Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Typescript.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1978.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1979.

Thesis--University of California. / Bibliography: leaves 198-209.

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Includes bibliography. / The Institute for Medical Literature (IML) provides an online bibliographic service to the biomedical community in South Africa. The requirements of the users of the services of IML were evaluated in respect of needs and satisfaction of these needs. A non-user population was also identified and evaluated. The research study was undertaken by (a) conducting a review of the literature; and (b) conducting an empirical study of users and non-users of IML to construct both a "personal" and "information behaviour" profile of both the user and non-user groups. The literature was studied to provide (i) a conceptual framework for the field of research, (ii) a compilation of findings in studies related to this study and (iii) a basis for the selection of the methodology employed in the study. The "personal" profile comprised details of age, rank and work activity type and the "information behaviour" profile comprised details of use of information channels. The needs of the users, as measured by various criteria for satisfaction of these needs, were also measured. The reasons for the non-use of the service were also investigated. The principal conclusions reached were: (a) The expressed information need of the users of IML were satisfied; (b) the majority of non-users had not heard of IML; (c) there was a difference between the information seeking behaviour of users and non-users of IML; and (d) age, rank and work activity type influenced the use or non-use of IML.

Shi Xiaodong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-117). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / 摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1. --- Background --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2. --- Research Motivation --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3. --- Research Objective --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organization of Thesis --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Problem Analysis and Definition --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1. --- "Definitions of Story, Event and Topic" --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2. --- Characteristics of News Stories --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Literature Review --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1. --- Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2. --- Document Clustering Techniques --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3. --- Event Evolution --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- System Architecture --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2. --- Event Timestamp and Temporal Relationship --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3. --- Event Evolution Graph --- p.42 / Chapter 5.4. --- Event Threading and Event Joining --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Extracting News Events --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1. --- Clustering Approach --- p.48 / Chapter 6.2. --- Utilizing Clustered Stories from News Infomediaries --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 7. --- Modeling Event Evolution Relationships --- p.62 / Chapter 7.1. --- Measuring the Confidences of Event Evolution Relationships --- p.63 / Chapter Chapter 8. --- Constructing Event Evolution Graphs --- p.68 / Chapter 8.1. --- Static Thresholding --- p.68 / Chapter 8.2. --- Static Pruning --- p.69 / Chapter 8.3. --- Dynamic Pruning --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 9. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.72 / Chapter 9.1. --- Evaluation Measure --- p.72 / Chapter 9.2. --- Data Set --- p.77 / Chapter 9.3. --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 10. --- Case Study --- p.89 / Chapter Chapter 11. --- Story Segmentation and Its Effects --- p.93 / Chapter 11.1. --- Story Segmentation --- p.95 / Chapter 11.2. --- Event Generalization --- p.97 / Chapter 11.3. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 12. --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.112 / Chapter 12.1. --- Conclusions --- p.112 / Chapter 12.2. --- Future Work --- p.113 / References --- p.114

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Doug Moses, Tony Kendal. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.) in Spatial Information Science and Engineering--University of Maine, 2003. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-143).

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