scholarly journals Science, Maddá, and ‘Ilm: The language divide in scientific information available to Internet users

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252110229
Author(s):  
Kawther Zoubi ◽  
Aviv J. Sharon ◽  
Eyal Nitzany ◽  
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Online Access

The Internet has potential to alleviate inequality in general and specifically with respect to science literacy. Nevertheless, digital divides persist in online access and use, as well as in subsequent social outcomes. Among these, the “language divide” partly determines how successful users are in their Internet use depending on their proficiency in languages, and especially in English. To examine whether the quality of online scientific information varies between languages when conducting searches from the same country, we compared online search results regarding scientific terms in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. Findings indicate that searches in English yielded overall higher quality results, compared with Hebrew and Arabic, but mostly in pedagogical aspects, rather than scientific ones. Clustering the results by language yielded better separation than clustering by scientific field, pointing to a “language divide” in access to online science content. We argue that scientific communities and institutions should mitigate this language divide.1

Controversial Search Engine Results: An Exploratory Study of Information Presentation and Use

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alamir Novin ◽  
Eric Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Information Presentation ◽  
Result Page ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Science Topic ◽  
The Way

The manner in which search results are presented to a user may influence how they come to understand scientific information. Sixty participants were asked to read a mock search engine's result page with the goal of summarizing a science topic for a colleague. The researchers analyzed participants’ summaries for the presence of conflicting or negating information from the mock search results page. Preliminary findings indicate that the way in which a search engine displays results can influence a user's understanding of a controversy, particularly document order and genre, which affected the quality of participants’ written responses. La manière dont les résultats de recherche sont présentés aux utilisateurs peut influencer la façon dont ils interprètent l'information scientifique. On a demandé à soixante participants de lire une page  de résultats fictifs d'un moteur de recherche dans le but de résumer un sujet scientifique pour un collègue. Les résultats préliminaires indiquent que la façon dont un moteur de recherche présente les résultats peut influencer compréhension qu’a un utilisateur d'une controverse, en particulier l'ordre des documents et leur genre, qui ont affecté la qualité des résumés produist par les participants.

The role of libraries in improving the quality of research and dissertation work

Infolib ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Nargiza Pazilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Online Access ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
Role Of Information

The article examines the importance of using information resources in scientific and educational activities and their impact on improving the quality of scientific research and dissertations. The role of information and library institutions in organizing online access to scientific information, completing the collection based on the analysis of user needs is shown. The author also touches upon the actual problem of plagiarism in science and provides information on the Russian system for detecting text borrowings Antiplagiat, which most closely meets the needs of scientific and educational institutions of Uzbekistan

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOP «CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF PUBLICATIONS IN SELECTION OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION»

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Alexey A. Kolesnikov ◽  
Nadezhda M. Ryabova ◽  
Elena S. Utrobina
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Current State ◽  
Research Workshop ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Program Research

The article describes the content of a research workshop “Criteria for assessing the quality of publications in the selection of scientific information”, focused on the teaching staff, graduate students and undergraduates. This workshop was developed during the course and internship program “Research component in adult education”. The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize students with the system of criteria for evaluating a scientific publication to select the most relevant ones in determining the current state of a certain scientific field and compiling a literature review.

Advancement and Application of Scientometric Indicators for Evaluation of Research Content

2018 ◽  
pp. 6739-6747
Author(s):  
Tazeem Zainab ◽  
Zahid Ashraf Wani
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Scientometric Indicators ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Statistical Data Mining

To quantify science and to handle the scientific information various methods are used. Researchers and scientists use varied techniques for fundamental concepts which are more or less auxiliary and corresponding to a certain extension with respect to their applications. Scientometrics in this context, is a novel scientific field joining science and technology with information science and expending numerous mathematical, statistical, data mining techniques and procedures to measure and quantify scientific information. The focus of scientometrics as a discipline is the literature of science and technology. The proposed chapter thus aims to discuss the concept of Scientometrics, and its indicators that are employed to assess the quality of scholarly content. Further, the chapter also discusses the pros and cons of prominent scientometric indicators that are currently employed in assessing the performance of an individual researcher, institution or a country.

Advancement and Application of Scientometric Indicators for Evaluation of Research Content

2019 ◽  
pp. 532-542
Author(s):  
Tazeem Zainab ◽  
Zahid Ashraf Wani
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Scientometric Indicators ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Statistical Data Mining

To quantify science and to handle the scientific information, various methods are used. Researchers and scientists use varied techniques for fundamental concepts which are more or less auxiliary and corresponding to a certain extension with respect to their applications. Scientometrics, in this context, is a novel scientific field joining science and technology with information science and expending numerous mathematical, statistical, data mining techniques, and procedures to measure and quantify scientific information. The focus of scientometrics as a discipline is the literature of science and technology. The chapter thus aims to discuss the concept of scientometrics and its indicators that are employed to assess the quality of scholarly content. Further, the chapter also discusses the pros and cons of prominent scientometric indicators that are currently employed in assessing the performance of an individual researcher, institution, or country.

The implementation of test control methods for the improvement of the quality content of high education in medical higher educational institution

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-360
Author(s):  
S. A. Kolodii ◽  
Yu. V. Kordon ◽  
O. A. Nazarchuk ◽  
N.I. Osadchuk
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Independent Work ◽  
Test Control

The integration of Ukrainian system of Higher education into the European one accompanies by a transformation processes. The main goal of Higher school in our country is to prepare competitive specialists. The pedagogues of medical universities implement modern educational technologies with the use of analytically-searching work and scientific information. The implementation of new technologies of teaching is the important task of modernization of pedagogical system of mastering highly skilled specialists. The aim — to ground the implementation of test control for the estimation of quality of knowledge of future doctors. Gaining knowledge in microbiology is very necessary for future doctors to understand the principals of diagnostics and struggling infectious diseases. Knowledge in microbiology is basis for better understanding of clinical disciplines, as it assists logical perception of clinical data, influences on the forming clinical thought without which it is impossible to become a highly skilled specialist. The implementation of modern methods of studies, control, providing the increase of creative activity of students, forming and developing in them professional thought is one of the effective way of the improvement of quality of pedagogical training of highly skilled doctors. The experience of applying of the test control of knowledge in students in the medical university at classes of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology has been presented in the manuscript. The use of different types of test control has been proved to be one of the effective methods for determining the level of knowledge among students. Test control promotes the activation of cognitive activity, forms students’ skills of independent work, develops their logical thinking. Test control of obtained knowledge should be used in conjunction with other methods of studying the subject. The analysis of the results of the writing of the KROK-1 qualification exam by the students of the stomatological department has been conducted. The use of different methods of estimation of control of knowledge is necessary for its improvement. The study of microbiology is the important base of forming fundamental knowledge in students. Therefore, test control in a complex with other pedagogical methods can be used as one of the important and optimal methods to improve estimation of the basic level of students’ knowledge.

scholarly journals Using the Google™ Search Engine for Health Information: Is There a Problem? Case Study: Supplements for Cancer

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah C Cai ◽  
Leanne E King ◽  
Johanna T Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Nutrition Information ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Quality Rating

ABSTRACT We assessed the quality of online health and nutrition information using a Google™ search on “supplements for cancer”. Search results were scored using the Health Information Quality Index (HIQI), a quality-rating tool consisting of 12 objective criteria related to website domain, lack of commercial aspects, and authoritative nature of the health and nutrition information provided. Possible scores ranged from 0 (lowest) to 12 (“perfect” or highest quality). After eliminating irrelevant results, the remaining 160 search results had median and mean scores of 8. One-quarter of the results were of high quality (score of 10–12). There was no correlation between high-quality scores and early appearance in the sequence of search results, where results are presumably more visible. Also, 496 advertisements, over twice the number of search results, appeared. We conclude that the Google™ search engine may have shortcomings when used to obtain information on dietary supplements and cancer.

A New Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on Game Theory for Recommendation Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Benkessirat ◽  
Narhimene Boustia ◽  
Rezoug Nachida
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Cooperative Game ◽  
Shapley Value ◽  
Cooperative Game Theory ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
User Communities ◽  
The One

Recommendation systems can help internet users to find interesting things that match more with their profile. With the development of the digital age, recommendation systems have become indispensable in our lives. On the one hand, most of recommendation systems of the actual generation are based on Collaborative Filtering (CF) and their effectiveness is proved in several real applications. The main objective of this paper is to improve the recommendations provided by collaborative filtering using clustering. Nevertheless, taking into account the intrinsic relationship between users can enhance the recommendations performances. On the other hand, cooperative game theory techniques such as Shapley Value, take into consideration the intrinsic relationship among users when creating communities. With that in mind, we have used SV for the creation of user communities. Indeed, our proposed algorithm preforms into two steps, the first one consists to generate communities user based on Shapley Value, all taking into account the intrinsic properties between users. It applies in the second step a classical collaborative filtering process on each community to provide the Top-N recommendation. Experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly enhances the recommendation compared to the classical collaborative filtering and k-means based collaborative filtering. The cooperative game theory contributes to the improvement of the clustering based CF process because the quality of the users communities obtained is better.

Organization of school excursions in biology

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 39-32
Author(s):  
Gunay Isfandiyar Sadigov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Methods Development ◽  
New Learning

The purpose of this article is to highlight the role of excursions in the lives of students and schoolchildren. The excursion is one of the main forms of educational work. The excursion is one of the main forms of educational work. The tour is conducted according to the school program. The tour is conducted in a group to make it more interesting. Excursions also contribute to the development of polytechnic education, as they give students the opportunity to get acquainted with production, use scientific information in industry and agriculture. From this it can be concluded that excursions occupy a very important place in the life of both schoolchildren and students. Key words: the process of teaching the method of excursion, the principle of vitality, teaching process, introduction of new learning technologies, quality of education, form of training, teaching methods, development and dissemination of the method

scholarly journals Benefit-risk of Patients' Online Access to their Medical Records: Consensus Exercise of an International Expert Group

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshana Liyanage ◽  
Siaw-Teng Liaw ◽  
Emmanouela Konstantara ◽  
Freda Mold ◽  
Richard Schreiber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Consensus Statements ◽  
Online Access ◽  
The Impact

Background: Patients' access to their computerised medical records (CMRs) is a legal right in many countries. However, little is reported about the benefit-risk associated with patients' online access to their CMRs. Objective: To conduct a consensus exercise to assess the impact of patients' online access to their CMRs on the quality of care as defined in six domains by the Institute of Medicine (IoM), now the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Method: A five-round Delphi study was conducted. Round One explored experts' (n = 37) viewpoints on providing patients with access to their CMRs. Round Two rated the appropriateness of statements arising from Round One (n = 16). The third round was an online panel discussion of findings (n = 13) with the members of both the International Medical Informatics Association and the European Federation of Medical Informatics Primary Health Care Informatics Working Groups. Two additional rounds, a survey of the revised consensus statements and an online workshop, were carried out to further refine consensus statements. Results: Thirty-seven responses from Round One were used as a basis to initially develop 15 statements which were categorised using IoM's domains of care quality. The experts agreed that providing patients online access to their CMRs for bookings, results, and prescriptions increased efficiency and improved the quality of medical records. Experts also anticipated that patients would proactively use their online access to share data with different health care providers, including emergencies. However, experts differed on whether access to limited or summary data was more useful to patients than accessing their complete records. They thought online access would change recording practice, but they were unclear about the benefit-risk of high and onerous levels of security. The 5-round process, finally, produced 16 consensus statements. Conclusion: Patients' online access to their CMRs should be part of all CMR systems. It improves the process of health care, but further evidence is required about outcomes. Online access improves efficiency of bookings and other services. However, there is scope to improve many of the processes of care it purports to support, particularly the provision of a more effective interface and the protection of the vulnerable.

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