Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.11648/j.ajist.20190302.13
Wedad Mohyeldeen Mohammed
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{"title":"In-depth Thesis and Journal Critiquing in Nigeria","authors":"Ezeani Nneka Salome, Orjiakor Paul Ikechukwu, Dosunmu Jokotade Omotayo, Emumejakpor Idowu Samson","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20190303.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20190303.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85292879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.11648/j.ajist.20190302.11
Nahid Alamin Ibrahim
{"title":"Investigating the Common Errors Among Basic Level Schools Pupils on Writing Composition","authors":"Nahid Alamin Ibrahim","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20190302.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20190302.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89258087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multinational Computer Nets: The Case of International Banking. Richard H. Veith. Lexington, MA: D.C. Health and Company (Lexington Books); 1981: 133 pp., xvii, Bibliography, Index. Price: $18.95. ISBN 0-669-04092-4","authors":"E. Novotny","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630330519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630330519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"79 1","pages":"349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84085212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article proposes a methodology for measuring the potential demand for individual journals within an academic discipline and illustrates this methodology with data from the economics journals market. The impact of potential demand on journal circulation is then investigated by developing a model of journal demand that includes potential demand as an explanatory variable. The model is estimated with data from the economics journals market.
{"title":"Measurement of the Potential Demand for Academic and Professional Journals: A Methodology","authors":"Carol C. McDonough","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630330513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630330513","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a methodology for measuring the potential demand for individual journals within an academic discipline and illustrates this methodology with data from the economics journals market. The impact of potential demand on journal circulation is then investigated by developing a model of journal demand that includes potential demand as an explanatory variable. The model is estimated with data from the economics journals market.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"24 1","pages":"321-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82559339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on the definition of information acquisition as the reduction in uncertainty, the concept of ignorance is defined as the state of uncertainty. Two basic types of ignorance are then defined as substitutes for information: guessing and belief. Two types of frequency distribution are presented as the most general dichotomy that can be applied to all possible types of frequency distribution and from them two limits are deduced between which all types of frequency distribution can be placed. Using games of chance—roulette and horse racing—as representatives of two basic types of frequency distribution, the comparison is presented of different results that can be theoretically obtained by the informed, the guessing, and the belief approaches. The value of information is a function of the type of frequency distribution of data that form its contents. The limits established for the types of frequency distribution are also boundary conditions for information value from nil to some finite number that depends also on the number of alternatives involved in case of a discrete set, and on range size, accuracy of measurement, and its precision in case of continuous parameters.
{"title":"On the Value of Information","authors":"Stanley Ozog","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300511","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the definition of information acquisition as the reduction in uncertainty, the concept of ignorance is defined as the state of uncertainty. Two basic types of ignorance are then defined as substitutes for information: guessing and belief. Two types of frequency distribution are presented as the most general dichotomy that can be applied to all possible types of frequency distribution and from them two limits are deduced between which all types of frequency distribution can be placed. Using games of chance—roulette and horse racing—as representatives of two basic types of frequency distribution, the comparison is presented of different results that can be theoretically obtained by the informed, the guessing, and the belief approaches. The value of information is a function of the type of frequency distribution of data that form its contents. The limits established for the types of frequency distribution are also boundary conditions for information value from nil to some finite number that depends also on the number of alternatives involved in case of a discrete set, and on range size, accuracy of measurement, and its precision in case of continuous parameters.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"310-315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84672966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume I: Software Specification and Design. Raymond T. Yeh, ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1977: 275 p. ISBN: 0-13-195701-5 (v1)","authors":"Charles H. Davis","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"16 1","pages":"61-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78193421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
poor documentation for all who must follow. Concerted efforts were made t o eliminate g o to’s, not only from programs written in existing languages, but also from the syntax of newer compilers. As is common with such movements, excesses were committed, and many go to’s were replaced by structures of a “modular” type even when the new construction was convoluted and resulted in programs that executed much more slowly. Enter Knuth, with this thoughtful and eminently readable mean between the extremes. He has succeeded in personalizing his account of the foibles of trying t o program everything without go to’s, and has done so without false modesty or egotism-clearly a tribute t o his writing style. There is, for example, the anecdote about Dr. Eiichi Goto of Japan, who “cheerfully complained that he was always being eliminated” (p. 143). There is also the careful overview of the history of the subject, which shows clearly that the systematic avoidance of g o to’s was advocated as early as 1963 and practiced as early as 1960, whereas Dijkstra’s letter did not appear until 1968! Moreover, while many readers are probably familiar with the use of constructions such as DO WHILE and DO UNTIL, how many know about come f r o m statements-a spoof cited on p. 187?! It is also refreshing to see yet another person of this stature acknowledge that program code can be easier t o follow than many flowcharts. Throughout the text algorithms are given in BNF, Algol, or YL/I, with flowcharts and other diagrams used when appropriate. The book is well prepared and the text is admirably clean, with exceptions that always seem to be the fault of the publisher rather than the authors, e.g., the running head on p. 237 that reads “Formal Definition of the Seamantics” [sic], o r the index entry on p. 272 that identifies a “Conlatenation [sic] operator.” Such lapses are forgivable, however, and the book as a whole is highly recommended to computer scientists and also t o those among us who must teach applications programming.
对于所有必须遵循的人来说，文档都很差。人们齐心协力，不仅从用现有语言编写的程序中消除go - to，而且从较新的编译器的语法中消除go - to。与此类运动一样，过度的行为是常见的，即使新建筑错综复杂，导致程序执行速度慢得多，许多旧建筑也被“模块化”类型的结构所取代。进入高德纳，带着这个深思熟虑的、极具可读性的极端之间的平均值。他成功地将自己的缺点个人化地描述了出来，这些缺点都是试图在没有go - to的情况下编写程序的，而且他这样做的时候没有虚伪的谦虚或自我——这显然是对他的写作风格的致敬。例如，有一个关于日本后藤荣一博士的轶事，他“高兴地抱怨他总是被淘汰”(第143页)。书中还对这一主题的历史进行了仔细的概述，它清楚地表明，早在1963年就提倡系统地避免使用g - to - s，早在1960年就开始实践，而Dijkstra的信直到1968年才出现!此外，虽然许多读者可能熟悉DO while和DO UNTIL等结构的用法，但有多少人知道come from m语句——第187页引用的一个笑话?!同样令人耳目一新的是，看到另一位具有这种地位的人承认，程序代码比许多流程图更容易理解。在整个文本中，算法以BNF, Algol或YL/I给出，并在适当时使用流程图和其他图表。这本书准备得很好，文本非常干净，除了一些例外，似乎总是出版商的错，而不是作者的错，例如，第237页的开头写着“接缝的正式定义”[原文如此]，或者第272页的索引条目标识了“拼接[原文如此]运算符”。然而，这样的失误是可以原谅的，作为一个整体，本书强烈推荐给计算机科学家，也推荐给我们这些必须教授应用程序编程的人。
{"title":"Job Control Language (Wiley Self-teaching Guide). Ruth Ashley and Judi N. Fernandes, with Gary Deward Brown. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1978: 157 p. Price: $4.95. ISBN: 0-471-03205-0","authors":"Marilyn Fishman","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300114","url":null,"abstract":"poor documentation for all who must follow. Concerted efforts were made t o eliminate g o to’s, not only from programs written in existing languages, but also from the syntax of newer compilers. As is common with such movements, excesses were committed, and many go to’s were replaced by structures of a “modular” type even when the new construction was convoluted and resulted in programs that executed much more slowly. Enter Knuth, with this thoughtful and eminently readable mean between the extremes. He has succeeded in personalizing his account of the foibles of trying t o program everything without go to’s, and has done so without false modesty or egotism-clearly a tribute t o his writing style. There is, for example, the anecdote about Dr. Eiichi Goto of Japan, who “cheerfully complained that he was always being eliminated” (p. 143). There is also the careful overview of the history of the subject, which shows clearly that the systematic avoidance of g o to’s was advocated as early as 1963 and practiced as early as 1960, whereas Dijkstra’s letter did not appear until 1968! Moreover, while many readers are probably familiar with the use of constructions such as DO WHILE and DO UNTIL, how many know about come f r o m statements-a spoof cited on p. 187?! It is also refreshing to see yet another person of this stature acknowledge that program code can be easier t o follow than many flowcharts. Throughout the text algorithms are given in BNF, Algol, or YL/I, with flowcharts and other diagrams used when appropriate. The book is well prepared and the text is admirably clean, with exceptions that always seem to be the fault of the publisher rather than the authors, e.g., the running head on p. 237 that reads “Formal Definition of the Seamantics” [sic], o r the index entry on p. 272 that identifies a “Conlatenation [sic] operator.” Such lapses are forgivable, however, and the book as a whole is highly recommended to computer scientists and also t o those among us who must teach applications programming.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"21 1","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79239968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Approaches to the evaluation of on‐line bibliographical retrieval services have so far failed to assess the interrelationships of the various components of the services. This article presents a comprehensive framework for such an evaluation. Variables used in the framework include events occurring during a search cycle; role and status; knowledge and opinion; and cost, price, and demand. The framework is applied to the evaluation of the Educational Information System for Ontario (EISO) on‐line service in order to determine the relationships between search processing variables associated with costs and output variables measuring the client's gain in knowledge and degree of satisfaction.
{"title":"A Systems Evaluation of the Educational Information System for Ontario","authors":"S. Lawton, E. Auster, David To","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300107","url":null,"abstract":"Approaches to the evaluation of on‐line bibliographical retrieval services have so far failed to assess the interrelationships of the various components of the services. This article presents a comprehensive framework for such an evaluation. Variables used in the framework include events occurring during a search cycle; role and status; knowledge and opinion; and cost, price, and demand. The framework is applied to the evaluation of the Educational Information System for Ontario (EISO) on‐line service in order to determine the relationships between search processing variables associated with costs and output variables measuring the client's gain in knowledge and degree of satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"74 1","pages":"33-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89209051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported. It is seen that the estimates of this law deviate considerably from the observations. Need for further experiments to verify Lotka's law in the area of applied sciences and engineering is emphasized.
{"title":"Lotka's Law and Computer Science Literature","authors":"T. Radhakrishnan, R. Kernizan","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300109","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported. It is seen that the estimates of this law deviate considerably from the observations. Need for further experiments to verify Lotka's law in the area of applied sciences and engineering is emphasized.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"21 2 1","pages":"51-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85662843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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