This blogpost looks at a Knowledge Specialist as a point of contact for three Research Units within this Trust. Any use or ideas for working with R&I, or promoting LKS services to them?
The new updated People with Learning Disabilities in England 2016 has been published today and can be found here here
It is a compendium of statistics about the lives of people with learning disabilities. The report covers a wide range of information about population numbers, education, health and social care.
The aim of this study was to assess the ChatGPT-4 (ChatGPT) large language model (LLM) on tasks relevant to community pharmacy. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
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a library of C++ classes and templates for high-performance numerical computation. PETE, which stands for "Portable Expression Template Engine", uses a technique called expression templates to eliminate data copying and the creation of temporary variables
Mobile Geräte werden aufgrund erhöhter Bandbreite und Usability weltweit immer populärer. Auf ihnen fließen die Funktionen eines Computers, Audio-Players, Fotoapparats und Mobiletelefons zusammen. In Zusammenhang mit diesen neuen Technologien, nimmt die mobile Nutzung des Internets drastisch zu und stellt auch an Bibliotheken die Herausforderung, ihre Dienstleistungen in virtuelle Umgebungen einzubetten und Inhalte und Dienste mobilen Nutzern anzubieten. Mobile Technologie kann für verschiedene Bibliotheksdienste genutzt werden: mobile Interfaces, Lokalisierungsdienste, Multi-Media-Führungen und SMS-Benachrichtigungen. Während in Deutschland mobile Dienste in Bibliotheken eine noch unbedeutende Rolle spielen, nutzen US-amerikanische Bibliotheken bereits ein breites Spektrum. Diese Arbeit soll nach einer Einführung in die Thematik anhand ausgewählter Praxis-Beispiele veranschaulichen, welche der mobilen Dienste bereits von Bibliotheken in den USA und Deutschland angeboten werden.
I was updating a presentation today and checking the links still worked from the last time I did this, back in October last year, so only a couple of months. In that time we've lost access to such tools as
Yandex is an excellent alternative to Google. Not only does it work in the same way, so you'll immediately be familiar with the interface, but it also provides extra functionality that goes way beyond anything that Google can offer. It's a real search engine for real information professionals. If you're tired and fed up with the limitations that Google places on you when you're trying to search, take a look at Yandex.
AlltheInternet search engine is a fairly straightforward multi search engine. The home page reminds me of what Yahoo! looked like about a decade or so ago, in that it's broken up into tile type elements, covering popular sites, check your email, games, social, news and so on. It's got a real old style 'portal' feel to it, but it's very US biased, so links to eBay, Craigslist and so on are pointless for those of us in the rest of the world. Also, it's not possible to change any of them, so you're stuck with what someone else has decided is important to you.
I was asked to take a look at Check Them, which purports to be a people search engine. It's US only and covers all 50 states. However, it left quite a nasty taste in my mouth, since the whole engine was based on fear.
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Google really does seem set on a path of self destruction, at least as far as search engine functionality goes. They've changed the way that the search operator 'info:' works, and it's severely damaged the functionality.