Introduction. I report an investigation designed to identify the contemporary role of digital resources for information retrieval, such as Alex Author-dictionary. This study proposes that it is essential to see digital resources and their specific place within contemporary structures for information retrieval, that digital resources relate to a broader context. My focus is facts beyond giving patrons access to a specific type of information about authors. Method. This case study uses integration of qualitative content analysis from interviewees with data analysis. A pre-search interview and data-analysis along with follow-up interviews established some interesting perspectives on Alex Author-dictionary as well as aspects on digital resources for information retrieval. Transcripts of the interviews formed the data for analysis. Analysis. Qualitative analyses were carried out from two preparatory email-interviews, one with the editor and one with a person who writes for Alex. Another pre-search interview and two following interview sessions, one with a school librarian and another with a public librarian, were conducted. Results. It proved possible to demonstrate that Alex Author-dictionary as such has its benefits compared to sources from the internet. The results derive from and agree with some previous studies, especially that there is a where, when and how to use different resources. The web for example could advantageously give patrons access to other formats such as video interviews etc. that the library doesn’t hold. Conclusion. I identify a need to enlarge the scope of how patrons teach users. Users of all ages would be benefited from knowing when to use Google and when benefited using other digital resources of information retrieval. This sound awareness is directly related to users need to develop skills, and then interpret their own actual information literacy. This could take place either in sessions of user education at the library, or from teachers in a school environment.

This thesis examines the applicability of Google Econometrics - the use of search volume data of particular queries as explanatory variables in time se- ries modeling - in the case of the Czech Republic. We analyze the contribu- tion of Google data by comparing out-of-sample nowcasting performance and in-sample fit with control variables in three related areas: using an auto- regressive model for unemployment, vector autoregression and logit models for GDP and household consumption, and Granger causality test for consum- er confidence. The improvement in quality of unemployment nowcasting is modest but statistically significant; sentiment index based on Google queries shows reciprocal relationship with the official Consumer Confidence Indicator, and it also provides superior nowcasts for household consumption as well as in- sample fit in logit models; its performance in GDP nowcasting is average among control variables. In overall, the results suggest that Google Econometrics is applicable also to the Czech Republic, despite the fact that the internet penetration rate and Google popularity was lower over the analyzed period compared with developed economies where these methods were usually tested. In the future, Google data may be used together with other leading and coincident indica- tors to...

The aim of this work is the analysis of current practices and techniques of Internet marketing. The work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part presents the current internet marketing tools, the optimal utilization is reflected in the practical part, which is carried out a comprehensive plan for internet marketing strategy with emphasis on SEO for start-up company in the field of accommodation and hospitable service. This is a company Penzion U Lišky, which offers accommodation in Southern Bohemia. The work will serve as a guide for small and medium organizations in the development of marketing projects. The practical part of the evidence considered in developing websites and methods to optimize site for search engines. The next section provides recommendations for use of PPC campaigns and presentation of the company's social networking site Facebook. The analysis methods for increasing traffic through social networking, PR articles, blogging and other tools.

This thesis is concerned by programming language Python and its suitability of his assignment to the tuition. The work is divided into three dominant parts. The first part describes programming language Python, its elementary characteristics and features. The purpose is to introduce its properties to the reader so that he could estimate if there is point in the deeper concern. There are elements of object-oriented programming in description, too. The second part analyses programming language Python on the basis of ten criteria which are defined considering applicability of the language in preliminary courses of programming. The purpose is to review if the Python is appropriate in these courses. The third part considers the possibilities of the Python tuition at the University of Economics in Prague. The main contribution of the thesis is to give opinion on the fundamental description of the language, to define framework and to pass judgment on the potential chance of use in preliminary courses of programming.

The aim of this work is to examine the application Topocoding API and Google Maps API. Analyze system requirements to define the coverage of wireless connectivity to allow the ISP so as to allow the ISP to file AP and customers, as well as exploring the possibilities of joining the AP ISP and view coverage maps. Further, this application design, implement and test.

Thesis advisor: Donald Fishman / This thesis examines the role of culture in international business communication through case studies of several multinational corporations. The first case looks at Coca-Cola's product recall crisis in Belgium in 1999, which exhibited an uncharacteristic deviation from the company's well-known brand marketing brilliance. The second case deals with problems that Disney encountered as it tried to establish its first theme park in Europe in the 1990s and found itself facing a culture as proud and protective as Disney itself. At the heart of these cases were outdated international strategies and an attitude of arrogance that assumed that an American business approach could easily be transferred to a different country and culture. The thesis concludes with an analysis of Google as a case study for the future followed by suggestions for successful international strategies and final thoughts on globalization's effect on culture and corporations. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Communication. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

On today’s web, a web page needs to load fast and have a great user experiencein order to be successful. The faster the better. A server side rendered webpage can have a prominent initial load speed while a client side rendered webpage will have a great interactive user experience. When combining the two,some users with a bad internet connection or a slow device could receive a pooruser experience. A new technology called Amplified Mobile Pages (AMP) wascreated by Google to help combat this issue.The authors of this report gives an answer to if Google AMP could maintain theuser experience while still contributing with a fast initial load speed for applica-tions. To do this, we conducted an experiment through creating a Google AMPapplication and compared it to another application using a different renderingengine called Pug. We have also measured the metrics: page load time, speedindex and application size between the two applications. To fully understandthe AMP format, the authors conducted a literature study, to further strengthentheir findings.Google AMP is a great technology but it can still grow to become better. Theformat could increase the speed of a website, however the same result could beachieved without AMP if focus was set on writing a fast application. From theexperiment, the authors concluded that Google AMP takes a great time to learnbecause of its own version of JavaScript through modules. The format also hasa different structure than standard HTML. From the tests, a smaller applica-tion does not favor the implementation of AMP. We did however derive fromthe experiment and the literature study that bigger applications could benefitfrom the perks of AMP and could therefor be a potential choice for old and newapplications.

Denna rapport behandlar ett arbete sju studenter som läste kursen TDDD96: Kandidatprojekt i programutveckling utförde under vårterminen 2019. Arbetets syfte var att utforska möjligheten att skicka in personlig hälsodata till Region Östergötland via en hemsida. För att åstadkomma detta utvecklades en webbapplikation, samt utfördes en utredning av openEHR:s datastrukturer och API för att kunna koppla applikationen till Region Östergötlands journalsystem. Resultatet blev en fungerande webbapplikation som hämtar data från hälsoplattformen Google Fit och skickar därefter in det till en journal via openEHR:s REST-API. Hälsodata som hämtats från Google Fit är data som samlats in med sensorer från mobiler och smartklockor såsom puls och antal steg. Denna rapport avser att ge en inblick i utvecklingsprocessen, beskriva de bakomliggande besluten, de problem som uppstått under projektets gång och dess lösningar, samt diskutera resultatet. Med i rapporten finns även de individuella kandidatrapporter medlemmarna i gruppen har skrivit, dessa hittas sist i dokumentet.

Sharing a large amount of data between many mobile devices can lead to scalability problems. One of these scalability problems is that the data becomes too large to store on mobile devices and that many updates are sent to each device. In this thesis, Couchbase is evaluated as a tool to solve this problem where the data has a geographical position. The scalability problem is solved by partitioning the data with the help of Couchbase channels and Google’s tile-based mapping system. Synchronising and storing only data of interest for each user has been in focus. The result showed that it was effective to use a Couchbase solution together with Google’s tile-based mapping system to reduce the amount of data that was required to be stored for each user. It was shown to be more effective to store objects encoded as base64 data instead of their binary data representation for the data set used in this study. The reason for this is because Couchbase stores Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) as separate files and the BLOBs in the data set had much smaller file size than what the disk sector size was. A test to find how the synchronisation time was affected by the number of channels was conducted. It showed that the synchronisation time increased linearly with an increasing number of channels when the objects were stored in separate files. When the objects were encoded as base64 data, the number of channels used had a minor effect on the synchronisation time. The conclusion is that the approach presented in this study has been effective. However, the results are data dependent and therefore it is recommended to rerun similar tests in order to decide the number of channels to use when partitioning the data.

El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar las percepciones de un grupo de estudiantes sobre la utilidad de Google Académico como herramienta para la búsqueda de información educativa. Los sujetos de estudio fueron 24 alumnos de primer año del nivel pregrado matriculados en el curso Arte y Tecnología durante el segundo semestre del año 2016 de una universidad privada de Lima. El nivel de la investigación fue descriptivo - exploratorio y el enfoque que se desarrolló fue cualitativo. Asimismo, los instrumentos que sirvieron para el acopio de información fueron dos: encuestas de preguntas abiertas y entrevistas. En cuanto a los resultados de la investigación, los estudiantes percibieron a Google Académico como una herramienta fácil y útil para buscar información académica en Internet. No obstante, también consideraron que la herramienta era poco eficiente para brindar la información específica que necesitaban para realizar sus trabajos de investigación bibliográfica, así como la redacción de monografías. Esto último se relaciona, estrechamente, con la concepción que los estudiantes tienen acerca de la actividad de búsqueda de información: una actividad técnica, delegada a las actividades de un sistema, antes que a un proceso social y cognitivo, que depende, sobre todo, de la actividad de análisis, selección, organización e interacción entre la persona y el sistema de información. / Tesis