Filling the Gaps: New Information Sources for Operational Commanders in Third World Countries

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Bovy
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
New Information

RAILROAD INVESTING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN 1880s AMERICA

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel E. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
New Information ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Comprehensive Search ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This study has a two-fold purpose. First, it seeks to determine the importance of financial accounting information to railroad investors (and speculators) in 1880s America. Second, a further goal is to ascertain what financial accounting information was readily available for use by these investors. Based on a comprehensive search of books of the era, the 1880s were a time of expanding advice for railroad securities holders that required the use of financial accounting information. Furthermore, new information sources arose to help service investors' needs. Statistics by Goodsell and The Wall Street Journal were two such sources. This article reviews these publications along with the ongoing Commercial and Financial Chronicle and Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States. Each of these sources helped railroad investors to follow contemporary advice of gathering financial accounting and other information when investing.

scholarly journals Wine tourist valuation of information sources: the role of prior travel

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick T. Byrd ◽  
Bonnie Canziani ◽  
James S. Boles ◽  
Nicholas Carlton Williamson ◽  
Sevil Sonmez
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wine Tourism ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Us ◽  
Promotional Efforts ◽  
Use Of Information Sources

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine winery visitors’ use of information sources in making decisions regarding the choice of wineries to visit. Enrichment theory is used as a framework for determining how previous experience influences the decision on how much and what type of information individuals will use when planning a trip using wine tourism as the context for the research. Design/methodology/approach A visitor study was conducted at 23 wineries in the US Southeast. Data were collected from winery visitors using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Findings Results from 832 consumers indicate that an individual’s previous travel systematically influences the number and type of information sources that they will seek out when making future consumer decisions. Findings confirmed the hypothesized expectations about wine tourist information search behavior and help to partially explain the nature of bounded rationality in the case of tourists’ winery visit decisions. Research limitations/implications Because the study focused only on winery visitors in the US Southeast, the research results may lack generalizability. Practical implications These findings can assist winery owners and destinations with wineries in their promotional efforts. Of major importance is the finding that increases in experiential knowledge from prior travel are monotonically associated with increases in the number of information sources marked to be valuable in selecting a winery. The influence of experience is particularly dramatic in that the mean number of information sources marked to be valuable moves from a low of 2.5 to a high of 10.0 out of 16 as travel experience increases. Originality/value The study contributed significant and useful findings that advance the application of enrichment theory to wine tourism. Enrichment theory does not currently differentiate between types of knowledge that enrich a consumer’s ability to more easily encode and use new information. The current study confirms that experiential knowledge is an important knowledge construct in models of bounded rationality.

New Information Sources

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Debal C Kar
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
New Information

scholarly journals Design e construção de nova interface para a BVS Psicologia (BVS-PSI Brasil) e a experiência de criação do protótipo da BVS ULAPSI: facilitando a vida de usuários

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Antonio Marcos Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Virtual Library ◽  
Short Term ◽  
New Information ◽  
Virtual Libraries ◽  
Administrative Professionals ◽  
Cooperative Activity

Relata-se a experiência de atualização da BVS Psicologia Brasil (http://www.bvs-psi.org.br/) e criação do protótipo da BVS ULAPSI (Biblioteca Virtual da União de Entidades Latino-Americanas de Psicologia), ocorrida em 2005, pela Biblioteca do Instituto de Psicologia da USP (SBD/IPUSP) como unidade gerenciadora, em parceria com a BIREME e o Fórum das Entidades Brasileiras de Psicologia. Discutiu-se o processo de adoção de ferramentas tecnológicas e outros aspectos relacionados sempre que uma Unidade de Informação intente tal empreitada. As novas tecnologias sejam da metodologia BIREME ou softwares proprietários permitiram maior flexibilidade na inclusão de novas fontes de informação. Os profissionais técnicos e os administradores devem realizar um trabalho cooperativo na tomada de decisões, considerando a rápida introdução de novas interfaces. Assim são evitados problemas no uso de ferramentas em uma assimilação e manutenção pela equipe responsável. Em curto prazo, os profissionais devem prever as dificuldades, pois é quando ocorre o lançamento de uma biblioteca virtual. Palavras-chave Biblioteca virtual; Tecnologias da informação; Bibliotecas especializadas (Psicologia); Usabilidade de interfaces; Cooperação técnica; Softwares (Avaliação). Abstract Reports the experience of Virtual Health Library Psychology’s update (BVS-PSI Brazil), and the building of BVS ULAPSI’s prototype (Virtual Health Library of the Union of Latin American Entities of Psychology), occurred in 2005. The institutions involved are the Library of de Institute of Psychology of São Paulo University (SBD/IP/USP) as Managing Unit in partnership with BIREME and Forum of Brazilian Entities of Psychology. It discusses the process of adoption of technological tools and other related aspects, whenever one of the information units intend to carry out such project. The new technologies, whether using BIREME’s methodology or proprietors softwares, allowed more flexibility in the inclusion of new information sources. The technical and administrative professionals must carry out a cooperative activity by taking decisions considering the fast introduction of new interfaces. Thus, problems in the use of tools, assimilation and maintenance from the part of the responsible team are prevented. In short term, professionals must foresee difficulties when the launching of a virtual library takes place. Key words Virtual libraries; Information technologies; Specialized libraries (Psychology); Interfaces’ usability; Technical cooperation; Softwares (Evaluation).

scholarly journals Measuring online social bubbles

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. e38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitar Nikolov ◽  
Diego F.M. Oliveira ◽  
Alessandro Flammini ◽  
Filippo Menczer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Massive Datasets ◽  
Social Bias ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information Spread ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Search Logs

Social media have become a prevalent channel to access information, spread ideas, and influence opinions. However, it has been suggested that social and algorithmic filtering may cause exposure to less diverse points of view. Here we quantitatively measure this kind of social bias at the collective level by mining a massive datasets of web clicks. Our analysis shows that collectively, people access information from a significantly narrower spectrum of sources through social media and email, compared to a search baseline. The significance of this finding for individual exposure is revealed by investigating the relationship between the diversity of information sources experienced by users at both the collective and individual levels in two datasets where individual users can be analyzed—Twitter posts and search logs. There is a strong correlation between collective and individual diversity, supporting the notion that when we use social media we find ourselves inside “social bubbles.” Our results could lead to a deeper understanding of how technology biases our exposure to new information.

scholarly journals The models of use of information sources by the population of the free part of the Luhanska oblast

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
О. С. Петренко
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Free Part ◽  
New Information ◽  
Use Of Information Sources

The article describes some results of the research project «The mass consciousness in the zone of military conflict in the Donbass» and an attempt was made to identify patterns of using information sources for the population of the free part of the Luhanska oblast. The survey is based on data from a panel survey conducted in January-December 2017. It was found that the main sources of new information are TV, Internet and the closest social environment (friends, acquaintances, relatives, colleagues). The last two groups have a network character and often disseminate unofficial information. It was also found that the main sources of important information are Internet, TV and the closest social environment. There are statistically significant differences in the use of different sources of information depending on gender, type of settlement, age and education level. Also, a factor analysis of the use of new information sources was made, in the course of which four factors are distinguished: 1 – Internet, information received during stay in educational institutions, information from friends and acquaintances, relatives; 2 – traditional media (newspapers, radio, television); 3 – from colleagues and managers; 4 – from advertisement, from random people, from magazines. Also, factor analysis of the sources of important information was conducted. It was established what the new information of non-private nature was perceived by respondents during the day: in the first place – «political life in Ukraine», in the second place – «prices and tariffs», in the third place – «the war on the Donbass». This is the evidence that the war becomes part of everyday life and there is reduction of people’s attention to it. The differences were found in the receipt of such information depending on gender and age. Also, estimates of the emotional impact of daily new information are given. Basic practices of using the Internet and watching TV are defined. The rating of TV channels in the north of Luhanska Oblast is given in the article – Ukrainian nationwide channels prevail. It was found that both Ukrainian and Russian media’s level of distrust far exceeds the level of trust, but the level of trust to Ukrainian media is still higher. In the use of information sources there is a steady increase of the role of network sources of information (electronic social networks, networks of communication with relatives, acquaintances, friends, colleagues).

PROBLEM-SOLVING METHODS AND COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 329-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIO GOMEZ ◽  
ENRIC PLAZA ◽  
CHEMA ABASOLO
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Semantic Heterogeneity ◽  
Dynamic Configuration ◽  
Independent Manner ◽  
Heterogeneous Information ◽  
Information Agents ◽  
New Information ◽  
Text Language

Cooperative Information Agents and modern information systems in general have to access large amounts of information distributed across multiple heterogeneous sources. A great challenge of such systems is to evolve by adding new information sources or adapting the existing components for different domain knowledge. We propose the [Formula: see text] framework as a methodology to build Information Agents by reusing a library of problem-solving components that are defined in a domain-independent manner. Moreover, the [Formula: see text] language is used as an Agent Capability Description Language (ACDL) suitable to configure an agent-based application. From this approach, a new application is built by linking the components of the library with a particular domain and a collection of heterogeneous information sources. Adaptability and dynamic configuration of such a system is achieved by reasoning about the [Formula: see text] specification of the agent capabilities. Independence of the domain and semantic interoperability are achieved by using ontologies and bridges (mappings between ontologies), while independence from the information sources is based again in the use of ontologies to overcome semantic heterogeneity and wrappers to achieve syntactic interoperability.

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