Search results

This paper shows how new technologies open up significant research and development opportunities for the PR industry. It reviews public relations evaluation methodologies that can progress from evaluating media coverage of small numbers of “messages” to the development of systems for analysis of both objective and subjective texts. Applications include internal, external, research and media content. The paper looks to the next generation of analysis using International Standards Organisation (SGML) and web‐based technologies such as NewsML and XTM (both XML derivatives) in the processes of content and analysis, particularly as it can be applied to themes and topic analysis. The paper makes public for the first time the concept of corporate superthemes.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current use of topic maps in the library field, how they might be integrated into the ILS structure and some of the inherent challenges in trying to transform MARC data.

A review of available literature was conducted as well as e‐mail interviews with researchers and vendors in the field. An introduction to some of the basic concepts quickly leads into a recap of some of the possibilities that have been tried with this technology in the library field. Specific examples of the use of the XML standard XTM are given as well as some theoretical possibilities discussed. Finally some thought is given to where this technology will fit into the ILS.

The paper finds that more work needs to be done by vendors and libraries in structuring data to allow for easier transformation.

This study was a limited overview. The lack of training materials and software make topics maps have an unnecessarily high barrier to entry.

This paper points a way for further research and a need for basic tools and training geared towards the library community.

This paper attempts to address some of the potential and challenges associated with using topic maps in a library environment, especially as part of an ILS.

The purpose of this paper is to encourage librarians to become involved in the development of emerging technology standards.

Large amounts of data are accumulating, both in corporations and on the web. New methods of structured information retrieval are under development to help manage and access this information. Librarians, preoccupied with changes internal to the institution of the library, have not been active participants in this process, although they have much needed expertise in this area. Several important standards bodies are profiled.

While the web continues to be a public information space, its guardians will need to concern themselves with some of the same issues with which libraries and librarians always have been concerned. If librarians want to have a say in how the web develops, they will need to learn to speak the same language as those who currently determine the policy and direction of the web.

It will be useful for understanding current trends in structured information. Several pointers to continued research are indicated.

The purpose of this paper is to present conceptual and technical knowledge about creating a large topic map by integrating the strengths of two topic maps creation tools (i.e. Ontopia and Wandora).

This study is focused on the testing of the usefulness of the two topic map creation tools. Each tool is used to create a topic map with dozens of topics in order to find out the strengths and weaknesses of each tool and the interoperability of the two tools.

When creating a large topic map, a developer may have many requirements of a desired topic maps creation tool, but may not be able to find a single tool that meets all the requirements. If multiple such tools implement the topic maps standard, there is some interoperability between the tools, and the developer may integrate these tools to meet the requirements.

Although this paper presents the strengths, weakness, and interoperability of two topic maps creation tools (i.e. Ontopia and Wandora), the findings can be applied to integrating other topic maps creation tools if they implement the topic maps standard. The technical knowledge presented in the paper can also serve as a tutorial of creating a topic map.

There is no published paper presenting the technical knowledge of how to integrate two topic map creation tools to create a large topic map.

THE differential equations governing the behaviour of even the simplest type of oleopneumatic shock absorber have to be integrated by an approximate step‐by‐step method. Such methods have been given by several writers. The orifices enter into these equations in the form of a parameter. To determine the orifices a value of this parameter is guessed and the equations are solved by the empirical method. If the solution obtained is not satisfactory, further values are guessed until a suitable value is obtained.

As international users increase rapidly, multilingual systems have become a very important service for global users. The purpose of this paper is to design and implement an ontology‐driven medical information retrieval (OMIR) system by building a medical ontology based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) medical records.

A traditional cataloging scheme is used as a navigation menu in the CDC system. This traditional cataloging scheme is transformed to a unique medical ontology for global users in the OMIR system. An experimental study was conducted on both an ontology‐driven medical information system (OMIR) and the CDC system.

The medical ontology can be used to filter out unsuitable resources based on semantic relationships. In addition, the recommended resources can be categorized and provide the patron with different languages to access resources. The OMIR system provides better relevancy and shorter search times compared with alternative systems.

The OMIR system is currently implemented for medical resources from the CDC. The developed method may also be applied to other domain areas.

This paper represents a practical method of building a multilingual medical information retrieval system and explains the functional use of ontological knowledge. This study provides insights into medical information seeking performance on the medical database systems.

BP Chemicals Aerospace Composites has launched a JAR‐145 approved maintenance organization for aerospace composite components.

There is a growing literature in nonparametric econometrics in the recent two decades. Given the space limitation, it is impossible to survey all the important recent developments in nonparametric econometrics. Therefore, we choose to limit our focus on the following areas. In Section 2, we review the recent developments of nonparametric estimation and testing of regression functions with mixed discrete and continuous covariates. We discuss nonparametric estimation and testing of econometric models for nonstationary data in Section 3. Section 4 is devoted to surveying the literature of nonparametric instrumental variable (IV) models. We review nonparametric estimation of quantile regression models in Section 5. In Sections 2–5, we also point out some open research problems, which might be useful for graduate students to review the important research papers in this field and to search for their own research interests, particularly dissertation topics for doctoral students. Finally, in Section 6 we highlight some important research areas that are not covered in this paper due to space limitation. We plan to write a separate survey paper to discuss some of the omitted topics.