This article reviews the most significant milestones
in CAD methodologies for intelligent EM-based modeling and
design optimization using artificial neural networks and space
mapping. We consider knowledge-based and automatic neural
network model generation based on advanced data sampling
algorithms. Computationally…

Se presentan los aspectos relacionados con la gestión del Servicio al cliente de un establecimiento comercial. Se dedica especial atención al modelo de deficiencias y a revisar multitud de opciones que tienen los establecimientos para ofrecer un buen servicio a…

Objective – To investigate whether African American students’ computer attitudes predict levels of library anxiety.

Design – A user study in which two instruments were administered to a group of graduate students to measure computer attitudes and library anxiety.

El artículo forma parte de una conferencia dictada por el autor, en la que esboza una experiencia de desarrollo institucional de la Universidad de los Andes, a partir de la creación de un Seminario cuya mirada ofrece variados significados y…

Objective – To describe critical care nurses’ on-duty information-seeking behavior.

Design – Participatory action research using ethnographic methods.

Setting – A twenty-bed critical care unit in a 275-bed community (non-teaching) hospital.

Subjects – A purposive sample of…

It is with great pleasure that the Research in the Workplace Award (RIWA)* assessment panel announces the winning proposal in 2006/2007 to be for a multi-site randomised controlled trial to determine the impact of providing a virtual reference service (Access…

Objective – This study reports on research into the information and support needs of practitioners in the museum, archive, and library sectors, who are undergoing an impact evaluation.

Design – Qualitative survey.

Setting – Web-based questionnaire.

Subjects…

Make the IRG pre-conference workshop part of your annual HTAi (Health Technology Assessment International) meeting plans! Join us in Barcelona on Sunday, June 17th for a full day of training and lively discussions. Our workshop includes a mixture of presentations…

Objective – To determine whether a newly developed interactive, Web-based tutorial on OVID MEDLINE was acceptable to students, and to identify whether the tutorial improved students’ information skills.

Design – Objective and subjective assessment within a small cohort study.

RESUMO: Folhas e caules, com sintomas de antracnose, foram coletados de populações nativas de Stylosanthes spp., de 1997 a 2000, em localidades de Minas Gerais, Goiás e Bahia, para avaliar a variabilidade patogenica do agente causal (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides). Duzentos e…