桂林图书馆外文部读者分析及工作措施

根据对582名读所作调查，对桂林图书馆外部的读结构、读的需求情况进行了系统分析，并提出了一系列具体的工作改进建议。     

对开展社会科学成果查新研究的探讨

本文认为，国内现有的自然科学成果查新机构无法适应社会科学成果查新需要，建立全国性社科成果查新体系势在必行。为此，需要开展相关的社会科学成果查新研究。本文对开展社会科学成果查新研究的背景、意义、内容和方法进行了探讨。     

国外智慧城市视阈下的数字档案研究热点概览

本文对国外智慧城市视阈下的数字档案研究热点文献进行梳理,介绍了数字档案检索优化服务、数字档案交互性和可视化服务、数据开放与用户参与以及智慧城市专项数字档案处理等方面的理论和应用研究成果。这些研究在面向需求、技术应用和专项融合等方面较为深入且操作性较强,具有借鉴意义。     

编辑应重视对修改稿的复审

为了解《山东医药》近6年刊载文章统计学方法的应用情况,并对存在的问题提出意见和建议,随机抽取《山东医药》2009-2014年发表的论文进行统计学方法系统分析.结果发现统计学错误最常见的是t检验代替方差分析、不注明所用的统计学方法和不具体写出统计值.认为医学论文作者要充分认识统计学的重要性,编辑部应加强统计学方法审查工作.     

任务型教学背景下的外语师资教育

我国新的英语课程标准倡导任务型语言教学途径,给广大外语教师提出了更高的要求。因此,任务型教学中外语师资教育也变得越来越重要。文章着重探讨了任务型教学对外语教师的要求及在此背景下外语师资的培养策略,包括任务型教学理论知识的学习,开展任务型教学反思,组织或参加任务型教学专题研讨会等。     

医学期刊微信公众平台应用现状调查分析及提升策略——基于中华医学会系列杂志开通情况的分析

以中华医学会174种系列杂志作为研究对象,调查分析其微信公众平台开通和运营状况,总结这些微信公众号存在的问题,提出相应的改进策略,为推动医学期刊数字化建设以及与新媒体融合发展提供参考.     

Foreign players and competitive balance in Greek basketball and handball championships

One of the key issues of team sport championships is competitive balance. One of the dimensions of competitive balance is concerned with the differences in sporting capabilities of teams within a season. The aim of this study is to evaluate competitive balance in Greek basketball and handball championships in relation to the presence and number of foreign players. The examined periods are from 1965–1966 to 2012–2013 (n = 47) for basketball and from 1983–1984 to 2012–2013 (n = 30) for handball. Foreign players appeared in basketball starting from 1988 while in handball from 1999. For each season and sport, two global and three special indices that capture competitive balance in the multileveled championship structure were calculated. Results showed that the number of foreign players per team is dependent on the country's macroeconomic status and in its turn improves the overall competitiveness, as well as competitiveness at the relegation level. In handball foreign players appeared later and in lesser numbers than in basketball. The increase in competitiveness of the national basketball league as a result of the increase in numbers of foreign players across all teams was followed by an upsurge in the quality, performance and achievements of the top teams participating in the European competitions.     

Mapping International Health onto Domestic Health: A Pentadic Cartography of Kathleen Sibelius’s Global Health Strategy

Pentadic cartography is a useful way to examine the motivational vocabularies of discourses and to provide alternative vocabularies for negotiating rhetorical terrains. Pentadic cartographers have used Kenneth Burke’s principles to examine and critique the motivational vocabularies of texts as their vocabularies compete against one another. This article expands the application of pentadic cartography by exploring maps as “overlays” or when two pentadic vocabularies do not necessarily compete but can complement one another. This study examines two potential competing mappings present in former Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius’s (2012) speech outlining a new global health strategy, as well as an overlay map that negotiates domestic and global health. Each mapping is assessed for its abilities to open and to close the universe of discourse. The possibility of overlays as a supplement to pentadic cartography is outlined.     

Comparison of three web-scale discovery services for health sciences research

Objective

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative effectiveness of three web-scale discovery (WSD) tools in answering health sciences search queries.

Methods

Simple keyword searches, based on topics from six health sciences disciplines, were run at multiple real-world implementations of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), Ex Libris''s Primo, and ProQuest''s Summon. Each WSD tool was evaluated in its ability to retrieve relevant results and in its coverage of MEDLINE content.

Results

All WSD tools returned between 50%–60% relevant results. Primo returned a higher number of duplicate results than the other 2 WSD products. Summon results were more relevant when search terms were automatically mapped to controlled vocabulary. EDS indexed the largest number of MEDLINE citations, followed closely by Summon. Additionally, keyword searches in all 3 WSD tools retrieved relevant material that was not found with precision (Medical Subject Headings) searches in MEDLINE.

Conclusions

None of the 3 WSD products studied was overwhelmingly more effective in returning relevant results. While difficult to place the figure of 50%–60% relevance in context, it implies a strong likelihood that the average user would be able to find satisfactory sources on the first page of search results using a rudimentary keyword search. The discovery of additional relevant material beyond that retrieved from MEDLINE indicates WSD tools'' value as a supplement to traditional resources for health sciences researchers.