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Middle-Aged and Older African Americans' Information Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview Study [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
African Americans in the United States have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in infection and mortality rates. This study examined how middle-aged and older African American individuals accessed and evaluated the information ...
Lu Tang, Felicia N. York, Wenxue Zou
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Social information use and social information waste. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
Social information is immensely valuable. Yet we waste it. The information we get from observing other humans and from communicating with them is a cheap and reliable informational resource. It is considered the backbone of human cultural evolution.
Morin O, Jacquet PO, Vaesen K, Acerbi A.
europepmc   +11 more sources

Validation of myocarditis diagnoses in the Swedish patient register for analyses of potential adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines

open access: yesUpsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccines are associated with an increased risk of myocarditis using hospital discharge diagnoses as an outcome. The validity of these register-based diagnoses is uncertain. Methods: Patient records for
Rolf Gedeborg   +9 more
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Exploring Information Use Behavior in the Context of Knowledge Construction [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Library and Information Studies, 2015
The study focuses on a task-driven context to investigate two issues, including “informants’ information use behavior in a learning context” and “how the knowledge structure has changed after utilizing the information”.
Chih-Wen Jayden Chou   +1 more
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Social Networks in the Information Horizons of Undergraduate Students [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Library and Information Studies, 2012
The information horizon is a mental map where users position their information sources in different contexts and situations, and the social network is one of the critical concepts in information horizons.
Tien-I Tsai
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Beyond the Checklist Approach: A Librarian-Faculty Collaboration to Teach the BEAM Method of Source Evaluation

open access: yesCommunications in Information Literacy, 2021
Evaluating information is an essential skill, valued across disciplines. While librarians and instructors share the responsibility to teach this skill, they need a common framework in order to collaborate to design assignments that give students multiple
Jenny Mills   +4 more
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Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin İnternette Buldukları Bilgilere Yönelik Farkındalıklarının Belirlenmesi

open access: yesAnadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi, 2019
Günümüzün önemli bilgi kaynağı konumunda olaninternet, öğrenciler için bazı sorunları da beraberinde getirmektedir. Buaçıdan öğrencilerin bilinçli bir şekilde internet kullanımı yani internettebulunan bilginin farkındalığı önem taşımaktadır.
Agah Tuğrul Korucu   +3 more
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Information identification, evaluation and utilisation for decision-making by managers in South West Nigeria

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Information Management, 2017
Background: Managers’ organisational decisions and subsequent actions flow from their understanding of the business environment in which they operate.
Omotola Osunrinde, Mutawakilu Tiamiyu
doaj   +1 more source

Probabilistic Autoencoder Using Fisher Information [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
Neural networks play a growing role in many scientific disciplines, including physics. Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are neural networks that are able to represent the essential information of a high dimensional data set in a low dimensional latent space, which have a probabilistic interpretation.
Johannes Zacherl   +2 more
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Analyzing the Impact of Value Satisfaction on Behavioral Intention to Use E-Resources

open access: yesJournal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2022
The present study investigates the impact of perceived value metrics in driving satisfaction and behavioral intention to use e-resource among its users. Utilitarian, hedonic, uniqueness, epistemic, and economic are key values selected for the purpose of ...
Vinod Kumar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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