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Undergraduate Science Students are Uncertain of How to Find Facts in E-books Compared to Print Books

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2011
Objective – To observe and compare the strategies that undergraduate science students use to perform information retrieval tasks in e-books and in print books.
Christina E. Carter
doaj   +1 more source

The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring faculty experiences with e-books: a focus group [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how, in the spring of 2007, Arizona State University Libraries held a focus group of selected faculty to discover their perceptions and use of electronic books (e-books) in their research and teaching.
Perry, Anali Maughan   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Robotic Assistants in the Operating Room: A Systematic Review of Vision‐Based Systems for Nonoperative Tasks

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review brings together 20 publications describing 11 robotic system families developed for instrument handling, sterile‐package opening, supply delivery, and operating room logistics. Perception is becoming more capable through deep learning and language‐guided control, but autonomy remains limited, evidence is largely laboratory‐based, and no ...
Eugenia Mawuenya Akpo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the adoption of electronic books for teaching and learning in rural public secondary schools

open access: yesPerspectives in Education
Digital transformation has shown remarkable development by digitising traditional books into electronic books or e-books. Various publishing industries and academic libraries globally see e-books as a golden bullet.
Masindi Randima   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing Factors Affecting on Internet Marketing Success in Selling E-books [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات کتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی دانشگاهی, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of internet marketing indices on sales of electronic books and ranking them from the viewpoint of Iran’s electronic publishers.Methodology: The present study, in terms of purpose is applied and
Morteza Rojuee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The case for e-book literacy: undergraduate students’ experience with e-books for course work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper investigates how electronic books (e-books) are used for scholarly activity. It focuses on the end-users of e-books in a case study which aimed to establish how scholars use and learn from e-books and the limitations of academic e-books. There
Hawes, Graeme, Muir, Laura
core   +1 more source

A Perspective on Interactive Theorem Provers in Physics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Into an interactive theorem provers (ITPs), one can write mathematical definitions, theorems and proofs, and the correctness of those results is automatically checked. This perspective goes over the best usage of ITPs within physics and motivates the open‐source community run project PhysLean, the aim of which is to be a library for digitalized physics
Joseph Tooby‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Aachener Erklärung: Sechs Thesen zum Erwerb von elektronischen Büchern [The Aachen Declaration: Six recommendations for the acquisition of electronic books]

open access: yesGMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information, 2012
[english] The AGMB is concerned with current developments which could hurt the publishing eco system, especially the market of academic text books as well as the prosperous cooperation of lecturers, libraries, publishers and users and, in addition, harm ...
Schweizer, Stefanus
doaj   +1 more source

Photonic‐Enabled Energy‐Efficient Transparent Neuromorphic Computing Devices: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Transparent photonic neuromorphic computing devices merge optics and brain‐inspired computing to overcome von Neumann bottlenecks with ultrafast, low‐energy processing. By exploiting transparent oxides, 2D materials, phase‐change materials, and hybrid heterostructures, these platforms enable photonic synapses, memory, and logic for see‐through edge ...
Shuvaraj Ghosh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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