Acquiring unpublished population documents in Africa: a personal experience     

Kwafo-akoto KO 《Aslib proceedings》1988,40(4):105-110

Acquiring both published and unpublished documents produced in Africa is, generally, a difficult task due to the existing poor state of bibliographic control and the publishing industry. It is even more difficult to obtain unpublished documents in a specialized area of study such as demography--a diffuse area which cuts across several disciplines. This paper discusses the problems encountered on acquisition trips to some African countries to acquire unpublished population material. To help solve the problems, the Population Association of Africa must persuade its members to send copies of their publications to population libraries and documentation centers in their individual countries for dissemination to the other users in Africa. The various organizations and institutions in Africa engaged in the teaching and research of population studies should have an agreement to exchange copies of their theses. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) should make representations to the various African member countries on the need to disseminate the results of vital censuses and surveys conducted. Finally, the Population Information Network for Africa (POPIN-AFRICA) with its coordinating unit at the population division of ECA should ensure that all the nodes of the network have the financial and other resources to be able to acquire the relevant documents needed for their operations.  相似文献   

Communicating Knowing Through Communities of Practice: Exploring Internal Communicative Processes and Differences Among CoPs     

Joel O. Iverson - Joel O. Iverson is currently an assistant professor in the 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2008,36(2):176-199

Knowing is an enacted, communicated process that is difficult to observe, let alone manage, in organizations. Communities of practice (CoPs) offer a productive solution for improving knowledge and knowledge management, but the communicative processes that enact CoPs have not been explored, leaving CoPs as an organizational black box. This research extends CoP theory as a means to determine the presence of a CoP and distinguish between various CoPs, and as a practical means to evaluate the communicative processes of organizational knowledge. CoPs enact the communicative nature of knowing through the elements of mutual engagement, negotiation of a joint enterprise, and shared repertoire. Specifically, two groups of volunteers are examined through a combination of participation, observation, and interviews in order to explore CoP theory as a dynamic system for examining and evaluating organizational knowledge.  相似文献   

On the problem of determining a citation index of publications by Kazakh scientists     

V. A. Frolova  S. K. Khasenova  T. Sh. Kubieva  O. A. Rog 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2008,35(2):104-106

This paper discusses the evaluation of scientific activity with the help of some scientometric indices, in particular, a citation index. The information massif of the bibliographic database of citations to domestic publications of Kazakh authors is statistically described.  相似文献   

Assessment of the research activities of Russian and Belarussian scientists (according to Scopus data)     

N. Yu. Berezkina  O. N. Sikorskaya 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2008,35(6):256-259

The publication activity of Russian and Belarussian scientists, the degree of reflection of their papers in Scopus databases, and the data on the citation of Belarussian authors in the works of other researchers are discussed.  相似文献   

The role of metadata in the creation and application of information resources on the properties of substances and materials     

A. O. Yerkimbaev  V. Yu. Zitserman  G. A. Kobzev 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2008,35(6):247-255

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Internet coverage of the VINITI RAS     

O. P. Morozova 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2008,35(3):153-154

The web coverage of the research activities of the VINITI RAS is considered. The practicability of using various information retrieval systems for obtaining information relevant to the Institute’s functioning and results is analyzed.  相似文献   

Hobbes and Locke: Power and Consent. and Rousseau's Political Philosophy: An Exposition and Interpretation     

D. O. THOMAS 《Philosophical Books》1980,21(3):148-151

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The Stellenbosch University Medical Library slide classification, storage, retrieval, and issue system.     

O Visser 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1977,65(3):377-379

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Multilingual modeling of cross-lingual spelling variants     

Krister Lindén 《Information Retrieval》2006,9(3):295-310

Technical term translations are important for cross-lingual information retrieval. In many languages, new technical terms have a common origin rendered with different spelling of the underlying sounds, also known as cross-lingual spelling variants (CLSV). To find the best CLSV in a text database index, we contribute a formulation of the problem in a probabilistic framework, and implement this with an instance of the general edit distance using weighted finite-state transducers. Some training data is required when estimating the costs for the general edit distance. We demonstrate that after some basic training our new multilingual model is robust and requires little or no adaptation for covering additional languages, as the model takes advantage of language independent transliteration patterns. We train the model with medical terms in seven languages and test it with terms from varied domains in six languages. Two test languages are not in the training data. Against a large text database index, we achieve 64–78 % precision at the point of 100% recall. This is a relative improvement of 22% on the simple edit distance.  相似文献   

Mary Joan (MJ) Tooey, AHIP Medical Library Association President 2005-2006.     

Frieda O Weise 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2005,93(3):311-314

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