Additional information needs

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-192 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Additional Information

The Development of ASHS HortBase—A Global Information System

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 552e-552
Author(s):  
James L. Green
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Dispersed System ◽  
Global Information System ◽  
Information File ◽  
International Standing

In 1997, the ASHS Board of Directors established ASHS HortBase as a Standing Committee of the Society. The ASHS HortBase Committee, a six-member Standing Committee and Chair, is charged to implement and maintain ASHS HortBase. The members of the ASHS HortBase Committee will be chair and chair-elect of the three HortBase Task Forces: 1) Finance and Marketing; 2) Standards—authoring, reviewing, and publishing; and 3) Technology. ASHS HortBase is a dispersed, dynamic horticultural information system (network) on the WWW comprised of peer—reviewed, concise, interlinked information modules to meet the information needs of instructors and students, gardeners and growers. A strong advantage and distinguishing characteristic of ASHS HortBase is our dynamic pool of potential authors, reviewers, and users (ASHS Extension, Industry, and Teaching membership) to continually evolve and update the peer-reviewed information in HortBase. We have the scholastic international standing to provide peer review and validation of the information and to recognition to the authors, coupled with the marketing to stimulate wide use of their information modules. ASHS HortBase is a dispersed system (dispersed development and server costs). The “dispersed cost” for information file development and updating and delivery on the respective authors' dispersed servers disperses the major costs of the HortBase information system. Additional information on ASHS HortBase and the papers presented at the 4-h Colloquium on HortBase at ASHS-97 can be found at http://[email protected] or contact me ([email protected], phone 541.737.5452, fax 541.737.3479).

scholarly journals General Relative Rate Models for the Analysis of Studies Using Case-Cohort Designs

2018 ◽  
Vol 188 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-450
Author(s):  
David B Richardson ◽  
Bryan Langholz ◽  
Kaitlin Kelly-Reif
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Broad Class ◽  
Relative Rate ◽  
Model Misspecification ◽  
Model Fitting ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Cohort Design ◽  
Cohort Data

Abstract A standard approach to analysis of case-cohort data involves fitting log-linear models. In this paper, we describe how standard statistical software can be used to fit a broad class of general relative rate models to case-cohort data and derive confidence intervals. We focus on a case-cohort design in which a roster has been assembled and events ascertained but additional information needs to be collected on explanatory variables. The additional information is ascertained just for persons who experience the event of interest and for a sample of the cohort members enumerated at study entry. One appeal of such a case-cohort design is that this sample of the cohort may be used to support analyses of several outcomes. The ability to fit general relative rate models to case-cohort data may allow an investigator to reduce model misspecification in exposure-response analyses, fit models in which some factors have effects that are additive and others multiplicative, and facilitate estimation of relative excess risk due to interaction. We address model fitting for simple random sampling study designs as well as stratified designs. Data on lung cancer among radon-exposed men (Colorado Plateau uranium miners, 1950–1990) are used to illustrate these methods.

Categorizing Blogs as Information Sources for Libraries and Information Science

2015 ◽  
pp. 4833-4845
Author(s):  
Mark-Shane Scale ◽  
Anabel Quan-Haase
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Source Category

Blogs are important sources of information currently used in the work of professionals, institutions and academics. Nevertheless, traditional information needs and uses research has not yet discussed where blogs fit in the existing typologies of information sources. Blogs and other types of social media have several characteristics that blur the lines of distinction existent between traditional information source categories. This chapter brings this research problem to the fore. Not only do we examine why blogs do not neatly fit into existing information source categories, but we also deliberate the implications for libraries in terms of the need to consider blogs as an information source to be included in collection development. We discuss the opportunities and possibilities for blogs to be integrated into the collection development efforts of academic and public libraries to better serve patrons. In order to accommodate for blogs and other types of social media as information sources, we propose the introduction of an additional information source category. We suggest new avenues of future research that investigate how blogs are being used to meet information needs in various social settings, such as corporations, health care and educational settings (e.g., higher education, and schools). In this chapter, we develop a framework of how blogs may function as information sources to provide libraries with a better understanding of how blogs are integrated into the context of everyday information seeking. By grouping the ways in which people employ blogs to acquire information, we propose that blogs provide information sources along a continuum ranging from non-fiction to fictional information.

scholarly journals Interpretation of the event within the structure of news narrative

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 102-117
Author(s):  
Marina Aleksandrovna Deminova
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Stable Structure ◽  
Value System ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Actual Event ◽  
Special Place ◽  
News Writing ◽  
Media Texts

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the structure of news narrative, which is relevant the context of interpretation of the event. The author believes that the news texts that do not contain a clear expressive or analytical component, interpretation consists in transformation of the narrative. News hold a special place among other media texts. News genres, to a greater extent that the analytical genres, satisfy people's information needs. If the analytical and publicistic texts the readers choose in accordance with their worldview and value system, then news texts are perceived as neutral, characterized by a stable structure, repeatability, reproducibility; they are virtually not affected by the specificity of a particular editorial policy, and, thus, have broader audience. At first glance, the patterns used for news writing, do not have impact on the audience; however, they are evaluative and interpretative, which is reflected in narrative structure of the text. The attitude of the author towards the event in the central episode is traced. Since the central episode is related to the actual event more than any other component of the narrative structure, it nonetheless, has considerable interpretive potential. Transformation of the key component testifies to the fact that narrative structure of the news material is quite adaptable, and may change under the influence of certain information. The additional secondary components of the narrative structure also have high interpretive potential, since their very presence in the text reflects the author's desire to deliver additional information, the choice of which directly affects interpretation of the event.

scholarly journals Management decisions regarding the voluntary disclosure of information: the problem of the recognition of the firm’s intellectual capital and that of lenders’ information needs

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Napoli
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Voluntary Disclosures ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Accounting Model ◽  
Analyse Data

We analyse data on Italian listed companies quoted on the Milan stock exchange which perform R&D (Research & Development) activity. We find there is a positive relationship between R&D activity and voluntary disclosures of additional information that: a) regards R&D assets in themselves, in line with theoretical predictions according to which voluntary disclosure makes up for shortcomings in the current financial accounting model; b) is relevant to lenders’ interests, in line with the fact that quoted Italian firms are highly dependent upon lenders. Owner-managers of quoted Italian firms show, moreover, a significant tendency to augment additional information provided to lenders in the event of losses (negative earnings)

Communicatie met Nederlandse en Turkse patiënten in de huisartsenpraktijk

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Schinkel ◽  
Barbara Schouten ◽  
Julia van Weert
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Information Preferences ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Intracultural Communication ◽  
Turkish Patients

Communication with Dutch and Turkish general practitioner patients: an exploratory study on differences in information and participation preferences Communication with Dutch and Turkish general practitioner patients: an exploratory study on differences in information and participation preferences Intercultural doctor-patient communication is often less adequate than intracultural communication. In order to explore this problem, differences were studied between Dutch and Turkish patients in their information and participation preferences. Six general practitioners and 62 patients participated in the study (35 Dutch, 27 Turkish). Two surveys were used: one directly before and one after the consultation. Results show that both groups report high information preferences, but the groups differ in sort of preferred information. Additionally, the discrepancies between information preferences and the actual information provision during the consultation were found to be larger in the Dutch group than in the Turkish group. However, Turkish patients report lower comprehensibility of the information and higher additional information needs after the consultation. Participation preferences are almost similarly low in both groups. These results stress the importance of further research on information and participation preferences of ethnic minority patients and of enhancing doctors’ intercultural competencies.

Marginalisation and Precarious Circumstances of People with Albinism (PWA): Information Needs and Services

Mousaion ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ngula ◽  
Connie Bitso
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Local Languages

The study that directed this article investigated the information needs of parents of children with albinism (CWA) in the Khomas region, and determined information services that are appropriate for people with albinism (PWA) in the Khomas region of Namibia, in order to inform the possible design of their information services. Considering PWA as a marginalised user group living under precarious circumstances in Africa, and in the interest of an inclusive information service, a study on information needs was conducted on PWA in the Khomas Region, Namibia. It was conducted within the interpretivism paradigm, following a qualitative research approach, and interviews were conducted with six parents of CWA. In addition, two representatives from organisations that deal with the plight of PWA in Namibia were interviewed as organisational participants (OP). The following information needs were identified in the study: eye-and-skin-related information needs; information on what albinism is; the causes of albinism; information on how to register for the disability grant; and education-related information. The study also revealed that the information needs of parents of CWA differ at each level of the child’s growth. For example, parents stressed needing additional information because as children grow up new needs emerge. OP indicated that they use the following platforms to disseminate information to PWA: radio stations in local languages, community meetings, their websites, and the distribution of flyers in English.  

scholarly journals Information needs among women taking part in primary HPV screening in England: a content analysis

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e044630
Author(s):  
Laura Marlow ◽  
Alice S Forster ◽  
Emily McBride ◽  
Lauren Rockliffe ◽  
Henry Kitchener ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Cervical Screening ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Hpv Testing ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Normal Cytology ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Tailored Information

ObjectivesIntroducing primary human papillomavirus (HPV) testing to cervical screening programmes means changes to the results women receive. We explored additional information needs among women undergoing HPV primary screening.DesignWomen were sent a postal questionnaire shortly after receiving their results and 6 and 12 months later. Each questionnaire asked if women had any unanswered questions about cervical screening or HPV testing. Free-text responses constituted the data. Themes were identified using content analysis.SettingNational Health Service (NHS) Cervical Screening Programme, England.Participants381 women who recorded one or more free-text responses.ResultsThe most common theme represented women’s emotional responses and attempts to understand their results. This theme was raised by 45% of women overall, but was as high as 59% in the HPV cleared group. General questions about the cause and epidemiology of HPV were raised by 38% of women and were more common among those testing HPV positive with normal cytology (52%). Questions about the purpose and procedure for HPV testing were most common among HPV-negative women (40%, compared with 16%–24% of the other results groups). Questions about future implications of test results were raised by 19% of women, and this theme was most common among those with persistent HPV.ConclusionsDespite provision of information alongside screening invitations, women can still have unanswered questions following receipt of their results. Details about the epidemiology of HPV and why cervical screening procedures are changing should be included with screening invitations. Some results groups may benefit from additional tailored information with their results letter.

scholarly journals Drinking water quality and trust : communities and risk information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin J Burley
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Water History ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Communication Needs

Ontario drinking water systems face increasing contamination risks due to over-taxed water systems. Canadian perceptions of drinking water, and trust in government, have declined as a result of Walkerton and other contamination episodes. Research in the field of trust, risk communication and risk perception has developed extensively in recent years. However, there is very little research regarding risk perception, communication and trust as it relates to drinking water. This study investigated drinking water perceptions, trust in drinking water authorities and communication needs of a small Ontario municipality with a positive drinking water history and good communication practices. The results indicated that the community members had positive perceptions about their source and drinking water. They had high levels of trust in their local government and low levels of trust in outside sources. Despite the high levels of trust in the local government, the residents displayed additional information needs; suggesting the presence of critical trust.

scholarly journals Information needs and information seeking behaviour of paediatric nurses of Christchurch hospital

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kim Nicola Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Patient Education ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
Christchurch Hospital ◽  
Professional Information

<p>The professional information needs of nurses, and the situations which cause nurses to seek information have not been widely studied. A small scale study involving questionnaire based interviews of paediatric nurses at Christchurch Hospital showed paediatric nurses viewed access to professional information as vital to the performance of their work. Work situations which required these nurses to seek additional information included the admission of patients with unknown or rare conditions, patient education, questions from other staff, and the development of ward protocols or standards. The most frequently consulted sources were patient records, nursing colleagues, and ward texts. These provided the bulk of nursing information, but the Nursing Library and nurses' private libraries were also used. Given the dependence on other nursing staff displayed here, it is vital that nurses keep up to date with their practice. There was a strong trend to passing information on to other nurses once it had been accessed.</p>

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