Academic Online Resources and Global Implications

2006 ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Yukiko Inoue ◽  
Suzanne Bell
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
The Right ◽  
Audio Information

The question of finding the right information is perhaps even more important, and it requires a new organizing principle of information for the digital age…. The problem that people are running into with digitized information is that the amount of information is growing exponentially. The number of Web sites has grown from 5,000 to 50 million over the last 10 years or so, and the information they contain is very dynamic. At the same time, search engines are becoming more powerful and people are creating more sophisticated, semantically based retrieval mechanisms. All of that will, in fact, improve the quality of search and finding information. However, there is a different dimension, that of video and audio information, which cannot be routinely indexed and searched at present. (Goodman, 2001, pp. 13-14)

Academic Online Resources and Global Implications

2008 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Y. Inoue ◽  
S. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
The Right ◽  
Audio Information

The question of finding the right information is perhaps even more important, and it requires a new organizing principle of information for the digital age…. The problem that people are running into with digitized information is that the amount of information is growing exponentially. The number of Web sites has grown from 5,000 to 50 million over the last 10 years or so, and the information they contain is very dynamic. At the same time, search engines are becoming more powerful and people are creating more sophisticated, semantically based retrieval mechanisms. All of that will, in fact, improve the quality of search and finding information. However, there is a different dimension, that of video and audio information, which cannot be routinely indexed and searched at present. (Goodman, 2001, pp. 13-14)

scholarly journals Pengukuran Kualitas Informasi dengan Menerapkan Augmented Reality pada Media Promosi (Brosur) Berbasis Android

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-343
Author(s):  
Miftahul Madani ◽  
Arief Setyanto ◽  
Amir Fatah Sofyan ◽  
Danang Tejo Kumoro
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Correlation Technique ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Augmented Reality Technology ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Measuring Tool ◽  
Audio Information ◽  
Validation Testing

Augmented reality is a technology that is part of the development of the multimedia world that brings many ideas in various fields of promotion is no exception. The idea of using augmented reality in promotional media (brochures) that aims to improve the quality of information that is applied to the android platform one of them. The analytical method used in this study on validation testing is the product moment correlation technique, then the interval will be made as a measuring tool to determine the variable value of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. The results concluded that the effectiveness variable showed at the number 59.817 on a scale > 52.85 - 61.442 which is very close to effective, the efficiency variable showed at the number 23.833 on a scale > 21.145 - 24.574 which is very close to efficient, and the satisfaction variable showed 47.417 at a scale > 42.285 - 49,142 which is very close to satisfying. Based on this, the use of augmented reality technology applied to promotional media can affect the level of quality of information and can display video and audio information on promotional media (brochures) STMIK Bumigora Mataram based on Android.

Depression in cancer: An evaluation of patient education resources.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e24194-e24194
Author(s):  
Jim (Zhang Hao) Li ◽  
Mingyang Wang ◽  
Paris-Ann Ingledew
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Education ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Patient Comprehension

e24194 Background: In recent years, there has been increasing awareness surrounding mental health and depression among cancer patients. Concurrently, the internet has cemented its role as a mainstay source of health information for the general public. However, little is known about the quality of online resources addressing depression specifically in cancer patients. Therefore, we aim to systematically evaluate the quality of such information. Methods: The term "depression in cancer patients" was searched online using the search engine Google and the meta-search engines Dogpile and Yippy. A set of predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria was applied to all search results, which yielded 48 websites for inclusion. An evidence-based rating tool was then used to score the websites based on the six domains of Affiliation, Accountability, Interactivity, Structure & Organization, Readability, and Content Quality. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: Of the 48 websites evaluated, 50% were commercial. In terms of accountability measures, 63% of websites disclosed authorship, 54% cited one or more reliable sources, and 38% were updated within the last two years. Although in-site search engines and video support were found in 94% and 52% of websites respectively, the presence of other interactive features were considerably lower. The average readability was at a grade 12.3 level using the Flesch-Kincaid scale and 11.3 using the SMOG Index, both of which were significantly higher than the traditionally recommended grade-six level ( p < 0.0001 for both). The most commonly covered topics were symptoms and treatment – found on 87% and 83% of websites respectively. Prevention and prognosis were not covered by any of the websites. Content accuracy was generally high among covered topics. Conclusions: Many websites addressing depression in cancer have poor authorship disclosure, attribution, and currency. Additional interactive features should be encouraged to facilitate user-friendliness. Poor readability may pose a barrier for patient comprehension, indicating a need for health care providers to proactively guide patients to suitable resources. Despite high content accuracy in other topics, prevention and prognosis are seldom covered. Our results could help guide the development of new patient education materials and better inform health care providers about the limitations of available online resources. Future research should aim to elucidate reasons contributing to difficult readability levels and identify topics that patients need additional information in.

An Evaluation Of The Quality Of Patient-Oriented Online Resources For Hemodialysis Access (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Davies
Keyword(s):  
Patient Education ◽  
Vascular Surgery ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Hemodialysis Access ◽  
Patient Resources ◽  
Meta Search ◽  
Grade Reading Level

BACKGROUND Patients and families increasingly turn to the internet for information and resources regarding their medical conditions. These searches are conducted in an independent and unsupervised manner, often without guidance from providers. Multiple reports in the medical oncology literature have cast significant doubt on the accuracy and currency of the data found on patient-focused websites OBJECTIVE To critically appraise the quality of patient-focused online resources concerning hemodialysis access procedures. METHODS A recently validated search strategy using the meta-search engines Google, Dogpile, and Yippy with the query “hemodialysis access” was performed on a cleared-cache web browser during January 2020. Inclusion criteria for the study were websites intended for patient education in English. Exclusions criteria consisted of online monographs, academic journals, and sites requiring paid subscription. Three independent reviewers evaluated the websites using a validated, structured rating tool that scored the Affiliation, Accountability, Interactivity, Structure and Organization, Readability, and Content of the websites. Inter-rater reliability was quantified by calculated kappa coefficients for each element of the instrument. RESULTS Out of more than 27 million collective search results using the three meta-search engines, the first 269 hits were considered for analysis. Only 63 unique patient-oriented sites were acceptable for analysis. 46% were sponsored by commercial entities. Accountability and interactivity were weak across sites. Readability as determined by Flesch-Kincaid and SMOG indices ranged from 6th grade to post-graduate level. 19% were written at a college reading level or higher, however these sites had content quality comparable to those utilizing more elementary prose. 85% of non-commercial domain sites were free of inaccuracies compared to 59% of commercial sites (P=.02). Non-commercial domain sites trended toward more comprehensive content as well as superior readability (average 10th grade reading level compared to average 11th grade reading level, P=.08). The average composite score of all the websites was 2.8 out of a maximum possible weighted score of 7.8, indicating poor global quality of websites. Kappa coefficients were 0.7 or greater for a random sample of 10 websites. CONCLUSIONS This is the first report on the quality of online patient resources in vascular surgery. The study demonstrates that online patient education resources regarding hemodialysis access are poor and require input from the vascular surgery community. Providers need to be aware and understand this issue and seek to inform and mitigate misinformation and potential misguidance. The vascular surgery community should invest in more readable and comprehensive web resources. CLINICALTRIAL n.a

Research on Audio-Video Synchronization Coding Based on Mode Selection in H.264

2012 ◽  
Vol 182-183 ◽  
pp. 701-705
Author(s):  
Xiao Ni Li ◽  
He Xin Chen ◽  
Da Zhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mode Selection ◽  
Audio Signal ◽  
Video Stream ◽  
Inter Prediction ◽  
Video Synchronization ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Compression Coding ◽  
Audio Information ◽  
Audio Video

An embedded audio-video synchronization compression coding approach is presented. The proposed method takes advantage of the different mode types used by the H.264 encoder during the inter prediction stage, different modes carry corresponding audio information, and the audio will be embedded into video stream by choosing modes during the inter prediction stage, then synchronization coding is applied to the mixing video and audio. We have verified the synchronization processing method based on H.264/AVC using JM Model and experimental results show that this method has achieved synchronization between audio and video at small embedded cost, and the same time, audio signal can be extracted without distortion, besides, this method has hardly effect on the quality of video image.

Potential implications of the Matzak judgment (quality of rest time, right to disconnect)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-397
Author(s):  
Leszek Mitrus
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Rest Period ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Advocate General ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Rest Time ◽  
The Right

The present elaboration is dedicated to one of the aspects of the Matzak judgment, where CJEU ruled that a standby time which a volunteer firefighter spends at home with the duty to respond to calls from his employer within a few minutes, very significantly restricting the opportunities to do other activities, must be regarded as working time under the Directive 2003/88. The position of the Advocate General, who suggested that ‘the degree of freedom enjoyed by the worker’ and ‘the quality of time’ while a worker is on standby duty should be assessed, as well as the Court’s opinion, that the temporal and geographical constraints imposed on the on-call worker are of decisive importance, have been analysed. In the Author’s view, the binary relationship between ‘working time’ and ‘rest period’, as provided by Directive 2003/88, does not always meet the requirements of the current labour market. Moreover, in the digital age the ‘rest period’ does not necessarily amount to genuine free time. The Author examines possible further legislative developments concerning the concepts of working time and rest period, including the newly emerging idea of the right to disconnect, i.e. the worker’s ability to disconnect from work, especially by not engaging in electronic work-related communications during his rest period.

scholarly journals Assessing quality of web sites based on multimedia content

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Naga Prudhvi Kolla ◽  
Dr JKR Sastry ◽  
Dr V Chandra Prakash ◽  
Siva Krishna Onteru ◽  
Yeshwanth Surya Pinninti
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
The Web

Information is being presented these days in terms of text, data, images, video, and audio. Graphics and animations. Information is being disseminated through web sites which are either dynamic or static. Quality of the WEB site is however a big question. Users are quite concerned about quality of the WEB site. Too many operations if need to be undertaken for want of quality visualisation of the content such as Images, then the users loose interest in looking at that kind of content. WEB sites are presenting the content by integrating text and data with multimedia objects. Quality visualisation of the multimedia content would be the real issue as presenting these elements. The number of operations that the user is expected to carry must be minimised as much as possible.Quality presentation of the multimedia objects is most important for making available web sites to the customer satis-faction. Assessment of quality of the multimedia objects is needed to project the extent to which the users will be satis-fied with a web site that hosts different types of multimedia objects. In this paper the methods that computes quality of multimedia objects individually and also considering all types of multi-media objects as a whole are presented.  

scholarly journals USE OF CARTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS OF THE INTERNET WHEN COMPLETING THE “ELECTRONIC ARCHIVE OF MAPS OF SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST”

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Oleg N. Kationov ◽  
Nikita A. Romanenko ◽  
Oksana N. Sidorchuk
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Far East ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Good Resolution ◽  
Electronic Archive ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The Far East ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

The article describes Internet resources containing cartographic materials. Their condition, the ability to use when creating onElectronic Archive of maps of Siberia and the Far East from the 17th century to 1941. Using the comparison method, the authors conclude that electronic resources regarding maps can be divided into four groups. The first is web sites of libraries or archives, where copies of maps available for download, with good resolution. Also, on these sites there are bibliographic descriptions of these maps. The second group consists of cartographic sites that display maps for consumers, also with the right to download, providinj to links to this site (example site - “EtoMesto”). However, the authors of the sites or organizers initially declare only the quality of the maps, without a description of their history. More often map legend, time of creation and its scale are indicated. The third - thematic sites dedicated to any natural objects (the Baikal Nature Site), one of the sections of which are maps of different times with a fairly good resolution, but without bibliographic descriptions. The fourth group is the sites of administrations of constituent entities of the federation, municipalities. In the sections devoted to the history of administrative-territorial formation, maps with different quality of permission are placed. They are also without bibliographic description. But they can be useful in accumulating information about existing maps.

Stain contamination and embedding in electron microscopy

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
Hilton H. Mollenhauer
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Epoxy Resins ◽  
Image Contrast ◽  
Sample Preservation ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Electron Microscopical ◽  
Contrast Information

Many factors (e.g., resolution of microscope, type of tissue, and preparation of sample) affect electron microscopical images and alter the amount of information that can be retrieved from a specimen. Of interest in this report are those factors associated with the evaluation of epoxy embedded tissues. In this context, informational retrieval is dependant, in part, on the ability to “see” sample detail (e.g., contrast) and, in part, on tue quality of sample preservation. Two aspects of this problem will be discussed: 1) epoxy resins and their effect on image contrast, information retrieval, and sample preservation; and 2) the interaction between some stains commonly used for enhancing contrast and information retrieval.

ANALYSIS OF REGULATIONS REGARDING THE SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES ON THE REMOVAL AND RECOVERY OF PLANTATIONS IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PUBLIC ROADS

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kharytonova ◽  
Olha Mykolaienko ◽  
Tetyana Lozova
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Visual Orientation ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Overhead Power Lines ◽  
The Right ◽  
Neck Diameter ◽  
Proper Operation

Greening of roads contributes to the protection of roads and their elements from influence of adverse weather and climatic factors; it includes the measures for improvement and landscaping of roads, ensures the protection of roadside areas from transport pollution, provides visual orientation of drivers. The solution of these issues will ensure creation and maintenance of safe and comfortable conditions for travelers. Green plantings in the right-of-way road area include woody, bushy, flower and grass vegetation of natural and artificial origin. For proper operation of public roads and satisfaction of other needs of the industry, there may be the need in removing the greenery. The reason for the removal of greenery in the right-of-way road area may be due to the following factors: construction of the architectural object, widening of the motor road, repair works in the security zone of overhead power lines, water supply, drainage, heating, telecommunications facilities, cutting of hazardous, dry and fautal trees, as well as self-grown and brushwood trees with a root neck diameter not exceeding 5 cm, elimination of the consequences of natural disasters and emergencies. The removal of plantations in the right-of-way area is executed in order to ensure traffic safety conditions and to improve the quality of plantations composition and their protective properties. Nowadays, in Ukraine there is no clear procedure for issuing permits for removing of such plantations. In order to resolve this issue, there is a need in determining the list of regulations in the area of forest resources of Ukraine and, if needed, the list of regulatory acts that have to be improved; to prepare a draft of the regulatory legal act that would establish the procedure of plantations cutting, the methodology of their condition determination, recovery costs determination, the features of cutting. Keywords: plantations, cutting, right-of-way, woodcutting permit, order.

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