Pros and cons of a group webpage design project in a freshman anatomy and physiology course

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Crisp ◽  
Murray Jensen ◽  
Randy Moore
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Term Papers ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Traditional Term

To generate motivation and promote the development of written communication skills, students in a freshman-level anatomy and physiology course for nonmajors created group webpages describing historically important diseases. After the groups had been formed, each individual was assigned specific components of the disease (e.g., causes or treatments), which were subsequently combined into a final product. Interviews and questionnaires were used to document students' previous educational experiences regarding, and attitudes toward, the project. Students learned more about website design than about anatomy and physiology, but students preferred the assignment over traditional term papers. Although most students could find relevant information for this project on the internet, they were uncritical in judging the accuracy of the information they found.

OPERATIVE-SEARCH MONITORING THE INTERNET AS AN ELEMENT OF COUNTERING CRIMES OF EXTREMIST DIRECTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-241
Author(s):  
Aleksey V. Kutuzov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Source Of Information

The article substantiates the need to use Internet monitoring as a priority source of information in countering extremism. Various approaches to understanding the defi nition of the category of «operational search», «law enforcement» monitoring of the Internet are analysed, the theoretical development of the implementation of this category in the science of operational search is investigated. The goals and subjects of law enforcement monitoring are identifi ed. The main attention is paid to the legal basis for the use of Internet monitoring in the detection and investigation of extremist crimes. In the course of the study hermeneutic, formal-logical, logical-legal and comparative-legal methods were employed, which were used both individually and collectively in the analysis of legal norms, achievements of science and practice, and development of proposals to refi ne the conduct of operational-search measures on the Internet when solving extremist crimes. The author’s defi nition of «operational-search monitoring» of the Internet is provided. Proposals have been made to improve the activities of police units when conducting monitoring of the Internet in the context of the search for relevant information to the disclosure and investigation of crimes of that category.

What Types of Difficulties do Seniors Encounter When Using the Internet to Make Health Care Decisions?

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Sara J. Czaja ◽  
Sankaran N. Nair ◽  
Joseph Sharit ◽  
Tamer El-Attar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Health Care Decisions ◽  
Screen Capture ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Make Health Care ◽  
Time Accuracy

The Internet is an important source of information for health-related topics and services. Currently, however, an age-related digital divide exists, especially for lower SES minority elderly. This study examined the ability of a sample of 40 community dwelling adults aged 50–85 yrs. to use the Internet to make choices related to Medicare services. Performance data included response time, accuracy, and search behavior (based on videotape recordings) and ratings of usability. Overall the data indicate that although most of the of participants were able to find the needed information many of them made errors, used inefficient search strategies, and encountered search problems. Furthermore, most of the sample indicated problems with usability and that they were frustrated interacting with the website. These findings are discussed in terms of recommendations for training and website design. The paper will also discuss how screen capture data can be used in the development of design guidelines.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: A 2000 Update

2002 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
First Year ◽  
Citation Behavior ◽  
Term Papers ◽  
Electronic Copy ◽  
The Web

This paper provides a 2000 update to the 1996–1999 citation analysis of undergraduate term papers by Philip M. Davis and Suzanne A. Cohen.1 The total number of bibliographic citations continued to grow from a median of ten in 1996 to thirteen in 2000. However, this growth is entirely explained by the addition of traditionally nonscholarly materials (Web and newspaper citations). A significant improvement in the accuracy of Internet citations was found when term papers were submitted electronically. In 2000, the first year of electronic submissions, 65 percent of the citations pointed directly to the cited document, up from 55 percent in 1999. Internet citations aged six months in both 1999 and 2000 bibliographies were still irretrievable anywhere on the Internet 16 percent of the time. If more scholarly citations in term papers are to be seen, professors must provide clear expectations in their class assignments. Students should be required to submit an electronic copy of their paper so that Internet citations can be scrutinized for accuracy and plagiarism.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI ALGORITMA GOOGLE LATENT SEMANTIC DISTANCE UNTUK EKSTRAKSI RANGKAIAN KATA KUNCI ARTIKEL JURNAL ILMIAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Novario Jaya Perdana
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Semantic Distance ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Search Result

The accuracy of search result using search engine depends on the keywords that are used. Lack of the information provided on the keywords can lead to reduced accuracy of the search result. This means searching information on the internet is a hard work. In this research, a software has been built to create document keywords sequences. The software uses Google Latent Semantic Distance which can extract relevant information from the document. The information is expressed in the form of specific words sequences which could be used as keyword recommendations in search engines. The result shows that the implementation of the method for creating document keyword recommendation achieved high accuracy and could finds the most relevant information in the top search results.

scholarly journals Trademarks and Consumer Search Costs on the Internet

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lemley
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Consumer Search ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Trademark Law ◽  
Information Tools

In theory, trademarks serve as information tools, by conveying productinformation through convenient, identifiable symbols. In practice, however,trademarks have increasingly been used to obstruct the flow of informationabout competing products and services. In the online context, inparticular, some courts have recently allowed trademark holders to blockuses of their marks that would never have raised an eyebrow in abrick-and-mortar setting - uses that increase, rather than diminish, theflow of truthful, relevant information to consumers. These courts havestretched trademark doctrine on more than one dimension, both by expandingthe concept of actionable "confusion" and by broadening the classes ofpeople who can face legal responsibility for that confusion. And they havebased their decisions not on the normative goals of trademark law, but onunexplored instincts and tenuous presumptions about consumer expectationsand practices on the Internet. We argue that this expansionist trend inInternet trademark cases threatens to undermine a central goal of theLanham Act - to promote fair and robust competition through reducingconsumer search costs.

scholarly journals Student Support System An One Stop Portal

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Siddath Raghavan ◽  
Saideep M ◽  
Shivashankar S ◽  
Dr. Durga Devi M
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Support System ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
End User ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Student Information ◽  
Cloud Technologies

An interactive Student Information system in the cloud is an one stop portal on the internet where the students can get answers to their queries and look up relevant information. The users can check their personal details, communicate with faculties and avail a ”livechat” to get their queries solved. They are also able to access relevant information regarding different activities and events including and not limited to ”attendance”, ”timetable”, ”subject list”, ”college events”, etc. Cloud technologies reduce the challenges faced by traditional systems such as costs associated with development and maintenance. The student support system is ubiquitous in nature since it is hosted in the cloud and uses the power of cloud computing to make the application secure, scalable, and fast. Along with the power of cloud computing, good User Interface/User Experience(UI/UX) is focused upon to ensure that the end-user has a great hassle-free experience. Load balancers are used to handle huge traffic the website might face. User experience principles are used in order to make the portal easy to use.

COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS FOR DIGITAL CITIES

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 197-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
SATOSHI OYAMA ◽  
KAORU HIRAMATSU ◽  
TORU ISHIDA
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Front End ◽  
Information Agents ◽  
The City

A digital city is a social information infrastructure for urban life (including shopping, business, transportation, education, welfare and so on). We started a project to develop a digital city for Kyoto based on the newest technologies including cooperative information agents. This paper presents an architecture for digital cities and shows the roles of agent interfaces in it. We propose two types of cooperative information agents as follows: (a) the front-end agents determine and refine users' uncertain goals, (b) the back-end agents extract and organize relevant information from the Internet, (c) Both types of agents opportunistically cooperate through a blackboard. We also show the research guidelines towards social agents in digital cities; the agent will foster social interaction among people who are living in/visiting the city.

scholarly journals Using visualisation software to improve student approaches to HE online assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
David Smith ◽  
M. Aslm Qayyum ◽  
Natascha Hard
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Assessment ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Learning Assessments ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Common Activity ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Subject Material

Abstract Studying via the Internet using information tools is a common activity for students in higher education. With students accessing their subject material via the Internet, studies have shown that students have difficulty understanding the complete purpose of an assessment which leads to poor information search practices. The selection of relevant information for particular learning assessments is the topic of this paper as it describes a case study that focuses on the information tool use of a small group of participants and is a continuation of similar research studies. The study and discussed research findings point to the benefit of students use of a visualisation tool to provide relevant learning cues and to transition to improved engagement with online assessment.

Assessment of The Digestive System Malignancy Information in Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia: Longitudinal Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianchen Luo ◽  
Jing Ma ◽  
Liangliang Xu ◽  
Lian Li ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digestive System ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Treatment Information ◽  
International Statistical Classification ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Search For Information

BACKGROUND The Internet has gradually become the most important way for people to search for information. Increasing number of people searched for relevant information or even treatment plans on the Internet when they get health problem. The reliability of the medical information provided online remains to be proved. Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia are the most widely used search engines in English and Chinese, respectively. The quality of the medical information they provide needs to be assessed. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the quality and timeliness of medical information related with digestive system malignancy retrieved from Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia. Comparison was made between the 2 encyclopedias. We conducted a 3-year follow-up to find out if the quality and timeliness of articles improved. METHODS We conducted a search based on International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision Version 2016 codes in Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia, and evaluated articles related to digestive system malignancy by using the DISCERN instrument. We calculated the update interval of the webpages to evaluate the update timeliness of these websites. RESULTS In 2017 and 2020, we searched out a total of 50 and 52 articles from Baidu Encyclopedia, with 2 articles increased and no article missed. 30 and 32 articles were found in Wikipedia, with 1 article increased and no article missed. According to the scores evaluated by DISCERN instrument. In both 2017 and 2020, Wikipedia scored higher than Baidu Encyclopedia in section1 and section2, and it's statistically significant. Wikipedia scored higher than Baidu Encyclopedia in Section3, but it's not statistically significant. The total score of Wikipedia was higher than Baidu Encyclopedia, and the difference was statistically significant. The update interval of Wikipedia is shorter than that of Baidu Encyclopedia, with better timeliness and statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS The quality and timeliness of digestive system malignancy relative articles on Wikipedia are better than those on Baidu Encyclopedia. Both Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia articles have improved in quality over the past three years. However, the treatment information obtained from the Internet still can’t guarantee its comprehensiveness or reliability. Patients should consult a medical professional directly.

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