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Arda Halu

Full Text Available Many complex systems can be described as multiplex networks in which the same nodes can interact with one another in different layers, thus forming a set of interacting and co-evolving networks. Examples of such multiplex systems are social networks where people are involved in different types of relationships and interact through various forms of communication media. The ranking of nodes in multiplex networks is one of the most pressing and challenging tasks that research on complex networks is currently facing. When pairs of nodes can be connected through multiple links and in multiple layers, the ranking of nodes should necessarily reflect the importance of nodes in one layer as well as their importance in other interdependent layers. In this paper, we draw on the idea of biased random walks to define the Multiplex PageRank centrality measure in which the effects of the interplay between networks on the centrality of nodes are directly taken into account. In particular, depending on the intensity of the interaction between layers, we define the Additive, Multiplicative, Combined, and Neutral versions of Multiplex PageRank, and show how each version reflects the extent to which the importance of a node in one layer affects the importance the node can gain in another layer. We discuss these measures and apply them to an online multiplex social network. Findings indicate that taking the multiplex nature of the network into account helps uncover the emergence of rankings of nodes that differ from the rankings obtained from one single layer. Results provide support in favor of the salience of multiplex centrality measures, like Multiplex PageRank, for assessing the prominence of nodes embedded in multiple interacting networks, and for shedding a new light on structural properties that would otherwise remain undetected if each of the interacting networks were analyzed in isolation.

Multiplex PageRank.

Science.gov (United States)

Halu, Arda; Mondragón, Raúl J; Panzarasa, Pietro; Bianconi, Ginestra

2013-01-01

Many complex systems can be described as multiplex networks in which the same nodes can interact with one another in different layers, thus forming a set of interacting and co-evolving networks. Examples of such multiplex systems are social networks where people are involved in different types of relationships and interact through various forms of communication media. The ranking of nodes in multiplex networks is one of the most pressing and challenging tasks that research on complex networks is currently facing. When pairs of nodes can be connected through multiple links and in multiple layers, the ranking of nodes should necessarily reflect the importance of nodes in one layer as well as their importance in other interdependent layers. In this paper, we draw on the idea of biased random walks to define the Multiplex PageRank centrality measure in which the effects of the interplay between networks on the centrality of nodes are directly taken into account. In particular, depending on the intensity of the interaction between layers, we define the Additive, Multiplicative, Combined, and Neutral versions of Multiplex PageRank, and show how each version reflects the extent to which the importance of a node in one layer affects the importance the node can gain in another layer. We discuss these measures and apply them to an online multiplex social network. Findings indicate that taking the multiplex nature of the network into account helps uncover the emergence of rankings of nodes that differ from the rankings obtained from one single layer. Results provide support in favor of the salience of multiplex centrality measures, like Multiplex PageRank, for assessing the prominence of nodes embedded in multiple interacting networks, and for shedding a new light on structural properties that would otherwise remain undetected if each of the interacting networks were analyzed in isolation.

Personal and Public Start Pages in a library setting

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Kieft-Wondergem, Dorine

Personal and Public Start Pages are web-based resources. With these kind of tools it is possible to make your own free start page. A Start Page allows you to put all your web resources into one page, including blogs, email, podcasts, RSSfeeds. It is possible to share the content of the page with

Discovering urban mobility patterns with PageRank based traffic modeling and prediction

Science.gov (United States)

Wang, Minjie; Yang, Su; Sun, Yi; Gao, Jun

2017-11-01

Urban transportation system can be viewed as complex network with time-varying traffic flows as links to connect adjacent regions as networked nodes. By computing urban traffic evolution on such temporal complex network with PageRank, it is found that for most regions, there exists a linear relation between the traffic congestion measure at present time and the PageRank value of the last time. Since the PageRank measure of a region does result from the mutual interactions of the whole network, it implies that the traffic state of a local region does not evolve independently but is affected by the evolution of the whole network. As a result, the PageRank values can act as signatures in predicting upcoming traffic congestions. We observe the aforementioned laws experimentally based on the trajectory data of 12000 taxies in Beijing city for one month.

Network and User-Perceived Performance of Web Page Retrievals

Science.gov (United States)

Kruse, Hans; Allman, Mark; Mallasch, Paul

1998-01-01

The development of the HTTP protocol has been driven by the need to improve the network performance of the protocol by allowing the efficient retrieval of multiple parts of a web page without the need for multiple simultaneous TCP connections between a client and a server. We suggest that the retrieval of multiple page elements sequentially over a single TCP connection may result in a degradation of the perceived performance experienced by the user. We attempt to quantify this perceived degradation through the use of a model which combines a web retrieval simulation and an analytical model of TCP operation. Starting with the current HTTP/l.1 specification, we first suggest a client@side heuristic to improve the perceived transfer performance. We show that the perceived speed of the page retrieval can be increased without sacrificing data transfer efficiency. We then propose a new client/server extension to the HTTP/l.1 protocol to allow for the interleaving of page element retrievals. We finally address the issue of the display of advertisements on web pages, and in particular suggest a number of mechanisms which can make efficient use of IP multicast to send advertisements to a number of clients within the same network.

Training Activity Summary Page (TASP) Campus

Data.gov (United States)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — The Training Activity Summary Page (formerly the Training Exit Survey Cover Page) dataset contains data about each training event. This dataset includes information...

PageRank in scale-free random graphs

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Chen, Ningyuan; Litvak, Nelli; Olvera-Cravioto, Mariana; Bonata, Anthony; Chung, Fan; Pralat, Paweł

2014-01-01

We analyze the distribution of PageRank on a directed configuration model and show that as the size of the graph grows to infinity, the PageRank of a randomly chosen node can be closely approximated by the PageRank of the root node of an appropriately constructed tree. This tree approximation is in

Banner Pages on the New Printing Infrastructure

CERN Multimedia

2006-01-01

Changes to the printing service were announced in CERN Bulletin No. 37-38/2006. In the new infrastructure, the printing of the banner page has been disabled in order to reduce paper consumption. Statistics show that the average print job size is small and the paper savings by not printing the banner page could be up to 20 %. When each printer is moved onto the new infrastructure banner page printing will be disabled. In the case of corridor printers which are shared by several users, the Helpdesk can re-enable banner page printing upon request. We hope ultimately to arrive at a situation where banner page printing is enabled on fewer than 10% of printers registered on the network. You can still print banner pages on printers where it has been centrally disabled by using Linux. Simply add it to your print job on the client side by adding the -o job-sheets option to your lpr command. Detailed documentation is available on each SLC3/4 under the following link: http://localhost:631/sum.html#4_2 Please bea...

Women's Pages or People's Pages: The Production of News for Women in the "Washington Post" in the 1950s.

Science.gov (United States)

Yang, Mei-ling

1996-01-01

Examines the women's pages of the "Washington Post" in the 1950s that were edited by Marie Sauer. States that the newspaper turned down Sauer's request in 1952 to change from traditional women's pages to a unisex "lifestyle" section. Analyzes how women's pages were shaped by factors such as advertising, professional values, and…

Is Domain Highlighting Actually Helpful in Identifying Phishing Web Pages?

Science.gov (United States)

Xiong, Aiping; Proctor, Robert W; Yang, Weining; Li, Ninghui

2017-06-01

To evaluate the effectiveness of domain highlighting in helping users identify whether Web pages are legitimate or spurious. As a component of the URL, a domain name can be overlooked. Consequently, browsers highlight the domain name to help users identify which Web site they are visiting. Nevertheless, few studies have assessed the effectiveness of domain highlighting, and the only formal study confounded highlighting with instructions to look at the address bar. We conducted two phishing detection experiments. Experiment 1 was run online: Participants judged the legitimacy of Web pages in two phases. In Phase 1, participants were to judge the legitimacy based on any information on the Web page, whereas in Phase 2, they were to focus on the address bar. Whether the domain was highlighted was also varied. Experiment 2 was conducted similarly but with participants in a laboratory setting, which allowed tracking of fixations. Participants differentiated the legitimate and fraudulent Web pages better than chance. There was some benefit of attending to the address bar, but domain highlighting did not provide effective protection against phishing attacks. Analysis of eye-gaze fixation measures was in agreement with the task performance, but heat-map results revealed that participants' visual attention was attracted by the highlighted domains. Failure to detect many fraudulent Web pages even when the domain was highlighted implies that users lacked knowledge of Web page security cues or how to use those cues. Potential applications include development of phishing prevention training incorporating domain highlighting with other methods to help users identify phishing Web pages.

Terrorism and Politics Predominate on the Front Pages of the Basque Press. Content and Area Analysis of the Front Pages of the Regional Newspapers

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Dr. Jesús A. Pérez Dasilva

2010-01-01

Full Text Available This paper offers the results of research project 08/20 of the University of the Basque Country on the news published on the front pages of the Basque press during the years 1996, 2001 and 2006.The researchers analyse the front pages of the Basque press to determine if their content matches the demand and interests of their readers. The study shows what are the most relevant topics for these newspapers. The research involved a detailed analysis of 2,448 front pages of the five main Basque newspapers, with a total of 19,156 news items. A specific methodology was developed for this work, enabling both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the news stories to be made. The data shown in this paper are a summary of the more detailed results that emerged in the different fields of the research.

Controlling misses and false alarms in a machine learning framework for predicting uniformity of printed pages

Science.gov (United States)

Nguyen, Minh Q.; Allebach, Jan P.

2015-01-01

In our previous work1 , we presented a block-based technique to analyze printed page uniformity both visually and metrically. The features learned from the models were then employed in a Support Vector Machine (SVM) framework to classify the pages into one of the two categories of acceptable and unacceptable quality. In this paper, we introduce a set of tools for machine learning in the assessment of printed page uniformity. This work is primarily targeted to the printing industry, specifically the ubiquitous laser, electrophotographic printer. We use features that are well-correlated with the rankings of expert observers to develop a novel machine learning framework that allows one to achieve the minimum "false alarm" rate, subject to a chosen "miss" rate. Surprisingly, most of the research that has been conducted on machine learning does not consider this framework. During the process of developing a new product, test engineers will print hundreds of test pages, which can be scanned and then analyzed by an autonomous algorithm. Among these pages, most may be of acceptable quality. The objective is to find the ones that are not. These will provide critically important information to systems designers, regarding issues that need to be addressed in improving the printer design. A "miss" is defined to be a page that is not of acceptable quality to an expert observer that the prediction algorithm declares to be a "pass". Misses are a serious problem, since they represent problems that will not be seen by the systems designers. On the other hand, "false alarms" correspond to pages that an expert observer would declare to be of acceptable quality, but which are flagged by the prediction algorithm as "fails". In a typical printer testing and development scenario, such pages would be examined by an expert, and found to be of acceptable quality after all. "False alarm" pages result in extra pages to be examined by expert observers, which increases labor cost. But "false

Using Power-Law Degree Distribution to Accelerate PageRank

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Zhaoyan Jin

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The PageRank vector of a network is very important, for it can reflect the importance of a Web page in the World Wide Web, or of a people in a social network. However, with the growth of the World Wide Web and social networks, it needs more and more time to compute the PageRank vector of a network. In many real-world applications, the degree and PageRank distributions of these complex networks conform to the Power-Law distribution. This paper utilizes the degree distribution of a network to initialize its PageRank vector, and presents a Power-Law degree distribution accelerating algorithm of PageRank computation. Experiments on four real-world datasets show that the proposed algorithm converges more quickly than the original PageRank algorithm.

Comparing classical and quantum PageRanks

Science.gov (United States)

Loke, T.; Tang, J. W.; Rodriguez, J.; Small, M.; Wang, J. B.

2017-01-01

Following recent developments in quantum PageRanking, we present a comparative analysis of discrete-time and continuous-time quantum-walk-based PageRank algorithms. Relative to classical PageRank and to different extents, the quantum measures better highlight secondary hubs and resolve ranking degeneracy among peripheral nodes for all networks we studied in this paper. For the discrete-time case, we investigated the periodic nature of the walker's probability distribution for a wide range of networks and found that the dominant period does not grow with the size of these networks. Based on this observation, we introduce a new quantum measure using the maximum probabilities of the associated walker during the first couple of periods. This is particularly important, since it leads to a quantum PageRanking scheme that is scalable with respect to network size.

Optimizing TLB entries for mixed page size storage in contiguous memory

Science.gov (United States)

Chen, Dong; Gara, Alan; Giampapa, Mark E.; Heidelberger, Philip; Kriegel, Jon K.; Ohmacht, Martin; Steinmacher-Burow, Burkhard

2013-04-30

A system and method for accessing memory are provided. The system comprises a lookup buffer for storing one or more page table entries, wherein each of the one or more page table entries comprises at least a virtual page number and a physical page number; a logic circuit for receiving a virtual address from said processor, said logic circuit for matching the virtual address to the virtual page number in one of the page table entries to select the physical page number in the same page table entry, said page table entry having one or more bits set to exclude a memory range from a page.

The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Kraaij, W.; Westerveld, T.H.W.; Hiemstra, Djoerd

An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Indeed a plain Ad Hoc system performs disappointingly. We explored three non-content features of web pages: page length,

Coming to Life: A Review of Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

OpenAIRE

Labarre, Nicolas

2017-01-01

This book review provides an overview of 'Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page' by Blair Davis (Rutgers University Press, 2017) a book which examines the reciprocal adaptations of film into comics and comics into films from 1930 to 1960. This review argues that 'Movie Comics' provides a useful and finely-textured cultural history of that phenomenon, which help contextualize scholarly studies of contemporary adaptations and transmedia constructions.

An Improved Approach to the PageRank Problems

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Yue Xie

2013-01-01

Full Text Available We introduce a partition of the web pages particularly suited to the PageRank problems in which the web link graph has a nested block structure. Based on the partition of the web pages, dangling nodes, common nodes, and general nodes, the hyperlink matrix can be reordered to be a more simple block structure. Then based on the parallel computation method, we propose an algorithm for the PageRank problems. In this algorithm, the dimension of the linear system becomes smaller, and the vector for general nodes in each block can be calculated separately in every iteration. Numerical experiments show that this approach speeds up the computation of PageRank.

Highlights from the previous volumes

Science.gov (United States)

Jacopo, Iacovacci; Takahiro, Kohsokabe; Kunihiko, Kaneko; al., Lange Steffen et; al., Helden Laurent et; et al.

2017-04-01

Functional Multiplex PageRank: The centrality is a functionPattern formation induced by fixed boundary conditionPower-law distributed Poincaré recurrences in higher-dimensional systemsMeasurement of second-order response without perturbation

Global and Local Page Replacement Algorithms on Virtual Memory Systems for Image Processing

OpenAIRE

WADA, Ben Tsutom

1985-01-01

Three virtual memory systems for image processing, different one another in frame allocation algorithms and page replacement algorithms, were examined experimentally upon their page-fault characteristics. The hypothesis, that global page replacement algorithms are susceptible to thrashing, held in the raster scan experiment, while it did not in another non raster-scan experiment. The results of the experiments may be useful also in making parallel image processors more efficient, while they a...

JERHRE's New Web Pages.

Science.gov (United States)

2006-06-01

JERHRE'S WEBSITE, www.csueastbay.edu/JERHRE/ has two new pages. One of those pages is devoted to curriculum that may be used to educate students, investigators and ethics committee members about issues in the ethics of human subjects research, and to evaluate their learning. It appears at www.csueastbay.edu/JERHRE/cur.html. The other is devoted to emailed letters from readers. Appropriate letters will be posted as soon as they are received by the editor. Letters from readers appear at www.csueastbay.edu/JERHRE/let.html.

Google Analytics: Single Page Traffic Reports

Science.gov (United States)

These are pages that live outside of Google Analytics (GA) but allow you to view GA data for any individual page on either the public EPA web or EPA intranet. You do need to log in to Google Analytics to view them.

Uniform Page Migration Problem in Euclidean Space

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Amanj Khorramian

2016-08-01

Full Text Available The page migration problem in Euclidean space is revisited. In this problem, online requests occur at any location to access a single page located at a server. Every request must be served, and the server has the choice to migrate from its current location to a new location in space. Each service costs the Euclidean distance between the server and request. A migration costs the distance between the former and the new server location, multiplied by the page size. We study the problem in the uniform model, in which the page has size D = 1 . All request locations are not known in advance; however, they are sequentially presented in an online fashion. We design a 2.75 -competitive online algorithm that improves the current best upper bound for the problem with the unit page size. We also provide a lower bound of 2.732 for our algorithm. It was already known that 2.5 is a lower bound for this problem.

Web page classification on child suitability

NARCIS (Netherlands)

C. Eickhoff (Carsten); P. Serdyukov; A.P. de Vries (Arjen)

2010-01-01

htmlabstractChildren spend significant amounts of time on the Internet. Recent studies showed, that during these periods they are often not under adult supervision. This work presents an automatic approach to identifying suitable web pages for children based on topical and non-topical web page

Coming to Life: A Review of Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Nicolas Labarre

2017-03-01

Full Text Available This book review provides an overview of 'Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page' by Blair Davis (Rutgers University Press, 2017 a book which examines the reciprocal adaptations of film into comics and comics into films from 1930 to 1960. This review argues that 'Movie Comics' provides a useful and finely-textured cultural history of that phenomenon, which help contextualize scholarly studies of contemporary adaptations and transmedia constructions.

The ICAP (Interactive Course Assignment Pages Publishing System

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kim Griggs

2008-03-01

Full Text Available The ICAP publishing system is an open source custom content management system that enables librarians to easily and quickly create and manage library help pages for course assignments (ICAPs, without requiring knowledge of HTML or other web technologies. The system's unique features include an emphasis on collaboration and content reuse and an easy-to-use interface that includes in-line help, simple forms and drag and drop functionality. The system generates dynamic, attractive course assignment pages that blend Web 2.0 features with traditional library resources, and makes the pages easier to find by providing a central web page for the course assignment pages. As of December 2007, the code is available as free, open-source software under the GNU General Public License.

Measurment of Web Usability: Web Page of Hacettepe University Department of Information Management

OpenAIRE

Nazan Özenç Uçak; Tolga Çakmak

2009-01-01

Today, information is produced increasingly in electronic form and retrieval of information is provided via web pages. As a result of the rise of the number of web pages, many of them seem to comprise similar contents but different designs. In this respect, presenting information over the web pages according to user expectations and specifications is important in terms of effective usage of information. This study provides an insight about web usability studies that are executed for measuring...

Discovering author impact: A PageRank perspective

OpenAIRE

Yan, Erjia; Ding, Ying

2010-01-01

This article provides an alternative perspective for measuring author impact by applying PageRank algorithm to a coauthorship network. A weighted PageRank algorithm considering citation and coauthorship network topology is proposed. We test this algorithm under different damping factors by evaluating author impact in the informetrics research community. In addition, we also compare this weighted PageRank with the h-index, citation, and program committee (PC) membership of the International So...

Page 28

African Journals Online (AJOL)

ezra

7 (2)2007. Page 28. Serials Management In Polytechnic Libraries in Nigeria: A Comparative ... Despite the strategic position of serials publications amongst the materials .... the formulation of routines and procedures for ..... other professional librarian in the section classify ... probably due to dwindling finance given to both.

Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (PAGE) program: A novel approach to continuing professional development

Science.gov (United States)

Armstrong, David; Hollingworth, Roger; Gardiner, Tara; Klassen, Michael; Smith, Wendy; Hunt, Richard H; Barkun, Alan; Gould, Michael; Leddin, Desmond

2006-01-01

BACKGROUND: Practice audit is an important component of continuing professional development that may more readily be undertaken if it were less complex. This qualitative study assessed the use of personal digital assistants to facilitate data collection and review. METHODS: Personal digital assistants programmed with standard questionnaires related to upper gastrointestinal endoscopies (Practice Audit in Gastroenterology-Endoscopy [‘PAGE-Endo’]) and colonoscopies (PAGE-Colonoscopy [‘PAGE-Colo’]) were provided to Canadian gastroenterologists, surgeons and internists. Over a three-week audit period, participants recorded indications, and the expected (E) and reported (R) findings for each procedure. Thereafter, participants recorded compliance with reporting, the ease of use and value of the PAGE program, and their willingness to perform another audit. RESULTS: Over 15 to 18 months, 173 participants completed PAGE-Endo (6168 procedures) and 111 completed PAGE-Colo (4776 procedures). Most respondents noted that PAGE was easy to use (99%), beneficial (88% to 95%), and that they were willing undertake another audit (92% to 95%). In PAGE-Endo, alarm features were prevalent (55%), but major reported findings were less common than expected: esophagitis (E 29.9%, R 14.8%), esophageal stricture (E 8.3%, R 3.6%), gastric ulcer (E 17.0%, R 4.7%), gastric cancer (E 4.3%, R 1.0%) and duodenal ulcer (E 11.5%, R 5.7%). In PAGE-Colo, more colonoscopies were performed for symptom investigation (55%) than for screening (25%) or surveillance (20%). There were marked interprovincial variations with respect to sedation, biopsies and technical aspects of colonoscopy. CONCLUSION: Secure, real-time data entry with review of aggregate and individual data in the PAGE program provided an acceptable, straightforward methodology for accredited practice audit activities. PAGE has considerable potential for continuing professional development in gastroenterology and other specialties

New results make headline news

CERN Document Server

Riesselmann, K

2001-01-01

SLAC announced this week they had found further examples of CP violation through observing the disintegration of B Mesons. CERN also revealed that the statistical evidence for the Higgs from LEP data recently reanalysed, was no longer as strong as previously thought (2 pages).

Preparative SDS PAGE as an Alternative to His-Tag Purification of Recombinant Amelogenin

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Claire M. Gabe

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Recombinant protein technology provides an invaluable source of proteins for use in structure-function studies, as immunogens, and in the development of therapeutics. Recombinant proteins are typically engineered with “tags” that allow the protein to be purified from crude host cell extracts using affinity based chromatography techniques. Amelogenin is the principal component of the developing enamel matrix and a frequent focus for biomineralization researchers. Several groups have reported the successful production of recombinant amelogenins but the production of recombinant amelogenin free of any tags, and at single band purity on silver stained SDS PAGE is technically challenging. This is important, as rigorous structure-function research frequently demands a high degree of protein purity and fidelity of protein sequence. Our aim was to generate His-tagged recombinant amelogenin at single band purity on silver stained SDS PAGE for use in functionality studies after His-tag cleavage. An acetic acid extraction technique (previously reported to produce recombinant amelogenin at 95% purity directly from E. coli followed by repeated rounds of nickel column affinity chromatography, failed to generate recombinant amelogenin at single band purity. This was because following an initial round of nickel column affinity chromatography, subsequent cleavage of the His-tag was not 100% efficient. A second round of nickel column affinity chromatography, used in attempts to separate the cleaved His-tag free recombinant from uncleaved His-tagged contaminants, was still unsatisfactory as cleaved recombinant amelogenin exhibited significant affinity for the nickel column. To solve this problem, we used preparative SDS PAGE to successfully purify cleaved recombinant amelogenins to single band purity on silver stained SDS PAGE. The resolving power of preparative SDS PAGE was such that His-tag based purification of recombinant amelogenin becomes redundant. We

Metadata Schema Used in OCLC Sampled Web Pages

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Fei Yu

2005-12-01

Full Text Available The tremendous growth of Web resources has made information organization and retrieval more and more difficult. As one approach to this problem, metadata schemas have been developed to characterize Web resources. However, many questions have been raised about the use of metadata schemas such as which metadata schemas have been used on the Web? How did they describe Web accessible information? What is the distribution of these metadata schemas among Web pages? Do certain schemas dominate the others? To address these issues, this study analyzed 16,383 Web pages with meta tags extracted from 200,000 OCLC sampled Web pages in 2000. It found that only 8.19% Web pages used meta tags; description tags, keyword tags, and Dublin Core tags were the only three schemas used in the Web pages. This article revealed the use of meta tags in terms of their function distribution, syntax characteristics, granularity of the Web pages, and the length distribution and word number distribution of both description and keywords tags.

40 CFR 1502.7 - Page limits.

Science.gov (United States)

2010-07-01

... 40 Protection of Environment 32 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Page limits. 1502.7 Section 1502.7 Protection of Environment COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT § 1502.7 Page limits. The text of final environmental impact statements (e.g., paragraphs (d) through (g) of § 1502.10...

Page Recognition: Quantum Leap In Recognition Technology

Science.gov (United States)

Miller, Larry

1989-07-01

No milestone has proven as elusive as the always-approaching "year of the LAN," but the "year of the scanner" might claim the silver medal. Desktop scanners have been around almost as long as personal computers. And everyone thinks they are used for obvious desktop-publishing and business tasks like scanning business documents, magazine articles and other pages, and translating those words into files your computer understands. But, until now, the reality fell far short of the promise. Because it's true that scanners deliver an accurate image of the page to your computer, but the software to recognize this text has been woefully disappointing. Old optical-character recognition (OCR) software recognized such a limited range of pages as to be virtually useless to real users. (For example, one OCR vendor specified 12-point Courier font from an IBM Selectric typewriter: the same font in 10-point, or from a Diablo printer, was unrecognizable!) Computer dealers have told me the chasm between OCR expectations and reality is so broad and deep that nine out of ten prospects leave their stores in disgust when they learn the limitations. And this is a very important, very unfortunate gap. Because the promise of recognition -- what people want it to do -- carries with it tremendous improvements in our productivity and ability to get tons of written documents into our computers where we can do real work with it. The good news is that a revolutionary new development effort has led to the new technology of "page recognition," which actually does deliver the promise we've always wanted from OCR. I'm sure every reader appreciates the breakthrough represented by the laser printer and page-makeup software, a combination so powerful it created new reasons for buying a computer. A similar breakthrough is happening right now in page recognition: the Macintosh (and, I must admit, other personal computers) equipped with a moderately priced scanner and OmniPage software (from Caere

Implementing database system for LHCb publications page

CERN Document Server

Abdullayev, Fakhriddin

2017-01-01

The LHCb is one of the main detectors of Large Hadron Collider, where physicists and scientists work together on high precision measurements of matter-antimatter asymmetries and searches for rare and forbidden decays, with the aim of discovering new and unexpected forces. The work does not only consist of analyzing data collected from experiments but also in publishing the results of those analyses. The LHCb publications are gathered on LHCb publications page to maximize their availability to both LHCb members and to the high energy community. In this project a new database system was implemented for LHCb publications page. This will help to improve access to research papers for scientists and better integration with current CERN library website and others.

Instant PageSpeed optimization

CERN Document Server

Jaiswal, Sanjeev

2013-01-01

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Instant PageSpeed Optimization is a hands-on guide that provides a number of clear, step-by-step exercises for optimizing your websites for better performance and improving their efficiency.Instant PageSpeed Optimization is aimed at website developers and administrators who wish to make their websites load faster without any errors and consume less bandwidth. It's assumed that you will have some experience in basic web technologies like HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, and the basics of netw

An Efficient PageRank Approach for Urban Traffic Optimization

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Florin Pop

2012-01-01

to determine optimal decisions for each traffic light, based on the solution given by Larry Page for page ranking in Web environment (Page et al. (1999. Our approach is similar with work presented by Sheng-Chung et al. (2009 and Yousef et al. (2010. We consider that the traffic lights are controlled by servers and a score for each road is computed based on efficient PageRank approach and is used in cost function to determine optimal decisions. We demonstrate that the cumulative contribution of each car in the traffic respects the main constrain of PageRank approach, preserving all the properties of matrix consider in our model.

Educational use of World Wide Web pages on CD-ROM.

Science.gov (United States)

Engel, Thomas P; Smith, Michael

2002-01-01

The World Wide Web is increasingly important for medical education. Internet served pages may also be used on a local hard disk or CD-ROM without a network or server. This allows authors to reuse existing content and provide access to users without a network connection. CD-ROM offers several advantages over network delivery of Web pages for several applications. However, creating Web pages for CD-ROM requires careful planning. Issues include file names, relative links, directory names, default pages, server created content, image maps, other file types and embedded programming. With care, it is possible to create server based pages that can be copied directly to CD-ROM. In addition, Web pages on CD-ROM may reference Internet served pages to provide the best features of both methods.

Determination of the Boltzmann constant with cylindrical acoustic gas thermometry: new and previous results combined

Science.gov (United States)

Feng, X. J.; Zhang, J. T.; Lin, H.; Gillis, K. A.; Mehl, J. B.; Moldover, M. R.; Zhang, K.; Duan, Y. N.

2017-10-01

We report a new determination of the Boltzmann constant k B using a cylindrical acoustic gas thermometer. We determined the length of the copper cavity from measurements of its microwave resonance frequencies. This contrasts with our previous work (Zhang et al 2011 Int. J. Thermophys. 32 1297, Lin et al 2013 Metrologia 50 417, Feng et al 2015 Metrologia 52 S343) that determined the length of a different cavity using two-color optical interferometry. In this new study, the half-widths of the acoustic resonances are closer to their theoretical values than in our previous work. Despite significant changes in resonator design and the way in which the cylinder length is determined, the value of k B is substantially unchanged. We combined this result with our four previous results to calculate a global weighted mean of our k B determinations. The calculation follows CODATA’s method (Mohr and Taylor 2000 Rev. Mod. Phys. 72 351) for obtaining the weighted mean value of k B that accounts for the correlations among the measured quantities in this work and in our four previous determinations of k B. The weighted mean {{\\boldsymbol{\\hat{k}}}{B}} is 1.380 6484(28)  ×  10-23 J K-1 with the relative standard uncertainty of 2.0  ×  10-6. The corresponding value of the universal gas constant is 8.314 459(17) J K-1 mol-1 with the relative standard uncertainty of 2.0  ×  10-6.

The Extrapolation-Accelerated Multilevel Aggregation Method in PageRank Computation

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Bing-Yuan Pu

2013-01-01

Full Text Available An accelerated multilevel aggregation method is presented for calculating the stationary probability vector of an irreducible stochastic matrix in PageRank computation, where the vector extrapolation method is its accelerator. We show how to periodically combine the extrapolation method together with the multilevel aggregation method on the finest level for speeding up the PageRank computation. Detailed numerical results are given to illustrate the behavior of this method, and comparisons with the typical methods are also made.

Migrating Multi-page Web Applications to Single-page AJAX Interfaces

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Mesbah, A.; Van Deursen, A.

2006-01-01

Recently, a new web development technique for creating interactive web applications, dubbed AJAX, has emerged. In this new model, the single-page web interface is composed of individual components which can be updated/replaced independently. With the rise of AJAX web applications classical

Personal Web home pages of adolescents with cancer: self-presentation, information dissemination, and interpersonal connection.

Science.gov (United States)

Suzuki, Lalita K; Beale, Ivan L

2006-01-01

The content of personal Web home pages created by adolescents with cancer is a new source of information about this population of potential benefit to oncology nurses and psychologists. Individual Internet elements found on 21 home pages created by youths with cancer (14-22 years old) were rated for cancer-related self-presentation, information dissemination, and interpersonal connection. Examples of adolescents' online narratives were also recorded. Adolescents with cancer used various Internet elements on their home pages for cancer-related self-presentation (eg, welcome messages, essays, personal history and diary pages, news articles, and poetry), information dissemination (e.g., through personal interest pages, multimedia presentations, lists, charts, and hyperlinks), and interpersonal connection (eg, guestbook entries). Results suggest that various elements found on personal home pages are being used by a limited number of young patients with cancer for self-expression, information access, and contact with peers.

Monte Carlo methods in PageRank computation: When one iteration is sufficient

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Avrachenkov, K.; Litvak, Nelli; Nemirovsky, D.; Osipova, N.

2005-01-01

PageRank is one of the principle criteria according to which Google ranks Web pages. PageRank can be interpreted as a frequency of visiting a Web page by a random surfer and thus it reflects the popularity of a Web page. Google computes the PageRank using the power iteration method which requires

Monte Carlo methods in PageRank computation: When one iteration is sufficient

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Avrachenkov, K.; Litvak, Nelli; Nemirovsky, D.; Osipova, N.

PageRank is one of the principle criteria according to which Google ranks Web pages. PageRank can be interpreted as a frequency of visiting a Web page by a random surfer, and thus it reflects the popularity of a Web page. Google computes the PageRank using the power iteration method, which requires

Proteomic study of muscle sarcoplasmic proteins using AUT-PAGE/SDS-PAGE as two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.

Science.gov (United States)

Picariello, Gianluca; De Martino, Alessandra; Mamone, Gianfranco; Ferranti, Pasquale; Addeo, Francesco; Faccia, Michele; Spagnamusso, Salvatore; Di Luccia, Aldo

2006-03-20

In the present study, an alternative procedure for two-dimensional (2D) electrophoretic analysis in proteomic investigation of the most represented basic muscle water-soluble proteins is suggested. Our method consists of Acetic acid-Urea-Triton polyacrylamide gel (AUT-PAGE) analysis in the first dimension and standard sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel (SDS-PAGE) in the second dimension. Although standard two-dimensional Immobilized pH Gradient-Sodium Dodecyl-Sulphate (2D IPG-SDS) gel electrophoresis has been successfully used to study these proteins, most of the water-soluble proteins are spread on the alkaline part of the 2D map and are poorly focused. Furthermore, the similarity in their molecular weights impairs resolution of the classical approach. The addition of Triton X-100, a non-ionic detergent, into the gel induces a differential electrophoretic mobility of proteins as a result of the formation of mixed micelles between the detergent and the hydrophobic moieties of polypeptides, separating basic proteins with a criterion similar to reversed phase chromatography based on their hydrophobicity. The acid pH induces positive net charges, increasing with the isoelectric point of proteins, thus allowing enhanced resolution in the separation. By using 2D AUT-PAGE/SDS electrophoresis approach to separate water-soluble proteins from fresh pork and from dry-cured products, we could spread proteins over a greater area, achieving a greater resolution than that obtained by IPG in the pH range 3-10 and 6-11. Sarcoplasmic proteins undergoing proteolysis during the ripening of products were identified by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight (MALDI-ToF) mass spectrometry peptide mass fingerprinting in a easier and more effective way. Two-dimensional AUT-PAGE/SDS electrophoresis has allowed to simplify separation of sarcoplasmic protein mixtures making this technique suitable in the defining of quality of dry-cured pork products by immediate

A Note on the PageRank of Undirected Graphs

OpenAIRE

Grolmusz, Vince

2012-01-01

The PageRank is a widely used scoring function of networks in general and of the World Wide Web graph in particular. The PageRank is defined for directed graphs, but in some special cases applications for undirected graphs occur. In the literature it is widely noted that the PageRank for undirected graphs are proportional to the degrees of the vertices of the graph. We prove that statement for a particular personalization vector in the definition of the PageRank, and we also show that in gene...

Digital Ethnography: Library Web Page Redesign among Digital Natives

Science.gov (United States)

Klare, Diane; Hobbs, Kendall

2011-01-01

Presented with an opportunity to improve Wesleyan University's dated library home page, a team of librarians employed ethnographic techniques to explore how its users interacted with Wesleyan's current library home page and web pages in general. Based on the data that emerged, a group of library staff and members of the campus' information…

CrazyEgg Reports for Single Page Analysis

Science.gov (United States)

CrazyEgg provides an in depth look at visitor behavior on one page. While you can use GA to do trend analysis of your web area, CrazyEgg helps diagnose the design of a single Web page by visually displaying all visitor clicks during a specified time.

An Adaptive Reordered Method for Computing PageRank

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Yi-Ming Bu

2013-01-01

Full Text Available We propose an adaptive reordered method to deal with the PageRank problem. It has been shown that one can reorder the hyperlink matrix of PageRank problem to calculate a reduced system and get the full PageRank vector through forward substitutions. This method can provide a speedup for calculating the PageRank vector. We observe that in the existing reordered method, the cost of the recursively reordering procedure could offset the computational reduction brought by minimizing the dimension of linear system. With this observation, we introduce an adaptive reordered method to accelerate the total calculation, in which we terminate the reordering procedure appropriately instead of reordering to the end. Numerical experiments show the effectiveness of this adaptive reordered method.

Training Activity Summary Page (TASP) State and Tribe

Data.gov (United States)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — The Training Activity Summary Page (formerly the Training Exit Survey Cover Page) dataset contains data about each training event. This dataset includes information...

stage/page/play

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

context. Contributors: Per Brask, Dario Fo, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Pil Hansen, Sven Åke Heed, Ulla Kallenbach, Sofie Kluge, Annelis Kuhlmann, Kela Kvam, Anna Lawaetz, Bent Flemming Nielsen, Franco Perrelli, Magnus Tessing Schneider, Antonio Scuderi. stage/page/play is published as a festschrift...

Near-Infrared Scintillation of Liquid Argon: Recent Results Obtained with the NIR Facility at Fermilab

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Escobar, C. O. [Fermilab; Rubinov, P. [Fermilab; Tilly, E. [Sewanee U.

2018-03-19

After a short review of previous attempts to observe and measure the near-infrared scintillation in liquid argon, we present new results obtained with NIR, a dedicated cryostat at the Fermilab Proton Assembly Building (PAB). The new results give confidence that the near-infrared light can be used as the much needed light signal in large liquid argon time projection chambers.11 pages,

Give your feedback on the new Users’ page

CERN Multimedia

CERN Bulletin

If you haven't already done so, visit the new Users’ page and provide the Communications group with your feedback. You can do this quickly and easily via an online form. A dedicated web steering group will design the future page on the basis of your comments. As a first step towards reforming the CERN website, the Communications group is proposing a ‘beta’ version of the Users’ pages. The primary aim of this version is to improve the visibility of key news items, events and announcements to the CERN community. The beta version is very much work in progress: your input is needed to make sure that the final site meets the needs of CERN’s wide and mixed community. The Communications group will read all your comments and suggestions, and will establish a web steering group that will make sure that the future CERN web pages match the needs of the community. More information on this process, including the gradual 'retirement' of the grey Users' pages we are a...

Classroom Web Pages: A "How-To" Guide for Educators.

Science.gov (United States)

Fehling, Eric E.

This manual provides teachers, with very little or no technology experience, with a step-by-step guide for developing the necessary skills for creating a class Web Page. The first part of the manual is devoted to the thought processes preceding the actual creation of the Web Page. These include looking at other Web Pages, deciding what should be…

Functional Multiplex PageRank

Science.gov (United States)

Iacovacci, Jacopo; Rahmede, Christoph; Arenas, Alex; Bianconi, Ginestra

2016-10-01

Recently it has been recognized that many complex social, technological and biological networks have a multilayer nature and can be described by multiplex networks. Multiplex networks are formed by a set of nodes connected by links having different connotations forming the different layers of the multiplex. Characterizing the centrality of the nodes in a multiplex network is a challenging task since the centrality of the node naturally depends on the importance associated to links of a certain type. Here we propose to assign to each node of a multiplex network a centrality called Functional Multiplex PageRank that is a function of the weights given to every different pattern of connections (multilinks) existent in the multiplex network between any two nodes. Since multilinks distinguish all the possible ways in which the links in different layers can overlap, the Functional Multiplex PageRank can describe important non-linear effects when large relevance or small relevance is assigned to multilinks with overlap. Here we apply the Functional Page Rank to the multiplex airport networks, to the neuronal network of the nematode C. elegans, and to social collaboration and citation networks between scientists. This analysis reveals important differences existing between the most central nodes of these networks, and the correlations between their so-called pattern to success.

A framework for automatic annotation of web pages using the Google Rich Snippets vocabulary

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Meer, van der J.; Boon, F.; Hogenboom, F.P.; Frasincar, F.; Kaymak, U.

2011-01-01

One of the latest developments for the Semantic Web is Google Rich Snippets, a service that uses Web page annotations for displaying search results in a visually appealing manner. In this paper we propose the Automatic Review Recognition and annOtation of Web pages (ARROW) framework, which is able

Developing a web page: bringing clinics online.

Science.gov (United States)

Peterson, Ronnie; Berns, Susan

2004-01-01

Introducing clinical staff education, along with new policies and procedures, to over 50 different clinical sites can be a challenge. As any staff educator will confess, getting people to attend an educational inservice session can be difficult. Clinical staff request training, but no one has time to attend training sessions. Putting the training along with the policies and other information into "neat" concise packages via the computer and over the company's intranet was the way to go. However, how do you bring the clinics online when some of the clinical staff may still be reluctant to turn on their computers for anything other than to gather laboratory results? Developing an easy, fun, and accessible Web page was the answer. This article outlines the development of the first training Web page at the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation, Madison, WI.

Surgical Results of Trabeculectomy and Ahmed Valve Implantation Following a Previous Failed Trabeculectomy in Primary Congenital Glaucoma Patients

OpenAIRE

Lee, Naeun; Ma, Kyoung Tak; Bae, Hyoung Won; Hong, Samin; Seong, Gong Je; Hong, Young Jae; Kim, Chan Yun

2015-01-01

Purpose To compare the surgical results of trabeculectomy and Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation after a previous failed trabeculectomy. Methods A retrospective comparative case series review was performed on 31 eye surgeries in 20 patients with primary congenital glaucoma who underwent trabeculectomy or Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation after a previous failed trabeculectomy with mitomycin C. Results The preoperative mean intraocular pressure was 25.5 mmHg in the trabeculectomy group and 26.9...

Quantitative proteomics analysis using 2D-PAGE to investigate the effects of cigarette smoke and aerosol of a prototypic modified risk tobacco product on the lung proteome in C57BL/6 mice.

Science.gov (United States)

Elamin, Ashraf; Titz, Bjoern; Dijon, Sophie; Merg, Celine; Geertz, Marcel; Schneider, Thomas; Martin, Florian; Schlage, Walter K; Frentzel, Stefan; Talamo, Fabio; Phillips, Blaine; Veljkovic, Emilija; Ivanov, Nikolai V; Vanscheeuwijck, Patrick; Peitsch, Manuel C; Hoeng, Julia

2016-08-11

Smoking is associated with several serious diseases, such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Within our systems toxicology framework, we are assessing whether potential modified risk tobacco products (MRTP) can reduce smoking-related health risks compared to conventional cigarettes. In this article, we evaluated to what extent 2D-PAGE/MALDI MS/MS (2D-PAGE) can complement the iTRAQ LC-MS/MS results from a previously reported mouse inhalation study, in which we assessed a prototypic MRTP (pMRTP). Selected differentially expressed proteins identified by both LC-MS/MS and 2D-PAGE approaches were further verified using reverse-phase protein microarrays. LC-MS/MS captured the effects of cigarette smoke (CS) on the lung proteome more comprehensively than 2D-PAGE. However, an integrated analysis of both proteomics data sets showed that 2D-PAGE data complement the LC-MS/MS results by supporting the overall trend of lower effects of pMRTP aerosol than CS on the lung proteome. Biological effects of CS exposure supported by both methods included increases in immune-related, surfactant metabolism, proteasome, and actin cytoskeleton protein clusters. Overall, while 2D-PAGE has its value, especially as a complementary method for the analysis of effects on intact proteins, LC-MS/MS approaches will likely be the method of choice for proteome analysis in systems toxicology investigations. Quantitative proteomics is anticipated to play a growing role within systems toxicology assessment frameworks in the future. To further understand how different proteomics technologies can contribute to toxicity assessment, we conducted a quantitative proteomics analysis using 2D-PAGE and isobaric tag-based LC-MS/MS approaches and compared the results produced from the 2 approaches. Using a prototypic modified risk tobacco product (pMRTP) as our test item, we show compared with cigarette smoke, how 2D-PAGE results can complement and support LC-MS/MS data, demonstrating

Exploring the use of a Facebook page in anatomy education.

Science.gov (United States)

Jaffar, Akram Abood

2014-01-01

Facebook is the most popular social media site visited by university students on a daily basis. Consequently, Facebook is the logical place to start with for integrating social media technologies into education. This study explores how a faculty-administered Facebook Page can be used to supplement anatomy education beyond the traditional classroom. Observations were made on students' perceptions and effectiveness of using the Page, potential benefits and challenges of such use, and which Insights metrics best reflect user's engagement. The Human Anatomy Education Page was launched on Facebook and incorporated into anatomy resources for 157 medical students during two academic years. Students' use of Facebook and their perceptions of the Page were surveyed. Facebook's "Insights" tool was also used to evaluate Page performance during a period of 600 days. The majority of in-class students had a Facebook account which they adopted in education. Most students perceived Human Anatomy Education Page as effective in contributing to learning and favored "self-assessment" posts. The majority of students agreed that Facebook could be a suitable learning environment. The "Insights" tool revealed globally distributed fans with considerable Page interactions. The use of a faculty-administered Facebook Page provided a venue to enhance classroom teaching without intruding into students' social life. A wider educational use of Facebook should be adopted not only because students are embracing its use, but for its inherent potentials in boosting learning. The "Insights" metrics analyzed in this study might be helpful when establishing and evaluating the performance of education-oriented Facebook Pages. © 2013 American Association of Anatomists.

AptRank: an adaptive PageRank model for protein function prediction on   bi-relational graphs.

Science.gov (United States)

Jiang, Biaobin; Kloster, Kyle; Gleich, David F; Gribskov, Michael

2017-06-15

Diffusion-based network models are widely used for protein function prediction using protein network data and have been shown to outperform neighborhood-based and module-based methods. Recent studies have shown that integrating the hierarchical structure of the Gene Ontology (GO) data dramatically improves prediction accuracy. However, previous methods usually either used the GO hierarchy to refine the prediction results of multiple classifiers, or flattened the hierarchy into a function-function similarity kernel. No study has taken the GO hierarchy into account together with the protein network as a two-layer network model. We first construct a Bi-relational graph (Birg) model comprised of both protein-protein association and function-function hierarchical networks. We then propose two diffusion-based methods, BirgRank and AptRank, both of which use PageRank to diffuse information on this two-layer graph model. BirgRank is a direct application of traditional PageRank with fixed decay parameters. In contrast, AptRank utilizes an adaptive diffusion mechanism to improve the performance of BirgRank. We evaluate the ability of both methods to predict protein function on yeast, fly and human protein datasets, and compare with four previous methods: GeneMANIA, TMC, ProteinRank and clusDCA. We design four different validation strategies: missing function prediction, de novo function prediction, guided function prediction and newly discovered function prediction to comprehensively evaluate predictability of all six methods. We find that both BirgRank and AptRank outperform the previous methods, especially in missing function prediction when using only 10% of the data for training. The MATLAB code is available at https://github.rcac.purdue.edu/mgribsko/aptrank . gribskov@purdue.edu. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com

Label Review Training: Module 1: Label Basics, Page 7

Science.gov (United States)

Page 7, Label Training, Pesticide labels translate results of our extensive evaluations of pesticide products into conditions, directions and precautions that define parameters for use of a pesticide with the goal of ensuring protection of human he

PageRank tracker: from ranking to tracking.

Science.gov (United States)

Gong, Chen; Fu, Keren; Loza, Artur; Wu, Qiang; Liu, Jia; Yang, Jie

2014-06-01

Video object tracking is widely used in many real-world applications, and it has been extensively studied for over two decades. However, tracking robustness is still an issue in most existing methods, due to the difficulties with adaptation to environmental or target changes. In order to improve adaptability, this paper formulates the tracking process as a ranking problem, and the PageRank algorithm, which is a well-known webpage ranking algorithm used by Google, is applied. Labeled and unlabeled samples in tracking application are analogous to query webpages and the webpages to be ranked, respectively. Therefore, determining the target is equivalent to finding the unlabeled sample that is the most associated with existing labeled set. We modify the conventional PageRank algorithm in three aspects for tracking application, including graph construction, PageRank vector acquisition and target filtering. Our simulations with the use of various challenging public-domain video sequences reveal that the proposed PageRank tracker outperforms mean-shift tracker, co-tracker, semiboosting and beyond semiboosting trackers in terms of accuracy, robustness and stability.

Web-page Prediction for Domain Specific Web-search using Boolean Bit Mask

OpenAIRE

Sinha, Sukanta; Duttagupta, Rana; Mukhopadhyay, Debajyoti

2012-01-01

Search Engine is a Web-page retrieval tool. Nowadays Web searchers utilize their time using an efficient search engine. To improve the performance of the search engine, we are introducing a unique mechanism which will give Web searchers more prominent search results. In this paper, we are going to discuss a domain specific Web search prototype which will generate the predicted Web-page list for user given search string using Boolean bit mask.

No Hawking-Page phase transition in three dimensions

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Myung, Y.S.

2005-01-01

We investigate whether or not the Hawking-Page phase transition is possible to occur in three dimensions. Starting with the simplest class of Lanczos-Lovelock action, thermodynamic behavior of all AdS-type black holes without charge falls into two classes: Schwarzschild-AdS black holes in even dimensions and Chern-Simons black holes in odd dimensions. The former class can provide the Hawking-Page transition between Schwarzschild-AdS black holes and thermal AdS space. On the other hand, the latter class is exceptional and thus the Hawking-Page transition is hard to occur. In three dimensions, a second-order phase transition might occur between the non-rotating BTZ black hole and the massless BTZ black hole (thermal AdS space), instead of the first-order Hawking-Page transition between the non-rotating BTZ black hole and thermal AdS space

Label Review Training: Module 1: Label Basics, Page 6

Science.gov (United States)

Page 6, Pesticide labels translate results of our extensive evaluations of pesticide products into conditions, directions and precautions that define parameters for use of a pesticide with the goal of ensuring protection of human health and the environment

The impact of Arizona Highways Magazine's facebook page.

Science.gov (United States)

2014-02-01

This project examined the relationship between use of the Arizona Highways magazine (AHM) Facebook Page and the decision to : travel to or within Arizona. Key purposes were to: (1) provide a thorough understanding of AHM Facebook Page users, includin...

An ant colony optimization based feature selection for web page classification.

Science.gov (United States)

Saraç, Esra; Özel, Selma Ayşe

2014-01-01

The increased popularity of the web has caused the inclusion of huge amount of information to the web, and as a result of this explosive information growth, automated web page classification systems are needed to improve search engines' performance. Web pages have a large number of features such as HTML/XML tags, URLs, hyperlinks, and text contents that should be considered during an automated classification process. The aim of this study is to reduce the number of features to be used to improve runtime and accuracy of the classification of web pages. In this study, we used an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm to select the best features, and then we applied the well-known C4.5, naive Bayes, and k nearest neighbor classifiers to assign class labels to web pages. We used the WebKB and Conference datasets in our experiments, and we showed that using the ACO for feature selection improves both accuracy and runtime performance of classification. We also showed that the proposed ACO based algorithm can select better features with respect to the well-known information gain and chi square feature selection methods.

Microseismic Event Relocation and Focal Mechanism Estimation Based on PageRank Linkage

Science.gov (United States)

Aguiar, A. C.; Myers, S. C.

2017-12-01

Microseismicity associated with enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is key in understanding how subsurface stimulation can modify stress, fracture rock, and increase permeability. Large numbers of microseismic events are commonly associated with hydroshearing an EGS, making data mining methods useful in their analysis. We focus on PageRank, originally developed as Google's search engine, and subsequently adapted for use in seismology to detect low-frequency earthquakes by linking events directly and indirectly through cross-correlation (Aguiar and Beroza, 2014). We expand on this application by using PageRank to define signal-correlation topology for micro-earthquakes from the Newberry Volcano EGS in Central Oregon, which has been stimulated two times using high-pressure fluid injection. We create PageRank signal families from both data sets and compare these to the spatial and temporal proximity of associated earthquakes. PageRank families are relocated using differential travel times measured by waveform cross-correlation (CC) and the Bayesloc approach (Myers et al., 2007). Prior to relocation events are loosely clustered with events at a distance from the cluster. After relocation, event families are found to be tightly clustered. Indirect linkage of signals using PageRank is a reliable way to increase the number of events confidently determined to be similar, suggesting an efficient and effective grouping of earthquakes with similar physical characteristics (ie. location, focal mechanism, stress drop). We further explore the possibility of using PageRank families to identify events with similar relative phase polarities and estimate focal mechanisms following Shelly et al. (2016) method, where CC measurements are used to determine individual polarities within event clusters. Given a positive result, PageRank might be a useful tool in adaptive approaches to enhance production at well-instrumented geothermal sites. Prepared by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344

Customisation of Indico pages - Layout and Menus

CERN Multimedia

CERN. Geneva; Ferreira, Pedro

2017-01-01

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to customize the layout of your Indico pages (for example you can change the color of the background images or change the logo) and the menus on your Indico pages  (for example you can add or hide certain blocks, or change their name and order).  

EDUCATIONAL PAGES IN FACEBOOK - A STUDY

OpenAIRE

Dr.N.Ramakrishnan; Mrs. R.PrasithaIndhumathy

2017-01-01

Facebook Pages are a great resource for educational technology professionals to find companies, thought leaders, groups and organizations to share ideas and experiences with peers while expanding industry knowledge and increasing connections. Like most Facebook users, many educators use Facebook to connect with friends new and old, but the Internet's most popular site can also be a great learning and teaching tool. There are many Facebook pages that have been created as a resource to collect,...

HNF1B and endometrial cancer risk: results from the PAGE study.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Veronica Wendy Setiawan

Full Text Available We examined the association between HNF1B variants identified in a recent genome-wide association study and endometrial cancer in two large case-control studies nested in prospective cohorts: the Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC and the Women's Health Initiative (WHI as part of the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE study. A total of 1,357 incident cases of invasive endometrial cancer and 7,609 controls were included in the analysis (MEC: 426 cases/3,854 controls; WHI: 931 cases/3,755 controls. The majority of women in the WHI were European American, while the MEC included sizable numbers of African Americans, Japanese and Latinos. We estimated the odds ratios (ORs per allele and 95% confidence intervals (CIs of each SNP using unconditional logistic regression adjusting for age, body mass index, and four principal components of ancestry informative markers. The combined ORs were estimated using fixed effect models. Rs4430796 and rs7501939 were associated with endometrial cancer risk in MEC and WHI with no heterogeneity observed across racial/ethnic groups (P ≥ 0.21 or between studies (P ≥ 0.70. The OR(per allele was 0.82 (95% CI: 0.75, 0.89; P = 5.63 × 10(-6 for rs4430796 (G allele and 0.79 (95% CI: 0.73, 0.87; P = 3.77 × 10(-7 for rs7501939 (A allele. The associations with the risk of Type I and Type II tumors were similar (P ≥ 0.19. Adjustment for additional endometrial cancer risk factors such as parity, oral contraceptive use, menopausal hormone use, and smoking status had little effect on the results. In conclusion, HNF1B SNPs are associated with risk of endometrial cancer and that the associated relative risks are similar for Type I and Type II tumors.

Required Discussion Web Pages in Psychology Courses and Student Outcomes

Science.gov (United States)

Pettijohn, Terry F., II; Pettijohn, Terry F.

2007-01-01

We conducted 2 studies that investigated student outcomes when using discussion Web pages in psychology classes. In Study 1, we assigned 213 students enrolled in Introduction to Psychology courses to either a mandatory or an optional Web page discussion condition. Students used the discussion Web page significantly more often and performed…

Automatically annotating web pages using Google Rich Snippets

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Hogenboom, F.P.; Frasincar, F.; Vandic, D.; Meer, van der J.; Boon, F.; Kaymak, U.

2011-01-01

We propose the Automatic Review Recognition and annO- tation of Web pages (ARROW) framework, a framework for Web page review identification and annotation using RDFa Google Rich Snippets. The ARROW framework consists of four steps: hotspot identification, subjectivity analysis, in- formation

Searchers' relevance judgments and criteria in evaluating Web pages in a learning style perspective

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Papaeconomou, Chariste; Zijlema, Annemarie F.; Ingwersen, Peter

2008-01-01

The paper presents the results of a case study of searcher's relevance criteria used for assessments of Web pages in a perspective of learning style. 15 test persons participated in the experiments based on two simulated work tasks that provided cover stories to trigger their information needs. Two...... learning styles were examined: Global and Sequential learners. The study applied eye-tracking for the observation of relevance hot spots on Web pages, learning style index analysis and post-search interviews to gain more in-depth information on relevance behavior. Findings reveal that with respect to use......, they are statistically insignificant. When interviewed in retrospective the resulting profiles tend to become even similar across learning styles but a shift occurs from instant assessments with content features of web pages replacing topicality judgments as predominant relevance criteria....

SPAX - PAX with Super-Pages

Science.gov (United States)

Bößwetter, Daniel

Much has been written about the pros and cons of column-orientation as a means to speed up read-mostly analytic workloads in relational databases. In this paper we try to dissect the primitive mechanisms of a database that help express the coherence of tuples and present a novel way of organizing relational data in order to exploit the advantages of both, the row-oriented and the column-oriented world. As we go, we break with yet another bad habit of databases, namely the equal granularity of reads and writes which leads us to the introduction of consecutive clusters of disk pages called super-pages.

Mining Functional Modules in Heterogeneous Biological Networks Using Multiplex PageRank Approach.

Science.gov (United States)

Li, Jun; Zhao, Patrick X

2016-01-01

Identification of functional modules/sub-networks in large-scale biological networks is one of the important research challenges in current bioinformatics and systems biology. Approaches have been developed to identify functional modules in single-class biological networks; however, methods for systematically and interactively mining multiple classes of heterogeneous biological networks are lacking. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm (called mPageRank) that utilizes the Multiplex PageRank approach to mine functional modules from two classes of biological networks. We demonstrate the capabilities of our approach by successfully mining functional biological modules through integrating expression-based gene-gene association networks and protein-protein interaction networks. We first compared the performance of our method with that of other methods using simulated data. We then applied our method to identify the cell division cycle related functional module and plant signaling defense-related functional module in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Our results demonstrated that the mPageRank method is effective for mining sub-networks in both expression-based gene-gene association networks and protein-protein interaction networks, and has the potential to be adapted for the discovery of functional modules/sub-networks in other heterogeneous biological networks. The mPageRank executable program, source code, the datasets and results of the presented two case studies are publicly and freely available at http://plantgrn.noble.org/MPageRank/.

Decomposition of the Google PageRank and Optimal Linking Strategy

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Avrachenkov, Konstatin; Litvak, Nelli

We provide the analysis of the Google PageRank from the perspective of the Markov Chain Theory. First we study the Google PageRank for a Web that can be decomposed into several connected components which do not have any links to each other. We show that in order to determine the Google PageRank for

Enhancing the Ranking of a Web Page in the Ocean of Data

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Hitesh KUMAR SHARMA

2013-10-01

Full Text Available In today's world, web is considered as ocean of data and information (like text, videos, multimedia etc. consisting of millions and millions of web pages in which web pages are linked with each other like a tree. It is often argued that, especially considering the dynamic of the internet, too much time has passed since the scientific work on PageRank, as that it still could be the basis for the ranking methods of the Google search engine. There is no doubt that within the past years most likely many changes, adjustments and modifications regarding the ranking methods of Google have taken place, but PageRank was absolutely crucial for Google's success, so that at least the fundamental concept behind PageRank should still be constitutive. This paper describes the components which affects the ranking of the web pages and helps in increasing the popularity of web site. By adapting these factors website developers can increase their site's page rank and within the PageRank concept, considering the rank of a document is given by the rank of those documents which link to it. Their rank again is given by the rank of documents which link to them. The PageRank of a document is always determined recursively by the PageRank of other documents.

Arabic web pages clustering and annotation using semantic class features

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Hanan M. Alghamdi

2014-12-01

Full Text Available To effectively manage the great amount of data on Arabic web pages and to enable the classification of relevant information are very important research problems. Studies on sentiment text mining have been very limited in the Arabic language because they need to involve deep semantic processing. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to retrieve machine-understandable data with the help of a Web content mining technique to detect covert knowledge within these data. We propose an approach to achieve clustering with semantic similarities. This approach comprises integrating k-means document clustering with semantic feature extraction and document vectorization to group Arabic web pages according to semantic similarities and then show the semantic annotation. The document vectorization helps to transform text documents into a semantic class probability distribution or semantic class density. To reach semantic similarities, the approach extracts the semantic class features and integrates them into the similarity weighting schema. The quality of the clustering result has evaluated the use of the purity and the mean intra-cluster distance (MICD evaluation measures. We have evaluated the proposed approach on a set of common Arabic news web pages. We have acquired favorable clustering results that are effective in minimizing the MICD, expanding the purity and lowering the runtime.

Page: a program for gamma spectra analysis in PC microcomputers

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Goncalves, M.A.; Yamaura, M.; Costa, G.J.C.; Carvalho, E.I. de; Matsuda, H.T.; Araujo, B.F. de.

1991-04-01

PAGE is a software package, written in BASIC language, to perform gamma spectra analysis. It was developed to be used in a high-purity intrinsic germanium detector-multichannel analyser-PC microcomputer system. The analysis program of PAGE package accomplishes functions as follows: peak location; gamma nuclides identification; activity determination. Standard nuclides sources were used to calibrate the system. To perform the efficiency x energy calibration a logarithmic fit was applied. Analysis of nuclides with overlapping peaks is allowed by PAGE program. PAGE has additional auxiliary programs for: building and list of isotopic nuclear data libraries; data acquisition from multichannel analyser; spectrum display with automatic area and FWHM determinations. This software is to be applied in analytical process control where time response is a very important parameter. PAGE takes ca. 1.5 minutes to analyse a complex spectrum from a 4096 channels MCA. (author)

Dynamic Web Pages: Performance Impact on Web Servers.

Science.gov (United States)

Kothari, Bhupesh; Claypool, Mark

2001-01-01

Discussion of Web servers and requests for dynamic pages focuses on experimentally measuring and analyzing the performance of the three dynamic Web page generation technologies: CGI, FastCGI, and Servlets. Develops a multivariate linear regression model and predicts Web server performance under some typical dynamic requests. (Author/LRW)

#NoMorePage3

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Glozer, Sarah; McCarthy, Lauren; Whelan, Glen

2015-01-01

Fourth wave feminists are currently seeking to bring an end to The Sun’s Page 3, a British institution infamous for featuring a topless female model daily. This paper investigates the No More Page 3 (NMP3) campaign through which feminist activists have sought to disrupt the institutionalized...... the institutional work and political corporate social responsibility literatures, we document the manner in which feminist activists have used The Co- operative’s social media site to publicly disrupt entrenched gender norms. Through identifying symbiotic yet competing discourses we discover themes of disruption...... and maintenance amongst and between interlocutors, facilitated by The Co-operative’s arena of citizenship and its notion of suspended discourse. Our analysis contributes to the institutional work literature by demonstrating the mutual need for disruption to ‘meet’ or contest maintenance work in corporate practice...

Microfluidic device having an immobilized pH gradient and PAGE gels for protein separation and analysis

Science.gov (United States)

Sommer, Gregory J.; Hatch, Anson V.; Singh, Anup K.; Wang, Ying-Chih

2012-12-11

Disclosed is a novel microfluidic device enabling on-chip implementation of a two-dimensional separation methodology. Previously disclosed microscale immobilized pH gradients (IPG) are combined with perpendicular polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) microchannels to achieve orthogonal separations of biological samples. Device modifications enable inclusion of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) in the second dimension. The device can be fabricated to use either continuous IPG gels, or the microscale isoelectric fractionation membranes we have also previously disclosed, for the first dimension. The invention represents the first all-gel two-dimensional separation microdevice, with significantly higher resolution power over existing devices.

Reactor Engineering Division Material for World Wide Web Pages

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1996-01-01

This document presents the home page of the Reactor Engineering Division of Argonne National Laboratory. This WWW site describes the activities of the Division, an introduction to its wide variety of programs and samples of the results of research by people in the division

What Can Pictures Tell Us About Web Pages? Improving Document Search Using Images.

Science.gov (United States)

Rodriguez-Vaamonde, Sergio; Torresani, Lorenzo; Fitzgibbon, Andrew W

2015-06-01

Traditional Web search engines do not use the images in the HTML pages to find relevant documents for a given query. Instead, they typically operate by computing a measure of agreement between the keywords provided by the user and only the text portion of each page. In this paper we study whether the content of the pictures appearing in a Web page can be used to enrich the semantic description of an HTML document and consequently boost the performance of a keyword-based search engine. We present a Web-scalable system that exploits a pure text-based search engine to find an initial set of candidate documents for a given query. Then, the candidate set is reranked using visual information extracted from the images contained in the pages. The resulting system retains the computational efficiency of traditional text-based search engines with only a small additional storage cost needed to encode the visual information. We test our approach on one of the TREC Million Query Track benchmarks where we show that the exploitation of visual content yields improvement in accuracies for two distinct text-based search engines, including the system with the best reported performance on this benchmark. We further validate our approach by collecting document relevance judgements on our search results using Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results of this experiment confirm the improvement in accuracy produced by our image-based reranker over a pure text-based system.

Poisson statistics of PageRank probabilities of Twitter and Wikipedia networks

Science.gov (United States)

Frahm, Klaus M.; Shepelyansky, Dima L.

2014-04-01

We use the methods of quantum chaos and Random Matrix Theory for analysis of statistical fluctuations of PageRank probabilities in directed networks. In this approach the effective energy levels are given by a logarithm of PageRank probability at a given node. After the standard energy level unfolding procedure we establish that the nearest spacing distribution of PageRank probabilities is described by the Poisson law typical for integrable quantum systems. Our studies are done for the Twitter network and three networks of Wikipedia editions in English, French and German. We argue that due to absence of level repulsion the PageRank order of nearby nodes can be easily interchanged. The obtained Poisson law implies that the nearby PageRank probabilities fluctuate as random independent variables.

What Snippets Say About Pages in Federated Web Search

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Demeester, Thomas; Nguyen, Dong-Phuong; Trieschnigg, Rudolf Berend; Develder, Chris; Hiemstra, Djoerd; Hou, Yuexian; Nie, Jian-Yun; Sun, Le; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Peng

2012-01-01

What is the likelihood that a Web page is considered relevant to a query, given the relevance assessment of the corresponding snippet? Using a new federated IR test collection that contains search results from over a hundred search engines on the internet, we are able to investigate such research

Block models and personalized PageRank.

Science.gov (United States)

Kloumann, Isabel M; Ugander, Johan; Kleinberg, Jon

2017-01-03

Methods for ranking the importance of nodes in a network have a rich history in machine learning and across domains that analyze structured data. Recent work has evaluated these methods through the "seed set expansion problem": given a subset [Formula: see text] of nodes from a community of interest in an underlying graph, can we reliably identify the rest of the community? We start from the observation that the most widely used techniques for this problem, personalized PageRank and heat kernel methods, operate in the space of "landing probabilities" of a random walk rooted at the seed set, ranking nodes according to weighted sums of landing probabilities of different length walks. Both schemes, however, lack an a priori relationship to the seed set objective. In this work, we develop a principled framework for evaluating ranking methods by studying seed set expansion applied to the stochastic block model. We derive the optimal gradient for separating the landing probabilities of two classes in a stochastic block model and find, surprisingly, that under reasonable assumptions the gradient is asymptotically equivalent to personalized PageRank for a specific choice of the PageRank parameter [Formula: see text] that depends on the block model parameters. This connection provides a formal motivation for the success of personalized PageRank in seed set expansion and node ranking generally. We use this connection to propose more advanced techniques incorporating higher moments of landing probabilities; our advanced methods exhibit greatly improved performance, despite being simple linear classification rules, and are even competitive with belief propagation.

How the Facebook Arabic Page “We Are All Khaled Said” Helped Promote the Egyptian Revolution

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kara Alaimo

2015-09-01

Full Text Available This study analyzes how the owner of the Facebook Arabic page “We Are All Khaled Said” both catalyzed and took advantage of opportunities in the Egyptian political climate in order to help promote the country’s 2011 revolution. Using a content analysis of posts on the Facebook page before and throughout the Egyptian revolution, the case study finds that the owner of the page, Wael Ghonim, served as a long-term trainer or coach, educating his online followers about the abuses of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime and helping them gradually become more comfortable with political activism, so that when a triggering event—the Tunisian revolution—occurred, he was able to move his followers into the streets to protest. Two other particularly successful tactics were utilized by Ghonim: He capitalized on a powerful personal story—that of a young man brutally killed by the police—in order to elicit emotion and help others identify with the cause, and he used lofty rhetoric to convince his followers that their actions could actually make a difference. The case study disproves Gladwell’s (2010 claim that social media is a platform for shallow and networked interactions, finding both that the grievances and ideas shared on this page were remarkably substantive and that the movement was not a network but rather a hierarchy, led by Ghonim until his imprisonment. The study suggests that social media is a more powerful platform for promoting political change than previously appreciated and offers important lessons for political activists.

PageRank (II): Mathematics

African Journals Online (AJOL)

maths/stats

... GAUSS SEIDEL'S. NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS IN PAGE RANK ANALYSIS. ... The convergence is guaranteed, if the absolute value of the largest eigen ... improved Gauss-Seidel iteration algorithm, based on the decomposition. U. L. D. M. +. +. = ..... This corresponds to determine the eigen vector of T with eigen value 1.

Home Page of Richard Talaga

Science.gov (United States)

bottom of the page is a (planned) link to one of my favorite hobbies. Current Experiments MINOS Neutrino Argonne efforts to join this (existing) experiment * Talaga's Presentations Hobbies and Photos Dive Photos

Quality of drug information on the World Wide Web and strategies to improve pages with poor information quality. An intervention study on pages about sildenafil.

Science.gov (United States)

Martin-Facklam, Meret; Kostrzewa, Michael; Martin, Peter; Haefeli, Walter E

2004-01-01

The generally poor quality of health information on the world wide web (WWW) has caused preventable adverse outcomes. Quality management of information on the internet is therefore critical given its widespread use. In order to develop strategies for the safe use of drugs, we scored general and content quality of pages about sildenafil and performed an intervention to improve their quality. The internet was searched with Yahoo and AltaVista for pages about sildenafil and 303 pages were included. For assessment of content quality a score based on accuracy and completeness of essential drug information was assigned. For assessment of general quality, four criteria were evaluated and their association with high content quality was determined by multivariate logistic regression analysis. The pages were randomly allocated to either control or intervention group. Evaluation took place before, as well as 7 and 22 weeks after an intervention which consisted of two letters with individualized feedback information on the respective page which were sent electronically to the address mentioned on the page. Providing references to scientific publications or prescribing information was significantly associated with high content quality (odds ratio: 8.2, 95% CI 3.2, 20.5). The intervention had no influence on general or content quality. To prevent adverse outcomes caused by misinformation on the WWW individualized feedback to the address mentioned on the page was ineffective. It is currently probably the most straight-forward approach to inform lay persons about indicators of high information quality, i.e. the provision of references.

Digital marketing in travel industry. Case: Hotel landing page optimization

OpenAIRE

Bitkulova, Renata

2017-01-01

Landing page optimization is implementation of the principles of digital service design to improve the website’s user experience. Well done landing page optimization can have a significant positive effect on the usability and profitability of the website. The objective of the study was to optimize the Russian language version of Vuokatti landing page in order to increase conversion, defined as the number of clicks to accommodation search button. A literature survey was made to determine ...

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Anatomy of Malicious Facebook Pages

OpenAIRE

Dewan, Prateek; Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam

2015-01-01

Facebook is the world's largest Online Social Network, having more than 1 billion users. Like most other social networks, Facebook is home to various categories of hostile entities who abuse the platform by posting malicious content. In this paper, we identify and characterize Facebook pages that engage in spreading URLs pointing to malicious domains. We used the Web of Trust API to determine domain reputations of URLs published by pages, and identified 627 pages publishing untrustworthy info...

An Analysis of Academic Library Web Pages for Faculty

Science.gov (United States)

Gardner, Susan J.; Juricek, John Eric; Xu, F. Grace

2008-01-01

Web sites are increasingly used by academic libraries to promote key services and collections to teaching faculty. This study analyzes the content, location, language, and technological features of fifty-four academic library Web pages designed especially for faculty to expose patterns in the development of these pages.

Folding worlds between pages

CERN Multimedia

Meier, Matthias

2010-01-01

"We all remember pop-up books form our childhood. As fascinated as we were back then, we probably never imagined how much engineering know-how went into these books. Pop-up engineer Anton Radevsky has even managed to fold a 27-kilometre particle accelerator into a book" (4 pages)

Building interactive simulations in a Web page design program.

Science.gov (United States)

Kootsey, J Mailen; Siriphongs, Daniel; McAuley, Grant

2004-01-01

A new Web software architecture, NumberLinX (NLX), has been integrated into a commercial Web design program to produce a drag-and-drop environment for building interactive simulations. NLX is a library of reusable objects written in Java, including input, output, calculation, and control objects. The NLX objects were added to the palette of available objects in the Web design program to be selected and dropped on a page. Inserting an object in a Web page is accomplished by adding a template block of HTML code to the page file. HTML parameters in the block must be set to user-supplied values, so the HTML code is generated dynamically, based on user entries in a popup form. Implementing the object inspector for each object permits the user to edit object attributes in a form window. Except for model definition, the combination of the NLX architecture and the Web design program permits construction of interactive simulation pages without writing or inspecting code.

Determining factors behind the PageRank log-log plot

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Volkovich, Y.; Litvak, Nelli; Donato, D.

We study the relation between PageRank and other parameters of information networks such as in-degree, out-degree, and the fraction of dangling nodes. We model this relation through a stochastic equation inspired by the original definition of PageRank. Further, we use the theory of regular variation

Project Management - Development of course materiale as WEB pages

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Thorsteinsson, Uffe; Bjergø, Søren

1997-01-01

Development of Internet pages with lessons plans, slideshows, links, conference system and interactive student section for communication between students and to teacher as well.......Development of Internet pages with lessons plans, slideshows, links, conference system and interactive student section for communication between students and to teacher as well....

Comparison of the scanned pages of the contractual documents

Science.gov (United States)

Andreeva, Elena; Arlazarov, Vladimir V.; Manzhikov, Temudzhin; Slavin, Oleg

2018-04-01

In this paper the problem statement is given to compare the digitized pages of the official papers. Such problem appears during the comparison of two customer copies signed at different times between two parties with a view to find the possible modifications introduced on the one hand. This problem is a practically significant in the banking sector during the conclusion of contracts in a paper format. The method of comparison based on the recognition, which consists in the comparison of two bag-of-words, which are the recognition result of the master and test pages, is suggested. The described experiments were conducted using the OCR Tesseract and the siamese neural network. The advantages of the suggested method are the steady operation of the comparison algorithm and the high exacting precision, and one of the disadvantages is the dependence on the chosen OCR.

Preoperative screening: value of previous tests.

Science.gov (United States)

Macpherson, D S; Snow, R; Lofgren, R P

1990-12-15

To determine the frequency of tests done in the year before elective surgery that might substitute for preoperative screening tests and to determine the frequency of test results that change from a normal value to a value likely to alter perioperative management. Retrospective cohort analysis of computerized laboratory data (complete blood count, sodium, potassium, and creatinine levels, prothrombin time, and partial thromboplastin time). Urban tertiary care Veterans Affairs Hospital. Consecutive sample of 1109 patients who had elective surgery in 1988. At admission, 7549 preoperative tests were done, 47% of which duplicated tests performed in the previous year. Of 3096 previous results that were normal as defined by hospital reference range and done closest to the time of but before admission (median interval, 2 months), 13 (0.4%; 95% CI, 0.2% to 0.7%), repeat values were outside a range considered acceptable for surgery. Most of the abnormalities were predictable from the patient's history, and most were not noted in the medical record. Of 461 previous tests that were abnormal, 78 (17%; CI, 13% to 20%) repeat values at admission were outside a range considered acceptable for surgery (P less than 0.001, frequency of clinically important abnormalities of patients with normal previous results with those with abnormal previous results). Physicians evaluating patients preoperatively could safely substitute the previous test results analyzed in this study for preoperative screening tests if the previous tests are normal and no obvious indication for retesting is present.

CT paging arteriography with a multidetector-row CT. Advantages in splanchnic arterial imaging

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Kobayashi, Seiji [Keio Univ., Tokyo (Japan). School of Medicine

1999-11-01

The purpose of this study is to assess the utility of CT paging arteriography with a multidetector-row CT as a replacement for conventional angiography in the evaluation of splanchnic arterial anomalies. Sixty-three patients underwent CT paging arteriography with a multidetector-row CT. In the 56 patients with conventional angiographic correlation, there was only one minor disagreement with CT paging arteriography. In the 7 patients who underwent IVDSA (intra venous digital subtraction angiography), CT paging arteriography defined four hepatic arterial anomalies which could not be depicted by IVDSA. In conclusion, CT paging arteriography provides noninvasive means to identify splanchnic arterial anomalies. (author)

NOAA History - Main Page

Science.gov (United States)

NOAA History Banner gold bar divider home - takes you to index page about the site contacts noaa americas science and service noaa legacy 1807 - 2007 NOAA History is an intrinsic part of the history of Initiative scroll divider More NOAA History from Around the Nation scroll divider drawing of a tornado NOAA

Initial results of CyberKnife treatment for recurrent previously irradiated head and neck cancer

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Himei, Kengo; Katsui, Kuniaki; Yoshida, Atsushi

2003-01-01

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of CyberKnife for recurrent previously irradiated head and neck cancer. Thirty-one patients with recurrent previously irradiated head and neck cancer were treated with a CyberKnife from July 1999 to March 2002 at Okayama Kyokuto Hospital were retrospectively studied. The accumulated dose was 28-80 Gy (median 60 Gy). The interval between CyberKnife treatment and previous radiotherapy was 0.4-429.5 months (median 16.3 months). Primary lesions were nasopharynx: 7, maxillary sinus: 6, tongue: 5, ethmoid sinus: 3, and others: 1. The pathology was squamous cell carcinoma: 25, adenoid cystic carcinoma: 4, and others: 2. Symptoms were pain: 8, and nasal bleeding: 2. The prescribed dose was 15.0-40.3 Gy (median 32.3 Gy) as for the marginal dose. The response rate (complete response (CR)+partial response (PR)) and local control rate (CR+PR+no change (NC)) was 74% and 94% respectively. Pain disappeared for 4 cases, relief was obtained for 4 cases and no change for 2 cases and nasal bleeding disappeared for 2 cases for an improvement of symptoms. An adverse effects were observed as mucositis in 5 cases and neck swelling in one case. Prognosis of recurrent previously irradiated head and neck cancer was estimated as poor. Our early experience shows that CyberKnife is expected to be feasible treatment for recurrent previously irradiated head and neck cancer, and for the reduction adverse effects and maintenance of useful quality of life (QOL) for patients. (author)

Cloaked Facebook pages: Exploring fake Islamist propaganda in social media

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Farkas, Johan Dam; Schou, Jannick; Neumayer, Christina

2017-01-01

This research analyses cloaked Facebook pages that are created to spread political propaganda by cloaking a user profile and imitating the identity of a political opponent in order to spark hateful and aggressive reactions. This inquiry is pursued through a multi-sited online ethnographic case...... study of Danish Facebook pages disguised as radical Islamist pages, which provoked racist and anti-Muslim reactions as well as negative sentiments towards refugees and immigrants in Denmark in general. Drawing on Jessie Daniels’ critical insights into cloaked websites, this research furthermore analyses...

Sources and Coverage of Medical News on Front Pages of US Newspapers

Science.gov (United States)

Lai, William Y. Y.; Lane, Trevor; Jones, Alison

2009-01-01

Background Medical news that appears on newspaper front pages is intended to reach a wide audience, but how this type of medical news is prepared and distributed has not been systematically researched. We thus quantified the level of visibility achieved by front-page medical stories in the United States and analyzed their news sources. Methodology Using the online resource Newseum, we investigated front-page newspaper coverage of four prominent medical stories, and a high-profile non-medical news story as a control, reported in the US in 2007. Two characteristics were quantified by two raters: which newspaper titles carried each target front-page story (interrater agreement, >96%; kappa, >0.92) and the news sources of each target story (interrater agreement, >94%; kappa, >0.91). National rankings of the top 200 US newspapers by audited circulation were used to quantify the extent of coverage as the proportion of the total circulation of ranked newspapers in Newseum. Findings In total, 1630 front pages were searched. Each medical story appeared on the front pages of 85 to 117 (67.5%–78.7%) ranked newspaper titles that had a cumulative daily circulation of 23.1 to 33.4 million, or 61.8% to 88.4% of all newspapers. In contrast, the non-medical story achieved front-page coverage in 152 (99.3%) newspaper titles with a total circulation of 41.0 million, or 99.8% of all newspapers. Front-page medical stories varied in their sources, but the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Associated Press together supplied 61.7% of the total coverage of target front-page medical stories. Conclusion Front-page coverage of medical news from different sources is more accurately revealed by analysis of circulation counts rather than of newspaper titles. Journals wishing to widen knowledge of research news and organizations with important health announcements should target at least the four dominant media organizations identified in this study. PMID:19724643

JavaScript: Convenient Interactivity for the Class Web Page.

Science.gov (United States)

Gray, Patricia

This paper shows how JavaScript can be used within HTML pages to add interactive review sessions and quizzes incorporating graphics and sound files. JavaScript has the advantage of providing basic interactive functions without the use of separate software applications and players. Because it can be part of a standard HTML page, it is…

Code AI Personal Web Pages

Science.gov (United States)

Garcia, Joseph A.; Smith, Charles A. (Technical Monitor)

1998-01-01

The document consists of a publicly available web site (george.arc.nasa.gov) for Joseph A. Garcia's personal web pages in the AI division. Only general information will be posted and no technical material. All the information is unclassified.

Social media for physiotherapy clinics: considerations in creating a Facebook page

OpenAIRE

Ahmed, Osman; Claydon, L.S.; Ribeiro, D.C.; Arumugam, A.; Higgs, C.; Baxter, G.D.

2013-01-01

Social media websites play a prominent role in modern society, and the most popular of these websites is Facebook. Increasingly, physiotherapy clinics have begun to utilize Facebook in order to create pages to publicize their services. There are many factors to consider in the planning, implementing, and maintenance of Facebook pages for physiotherapy clinics, including ethical and privacy issues. The primary purpose of creating a page must be clearly defined, with dedicated clinicians given ...

Creating a Facebook Page for the Seismological Society of America

Science.gov (United States)

Newman, S. B.

2009-12-01

In August, 2009 I created a Facebook “fan” page for the Seismological Society of America. We had been exploring cost-effective options for providing forums for two-way communication for some months. We knew that a number of larger technical societies had invested significant sums of money to create customized social networking sites but that a small society would need to use existing low-cost software options. The first thing I discovered when I began to set up the fan page was that an unofficial SSA Facebook group already existed, established by Steven J. Gibbons, a member in Norway. Steven had done an excellent job of posting material about SSA. Partly because of the existing group, the official SSA fan page gained fans rapidly. We began by posting information about our own activities and then added links to activities in the broader geoscience community. While much of this material also appeared on our website and in our publication, Seismological Research Letters (SRL), the tone on the FB page is different. It is less formal with more emphasis on photos and links to other sites, including our own. Fans who are active on FB see the posts as part of their social network and do not need to take the initiative to go to the SSA site. Although the goal was to provide a forum for two-way communication, our initial experience was that people were clearly reading the page but not contributing content. This appears to be case with fan pages of sister geoscience societies. FB offers some demographic information to fan site administrators. In an initial review of the demographics it appeared that fans were younger than the overall demographics of the Society. It appeared that a few of the fans are not members or even scientists. Open questions are: what content will be most useful to fans? How will the existence of the page benefit the membership as a whole? Will the page ultimately encourage two-way communication as hoped? Web 2.0 is generating a series of new

The impact of visual layout factors on performance in Web pages: a cross-language study.

Science.gov (United States)

Parush, Avi; Shwarts, Yonit; Shtub, Avy; Chandra, M Jeya

2005-01-01

Visual layout has a strong impact on performance and is a critical factor in the design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and Web pages. Many design guidelines employed in Web page design were inherited from human performance literature and GUI design studies and practices. However, few studies have investigated the more specific patterns of performance with Web pages that may reflect some differences between Web page and GUI design. We investigated interactions among four visual layout factors in Web page design (quantity of links, alignment, grouping indications, and density) in two experiments: one with pages in Hebrew, entailing right-to-left reading, and the other with English pages, entailing left-to-right reading. Some performance patterns (measured by search times and eye movements) were similar between languages. Performance was particularly poor in pages with many links and variable densities, but it improved with the presence of uniform density. Alignment was not shown to be a performance-enhancing factor. The findings are discussed in terms of the similarities and differences in the impact of layout factors between GUIs and Web pages. Actual or potential applications of this research include specific guidelines for Web page design.

WHO ARE FANS OF FACEBOOK FAN PAGES? AN ELECTRONIC WORD-OF-MOUTH COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Xiao Hu

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Given its great business value and popularity, Facebook fan pages have attracted more and more attention in both industry and academia. Fans of Facebook fan pages play an important role in electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM communication. This study focused on the population of fans on Facebook fan pages and examined the differences between fans and non-fans in terms of demographics, social network sites (SNS use, Internet use, and online shopping behaviors. The results indicated that fans used SNS more frequently than non-fans. Additionally, from the eWOM perspective, the researchers moderated product types in the model of people’s word-of-mouth (WOM preferences and found that people had different preferences for eWOM and traditional WOM for different products. Traditional WOM is still the most important source of information for people when shopping online.

SDS-PAGE Electrophoretic Property of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) and its β-subunit

OpenAIRE

Gam, Lay-Harn; Latiff, Aishah

2005-01-01

The microheterogeneity property of hCG with regards to its sialic acid contents resulted in variable mobility of the glycoprotein in SDS-PAGE. The intact hCG molecule is composed of two dissimilar subunits, namely α- and β-subunits. The identification of hCG bands in SDS-PAGE was accomplished by the immunoblotting experiment, whereby the antibody directed toward the specific region of β-subunit of hCG was used. The data shows that the different mobility of intact hCG was attributed to the dif...

Sequencing results of pncA gene at JALMA

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

First page Back Continue Last page Overview Graphics. Sequencing results of pncA gene at JALMA. Red colour indicates novel mutations, Blue colour indicates the novel mutations reported at the same codon earlier also.

Analysis and Testing of Ajax-based Single-page Web Applications

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Mesbah, A.

2009-01-01

This dissertation has focused on better understanding the shifting web paradigm and the consequences of moving from the classical multi-page model to an Ajax-based single-page style. Specifically to that end, this work has examined this new class of software from three main software engineering

An Optimization Model for Product Placement on Product Listing Pages

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Yan-Kwang Chen

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The design of product listing pages is a key component of Website design because it has significant influence on the sales volume on a Website. This study focuses on product placement in designing product listing pages. Product placement concerns how venders of online stores place their products over the product listing pages for maximization of profit. This problem is very similar to the offline shelf management problem. Since product information sources on a Web page are typically communicated through the text and image, visual stimuli such as color, shape, size, and spatial arrangement often have an effect on the visual attention of online shoppers and, in turn, influence their eventual purchase decisions. In view of the above, this study synthesizes the visual attention literature and theory of shelf-space allocation to develop a mathematical programming model with genetic algorithms for finding optimal solutions to the focused issue. The validity of the model is illustrated with example problems.

Domainwise Web Page Optimization Based On Clustered Query Sessions Using Hybrid Of Trust And ACO For Effective Information Retrieval

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Dr. Suruchi Chawla

2015-08-01

Full Text Available Abstract In this paper hybrid of Ant Colony OptimizationACO and trust has been used for domainwise web page optimization in clustered query sessions for effective Information retrieval. The trust of the web page identifies its degree of relevance in satisfying specific information need of the user. The trusted web pages when optimized using pheromone updates in ACO will identify the trusted colonies of web pages which will be relevant to users information need in a given domain. Hence in this paper the hybrid of Trust and ACO has been used on clustered query sessions for identifying more and more relevant number of documents in a given domain in order to better satisfy the information need of the user. Experiment was conducted on the data set of web query sessions to test the effectiveness of the proposed approach in selected three domains Academics Entertainment and Sports and the results confirm the improvement in the precision of search results.

Fiches « En une page » | CRDI - Centre de recherches pour le ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

10 nov. 2010 ... Fiche « En une page » de MCP no 1. Un IED sans envergure, une croissance stagnante : le Mercosur peut-il faire mieux ? Fiche « En une page » de MCP no 2. Impôts, taxes et équité entre les sexes : codes, comportements et conséquences, voulues ou non. Fiche « En une page » de MCP no 3.

Student Library Pages: Valuable Resource for the Library Media Center.

Science.gov (United States)

Crowther, Eleanor

1993-01-01

Describes the use of students as library pages at the Loudoun Country Day School (Virginia). Highlights include student selection procedures, including interviews; parental consent form; library page duties; benefits to students; benefits to the library; and parent attitudes. Copies of the student interview form and parental consent form are…

Characterizing Microseismicity at the Newberry Volcano Geothermal Site using PageRank

Science.gov (United States)

Aguiar, A. C.; Myers, S. C.

2015-12-01

The Newberry Volcano, within the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon, has been designated as a candidate site for the Department of Energy's Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) program. This site was stimulated using high-pressure fluid injection during the fall of 2012, which generated several hundred microseismic events. Exploring the spatial and temporal development of microseismicity is key to understanding how subsurface stimulation modifies stress, fractures rock, and increases permeability. We analyze Newberry seismicity using both surface and borehole seismometers from the AltaRock and LLNL seismic networks. For our analysis we adapt PageRank, Google's initial search algorithm, to evaluate microseismicity during the 2012 stimulation. PageRank is a measure of connectivity, where higher ranking represents highly connected windows. In seismic applications connectivity is measured by the cross correlation of 2 time windows recorded on a common seismic station and channel. Aguiar and Beroza (2014) used PageRank based on cross correlation to detect low-frequency earthquakes, which are highly repetitive but difficult to detect. We expand on this application by using PageRank to define signal-correlation topology for micro-earthquakes, including the identification of signals that are connected to the largest number of other signals. We then use this information to create signal families and compare PageRank families to the spatial and temporal proximity of associated earthquakes. Studying signal PageRank will potentially allow us to efficiently group earthquakes with similar physical characteristics, such as focal mechanisms and stress drop. Our ultimate goal is to determine whether changes in the state of stress and/or changes in the generation of subsurface fracture networks can be detected using PageRank topology. This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under

PageRank as a method to rank biomedical literature by importance.

Science.gov (United States)

Yates, Elliot J; Dixon, Louise C

2015-01-01

Optimal ranking of literature importance is vital in overcoming article overload. Existing ranking methods are typically based on raw citation counts, giving a sum of 'inbound' links with no consideration of citation importance. PageRank, an algorithm originally developed for ranking webpages at the search engine, Google, could potentially be adapted to bibliometrics to quantify the relative importance weightings of a citation network. This article seeks to validate such an approach on the freely available, PubMed Central open access subset (PMC-OAS) of biomedical literature. On-demand cloud computing infrastructure was used to extract a citation network from over 600,000 full-text PMC-OAS articles. PageRanks and citation counts were calculated for each node in this network. PageRank is highly correlated with citation count (R = 0.905, P PageRank can be trivially computed on commodity cluster hardware and is linearly correlated with citation count. Given its putative benefits in quantifying relative importance, we suggest it may enrich the citation network, thereby overcoming the existing inadequacy of citation counts alone. We thus suggest PageRank as a feasible supplement to, or replacement of, existing bibliometric ranking methods.

What’s New? Deploying a Library New Titles Page with Minimal Programming

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

John Meyerhofer

2017-01-01

Full Text Available With a new titles web page, a library has a place to show faculty, students, and staff the items they are purchasing for their community. However, many times heavy programing knowledge and/or a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or APIs separate a library’s data from making a new titles web page a reality. Without IT staff, a new titles page can become nearly impossible or not worth the effort. Here we will demonstrate how a small liberal arts college took its acquisition data and combined it with a Google Sheet, HTML, and a little JavaScript to create a new titles web page that was dynamic and engaging to its users.

Forensic Analysis of Window’s(Registered) Virtual Memory Incorporating the System’s Page-File

Science.gov (United States)

2008-12-01

map the entire 4-GB process virtual address space, divide 4 GB by the virtual memory mapped by a single page table. Recall that each page table on an...results of the test runs can be found in Appendix C. 41 VI. SUMMARY This report has shown that during the forensic process, as much attention must be...CurrentByteOffset; /* +0x040 */ unsigned long Waiters ; /* +0x044 */ unsigned long Busy

Search Results | Page 912 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9111 - 9120 of 9602 ... Trade facilitation and poverty reduction : China-ASEAN region case study. Results show that a 1 per cent increase in port efficiency results in a 1.051 ... is near the world average, but among ASEAN countries there is a big gap. ... The focus of the study is the Economic Corridors and Cross Border ...

Search Results | Page 6 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2013-10-01

Results 51 - 60 of 60 ... Results show that a 1 per cent increase in port efficiency results in a 1.051 per cent decrease in the poverty index. The level of Chinese trade facilitation is near the world average, but among ASEAN countries there is a big gap. Published date. October 1, 2013. Reports. EXPORT ORIENTED ...

Content and Design Features of Academic Health Sciences Libraries' Home Pages.

Science.gov (United States)

McConnaughy, Rozalynd P; Wilson, Steven P

2018-01-01

The goal of this content analysis was to identify commonly used content and design features of academic health sciences library home pages. After developing a checklist, data were collected from 135 academic health sciences library home pages. The core components of these library home pages included a contact phone number, a contact email address, an Ask-a-Librarian feature, the physical address listed, a feedback/suggestions link, subject guides, a discovery tool or database-specific search box, multimedia, social media, a site search option, a responsive web design, and a copyright year or update date.

Default Parallels Plesk Panel Page

Science.gov (United States)

services that small businesses want and need. Our software includes key building blocks of cloud service virtualized servers Service Provider Products Parallels® Automation Hosting, SaaS, and cloud computing , the leading hosting automation software. You see this page because there is no Web site at this

"I didn't know her, but…": parasocial mourning of mediated deaths on Facebook RIP pages

Science.gov (United States)

Klastrup, Lisbeth

2015-04-01

This article examines the use of six Danish "Rest in Peace" or (RIP) memorial pages. The article focuses on the relation between news media and RIP page use, in relation to general communicative practices on these pages. Based on an analysis of press coverage of the deaths of six young people and a close analysis of 1,015 comments extracted from the RIP pages created to memorialize them, it is shown that their deaths attracted considerable media attention, as did the RIP pages themselves. Comment activity seem to reflect the news stories in the way the commenters refer to the context of death and the emotional distress they experience, but mainly comments on the RIP pages are conventional expressions of sympathy and "RIP" wishes. The article concludes that public RIP pages might be understood as virtual spontaneous shrines, affording an emerging practice of "RIP-ing."

A biplex approach to PageRank centrality: From classic to multiplex networks.

Science.gov (United States)

Pedroche, Francisco; Romance, Miguel; Criado, Regino

2016-06-01

In this paper, we present a new view of the PageRank algorithm inspired by multiplex networks. This new approach allows to introduce a new centrality measure for classic complex networks and a new proposal to extend the usual PageRank algorithm to multiplex networks. We give some analytical relations between these new approaches and the classic PageRank centrality measure, and we illustrate the new parameters presented by computing them on real underground networks.

A biplex approach to PageRank centrality: From classic to multiplex networks

Science.gov (United States)

Pedroche, Francisco; Romance, Miguel; Criado, Regino

2016-06-01

In this paper, we present a new view of the PageRank algorithm inspired by multiplex networks. This new approach allows to introduce a new centrality measure for classic complex networks and a new proposal to extend the usual PageRank algorithm to multiplex networks. We give some analytical relations between these new approaches and the classic PageRank centrality measure, and we illustrate the new parameters presented by computing them on real underground networks.

Search Results | Page 88 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2010-01-01

Results 871 - 880 of 8518 ... Research results : analyzing the impact of introducing an automated management information system within microfinance institutions. Published date. January 1, 2010. Studies.

Search Results | Page 72 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2010-01-01

Results 711 - 720 of 8491 ... Research results : analyzing the impact of introducing an automated management information system within microfinance institutions. Published date. January 1, 2010. Studies.

Evaluating informational behaviour of users of the page “com açucar, com afeto” on Facebook

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Celio Andrade Santana

2016-11-01

Full Text Available This research presents the evaluation of information behaviour of users in the page “Com Açucar, Com Afeto” on Facebook. This page is focused on Brazilian popular music (MPB and the interaction between the users occurs through Facebook posts. To identify the information behaviour of the users in this page, we had assessed a total of 120 posts and elements such as "like", "share" and “comments” from each one of these posts in one-day interval and also we had interviewed 15 users to collect data about information needs on the page. The data collection was based on the qualitative method netnography from the analysis of user behaviour and we conducted interviews to collect complementary data. The collected data were analyzed based on the information behavior model developed by Tom Wilson. The results show that users looking for the group to meet cognitive and psychological information needs enabled by music and this behaviour are augmented when they belong to social groups (network.

Page | 133 LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF EXECUTIVE ...

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Fr. Ikenga

NAUJILJ 9 (2) 2018. Page | 133 ... Keywords: Executive appointments, Legislative approval, National Assembly, Constitutional duty. 1. ... Representatives is led by a Speaker.6 The election of the leadership of the senate is entirely the affair of.

A teen's guide to creating web pages and blogs

CERN Document Server

Selfridge, Peter; Osburn, Jennifer

2008-01-01

Whether using a social networking site like MySpace or Facebook or building a Web page from scratch, millions of teens are actively creating a vibrant part of the Internet. This is the definitive teen''s guide to publishing exciting web pages and blogs on the Web. This easy-to-follow guide shows teenagers how to: Create great MySpace and Facebook pages Build their own unique, personalized Web site Share the latest news with exciting blogging ideas Protect themselves online with cyber-safety tips Written by a teenager for other teens, this book leads readers step-by-step through the basics of web and blog design. In this book, teens learn to go beyond clicking through web sites to learning winning strategies for web design and great ideas for writing blogs that attract attention and readership.

Search Results | Page 8 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 71 - 80 of 132 ... Empowering regulators to protect consumer rights in the ICT sector, Introductory Workshop, Lusaka, 13 August 2009. Published date. January 1, 2009. Reports. EAST AFRICA RESEARCH RESULTS POLICY MAKING ...

Search Results | Page 88 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Search Results. Showing 871 - 880 of 8491 results. Studies ... Strengthening Nurses' Capacity in HIV Policy Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean ... Novel Epidemiological Method: Using Newspapers To Provide Insight Into ...

Search Results | Page 538 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Search Results. Showing 5371 - 5380 of 9604 results. Reports ... Business training for microfinance clients : how it matters and for whom? ... building a regional platform for political engagement and strategic action; final technical report.

Search Results | Page 797 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Search Results. Showing 7961 - 7970 of 8491 results. Story. Health Natural Resources Mining ECOHEALTH ... CASE STUDY: Latin America — An engine for rural development in Latin America. Research in Action. Biodiversity Gender Crops ...

Search Results | Page 845 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8441 - 8450 of 8494 ... Our chance to share the results of our work with Canadians and to ... structure, robust management processes, effective systems, and internal controls. ... as required under Canada's Financial Administration Act.

Search Results | Page 710 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7091 - 7100 of 9601 ... ... and Practice in South Asia : Building a Community of Experts ... Social Psychology in Post Conflict Colombia. Psychosocial trauma resulting from the Colombian armed conflict constitutes a pressing social and ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 163 ... Water Resource Management and the Changing Climate in ... Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake is the largest freshwater lake in ... These events are resulting in higher economic, social, environmental, and human costs.

Search Results | Page 51 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 501 - 510 of 1133 ... ... starch industry has resulted in increased disease prevalence, soil erosion, ... Food processing in developing countries is an important component of ... to improve child nutrition and food security in northern Malawi.

Search Results | Page 719 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7181 - 7190 of 9601 ... Research on Business Process Outsourcing ... Rapid economic growth in South Asia has not resulted in increased ... The nature and scale of the problem are not captured by aggregate unemployment statistics.

Search Results | Page 763 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Search Results. Showing 7621 - 7630 of 8490 results. Books ... and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. ... to provide quality education, improve health care, allow open government, ...

Search Results | Page 33 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 321 - 330 of 439 ... ... result in severe, long-term social and mental health problems for exposed children and adolescents. ... national-level networks in various parts of the word including the ... Women's Participation and Decentralization.

Search Results | Page 842 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8411 - 8420 of 8496 ... Land Tenure, Gender, and Globalization: Research and Analysis from ... Globalization, Labor Markets and Inequality in India ... the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems ...

Search Results | Page 779 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7781 - 7790 of 9602 ... Land Tenure, Gender, and Globalization: Research and Analysis from ... Globalization, Labor Markets and Inequality in India ... the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems ...

Search Results | Page 842 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8411 - 8420 of 8491 ... Globalization, Labor Markets and Inequality in India ... results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in ... Natural Resource Management: The Impact of Gender and Social Issues.

Search Results | Page 916 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9151 - 9160 of 9580 ... The publication "Practical Guide for producers and farmers: Collective ... assesses the intervention of AGROECO in the field of alternative organic ... The research resulted in documentation of over 100 plants and ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 80 ... Applying ICT for Disaster Mitigation in the Central American ... Central America is subject to frequent climate variability resulting in floods and droughts. ... Accumulated environmental, economic, and social damages to date ...

Search Results | Page 43 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 421 - 430 of 1804 ... An investigation into the determinants of business performance in ... where it is associated with economic activity, transportation, and the use of ... many other Asian countries, rapid and unplanned growth has resulted ...

Search Results | Page 33 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 321 - 330 of 420 ... Rapid economic growth in South Asia has not resulted in increased ... the national innovation system and its impact on the economy. ... through simple resource-based activities: oil, minerals, tourism and labour migrati.

Search Results | Page 35 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 341 - 350 of 439 ... Rapid economic growth in South Asia has not resulted in increased ... the national innovation system and its impact on the economy. ... through simple resource-based activities: oil, minerals, tourism and labour migrati.

Search Results | Page 94 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 931 - 940 of 8491 ... ... and institutional foundations within traditional rural communities that can ... Role of the sea kayak tour guide : mixed methods exploration into the ... from this study did not completely support the survey results, highl.

Search Results | Page 809 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8081 - 8090 of 9602 ... Evaluating IDRC's role at major conferences, events. Over the ... Participatory GIS for resource management in Africa: Taking stock. This ICT4D article series features results from innovative research on participatory ...

Search Results | Page 2 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 11 - 16 of 16 ... Under universal systems, health care is paid for in advance, via prepayment ... Research results have no value unless they are made available for due ... Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa.

Search Results | Page 7 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 61 - 70 of 94 ... Under universal systems, health care is paid for in advance, via prepayment ... Research results have no value unless they are made available for due ... Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa.

Search Results | Page 642 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Search Results. Showing 6411 - 6420 of 9601 results. Project ... STI for Development in Asia : a Platform for Information Sharing and Learning. This project is based on the premise that science, technology and innovation (STI) are critical ...

Search Results | Page 69 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 681 - 690 of 8531 ... Role of the sea kayak tour guide : mixed methods exploration into the ... from this study did not completely support the survey results, highl ... and institutional foundations within traditional rural communities that can ...

Search Results | Page 831 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8301 - 8310 of 8491 ... E-commerce in Asia has been receiving considerable attention as a result of the proliferation of Internet connectivity and technologies in the region. ... 'Amal' as in 'Hope': An Argan Oil Cooperative is Changing ...

Search Results | Page 827 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8261 - 8270 of 8491 ... Influencing policy for resilient societies. For research results to improve people's lives, they must reach decision-makers who can use them to develop more effective policies and practices. Research in Action. Institutional assessment ...

Search Results | Page 2 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 11 - 20 of 80 ... Results suggest that the general living environment of children from the ... to raise tobacco taxes in three countries of Central America: Guatemala, ... regard to pesticide exposure and neurodevelopment of 0-2 years-old ba.

Search Results | Page 815 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8141 - 8150 of 8491 ... ... routinely to illustrate the profound role of information in modern societies. ... worlds, the vital role of higher education in society is accepted. ... This crisis is the result of the breakdown of traditional farming systems.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 1643 ... Global water governance and the rise of the constitutional regulatory state in Colombia. This article interprets the regulatory state in the south as the result of a dialectic process between global governance institutions, ...

Search Results | Page 13 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 121 - 130 of 8491 ... In Ethiopia, protein-rich crops of pulses such as chickpeas are no ... Global diets have changed significantly over the past several decades, and ... with the potential to generate high impact and innovative results with ...

Search Results | Page 68 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 671 - 680 of 1804 ... Fair Trade Forum India (FTF I) is the national network of fair trade ... in warfare and an increase in state and city fragility resulting from other ... IDRC's Democratic Governance, Women's Rights and Gender Equality ...

Search Results | Page 93 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 921 - 930 of 1119 ... ... while narrowing down the gap between the demand and the supply in India. ... Review of research and policies for climate change adaptation in ... The results from these trials will determine if they are suitable for ...

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 111 - 120 of 8518 ... How can a gender lens enhance maternal and child health social enterprises in Africa? ... and as a result, the causes of death (COD) remain unknown. ... aims to contribute a series of background studies to the work of ...

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 101 - 110 of 8491 ... How can a gender lens enhance maternal and child health social enterprises in Africa? ... and as a result, the causes of death (COD) remain unknown. ... aims to contribute a series of background studies to the work of ...

Search Results | Page 841 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2013-07-22

Results 8401 - 8410 of 8531 ... Geographical patterns can provide important clues about disease etiology. Infectious diseases, such as Japanese Encephalitis (JE), are driven by ecological and social processes which result in heterogeneous distribution of disease risk. Published date. July 22, 2013. Journal articles.

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 111 - 120 of 197 ... In most societies, sex work is highly stigmatized and sex workers are subject to blame, disapproval and discrimination. As a result, violence against individuals involved in sex work is seldom visible and, in some contexts, even condoned. Project.

Search Results | Page 28 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 271 - 280 of 875 ... This publication presents results of the research project "Avoiding Conflict Relapse through Inclusive Political Settlements and Statebuilding after Intra-State War: Opportunities, Approaches and Lessons ... Digital divide in Latin America : broadband price, quality and affordability in the region.

Search Results | Page 831 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2005-01-01

Results 8301 - 8310 of 8491 ... E-Commerce in the Asian Context: Selected Case Studies. E-commerce in Asia has been receiving considerable attention as a result of the proliferation of Internet connectivity and technologies in the region. Publication Date. January 1, 2005. Books.

Search Results | Page 69 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 681 - 690 of 1119 ... Bridging gender gaps with dairy goats and root crops ... Five diseases, one vaccine — a boost for emerging livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa ... including Lebanon, the Middle East and North Africa as a result of ...

Search Results | Page 831 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2005-01-01

Results 8301 - 8310 of 8492 ... E-Commerce in the Asian Context: Selected Case Studies. E-commerce in Asia has been receiving considerable attention as a result of the proliferation of Internet connectivity and technologies in the region. Publication Date. January 1, 2005. Books.

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 101 - 110 of 112 ... Using Evaluation for CBNRM Capacity Development (Southeast Asia). Recently, capacity development has regained a central place on the agenda of many donor organizations, including IDRC. The challenge is to measure the results of capacity development initiatives. Project.

Search Results | Page 7 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 61 - 70 of 8491 ... ... Studies 883 Apply Studies filter · Papers 677 Apply Papers filter · Books 331 ... Filter by topic .... and as a result, the causes of death (COD) remain unknown. ... Examining effects of user fee abolishment for women and ...

Search Results | Page 7 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 61 - 70 of 8491 ... ... Papers (677) Apply Papers filter · Books (332) Apply Books filter · Briefs ... Filter by topic .... and as a result, the causes of death (COD) remain unknown. ... Examining effects of user fee abolishment for women and ...

D-Iteration: diffusion approach for solving PageRank

OpenAIRE

Hong, Dohy; Huynh, The Dang; Mathieu, Fabien

2015-01-01

In this paper we present a new method that can accelerate the computation of the PageRank importance vector. Our method, called D-Iteration (DI), is based on the decomposition of the matrix-vector product that can be seen as a fluid diffusion model and is potentially adapted to asynchronous implementation. We give theoretical results about the convergence of our algorithm and we show through experimentations on a real Web graph that DI can improve the computation efficiency compared to other ...

Search Results | Page 767 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7661 - 7670 of 9175 ... GIS/Mapping Information and Communication Biodiversity Water Climate change Food security. Participatory GIS for resource management in Africa: Taking stock. This ICT4D article series features results from innovative research on ... Colombia has been implementing its disarmament, ...

Search Results | Page 845 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8441 - 8450 of 8491 ... Risk management and audit. We reduce risk via a sound governance structure, robust management processes, effective systems, and internal controls. Webpage. Evaluation. Evaluations ensure we use public funds effectively, assess the results of our work, and learn as an organization.

Search Results | Page 40 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 391 - 400 of 875 ... Medicinal use compared with laboratory research : relation of traditional sceince and modern science. This report shows results of scientific testing in support of healers'' requests for scientific validation of their traditional medicine. Published date. January 1, 2009. Reports. Economic and social ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 873 ... As a result of climate change, population growth, and rapid ... The Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-transmitted human pathogen which has affected over 50 countries to date. ... Harnessing the sharing economy in developing countries ... Adaptation Finance: Linking Research, Policy, and Business.

Search Results | Page 918 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9171 - 9180 of 9602 ... Mobile Nav Footer Links .... Do broadband and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS) have a positive ... actually generates a greater degree of efficiency in the teaching-learning process, test results can fall due to the fact that students can be distracted by having internet access.

Search Results | Page 56 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 551 - 560 of 8489 ... Exploring and profiling of childhood illnesses in informal settlements in relation to flooding : a case study of Barcelona, Cape Town, South Africa. INTRODUCTION: A significant number of studies have documented illnesses that follow flooding as a result of people coming into contact with ...

Search Results | Page 58 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 571 - 580 of 8531 ... Exploring and profiling of childhood illnesses in informal settlements in relation to flooding : a case study of Barcelona, Cape Town, South Africa. INTRODUCTION: A significant number of studies have documented illnesses that follow flooding as a result of people coming into contact with ...

Search Results | Page 913 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9121 - 9130 of 9601 ... Social security for migrant labour in the Greater Mekong subregion ... Challenges resulting from the global economic crisis, and ... Import tariffs and export subsidies in the World Trade Organization : a small-country approach ... Four trade processes were identified for detailed study: export of ...

Search Results | Page 912 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9111 - 9120 of 9601 ... Results show that a 1 per cent increase in port efficiency ... Impact of EPZs on poverty reduction and trade facilitation in Sri Lanka ... SMALL ENTERPRISES TOURISM SEX INDUSTRY BORDER ... Weak governance is the single factor most likely to undermine prospects for sustainable growth.

Search Results | Page 2 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 11 - 20 of 28 ... Research results have no value unless they are made available for due consideration by practitioners and policymakers. Scientific articles are ... Acacia Networks. IDRC's Acacia (Communities and the Information Society) program has chosen to invest a significant part of its budget in thematic networks.

Search Results | Page 6 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 51 - 60 of 902 ... ... CASE STUDIES 20 Apply CASE STUDIES filter · Networking 20 Apply ... Strengthening think tank networks ... Latin America is the most unequal region in the world and faces ... As a result of climate change, population growth, and rapid unplanned urbanization, cities in developing countries are both ...

Search Results | Page 24 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 231 - 240 of 257 ... Even where quota systems are in place, there has been slow progress in increasing women''s leadership in formal politics, suggesting that a range of ... Results show the power of agroecological practices to improve livelihoods and food security, limited by situations where most agroecological ...

Search Results | Page 52 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 511 - 520 of 8531 ... Filter by type ... Papers (678) Apply Papers filter · Books (333) Apply Books filter · Briefs (288) .... Morocco and Palestine that we see how training, research and ... Review of methods for the economic analysis of climate change ... of methods, institutions and results to inform the CARIAA Program.

Search Results | Page 815 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8141 - 8150 of 9601 ... ... Research in Action filter · Journal articles (1005) Apply Journal articles .... IDRC supports results-based research that has real impacts on ... IDRC support helps some of the developing world's brightest scientists find new ways to ... Dr David Butler-Jones, professor in the Faculty of Medicine at ...

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 111 - 120 of 8517 ... In April 2016, Burkina Faso became the first African country to introduce a national policy for universal and free healthcare for pregnant women, new mothers, and ... Most deaths in sub-Saharan Africa occur without medical attention, and as a result, the causes of death (COD) remain unknown.

Search Results | Page 839 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8381 - 8390 of 8531 ... Combined effect of excise tax hikes and economic recession in Ukraine resulted in reduction of tobacco product affordability by two-fold in 2009-2010. ... Historical rainfall patterns with direct relevance to rainfed crop production are monitored for the lower Tana basin of Kenya to assess risks to ...

Search Results | Page 10 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 91 - 100 of 257 ... Enhanced Preservation of Fruits Using Nanotechnology (CIFSRF Phase 2). Poor handling of fruit results in post-harvest losses of nearly 40% in tropical ... New research aims to help control malaria in one watershed in northern Peru. Malaria is widespread in Peru's arid North Coast because of the ...

Search Results | Page 42 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 411 - 420 of 420 ... During the 1980s, it was thought that liberalizing trade and exposing industries to competition would result in the loss of some firms but a more productive and competitive industrial sector as a whole. Project. -. Mitigating the Health Risks of Stone Quarrying and Crushing in India. In Pratapura ...

Search Results | Page 840 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2015-11-17

Results 8391 - 8400 of 8489 ... "IDRC always has been focused on achieving concrete results — the research we support is too important to stay on the shelf,” IDRC's Acting Chairperson went on to say at the meeting, held in Ottawa on November 17, 2015. Published date. November 24, 2015. News. Health Miscellaneous ...

PageFocus: Using paradata to detect and prevent cheating on online achievement tests.

Science.gov (United States)

Diedenhofen, Birk; Musch, Jochen

2017-08-01

Cheating threatens the validity of unproctored online achievement tests. To address this problem, we developed PageFocus, a JavaScript that detects when participants abandon test pages by switching to another window or browser tab. In a first study, we aimed at testing whether PageFocus could detect and prevent cheating. We asked 115 lab and 186 online participants to complete a knowledge test comprising items that were difficult to answer but easy to look up on the Internet. Half of the participants were invited to look up the solutions, which significantly increased their test scores. The PageFocus script detected test takers who abandoned the test page with very high sensitivity and specificity, and successfully reduced cheating by generating a popup message that asked participants not to cheat. In a second study, 510 online participants completed a knowledge test comprising items that could easily be looked up and a reasoning task involving matrices that were impossible to look up. In a first group, a performance-related monetary reward was promised to the top scorers; in a second group, participants took part in a lottery that provided performance-unrelated rewards; and in a third group, no incentive was offered. PageFocus revealed that participants cheated more when performance-related incentives were offered. As expected, however, this effect was limited to items that could easily be looked up. We recommend that PageFocus be routinely employed to detect and prevent cheating on online achievement tests.

Social Responsibility and Corporate Web Pages: Self-Presentation or Agenda-Setting?

Science.gov (United States)

Esrock, Stuart L.; Leichty, Greg B.

1998-01-01

Examines how corporate entities use the Web to present themselves as socially responsible citizens and to advance policy positions. Samples randomly "Fortune 500" companies, revealing that, although 90% had Web pages and 82% of the sites addressed a corporate social responsibility issue, few corporations used their pages to monitor…

Paged GIRS (Graph Information Retrieval System) Users Manual.

Science.gov (United States)

1981-05-01

list: G NODEl LINK1 valuei 2) Add integer I to the end of the list G NODE1 LINKI "I" 3) Place valuei in the third location from the bottom of the list...G NODEI LINK1 .-3 valuei 4) Replace the second integer value from the top of the list with the integer 10. G NODE1 LINKI -..2 ൒" 35 5) Assign a...random number to valuei (for the current page) and place the triple on page 5, continuant 0. NODEI - 5 LVREQP(2) = 0 VALUEI - 0 G NODE1 LINKI VALUEI PRINT

Smart photodetector arrays for error control in page-oriented optical memory

Science.gov (United States)

Schaffer, Maureen Elizabeth

1998-12-01

Page-oriented optical memories (POMs) have been proposed to meet high speed, high capacity storage requirements for input/output intensive computer applications. This technology offers the capability for storage and retrieval of optical data in two-dimensional pages resulting in high throughput data rates. Since currently measured raw bit error rates for these systems fall several orders of magnitude short of industry requirements for binary data storage, powerful error control codes must be adopted. These codes must be designed to take advantage of the two-dimensional memory output. In addition, POMs require an optoelectronic interface to transfer the optical data pages to one or more electronic host systems. Conventional charge coupled device (CCD) arrays can receive optical data in parallel, but the relatively slow serial electronic output of these devices creates a system bottleneck thereby eliminating the POM advantage of high transfer rates. Also, CCD arrays are "unintelligent" interfaces in that they offer little data processing capabilities. The optical data page can be received by two-dimensional arrays of "smart" photo-detector elements that replace conventional CCD arrays. These smart photodetector arrays (SPAs) can perform fast parallel data decoding and error control, thereby providing an efficient optoelectronic interface between the memory and the electronic computer. This approach optimizes the computer memory system by combining the massive parallelism and high speed of optics with the diverse functionality, low cost, and local interconnection efficiency of electronics. In this dissertation we examine the design of smart photodetector arrays for use as the optoelectronic interface for page-oriented optical memory. We review options and technologies for SPA fabrication, develop SPA requirements, and determine SPA scalability constraints with respect to pixel complexity, electrical power dissipation, and optical power limits. Next, we examine data

Analysis Of Navy Hornet Squadron Mishap Costs With Regard To Previously Flown Flight Hours

Science.gov (United States)

2017-06-01

Psychological Association ( APA ) manual guidelines for reporting statistics have recommended reporting exact p-values, and avoiding arbitrary...NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited. ANALYSIS OF NAVY...Advisor Kenneth Doerr THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK i REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden

Yellow pages advertising by physicians. Are doctors providing the information consumers want most?

Science.gov (United States)

Butler, D D; Abernethy, A M

1996-01-01

Yellow pages listing are the most widely used form of physician advertising. Every month, approximately 21.6 million adults in the United States refer to the yellow pages before obtaining medical care. Mobile consumers--approximately 17% of the U.S. population who move each year--are heavy users of yellow pages. Consumers desire information on a physician's experience, but it is included in less than 1% of all physician display ads.

Reconfigurable Full-Page Braille Displays

Science.gov (United States)

Garner, H. Douglas

1994-01-01

Electrically actuated braille display cells of proposed type arrayed together to form full-page braille displays. Like other braille display cells, these provide changeable patterns of bumps driven by digitally recorded text stored on magnetic tapes or in solid-state electronic memories. Proposed cells contain electrorheological fluid. Viscosity of such fluid increases in strong electrostatic field.

Pro single page application development using Backbone.js and ASP.NET

CERN Document Server

Fink, Gil

2014-01-01

One of the most important and exciting trends in web development in recent years is the move towards single page applications, or SPAs. Instead of clicking through hyperlinks and waiting for each page to load, the user loads a site once and all the interactivity is handled fluidly by a rich JavaScript front end. If you come from a background in ASP.NET development, you'll be used to handling most interactions on the server side. Pro Single Page Application Development will guide you through your transition to this powerful new application type.The book starts in Part I by laying the groundwork

Readability of the web: a study on 1 billion web pages

NARCIS (Netherlands)

de Heus, Marije; Hiemstra, Djoerd

We have performed a readability study on more than 1 billion web pages. The Automated Readability Index was used to determine the average grade level required to easily comprehend a website. Some of the results are that a 16-year-old can easily understand 50% of the web and an 18-year old can easily

Do-It-Yourself: A Special Library's Approach to Creating Dynamic Web Pages Using Commercial Off-The-Shelf Applications

Science.gov (United States)

Steeman, Gerald; Connell, Christopher

2000-01-01

Many librarians may feel that dynamic Web pages are out of their reach, financially and technically. Yet we are reminded in library and Web design literature that static home pages are a thing of the past. This paper describes how librarians at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) library developed a database-driven, dynamic intranet site using commercial off-the-shelf applications. Administrative issues include surveying a library users group for interest and needs evaluation; outlining metadata elements; and, committing resources from managing time to populate the database and training in Microsoft FrontPage and Web-to-database design. Technical issues covered include Microsoft Access database fundamentals, lessons learned in the Web-to-database process (including setting up Database Source Names (DSNs), redesigning queries to accommodate the Web interface, and understanding Access 97 query language vs. Standard Query Language (SQL)). This paper also offers tips on editing Active Server Pages (ASP) scripting to create desired results. A how-to annotated resource list closes out the paper.

Modeling user navigation behavior in web by colored Petri nets to determine the user's interest in recommending web pages

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Mehdi Sadeghzadeh

2013-01-01

Full Text Available One of existing challenges in personalization of the web is increasing the efficiency of a web in meeting the users' requirements for the contents they require in an optimal state. All the information associated with the current user behavior following in web and data obtained from pervious users’ interaction in web can provide some necessary keys to recommend presentation of services, productions, and the required information of the users. This study aims at presenting a formal model based on colored Petri nets to identify the present user's interest, which is utilized to recommend the most appropriate pages ahead. In the proposed design, recommendation of the pages is considered with respect to information obtained from pervious users' profile as well as the current session of the present user. This model offers the updated proposed pages to the user by clicking on the web pages. Moreover, an example of web is modeled using CPN Tools. The results of the simulation show that this design improves the precision factor. We explain, through evaluation where the results of this method are more objective and the dynamic recommendations demonstrate that the results of the recommended method improve the precision criterion 15% more than the static method.

Review Pages: Cities, Energy and Mobility

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Gennaro Angiello

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Starting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always remaining in the groove of rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. During the last two years a particular attention has been paid on the Smart Cities theme and on the different meanings that come with it. The last section of the journal is formed by the Review Pages. They have different aims: to inform on the problems, trends and evolutionary processes; to investigate on the paths by highlighting the advanced relationships among apparently distant disciplinary fields; to explore the interaction’s areas, experiences and potential applications; to underline interactions, disciplinary developments but also, if present, defeats and setbacks. Inside the journal the Review Pages have the task of stimulating as much as possible the circulation of ideas and the discovery of new points of view. For this reason the section is founded on a series of basic’s references, required for the identification of new and more advanced interactions. These references are the research, the planning acts, the actions and the applications, analysed and investigated both for their ability to give a systematic response to questions concerning the urban and territorial planning, and for their attention to aspects such as the environmental sustainability and the innovation in the practices. For this purpose the Review Pages are formed by five sections (Web Resources; Books; Laws; Urban Practices; News and Events, each of which examines a specific aspect of the broader information storage of interest for TeMA.

La double-page chez Hirohiko Araki : l’ubris faite norme

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Aurélien Pigeat

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Le style d’Araki se caractérise par un usage massif de la double-page, loin de l’usage ponctuel que l’on trouve habituellement dans les shonen. Elle témoigne d’une forme d’ubris qui se fait norme de composition c’est-à-dire qu’elle érige le principe de débordement en règle de structuration de l’action et des planches Elle est ainsi la marque de la démesure d’un auteur qui, sous l’apparence du manga populaire, et à travers les codes de ce dernier, élabore une œuvre d’une puissance et d’une sophistication rares..

Pour appréhender ce phénomène, il nous faut d’abord observer concrètement l’usage que fait Hirohiko Araki de la double-page, les lieux du récit que celle-ci investit, la fréquence de ses manifestations, et la manière dont elle caractérise les différentes parties de la saga Jojo’s bizarre Adventure. L’ubris de la double-page met alors particulièrement en relief deux éléments centraux de la poétique d’Hirohiko Araki : le corps et le temps.  La double-page apparaît comme la réponse matérielle à ces corps qui débordent de la page classique, qui éclatent ou se dispersent de telle sorte que l’auteur doit étendre les limites de ce cadre pour les représenter. Le temps entre lui en scène à travers le détail : la double-page devient le règne d’un détail sur lequel le lecteur passe trop vite et auquel le héros accorde toute son attention. Enfin, la double-page possède chez Hirohiko Araki une dimension proprement esthétique que révèle clairement l’usage presque absolu qui en est fait dans la septième partie de Jojo’s bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run, et dans le volume Rohan au Louvre, même si l’on peut la deviner déjà auparavant. La double-page est un moment où l’énigme se présente au héros, se met en mouvement ou se trouve élucidée. Le règne de l’ubris s’affirme là, dans ces doubles-pages qui n’en sont finalement plus, dans cette

Improving Web Page Retrieval using Search Context from Clicked Domain Names

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Li, R.

Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich information on issued queries and their corresponding clicked Web pages. The clicked data implies its relevance to the query and can be

PageRank without hyperlinks: Reranking with PubMed related article networks for biomedical text retrieval

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Lin Jimmy

2008-06-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Graph analysis algorithms such as PageRank and HITS have been successful in Web environments because they are able to extract important inter-document relationships from manually-created hyperlinks. We consider the application of these techniques to biomedical text retrieval. In the current PubMed® search interface, a MEDLINE® citation is connected to a number of related citations, which are in turn connected to other citations. Thus, a MEDLINE record represents a node in a vast content-similarity network. This article explores the hypothesis that these networks can be exploited for text retrieval, in the same manner as hyperlink graphs on the Web. Results We conducted a number of reranking experiments using the TREC 2005 genomics track test collection in which scores extracted from PageRank and HITS analysis were combined with scores returned by an off-the-shelf retrieval engine. Experiments demonstrate that incorporating PageRank scores yields significant improvements in terms of standard ranked-retrieval metrics. Conclusion The link structure of content-similarity networks can be exploited to improve the effectiveness of information retrieval systems. These results generalize the applicability of graph analysis algorithms to text retrieval in the biomedical domain.

Accounting Programs' Home Pages: What's Happening.

Science.gov (United States)

Peek, Lucia E.; Roxas, Maria L.

2002-01-01

Content analysis of 62 accounting programs' websites indicated the following: 53% include mission statements; 62.9% list accreditation; many faculty biographies and personal pages used inconsistent formats; provision of information on financial aid, student organizations, career services, and certified public accountant requirements varied. Many…

Learning Layouts for Single-Page Graphic Designs.

Science.gov (United States)

O'Donovan, Peter; Agarwala, Aseem; Hertzmann, Aaron

2014-08-01

This paper presents an approach for automatically creating graphic design layouts using a new energy-based model derived from design principles. The model includes several new algorithms for analyzing graphic designs, including the prediction of perceived importance, alignment detection, and hierarchical segmentation. Given the model, we use optimization to synthesize new layouts for a variety of single-page graphic designs. Model parameters are learned with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization (NIO) from a small number of example layouts. To demonstrate our approach, we show results for applications including generating design layouts in various styles, retargeting designs to new sizes, and improving existing designs. We also compare our automatic results with designs created using crowdsourcing and show that our approach performs slightly better than novice designers.

Corporate branding in Facebook fan pages ideas for improving your brand value

CERN Document Server

Zamith Brito, Eliane Pereira

2015-01-01

In Corporate Branding in Facebook Fan Pages: Ideas for Improving Your Brand Value, the authors show how companies can improve their brand value by fostering their online corporate reputation. Communication actions on Facebook fan pages are an important tool on the road to reputation. Considering that reputation is essentially the long-term image of a brand, the book suggests strategies for improving this image in the short term by nurturing engagement with consumers. Word of mouth (WOM) is an important tool for creating and replicating the image of a trustworthy company, and these repeated images can result in a solid reputation or increased brand value. Also addressed is how company's strategies influence this process, and how online communication benefits from the integration of the manager's vision with communication policies.

Enriching the trustworthiness of health-related web pages.

Science.gov (United States)

Gaudinat, Arnaud; Cruchet, Sarah; Boyer, Celia; Chrawdhry, Pravir

2011-06-01

We present an experimental mechanism for enriching web content with quality metadata. This mechanism is based on a simple and well-known initiative in the field of the health-related web, the HONcode. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) format and the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set were used to formalize these metadata. The model of trust proposed is based on a quality model for health-related web pages that has been tested in practice over a period of thirteen years. Our model has been explored in the context of a project to develop a research tool that automatically detects the occurrence of quality criteria in health-related web pages.

Identification of Malicious Web Pages by Inductive Learning

Science.gov (United States)

Liu, Peishun; Wang, Xuefang

Malicious web pages are an increasing threat to current computer systems in recent years. Traditional anti-virus techniques focus typically on detection of the static signatures of Malware and are ineffective against these new threats because they cannot deal with zero-day attacks. In this paper, a novel classification method for detecting malicious web pages is presented. This method is generalization and specialization of attack pattern based on inductive learning, which can be used for updating and expanding knowledge database. The attack pattern is established from an example and generalized by inductive learning, which can be used to detect unknown attacks whose behavior is similar to the example.

A STUDY ON RANKING METHOD IN RETRIEVING WEB PAGES BASED ON CONTENT AND LINK ANALYSIS: COMBINATION OF FOURIER DOMAIN SCORING AND PAGERANK SCORING

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Diana Purwitasari

2008-01-01

Full Text Available Ranking module is an important component of search process which sorts through relevant pages. Since collection of Web pages has additional information inherent in the hyperlink structure of the Web, it can be represented as link score and then combined with the usual information retrieval techniques of content score. In this paper we report our studies about ranking score of Web pages combined from link analysis, PageRank Scoring, and content analysis, Fourier Domain Scoring. Our experiments use collection of Web pages relate to Statistic subject from Wikipedia with objectives to check correctness and performance evaluation of combination ranking method. Evaluation of PageRank Scoring show that the highest score does not always relate to Statistic. Since the links within Wikipedia articles exists so that users are always one click away from more information on any point that has a link attached, it it possible that unrelated topics to Statistic are most likely frequently mentioned in the collection. While the combination method show link score which is given proportional weight to content score of Web pages does effect the retrieval results.

Search Engine Ranking, Quality, and Content of Web Pages That Are Critical Versus Noncritical of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine.

Science.gov (United States)

Fu, Linda Y; Zook, Kathleen; Spoehr-Labutta, Zachary; Hu, Pamela; Joseph, Jill G

2016-01-01

Online information can influence attitudes toward vaccination. The aim of the present study was to provide a systematic evaluation of the search engine ranking, quality, and content of Web pages that are critical versus noncritical of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. We identified HPV vaccine-related Web pages with the Google search engine by entering 20 terms. We then assessed each Web page for critical versus noncritical bias and for the following quality indicators: authorship disclosure, source disclosure, attribution of at least one reference, currency, exclusion of testimonial accounts, and readability level less than ninth grade. We also determined Web page comprehensiveness in terms of mention of 14 HPV vaccine-relevant topics. Twenty searches yielded 116 unique Web pages. HPV vaccine-critical Web pages comprised roughly a third of the top, top 5- and top 10-ranking Web pages. The prevalence of HPV vaccine-critical Web pages was higher for queries that included term modifiers in addition to root terms. Compared with noncritical Web pages, Web pages critical of HPV vaccine overall had a lower quality score than those with a noncritical bias (p engine queries despite being of lower quality and less comprehensive than noncritical Web pages. Copyright © 2016 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Referencing web pages and e-journals.

Science.gov (United States)

Bryson, David

2013-12-01

One of the areas that can confuse students and authors alike is how to reference web pages and electronic journals (e-journals). The aim of this professional development article is to go back to first principles for referencing and see how with examples these should be referenced.

Web pages: What can you see in a single fixation?

Science.gov (United States)

Jahanian, Ali; Keshvari, Shaiyan; Rosenholtz, Ruth

2018-01-01

Research in human vision suggests that in a single fixation, humans can extract a significant amount of information from a natural scene, e.g. the semantic category, spatial layout, and object identities. This ability is useful, for example, for quickly determining location, navigating around obstacles, detecting threats, and guiding eye movements to gather more information. In this paper, we ask a new question: What can we see at a glance at a web page - an artificial yet complex "real world" stimulus? Is it possible to notice the type of website, or where the relevant elements are, with only a glimpse? We find that observers, fixating at the center of a web page shown for only 120 milliseconds, are well above chance at classifying the page into one of ten categories. Furthermore, this ability is supported in part by text that they can read at a glance. Users can also understand the spatial layout well enough to reliably localize the menu bar and to detect ads, even though the latter are often camouflaged among other graphical elements. We discuss the parallels between web page gist and scene gist, and the implications of our findings for both vision science and human-computer interaction.

Watershed Data Management (WDM) database for West Branch DuPage River streamflow simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 2007, through September 30, 2013

Science.gov (United States)

Bera, Maitreyee

2017-10-16

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the DuPage County Stormwater Management Department, maintains a database of hourly meteorological and hydrologic data for use in a near real-time streamflow simulation system. This system is used in the management and operation of reservoirs and other flood-control structures in the West Branch DuPage River watershed in DuPage County, Illinois. The majority of the precipitation data are collected from a tipping-bucket rain-gage network located in and near DuPage County. The other meteorological data (air temperature, dewpoint temperature, wind speed, and solar radiation) are collected at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill. Potential evapotranspiration is computed from the meteorological data using the computer program LXPET (Lamoreux Potential Evapotranspiration). The hydrologic data (water-surface elevation [stage] and discharge) are collected at U.S.Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations in and around DuPage County. These data are stored in a Watershed Data Management (WDM) database.This report describes a version of the WDM database that is quality-assured and quality-controlled annually to ensure datasets are complete and accurate. This database is named WBDR13.WDM. It contains data from January 1, 2007, through September 30, 2013. Each precipitation dataset may have time periods of inaccurate data. This report describes the methods used to estimate the data for the periods of missing, erroneous, or snowfall-affected data and thereby improve the accuracy of these data. The other meteorological datasets are described in detail in Over and others (2010), and the hydrologic datasets in the database are fully described in the online USGS annual water data reports for Illinois (U.S. Geological Survey, 2016) and, therefore, are described in less detail than the precipitation datasets in this report.

Design of a Web Page as a complement of educative innovation through MOODLE

Science.gov (United States)

Mendiola Ubillos, M. A.; Aguado Cortijo, Pedro L.

2010-05-01

In the context of Information Technology to impart knowledge and to establish MOODLE system as a support and complementary tool to on-site educational methodology (b-learning) a Web Page was designed in Agronomic and Food Industry Crops (Plantas de interés Agroalimentario) during 2006-07 course. This web was inserted in the Thecnical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) computer system to facilitate to the students the first contact with the contents of this subject. In this page the objectives and methodology, personal work planning, subject program given plus the activities are showed. At another web site, the evaluation criteria and recommended bibliography are located. The objective of this web page has been to make more transparent and accessible the necessary information in the learning process and presenting it in a more attractive frame. This page has been update and modified in each academic course offered since its first implementation. We had added in some cases new specific links to increase its useful. At the end of each course a test is applied to the students that take this subject. We have asked which elements would like to modify, delete and add to this web page. In this way the direct users give their point of view and help to improve the web page each course.

Does content affect whether users remember that Web pages were hyperlinked?

Science.gov (United States)

Jones, Keith S; Ballew, Timothy V; Probst, C Adam

2008-10-01

We determined whether memory for hyperlinks improved when they represented relations between the contents of the Web pages. J. S. Farris (2003) found that memory for hyperlinks improved when they represented relations between the contents of the Web pages. However, Farris's (2003) participants could have used their knowledge of site content to answer questions about relations that were instantiated via the site's content and its hyperlinks. In Experiment 1, users navigated a Web site and then answered questions about relations that were instantiated only via content, only via hyperlinks, and via content and hyperlinks. Unlike Farris (2003), we split the latter into two sets. One asked whether certain content elements were related, and the other asked whether certain Web pages were hyperlinked. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 with one modification: The questions that were asked about relations instantiated via content and hyperlinks were changed so that each question's wrong answer was also related to the question's target. Memory for hyperlinks improved when they represented relations instantiated within the content of the Web pages. This was true when (a) questions about content and hyperlinks were separated (Experiment 1) and (b) each question's wrong answer was also related to the question's target (Experiment 2). The accuracy of users' mental representations of local architecture depended on whether hyperlinks were related to the site's content. Designers who want users to remember hyperlinks should associate those hyperlinks with content that reflects the relation between the contents on the Web pages.

Around power law for PageRank components in Buckley-Osthus model of web graph

OpenAIRE

Gasnikov, Alexander; Zhukovskii, Maxim; Kim, Sergey; Noskov, Fedor; Plaunov, Stepan; Smirnov, Daniil

2017-01-01

In the paper we investigate power law for PageRank components for the Buckley-Osthus model for web graph. We compare different numerical methods for PageRank calculation. With the best method we do a lot of numerical experiments. These experiments confirm the hypothesis about power law. At the end we discuss real model of web-ranking based on the classical PageRank approach.

Search Results | Page 7 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 61 - 70 of 9602 ... ... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 514 Apply INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY filter .... TRAINING INDIGENOUS POPULATION MEDICAL PERSONNEL ... RURAL AREAS BOTSWANA INCOME GENERATION TOURISM ...

Search Results | Page 24 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 231 - 240 of 8492 ... AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE Gender ... policymakers, agricultural businesses, researchers, and agriculture donors. ... GENDER EQUALITY FAMILY FARMS WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ...

Search Results | Page 816 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8151 - 8160 of 8492 ... HEALTH FINANCING HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH EQUITY TAX ... TAX REVENUES CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ... PRINCIPLE TOBACCO CONTROL RESOURCE ALLOCATION TAX REVENUES ...

Search Results | Page 60 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 591 - 600 of 1119 ... Journal articles. Food security RAINFED FARMING BURKINA FASO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION RUNOFF WATER SAHEL ... PROTECTION Environmental economics ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ...

Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Wallace Koehler

1999-01-01

Full Text Available Web pages and Web sites, some argue, can either be collected as elements of digital or hybrid libraries, or, as others would have it, the WWW is itself a library. We begin with the assumption that Web pages and Web sites can be collected and categorized. The paper explores the proposition that the WWW constitutes a library. We conclude that the Web is not a digital library. However, its component parts can be aggregated and included as parts of digital library collections. These, in turn, can be incorporated into "hybrid libraries." These are libraries with both traditional and digital collections. Material on the Web can be organized and managed. Native documents can be collected in situ, disseminated, distributed, catalogueed, indexed, controlled, in traditional library fashion. The Web therefore is not a library, but material for library collections is selected from the Web. That said, the Web and its component parts are dynamic. Web documents undergo two kinds of change. The first type, the type addressed in this paper, is "persistence" or the existence or disappearance of Web pages and sites, or in a word the lifecycle of Web documents. "Intermittence" is a variant of persistence, and is defined as the disappearance but reappearance of Web documents. At any given time, about five percent of Web pages are intermittent, which is to say they are gone but will return. Over time a Web collection erodes. Based on a 120-week longitudinal study of a sample of Web documents, it appears that the half-life of a Web page is somewhat less than two years and the half-life of a Web site is somewhat more than two years. That is to say, an unweeded Web document collection created two years ago would contain the same number of URLs, but only half of those URLs point to content. The second type of change Web documents experience is change in Web page or Web site content. Again based on the Web document samples, very nearly all Web pages and sites undergo some

Search Results | Page 795 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7941 - 7950 of 8491 ... Development research in countries in transition: Introduction. Research in Action. Health Ecohealth CONTAMINATION Pollution MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM MERCURY Gender ...

Search Results | Page 801 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8001 - 8010 of 8519 ... Modeling the determinants of job satisfaction in Vietnam ... building HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY ... RICE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION RISK MANAGEMENT CROP LOSSES ...

Search Results | Page 21 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2011-01-01

Results 201 - 210 of 1368 ... Public innovation financing schemes in Singapore. Published date. Saturday, January 1, 2011 - 00:00. Papers. PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ...

Search Results | Page 94 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 931 - 940 of 1119 ... Journal articles. POTATOES Food security CHROMATOGRAPHY NUTRITION ... management practices, environmental degradation, and agricultural modernization programs that benefit the elite but disadvantage.

Reason and Reaction: The Dual Route of Decision Making Process on Social Media Usage: The Case of Hospitality Brand Fan Pages

Science.gov (United States)

Manthiou, Aikaterini

2012-01-01

A new phenomenon on Facebook, resulting from social media revolution, is the emergence of numerous Facebook fan pages. This form of online brand community is an effective tool for building relationships with consumers. Many hospitality firms (i.e. restaurants) have captured the strength of a fan page because it can enhance brand attractiveness and…

Search Results | Page 15 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2008-01-01

Results 141 - 150 of 1310 ... Smoking, poverty and ill-health in China. Published date. January 1, 2008. Papers. TELECOMMUNICATIONS EDUCATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HEALTH ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GOVERNMENT ...

Search Results | Page 41 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 401 - 410 of 8491 ... Development GENDER EQUALITY WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S RIGHTS FEMINISM ... Health, SDGs, and public policy—the role of policy research institutions ... TECHNICAL EDUCATION ...

Search Results | Page 65 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 641 - 650 of 1119 ... Reports. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE ... Knowledge and ideas: IDRC's third Annual Public Meeting ... Agricultural technologies bring healthy diversity to school meals.

Search Results | Page 840 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8391 - 8400 of 8517 ... Journal articles ... KNOW-HOW TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ASIA Innovation INDUSTRIAL ... ECONOMY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY ... Canadian agricultural research in international food security ...

Search Results | Page 826 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8251 - 8260 of 8494 ... Open data leaders in government finally have a support network - each other ... CRIME PREVENTION SOUTH AFRICA MASCULINITY ... ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE LEADERSHIP PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH ...

Search Results | Page 818 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8171 - 8180 of 8492 ... WOMEN'S RIGHTS POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR POLITICAL ... Should a seemingly sudden change of political attitude, which has led ... ADAPTIVE CAPACITY PAKISTAN ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES FLOODS ...

Search Results | Page 91 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 901 - 910 of 1119 ... AGRICULTURE Food security COWPEAS BURKINA FASO ... SOIL POLLUTION IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT MIDDLE EAST Food security AGRICULTURE. Sustainable management of wastewater for agriculture ...

“I didn't know her, but…”: parasocial mourning of mediated deaths on Facebook RIP pages

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Klastrup, Lisbeth

2015-01-01

This article examines the use of six Danish “Rest in Peace” or (RIP) memorial pages. The article focuses on the relation between news media and RIP page use, in relation to general communicative practices on these pages. Based on an analysis of press coverage of the deaths of six young people...... and a close analysis of 1,015 comments extracted from the RIP pages created to memorialize them, it is shown that their deaths attracted considerable media attention, as did the RIP pages themselves. Comment activity seem to reflect the news stories in the way the commenters refer to the context of death...... and the emotional distress they experience, but mainly comments on the RIP pages are conventional expressions of sympathy and “RIP” wishes. The article concludes that public RIP pages might be understood as virtual spontaneous shrines, affording an emerging practice of “RIP-ing.”...

Search Results | Page 681 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 6801 - 6810 of 9602 ... Institutional Support : Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) ... Institutional Support : Applied and Theoretical Economic Research Group (Mali) ... Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC).

Search Results | Page 45 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2007-01-01

Results 441 - 450 of 8491 ... Issues : global change - climate change and variability / risk - vulnerability / research - capacity building - governance / science - communication - decision processes. Published date. January 1, 2007. Studies.

Search Results | Page 759 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7581 - 7590 of 8491 ... Potato farming becomes healthier in Ecuador. Research in Action. Disease control Ecohealth Health systems HIV/AIDS Immunization International cooperation Policy and regulations ...

Search Results | Page 50 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 491 - 500 of 9601 ... ... WOMEN'S RIGHTS (162) Apply WOMEN'S RIGHTS filter · GENDER ... Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar (7) Apply Knowledge for ... INDIGENOUS POPULATION ETHNIC MINORITIES TRADITIONAL CULTURE ...

Search Results | Page 78 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 771 - 780 of 8491 ... Adaptation to climate change in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico : bridging disciplines and scales with scenario based integrative modeling. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies.

Search Results | Page 85 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 841 - 850 of 8531 ... Adaptation to climate change in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico : bridging disciplines and scales with scenario based integrative modeling. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies.

Search Results | Page 73 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 721 - 730 of 870 ... Electronic Government : Caribbean Pilot Project. Caribbean countries are increasingly adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the process of modernizing their public sectors.

Search Results | Page 34 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 331 - 340 of 374 ... Electronic Government : Caribbean Pilot Project. Caribbean countries are increasingly adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the process of modernizing their public sectors.

Search Results | Page 13 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 121 - 130 of 8491 ... Community engagement for better health in Burkina Faso ... Economics ENTREPRENEURSHIP WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT COURTS ... information technology, public health, statistics, law, and social ...

Search Results | Page 765 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7641 - 7650 of 8491 ... ... practices and principles for policy-oriented research organizations working in developing countries. ... We have developed an organizational performance assessment ... Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM).

Intention to continue using Facebook fan pages from the perspective of social capital theory.

Science.gov (United States)

Lin, Kuan-Yu; Lu, Hsi-Peng

2011-10-01

Social network sites enable users to express themselves, establish ties, and develop and maintain social relationships. Recently, many companies have begun using social media identity (e.g., Facebook fan pages) to enhance brand attractiveness, and social network sites have evolved into social utility networks, thereby creating a number of promising business opportunities. To this end, the operators of fan pages need to be aware of the factors motivating users to continue their patronization of such pages. This study set out to identify these motivating factors from the point of view of social capital. This study employed structural equation modeling to investigate a research model based on a survey of 327 fan pages users. This study discovered that ties related to social interaction (structural dimension), shared values (cognitive dimension), and trust (relational dimension) play important roles in users' continued intention to use Facebook fan pages. Finally, this study discusses the implications of these findings and offers directions for future research.

Search Results | Page 13 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2013-04-01

Results 121 - 130 of 870 ... Innovation and productivity in services : an impact evaluation of Colciencias funding programs in Colombia. Published date. April 1, 2013. Papers. CHILE SERVICES Innovation ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2013-04-01

Results 41 - 50 of 257 ... Innovation and productivity in services : an impact evaluation of Colciencias funding programs in Colombia. Published date. April 1, 2013. Papers. CHILE SERVICES Innovation ...

Search Results | Page 62 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2007-01-01

Results 611 - 620 of 8492 ... PRISM, Poverty Reduction Irrigation Smallholder Markets : a presentation on the IDE PRISM approach to enabling smallholder prosperity. Published date. January 1, 2007. Studies. - ...

Search Results | Page 28 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 271 - 280 of 8494 ... ... DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES ... Perspectives ... of senior and middle-management positions are held by women. ... urban violence reduction theories, strategies, and interventions.

Search Results | Page 27 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 261 - 270 of 1325 ... Filter by project status ... Urban Poverty and Environment Programme : Colombo; monitoring and evaluation component; monitoring findings ... Enough foreign direct investment quickens economic growth everywhere.

Search Results | Page 63 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 621 - 630 of 650 ... ... importance of understanding sexualities and on connecting this understanding ... and human conditions for using information and communication ... Mozambique Information and Communication Technology : Micro ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 8492 ... Information and Communication STATISTICAL DATA SUSTAINABLE ... Denis Trudeau is Director of Information Management and Technology. ... (CRVS) systems in developing countries requires knowledge sharing, ...

Search Results | Page 45 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2007-01-01

Results 441 - 450 of 8491 ... Issues : global change - climate change and variability / risk - vulnerability / research - capacity building - governance / science - communication - decision processes. Published date. January 1, 2007. Studies ...

Search Results | Page 46 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 451 - 460 of 8518 ... Graduate education should challenge traditional modes of learning and ... Development FEMINISM WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ... The role of research in implementing Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy.

Search Results | Page 64 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2006-06-22

Results 631 - 640 of 8491 ... Session leaders opening/closing remarks : growing cities, growing food : unleashing urban farming : World Urban Festival, June 22, 2006. Published date. January 1, 2006. Studies.

Search Results | Page 61 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 601 - 610 of 1119 ... ... SMALLHOLDERS PESTICIDES GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS. Gender impacts of genetically engineered crops in developing ... from the adoption of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops have shown tha.

Search Results | Page 48 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 471 - 480 of 1980 ... Trade liberalization, inter-industry wage differentials and job ... Striving towards excellence in development practice : integrating a gender perspective ... development assistance - issues, trends and opportunities.

Search Results | Page 63 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 621 - 630 of 902 ... Exploring Women's Understanding of Politics, Political Contestation ... IDRC's Democratic Governance, Women's Rights and Gender Equality ... Labour market regulations, particularly minimum wage policies, remain ...

Search Results | Page 843 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8421 - 8430 of 8494 ... Information and Communication ... We are strengthening developing-country skills and institutions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ... Véronique Duvieusart is Director, Human Resources.

Search Results | Page 95 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 941 - 950 of 1119 ... ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CARIBBEAN Ecohealth COLLABORATION ... Male responsibility and maternal morbidity: a cross-sectional study ... health adaptation to social, environmental and climate change impacts ...

Search Results | Page 902 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9011 - 9020 of 9580 ... We have developed an organizational performance ... The Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC ... Promoting partnerships for crime prevention on Southern ...

Search Results | Page 797 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7961 - 7970 of 8523 ... We have developed an organizational performance ... The Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC ... Promoting partnerships for crime prevention on Southern ...

Search Results | Page 621 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 6201 - 6210 of 9601 ... Democracy Project: Building Citizenship through Schools ... Improving Maternal and Child Health in Underserved Rural Areas of Nigeria through Implementation ... Addressing mental and neurological disorders.

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 111 - 120 of 8494 ... Social Policy GENDER RELATIONS Gender ... Economics ENTREPRENEURSHIP WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT COURTS ... to the objectives of IDRC's Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program, which ...

Search Results | Page 46 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Showing 451 - 460 of 1131 results : "food" ... to the Himalayan Environmental Studies & Conservation Organisation (HESCO), ... Journal articles ... the barriers to knowledge integration for improved agricultural technologies and their adoption.

Genetic variations of robinia pseudoacacia plant using sds-page

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Zahoor, M.; Islam, N. U.; Nisar, M.

2015-01-01

The biochemical analysis using SDS-PAGE has great contribution for the estimation of genetic diversity. We estimated the genetic diversity of R. pseudoacacia germ plasm protein. A total of 19 varieties were collected from different areas of Dir lower were investigated for the level of genetic divergence and genetic linkages. The total germ plasm grouped were separated at 20 percentage distance into two linkages based on Euclidean distances the 19 cultivars were further divide at 45 percentage distance into three clusters, cluster 1, cluster 2 and cluster 3. Cluster 1 was comprised of Munda 3, Munda 4, Talash 2 and UOM 1. Cluster 2 was comprised of Maidan 1 and Gulabad 1. Cluster 3 was comprised Maidan 2, UOM 3, Talash 1, Maidan 4, Maidan 3, Gulabad 2, Gulabad 3 and Gulabad 4. A total of range 00 percentage to 88 percentage variation recoded among 19 varieties. The result obtained after SDS-PAGE were computed for the construction of phylogenetic diversity, geographic relationship, Euclidian distance, genetic distance and linkage distance. This plant show a lot of variation in germ plasmic level. It is concluded that it is possible to improve and produce new varieties of this plant. (author)

Search Results | Page 9 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 81 - 90 of 8492 ... ... Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (185) Apply Canadian ... Empowering Palestinian girls through digital learning innovations in STEM fields ... Targeting senescence cells in pancreatic cancer.

Search Results | Page 18 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2015-06-30

Results 171 - 180 of 1368 ... Embedding Open Data Practice: Developing Indicators on the Institutionalization of Open Data Practice in Two African Governments. Published date. June 30, 2015. Papers. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ...

Search Results | Page 16 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2015-06-30

Results 151 - 160 of 1311 ... Embedding Open Data Practice: Developing Indicators on the Institutionalization of Open Data Practice in Two African Governments. Published date. June 30, 2015. Papers. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ...

Search Results | Page 948 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9471 - 9480 of 9580 ... Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been ... Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development ... future of the information society in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Search Results | Page 950 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9491 - 9500 of 9602 ... Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been ... Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development ... future of the information society in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Search Results | Page 843 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8421 - 8430 of 8531 ... Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been ... Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development ... future of the information society in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Search Results | Page 763 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7621 - 7630 of 8491 ... Information and communication technologies have long promised ... Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern ... growth and the aggressive marketing tactics of tobacco multinationals.

Search Results | Page 839 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8381 - 8390 of 8518 ... POLICY MAKING WATER LAW RESOURCE ALLOCATION WATER ... The article documents and analyzes recent water governance trends in ... highlighting cases of Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 9581 ... Journal articles ... OSSREA strategic plan 2011-2015 : technical report. Since its ... Community - Based Mangrove Management : participatory management of mangrove resources (PMMR) project (MoE / IDRC).

Search Results | Page 797 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7961 - 7970 of 8491 ... Mining, contamination, and health in Ecuador. Research leads to action to improve human health. Research in Action. Biodiversity Crops Food security Farming Systems Gender ...

Search Results | Page 846 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8451 - 8460 of 8497 ... ... property theory, rural development, and natural resource management. ... Collaborative Learning in Practice: Examples from Natural Resource ... Democracy, Citizenship and Youth: Towards Social and Political ...

Search Results | Page 71 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2010-01-01

Results 701 - 710 of 8491 ... Empowering regulators to protect consumer rights in the ICT sector : qualitative research for Rwanda; December 2010, PSCBS meeting room. Published date. January 1, 2010. Studies.

Search Results | Page 19 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 181 - 190 of 1368 ... Home; South Asia .... CULTURAL CHANGE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ... Health care in rural India in the context of decentralization : perception, participation, access and burden.

Search Results | Page 823 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8221 - 8230 of 8531 ... Published date ... Mobile Money and Local Development : final technical report, March ... three profile factors: inclusiveness, industry, and impact. ... the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Search Results | Page 56 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2008-01-01

Results 551 - 560 of 8491 ... Health Research Web : Low and Middle Income Countries Health Research Management Information System, Bamako, Mali, 17-19 November 2008. Published date. January 1, 2008. Studies.

Search Results | Page 88 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Showing 871 - 880 of 1765 results : "water adaptation" ... Centre (NZFHRC) in Kathmandu implemented an Urban Ecosystem and Health ... livelihood opportunities with integrated disaster management approaches. ... CCAA resources on M&E.

Search Results | Page 800 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7991 - 8000 of 8519 ... UNEMPLOYMENT SOUTH AFRICA SOCIAL SAFETY NETS PEACEBUILDING ... RESEARCH NETWORKS SOCIAL MEDIA EGYPT MAPPING ... The theory of the Networked Public Sphere draws on the premise ...

Search Results | Page 803 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8021 - 8030 of 8518 ... BUSINESS FINANCING HUMAN RESOURCES ... The presence and activities of ICT and IT-enabled Multinational Corporations (MNCs) helps the ... trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology.

Search Results | Page 3 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 21 - 30 of 823 ... ... response are traditionally considered the responsibility of governments. ... Rapid global urbanization presents important social, environmental, and ... Cuba, and Haiti, exchanged experiences of implementing climate ...

Search Results | Page 824 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8231 - 8240 of 8491 ... African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda ... TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Access to ICT Networking Gender ... sector development REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Gender ...

Search Results | Page 71 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2012-01-01

Results 701 - 710 of 8531 ... Audio slideshow: Overview and lessons from the Canadian Learning Forum 2012 on Virtual Platforms, Knowledge Management and International Development. Published date. January 1, 2012. Studies.

Search Results | Page 92 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 911 - 920 of 1119 ... Decisions and courses of action for climate change adaptation, adopted at various ... ROLE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION DECISION MAKING ... farmers and agricultural extension officers, paying particular attention.

Search Results | Page 15 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 141 - 150 of 175 ... Journal articles. WATER ... Evaluation of climate change impact on extreme hydrological event : case study; Addis Ababa and surrounding catchment ... Can participatory watershed management be sustained?

Search Results | Page 578 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 5771 - 5780 of 9604 ... Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) ... including possible business models and business case proposals. ... The social learning approach taken by the Jongphambili Sinethemba ...

Search Results | Page 835 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8341 - 8350 of 8494 ... ... PACKAGING GUATEMALA PUBLIC HEALTH MARKETING FOOD INDUSTRY ... Thailand : sustainability of rearing and business practices ... bodies raises issues of natural resource management that are closer ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 1366 ... Policy research institutions and the health SDGs: Building ... on the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ... Supporting graduation programs through empirical evidence and leadership promotion.

Search Results | Page 851 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8501 - 8510 of 8531 ... Governance. IDRC is governed by global leaders and innovators with one collective aim: to empower people to find lasting solutions through international development research. Webpage.

Search Results | Page 13 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 121 - 130 of 8491 ... Enhancing health worker performance in Ethiopia with mHealth ... Economics ENTREPRENEURSHIP WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ... information technology, public health, statistics, law, and social behaviour change for ...

Search Results | Page 812 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8111 - 8120 of 8490 ... GIS for Health and the Environment ... Improving Manufacturing Performance in South Africa: Report of the Industrial Strategy Project ... Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Development Cooperation.

Search Results | Page 14 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 131 - 140 of 175 ... Agricultural communities in the Ganges Dependent Area of ... environmental degradation, and agricultural modernization ... Journal articles ... Improving food and livelihood security through water-energy-agriculture ...

Search Results | Page 754 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7531 - 7540 of 9577 ... Strengthening Rural Livelihoods: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in Asia. Strengthening ... Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education ... Distance Education Technologies in Asia.

Search Results | Page 13 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 121 - 130 of 420 ... Strengthening Social Science Research in Iraq - Phase II ... scholars in social science research methodology and techniques;. Project ... necessitates good governance and sustainable management of ... Innovation.

Search Results | Page 646 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 6451 - 6460 of 9601 ... In Burkina Faso, scientific research, invention and innovation have generated ... Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) under project 102135. ... and sustainable management of common-pool resources.

ARL Physics Web Pages: An Evaluation by Established, Transitional and Emerging Benchmarks.

Science.gov (United States)

Duffy, Jane C.

2002-01-01

Provides an overview of characteristics among Association of Research Libraries (ARL) physics Web pages. Examines current academic Web literature and from that develops six benchmarks to measure physics Web pages: ease of navigation; logic of presentation; representation of all forms of information; engagement of the discipline; interactivity of…

Search Results | Page 9 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 81 - 90 of 8491 ... ... potential of important socio-economic development opportunities ... Evaluating impacts of gender integration on agriculture and food security outcomes ... livelihoods through small and growing business: Measuring ...

Search Results | Page 19 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 181 - 190 of 260 ... Atlas of Islamic-World Science and Innovation. Historically, scholars and researchers from the Muslim world were leaders in the area of medicine, astronomy and mathematics. Project.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 101 ... Atlas of Islamic-World Science and Innovation. Historically, scholars and researchers from the Muslim world were leaders in the area of medicine, astronomy and mathematics. Project.

Search Results | Page 4 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 31 - 40 of 8491 ... ... POVERTY WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT LOW INCOME GROUPS ... However, they can also be sources of inequality and social exclusion in ... WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT INCLUSIVE GROWTH FEMINISM Gender ...

Search Results | Page 23 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2010-01-01

Results 221 - 230 of 1368 ... Comparative report on innovation systems and inequality in the BRICS : annex 5; BRICS project. Published date. January 1, 2010. Papers. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM ...

Search Results | Page 837 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8361 - 8370 of 8494 ... ... ADMINISTRATION SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH. Economic analysis of climate variability impact on malaria prevalence : the case of Ghana ... Two models of research : technology organisations in Asia.

Search Results | Page 82 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 811 - 820 of 9601 ... ... Health (206) Apply Health filter · WATER MANAGEMENT (196) Apply WATER ... VIOLENCE (135) Apply VIOLENCE filter · NUTRITION (131) Apply .... COMMUNICATION MEDIA ORAL TRADITION NON-FORMAL ...

Search Results | Page 18 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 171 - 180 of 439 ... Information and Communication Technologies for Development in the Middle ... and communication technology (ICT) to human, social and economic ... Understanding Think Tank-University Relationships in South Asia.

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 101 - 110 of 224 ... Promoting regional migration has been one of the most ... Mercosur : Economic Research and Integration - Phase IV ... SCALA: Linking Vulnerable Youth and Women to Innovative Commercialization Networks.

Search Results | Page 4 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 31 - 40 of 68 ... Network companies, another way of thinking agriculture : a supply chain management ... Business Cooperation and Regional Productive Development in Chile, ... Mercosur : Economic Research and Integration - Phase IV.

Search Results | Page 2 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 11 - 20 of 43 ... The project establishes linkages between indigenous knowledge (IK), traditional food production systems and natural resources (NR) management that ... Information and Communication Technologies for Development in ...

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 8494 ... Science and Technology Development SOCIAL IMPACT ... Denis Trudeau is Director of Information Management and Technology. ... (CRVS) systems in developing countries requires knowledge sharing, expert advice, ...

Search Results | Page 819 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8181 - 8190 of 9601 ... Government-linked intermediaries and their roles in Chinese ... have seriously undermined local, traditional land and water management practices. ... Through socially constructed roles and responsibility, women ...

Search Results | Page 51 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 501 - 510 of 8491 ... ICT policy and regulatory frameworks : the status and challenges of SADC countries; AKPN Internet Governance 12 October 2009, Cape Town. Published date. January 1, 2009 ...

Search Results | Page 2 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 11 - 20 of 8491 ... India Emerging: The Reality Checks supplies a modern ... Food and Agriculture HERDING VACCINES BIOTECH INDUSTRY ... IDRC funds research that supports gender equality and facilitates women's empowerment.

Search Results | Page 10 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 91 - 100 of 650 ... African Health Economics and Policy Research Capacity Building and ... Understanding Southern Influence in Cyberspace Security and Governance: Toward a Global Network of Southern-based Cyber Scholars.

Search Results | Page 64 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 631 - 640 of 788 ... Universities in Innovation for Inclusive Development: Africa ... the Integration of Young African Researchers into Research and Innovation Systems ... Science and Technology Policy Review 2005-2009 (Panama).

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 111 - 120 of 220 ... Bioprospecting and scientific research : a protocol; draft ... indigenous development based on the ethnobotanical garden and traditional medicine concept; final report ... Canadian journal of development studies, v.

Search Results | Page 77 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 761 - 770 of 823 ... Valuing the environment: Economics for a sustainable future ... Helping the Amazon's Caboclos riverine communities cope with extreme weather events ... Managing flood risk through collaborative governance ...

Search Results | Page 50 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 491 - 500 of 8517 ... Overcoming the challenges : analyzing Cambodian 24-hour ... Biochemical correlates of anemia in Cambodian women of reproductive age ... of the community work programme on urban violence (presentation).

Search Results | Page 60 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 591 - 600 of 875 ... Women's increased participation in Latin America's labour markets ... IDRC's Democratic Governance, Women's Rights and Gender Equality initiative is ... Labour market regulations, particularly minimum wage policies, ...

Search Results | Page 97 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 961 - 970 of 9580 ... International Development Research Centre ... Collaboration in informal settlements: tackling flooding with a local perspective. In most developing countries, solid waste management is a significant challenge, ...

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2014-01-01

Results 111 - 120 of 138 ... Review of pasture and fodder production and productivity for small ruminants in the Sahel. Published date. January 1, 2014. Research in Action. Crops Agrifood markets ...

Search Results | Page 52 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 511 - 520 of 8491 ... ICT policy and regulatory frameworks : the status and challenges of SADC countries; AKPN Internet Governance 12 October 2009, Cape Town. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies.

Search Results | Page 14 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 131 - 140 of 1310 ... ICT policy and regulatory frameworks : the status and challenges of SADC countries; AKPN Internet Governance 12 October 2009, Cape Town. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies.

Search Results | Page 943 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9421 - 9430 of 9602 ... Commentary : promoting healthy adolescent development ... Commentary : Mexico; moving from universal health coverage towards health care for all ... in a complex urban health system in Northern Bangladesh.

Search Results | Page 834 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8331 - 8340 of 8494 ... Evidence-based budgeting policy in maternal and child health programme : do they work? ... WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE Biodiversity MILLET CROP ... The phenomenon of undernourishment combined with ...

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 101 - 110 of 319 ... World Bank's World Development Report 2008 : agriculture for development; ... Mid-term review : sustainable management of Algerien steppes; ... Two training workshops were conducted in knowledge sharing ...

Search Results | Page 66 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 651 - 660 of 8491 ... Potential of bamboo as an alternative crop and livelihood strategy to smallholder tobacco farmers in South Nyanza region, Kenya. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies ...

Search Results | Page 39 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 381 - 390 of 8531 ... ... integrate this knowledge into government decision-making processes. ... Economic analysis of solid waste management and drainage for climate ... and water contamination from improperly managed solid waste.

Search Results | Page 29 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 281 - 290 of 372 ... Filter by programs ... Autonomy and Community Management of Protected Areas in Neuquen and Araucania (Argentina and Chile) ... promote economic growth, social inclusion and sound environmental governance.

Search Results | Page 53 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 521 - 530 of 1133 ... This paper examines a long-term participatory agriculture and nutrition ... crop diversity and food security through innovative educational ... hierarchical disruption by an environmental perturbation ... Journal articles.

Search Results | Page 6 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 51 - 60 of 8496 ... Denis Trudeau is Director of Information Management and Technology. ... systems in developing countries requires knowledge sharing, expert advice, ... Driving vaccine innovations to improve lives and livelihoods.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 8490 ... Denis Trudeau is Director of Information Management and Technology. ... systems in developing countries requires knowledge sharing, expert advice, ... Driving vaccine innovations to improve lives and livelihoods.

Search Results | Page 845 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8441 - 8450 of 8491 ... Market Dynamics and Productivity in Developing Countries: Economic ... Comprehensive in scope and grounded in actual case studies, this new ... theory, rural development, and natural resource management.

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 101 - 110 of 257 ... This grant will help the Norman Paterson School of International ... Understanding Southern Influence in Cyberspace Security and ... Beyond Social Protection: Labour Markets, Entrepreneurship, and Gender Equality.

Search Results | Page 52 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 511 - 520 of 8491 ... East African experience with submarine cable regulation : GTZ/WATRA Workshop on Submarine Cable Regulation, 12 - 13 November 2009, Accra, Ghana. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies.

Search Results | Page 55 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 541 - 550 of 875 ... ... to question the conceptualization of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ... a socially created phenomenon with social, political and economic ends. ... Youth and Women to Innovative Commercialization Networks.

Search Results | Page 853 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8521 - 8530 of 8531 ... ... working with multiple stakeholders to identify opportunities using ... Jessica Perkins is the Director, Risk Management and Internal Audit. ... frontier markets connect to investment and international supply chains.

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2015-06-30

Results 101 - 110 of 869 ... Embedding Open Data Practice: Developing Indicators on the Institutionalization of Open Data Practice in Two African Governments. Published date. June 30, 2015. Papers. LATIN AMERICA OPEN DATA ...

Search Results | Page 706 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7051 - 7060 of 9602 ... Research on urban agriculture has traditionally focused on its ... American Health Organization, 2004). ... Alternative Public Service Delivery Models in Health, Water and Electricity (Africa, Asia, Latin America).

Search Results | Page 10 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 91 - 100 of 224 ... Promoting Innovation in the Services Sector: Toward Productivity and Competitiveness. The services sector is increasingly important to the economies of ... unemployment and an underdeveloped formal (private) sector.

Search Results | Page 775 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7741 - 7750 of 8491 ... Local Governance and ICTs in Africa: Case Studies and Guidelines for ... towards focalization, subsidies on demand, decentralization and privatization. ... Balancing competing water needs in Morocco's Saiss basin.

Search Results | Page 10 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 91 - 100 of 8518 ... Women constitute 75% of Kenya's agricultural labour force; however, gender ... and the negative socio-economic and environmental impacts of mining activities. ... Targeting senescence cells in pancreatic cancer.

Search Results | Page 686 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 6851 - 6860 of 9601 ... Toward Improved Market Access for ASEAN Agricultural Commodities ... From Research to Policy: Linking Climate Change Adaptation to Sustainable ... development theory and its policy implications for the region.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 8491 ... Environment CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Water Gender ... and policy, and the Centre will provide new fellowships to emerging women leaders. ... Mitigating soil contamination at abandoned Moroccan mine sites.

Search Results | Page 51 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 501 - 510 of 8490 ... ICT policy and regulatory frameworks : the status and challenges of SADC countries; AKPN Internet Governance 12 October 2009, Cape Town. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies ...

Search Results | Page 825 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8241 - 8250 of 8491 ... Economic and social development POVERTY ALLEVIATION ... Social Policy Gender Citizenship WOMEN'S RIGHTS MISSING ... A new study estimates that 10 million girls are “missing” from India's population.

Search Results | Page 2 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 11 - 20 of 35 ... Business Cooperation and Regional Productive Development in Chile, ... Several studies have shown that some forms of collaborative business networking can ... Mercosur : Economic Research and Integration - Phase IV.

Search Results | Page 15 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 141 - 150 of 374 ... Canada-Africa Research Exchange Grants (CAREG) : Pilot Phase ... South American Youth : Regional Democracy-Building Dialogue ... begun to question the conceptualization of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

Search Results | Page 4 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 31 - 40 of 372 ... Filter by topic ... Merconet: Strengthening Economic Research and Fostering Entrepreneurship in South ... Financial services are typically delivered by large banks through physical buildings with dedicated tellers. Project.

Search Results | Page 836 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8351 - 8360 of 8494 ... VALUE CHAINS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AFRICA ... PUBLIC SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLICATIONS DATA ... Equity, efficiency and sustainability in water allocation in the Andes : trade-offs in a full ...

Search Results | Page 699 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 6981 - 6990 of 9602 ... ... systematic evaluation of their effects, grounded in the concepts of ... Openness and Quality in Asian Distance Education Technology ... Opportunities in CARICOM Migration : Brain Circulation, Diasporic Tourism, ...

Search Results | Page 64 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 631 - 640 of 8491 ... Speaking notes George Matovu WUF presentation. Published date ... Introduction to Urban Agriculture and the RUAF programme : speaking notes ... Secondhand tobacco smoke in public places in Latin America.

Search Results | Page 32 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 311 - 320 of 374 ... This project aims to strengthen primary healthcare delivery to vulnerable ... the use of information and communication technology (ICT), specifically, ... fisheries and coastal management in the Eastern Caribbean.

Search Results | Page 42 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 411 - 420 of 9175 ... Indigenization of social work education and practice : a ... scale urban agriculture : environmental practices and consciousness in a context of scarcity ... Networking for sustainable livelihoods : sharing and learning.

Search Results | Page 10 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 91 - 100 of 201 ... Reducing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Argentina ... Ecuador's Healthy Food Campaign: An Effectiveness Assessment ... In Lima, Peru, solid waste management is an informal activity involving poor ...

Search Results | Page 87 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 861 - 870 of 1804 ... Building Human Resource Capacity in Uruguay's Extractive Industry ... in developing countries relies on skilled human resources. ... has reduced poverty and increased labour market opportunities in Latin America.

Search Results | Page 20 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 191 - 200 of 1320 ... Home; Far East Asia .... TAX INCENTIVES ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION RESEARCH AND ... Towards effective policies for innovation financing in Asia : ... women entrepreneurship in MENA countries : across country ...

Search Results | Page 21 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 201 - 210 of 439 ... Dalit Women in Indian Politics: Making Impact through Parliament? ... which endeavors to integrate social, economic, cultural and e. Project. -. Supporting Biotechnology Regulatory Policy Processes in Southeast Asia.

Search Results | Page 15 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-05-28

Results 141 - 150 of 875 ... ... impacts on host communities : CASID Conference paper, May 28, 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa ... Service-based economy : where do we stand?; notes on structural change and economic development.

Search Results | Page 14 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-05-28

Results 131 - 140 of 870 ... ... impacts on host communities : CASID Conference paper, May 28, 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa ... Service-based economy : where do we stand?; notes on structural change and economic development.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 103 ... Telework and the Disabled (Latin America) ... technologies (ICTs) have opened up many opportunities for people with disabilities, such as building solidarity, pursuing employment and achieving independent living.

Search Results | Page 5 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 41 - 50 of 420 ... Despite sustained economic growth and efforts to expand universal health ... Understanding Southern Influence in Cyberspace Security and Governance: Toward a Global Network of Southern-based Cyber Scholars.

Search Results | Page 8 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 71 - 80 of 199 ... ... academics and nongovernmental organizations are paying increasing attention ... ICT for Vocational Training for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ... Evaluating a Real-Time Bio Surveillance Program : Pilot Project.

Search Results | Page 709 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7081 - 7090 of 9602 ... Consolidating African Research and Education Networking (CORENA) - Phase I ... constraints to accessing published knowledge (print or digital) for ... It is generally acknowledged that mass media (specifically ...

Search Results | Page 59 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2006-01-01

Results 581 - 590 of 8492 ... Importance of backbone : usable knowledge for growing the sector; ICT policy and regulation research from LIRNEasia, New Delhi, 6 March 2006. Published date. January 1, 2006. Studies.

Search Results | Page 40 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 391 - 400 of 8494 ... Integrated Rural-Urban Water Management for Climate Based Adaptation in ... Implementing effective simulation-based education to improve maternal newborn and child health in a resource-constrained setting.

Search Results | Page 39 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Showing 381 - 390 of 1761 results : "water adaptation" ... of Eastern Africa, while also scaling up integrated natural resources management innovations w ... an implementation framework to scale up sustainable rural land management ...

Search Results | Page 14 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2018-01-12

Results 131 - 140 of 8491 ... Accelerating vaccine development for African swine fever virus through synthetic biology. Pigs are among the most profitable livestock for poor farmers. Published date. January 12, 2018 ...

Search Results | Page 133 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Showing 1321 - 1330 of 1762 results : "water adaptation" ... (communal) rangelands and (private) cropland in the highlands of Eastern Africa ... optimal conditions for the production of high quality bread enriched with vegetable powder.

Search Results | Page 847 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8461 - 8470 of 8517 ... The Centre Management Committee provides advice and guidance ... and meet the members who share a passion for international development work. ... as required under Canada's Financial Administration Act.

Search Results | Page 26 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 251 - 260 of 369 ... Corporate Social Responsibility in the Latin American Extractive Industry ... Its impact on national businesses, particularly micro, small and medium ... Experiment in Collaborative Learning Network for Enhanced ...

Search Results | Page 66 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 651 - 660 of 875 ... Corporate Social Responsibility in the Latin American Extractive Industry ... Its impact on national businesses, particularly micro, small and medium ... Experiment in Collaborative Learning Network for Enhanced ...

Search Results | Page 45 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 441 - 450 of 9596 ... Reducing child undernutrition : which parent's education matters most? - policy brief ... Traditional science, technology and innovation systems in the context of a modern incubator research and development agency.

Search Results | Page 53 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 521 - 530 of 875 ... Migration, Gender and Social Justice : Connecting Research and Practice Networks ... International Barcode of Life Project : Engaging Developing ... Technologies for Social Inclusion and Public Policies in Latin ...

Search Results | Page 731 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7301 - 7310 of 9601 ... IDRC's Focus Cities research program brings together ... Association of African Universities : Education and Research Networking Unit ... meet the demand for high-level economists in administration, regional ...

Search Results | Page 799 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7981 - 7990 of 8519 ... Growth regime, labour market and inequality in Brazil and India : concepts and ... COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT POVERTY ALLEVIATION ... in promoting leadership structures and social capital, and as well, ...

Search Results | Page 17 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 161 - 170 of 8492 ... ... on-the-ground research to help transform a system relied upon by millions ... WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT GROWTH POLICY EMPLOYMENT Gender ... Mobile phones, Internet, and gender in Myanmar.

Search Results | Page 3 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 21 - 30 of 65 ... Impression management pervades kidnapping episodes. ... Farming and livestock production in the Sahel : merging the two solutions ... and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptive Capacities: Handbook and User Guide.

Search Results | Page 8 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 71 - 80 of 101 ... Networks : Empowering Communities through Telecentre Networking ... Unemployment is one of the main economic, social and political ... simple resource-based activities: oil, minerals, tourism and labour migrati. Project.

Search Results | Page 8 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 71 - 80 of 208 ... Gender and Enterprise Development in Africa: A Cross-Country Comparative Study ... Opportunities and Incorporating Youth into Labour Markets in the ... unemployment and an underdeveloped formal (private) sector.

Search Results | Page 51 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 501 - 510 of 8491 ... ICT policy and regulatory frameworks : the status and challenges of SADC countries; AKPN Internet Governance 12 October 2009, Cape Town. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies ...

Search Results | Page 908 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 9071 - 9080 of 9580 ... ICT sectors and clusters, local firms performance and employment ... ICT firms and foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) with presences in Cos ... trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology.

Search Results | Page 12 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 111 - 120 of 374 ... Rethinking Political Legitimacy: Citizen Inclusion and Social Digital Media ... There is a disparity between the representation of northern and southern ... particularly information and communication for development ...

Search Results | Page 9 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 81 - 90 of 8490 ... Harnessing big data to meet the Sustainable Development Goals ... Climate change-related insurance products have been ... Enabling consumer-friendly front-of-package nutrition labelling in MERCOSUR countries.

Search Results | Page 700 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 6991 - 7000 of 9602 ... Innovation, Learning and Institutional Frameworks in Natural Resource ... This project is concerned with how Latin American countries can take ... Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa.

Search Results | Page 32 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 311 - 320 of 8531 ... Building emerging leaders in communications policy in Africa and Asia. In Africa and Asia, ... Agricultural extension uses scientific research to educate farmers and improve agricultural practices. Perspectives.

Search Results | Page 27 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 261 - 270 of 8491 ... Building emerging leaders in communications policy in Africa and Asia. In Africa and Asia, ... Perspectives ... Agricultural extension uses scientific research to educate farmers and improve agricultural practices.

Search Results | Page 24 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 231 - 240 of 8531 ... Perspectives ... Supporting women's leadership in science, technology, and innovation through ... team aims to protect human health and the environment by improving agricultural practices in four Asian countries.

Search Results | Page 19 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 181 - 190 of 1119 ... Food Security, Land and Territorial Dynamics in Bolivia ... The increased production, availability, marketing, and consumption of ultra-processed food ... today's pandemics of obesity and non-communicable diseases.

Search Results | Page 757 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 7561 - 7570 of 9602 ... Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education ... process, flexibility to outsource innovation activities, and most importantly, the location of innovation. ... Measuring the Impact of Information on Development.

Search Results | Page 849 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 8481 - 8490 of 9175 ... Farmers select innovations and practices that work for them ... constraints that prevent them from growing, improving their performance, ... Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women: Literature ReviewPrimary.

Search Results | Page 3 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 21 - 30 of 1866 ... Regional integration, improving women's economic situation, and ... minority women in Myanmar – Gender equality and decentralization ... and promote economic growth benefitting women and men, regardless of ethni.

Search Results | Page 132 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Community Based Social Audit of Health Services in Two Districts of Afghanistan ... earlier phase, Poverty and Inequality Research Network for China (103310). ... Partnership for adapting Vulnerable Populations to Soil Salinization resulting ...

Search Results | Page 54 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 531 - 540 of 903 ... Filter by programs. Networked ... Avoiding Conflict Relapse Through Inclusive Political Settlements ... In Chile, a mobilized, invigorated civil society is using new digital technologies to transform political participation.

Search Results | Page 56 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Showing 551 - 560 of 1131 results : "food" ... of health, environment and development outcomes in urban ecohealth project, Katmandu ... Journal articles ... change to better understand how climate stressors affect agricultural productivity, with ...

Search Results | Page 23 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 221 - 230 of 369 ... Networks for Development : Caribbean Information and Communication Technologies Research Programme ... was a pioneer in the discipline of economic development theory and its policy implications for the region.

Search Results | Page 51 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 501 - 510 of 875 ... Filter by programs. Networked ... Avoiding Conflict Relapse Through Inclusive Political Settlements ... In Chile, a mobilized, invigorated civil society is using new digital technologies to transform political participation.

Search Results | Page 11 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 101 - 110 of 369 ... Filter by programs. Networked ... Avoiding Conflict Relapse Through Inclusive Political Settlements ... In Chile, a mobilized, invigorated civil society is using new digital technologies to transform political participation.

Search Results | Page 52 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

2009-01-01

Results 511 - 520 of 8491 ... East African experience with submarine cable regulation : GTZ/WATRA Workshop on Submarine Cable Regulation, 12 - 13 November 2009, Accra, Ghana. Published date. January 1, 2009. Studies ...

Monte Carlo methods for top-k personalized PageRank lists and name disambiguation

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Avrachenkov, Konstatin; Litvak, Nelli; Nemirovsky, Danil; Smirnova, Elena; Sokol, Marina

We study a problem of quick detection of top-k Personalized PageRank lists. This problem has a number of important applications such as finding local cuts in large graphs, estimation of similarity distance and name disambiguation. In particular, we apply our results to construct efficient algorithms

Search Results | Page 9 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 81 - 90 of 112 ... Home · Project; Agriculture and Food Security .... Governance and Management of Common Pool Resources in Viet Nam ... and gender analysis in environment and natural resource management (ENRM) research.

Search Results | Page 4 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 31 - 40 of 1119 ... Canadian International Food Security Research Fund - Phase II. In 2009 ... These communities are undergoing rapid social and economic changes. ... FARM TO FORK NUTRITION DIET Food security SCHOOL MEALS ...

Search Results | Page 50 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 491 - 500 of 9601 ... Valuing groundwater's supporting services to ecosystems in Heihe ... Closing the cancer divide : a blueprint to expand access in low ... in Southeast Mexico : participatory processes for natural resource management.

Search Results | Page 21 | IDRC - International Development ...

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Results 201 - 210 of 9596 ... Agricultural and food trade policy in Lebanon : overview and economic analysis ... Water rights as women's rights? : assessing the scope for women's empowerment through decentralised water governance in ...