What makes a landmark effective? Sex differences in a navigation task     

V. D. Chamizo  Clara A. Rodríguez  Irene Torres  Marta N. Torres  N. J. Mackintosh 《Learning & behavior》2014,42(4):348-356

In Experiment 1, two groups of female rats were trained in a triangular pool to find a hidden platform whose location was defined in terms of a single a landmark, a cylinder outside the pool. For one group, the landmark had only a single pattern (i.e., it looked the same when approached from any direction), while for the other, the landmark contained four different patterns (i.e., it looked different when approached from different directions). The first group learned to swim to the platform more rapidly than the second. Experiment 2 confirmed this difference when female rats were trained in a circular pool but found that male rats learned equally rapidly (and as rapidly as females trained with the single-pattern landmark) with both landmarks. This second finding was confirmed in Experiment 3. Finally, in Experiment 4a and 4b, male and female rats were trained either with the same, single-pattern landmark on all trials or with a different landmark each day. Males learned equally rapidly (and as rapidly as females trained with the unchanged landmark) whether the landmark changed or not. We conclude that male and female rats learn rather different things about the landmark that signals the location of the platform.  相似文献   

Quality Audits as a Tool for Quality Improvement in Selected European Higher Education Libraries     

Núria Balagué  Petra Düren  Arja Juntunen  Jarmo Saarti 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2014,40(5):529-533

From the beginning of the 1990s, different types of quality management and evaluation systems have become integrated into higher education institutes throughout Europe due to the creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This has meant that the university libraries have had to learn how to evaluate their services and improve their quality. Quality audits are one tool that can be used in quality management approaches to assess how well an organization is being managed. This paper describes and benchmarks the use of external and internal auditing in three European academic libraries, i.e. the Medical Library of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Library (Spain) and the University of Eastern Finland Library (Finland). The results reveal the best practices of auditing in these institutions; and recommendations are provided for the further development of library auditing and ways to improve co-operation between libraries.  相似文献   

The modern information culture and information warfare     

N. V. Lopatina 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2014,41(3):155-158

Information warfare is viewed as a social-information phenomenon in today’s world. Particular features of information warfare pursued in World 2.0 are defined. The emphasis is made on the role of a humanitarian tool, the information culture, which allows one to counter information warfare. The personal information culture and information culture of a society are defined. The importance of the development of the information culture in the higher education area is discussed.  相似文献   

The formation of the multidimensional information space on ethnology and historical anthropology     

T. B. Uvarova  L. V. Shemberko 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2014,41(3):183-193

This paper considers the properties of using the multidimensional approach in the information support of scientific research on ethnology and historical anthropology based on the information resources of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION). The principles of the content processing of documents and queries based on a complex of linguistic tools of the Automated Information System on Social Sciences (AISON) are considered. The problems of increasing the professional competence and level of information culture of consumers who search for ethnological information by queries of different complexities are discussed.  相似文献   

The role of unique identifiers in bibliographic information systems     

N. A. Mazov  V. N. Gureev 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2014,41(3):206-210

To date, there is no unique accepted and standardized method for identifying journal articles, authors, and other elements of bibliographic metadata, although in recent years a considerable number of identifiers have been developed. The problem of identification becomes particularly urgent when the same information is used in different scientometric and bibliographic databases, when it is necessary to carry out complex data processing with their further integration. The need for unique identifiers outside of a system is a universal requirement. Initiatives to construct identifiers and systems appear regularly in the scientific press; however, they have not achieved the necessary degree of interoperability. This paper presents the general problems that are associated with metadata identifiers of scientific publications, analyzes a number of the existing systems and technologies, and indicates the current initiatives to remove the gap in the area of identification.  相似文献   

Traditional craftsmanship and technology of Jianyang black wares from Fujian,China     

Pamela B. Vandiver 《文物保护研究》2014,59(5):S169-S172

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Communicating Library Value — The Missing Piece of the Assessment Puzzle     

Amanda B. Albert 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2014,40(6):634-637

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Journal author rights and self‐archiving: the case of Spanish journals     

R. MELERO  J.M. RODRÍGUEZ‐GAIRÍN  F. ABAD‐GARCÍA  E. ABADAL 《Learned Publishing》2014,27(2):107-120

Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The lack of clarity of publisher permissions for archiving in OA repositories affects the adoption of the green OA route. This paper explores editorial policies and self‐archiving conditions in 1,615 Spanish scholarly journals. 48% are published by university and research institutions, 25% by associations/societies, and 17% by commercial publishers; social sciences and humanities (SSH) accounted for 67% of the journals (44.5% and 22.5%, respectively) followed by health sciences (20%); 71% offered gratis access immediately after publication, and 11% after an embargo; 31% provided some mention of author rights. Self‐archiving was specifically allowed by 65% of the journals; 52% were classified as ROMEO‐blue, 12% as green and 15% as white, and 21% could not be classified; 21%, mostly in SSH, used some type of Creative Commons license.  相似文献   

The Library as Publisher     

Lauren B. Collister  Timothy S. Deliyannides  Sharon Dyas-Correia 《期刊图书馆员》2014,66(1-4):20-29

This article describes a half-day preconference that focused on the library as publisher. It examined how the movement from print to online publication has impacted the roles of libraries and their ability to take on new roles as publishers. The session explored the benefits of libraries becoming publishers, and discussed Open Access, what it is and is not and its importance to libraries and scholarly communication. A detailed case study of the publishing operations of the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh was presented as an example of a successful library publishing program. The session provided an opportunity for participants to discover ways that libraries can be involved in publishing.  相似文献   

基于DMBOK的电动汽车多源信息决策支持系统 数据质量管理过程研究     

齐娜  赵辉  张英杰 《中国科技资源导刊 (中国信息导报)》2014,(4):20-24

依据国际数据管理协会数据管理知识体系（DMBOK）中的数据质量管理过程,分析了电动汽车多源信息 决策支持系统中的数据特点以及建设中存在的问题,提出改进建议,并初步构建适用于电动汽车多源信息决策支持系 统的数据质量管理流程。  相似文献