HazLit: a unique resource for natural hazards information     

Fitzpatrick RB 《Medical reference services quarterly》2007,26(3):75-83

The "Online Updates" column generally focuses on bibliographic databases that may be licensed from commercial vendors or are available free of charge from a federal government agency. HazLit is featured because it is a unique and comprehensive resource of the literature of natural disasters. This column provides background information on HazLit and offers some searching basics, as well as highlights special information found at the Web site that hosts the database.  相似文献   

I. What Does it Take to Learn a Word?     

George Hollich  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek  & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2000,65(3):1-16

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References     

George Hollich  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek  & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2000,65(3):115-122

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Factors Influencing New Entrant Dairy Farmer's Decision-making Process around Technology Adoption     

Roberta McDonald  Kevin Heanue  Karina Pierce  Brendan Horan 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2016,22(2):163-177

Purpose: The aims of this paper are to (1) evaluate the main factors influencing grazing system technology adoption among new entrant (NE) dairy farmers within Europe and the Irish pasture-based dairy industry, and (2) to determine the extent to which economic factors influence decision-making around technology adoption and use among NEs to the Irish dairy industry.

Methodology: Multivariate analysis is used to investigate the associations between region, education level, previous experience in dairy farming, herd size, age and the farmer's perception of the usefulness (PU) and ease-of-use of a technology (PEOU), and the likelihood of that technology being adopted.

Findings: The results of this study identify a high rate of grazing, artificial insemination (AI) and financial management technology adoption among NE dairy farmers whose technology decisions are primarily motivated by financial considerations and are closely related to the PU and PEOU scores of the technology. Grassland measurement had the lowest adoption rate (51%) compared to AI (86%) and farm financial management (84%).

Practical Implications: The substantial importance of PU and PEOU to technology adoption decisions indicates that future research, extension and education programmes should place increased emphasis on the benefits and usability of key technologies in addition to evaluating their scientific merit.

Originality/Value: For the first time information assessing technology adoption amongst new dairy farmers is available. This has the potential to improve and increase extension and education for new dairy farmers in a future post-quota environment.  相似文献   

Two-Year-Olds Readily Learn Multiple Labels for the Same Basic-Level Category   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Carolyn B. Mervis  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff  Jacquelyn Bertrand 《Child development》1994,65(4):1163-1177

2 basic frameworks for lexical principles have been proposed (Golinkoff, Mervis, & Hirsh-Pasek; Markman). In many types of situations, these frameworks make the same predictions regarding 2-year-olds' interpretation of novel terms. However, the predictions diverge in some cases. 3 experiments were conducted to address 1 such situation: the case in which the child hears a novel term but already knows a label for each of the objects present. Results of all 3 studies converged on the same outcome: The new term was most likely to be treated as a second basic-level name for the category to which the object belonged. Analyses of individual patterns of responding revealed that, of the 58 subjects, 50 made more basic-level responses than part responses, 1 made equal numbers of basic-level and part responses, and 7 made more part responses than basic-level responses. Implications of these findings for models of early lexical development are discussed.  相似文献   

I. SPATIAL SKILLS,THEIR DEVELOPMENT,AND THEIR LINKS TO MATHEMATICS     

Brian N. Verdine  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek  Nora S. Newcombe 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2017,82(1):7-30

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Effects of early literacy environments on the reading attitudes, behaviours and values of veteran teachers     

Roberta Levitt  R. H. Red Owl 《Learning Environments Research》2013,16(3):387-409

Research has linked early literacy environments to the attitudes, behaviours and instructional values of reading teachers, but most prior research has addressed preservice or early inservice teachers. This mixed-methods, hypothesis-generating, Q methodology-based study explored the relationship between early literacy environments and the subsequent reading experiences, attitudes and behaviours of a purposive sample of veteran literacy educators. By-person factor analysis identified three empirical profiles of shared reading experiences, attitudes and behaviours: Early Readers Supported by Nurturing Early Literacy Environments; Early Readers Not Supported by Nurturing Early Literacy Environments; and Later Readers Not Supported by Nurturing Early Literacy Environments. Conceptual variables found across all models using qualitative analysis included: Nature of Early Literacy Environments, Early and Later Competence and Appreciation of Reading, Attitudes about the Value of Reading, and Instructional Values and Behaviors in Literacy Education. These models suggest further evidence for the importance of early literacy environments (both home and classroom environments) and provide empirically-derived testable hypotheses for future research.  相似文献   

TIMELIT: Topics in Medical Education Database     

Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick 《Medical reference services quarterly》2013,32(1):56-64

TIMELIT is a database covering the topic of medical education. Entries in this resource cover a range of topics from professional education to both health and patient education. This column will provide an overview of the database and its content, as well as give basic information about searching TIMELIT.  相似文献   

CPDB: Carcinogenic Potency Database     

Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick 《Medical reference services quarterly》2013,32(3):303-311

ABSTRACT

The Carcinogenic Potency Database reports analyses of animal cancer tests on 1,547 chemicals. These tests are used in support of cancer risk assessments for humans. Results are searchable and are made available via the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) TOXNET system. This column will provide background information on the database, as well as present search basics.  相似文献   

Memorial: The Social Construction of Rob Kling     

Roberta Lamb 《The Information Society》2013,29(3):195-196

Abstract

This paper summarizes the concept of privacy, reviews some of its underlying tenets and axioms, illustrates the drift toward a national counterprivacy posture in terms of events involving the Social Security number (SSN), and discusses new faces in terms of three case histories: the California action to require SSNs on driver's licenses, the effort by telephone companies to introduce calling number identification, and the aggregation of public records into dossier databases. Remedial actions by government and legislators are suggested.  相似文献