Information Science And Technology Research Articles

Competencies required to make use of Information Science and Technology among Japanese medical students: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundCompetency in the use of information science and technology (IST) is essential for medical students. This study identified learning objectives and competencies that correspond with low self-assessment related to use of IST and factors that improve such self-assessment among medical students.MethodsA questionnaire was administered to sixth-year medical students across 82 medical schools in Japan between November 2022 and February 2023.ResultsThree learning objectives were identified as difficult for the students to achieve: (1) provide an overview of the regulations, laws, and guidelines related to IST in medicine; (2) discuss ethical issues, such as social disparities caused by the digital divide that may arise in the use of IST in medicine; and (3) understand IST related to medical care. Further, problem-based learning, engaging with IST beyond class, and learning approach impacted the students’ acquisition of competencies related to IST. Furthermore, it was recognized that the competencies required by medical students may change over the course of an updated medical school curriculum.ConclusionsIt is important for medical students to recognize the significance of learning, establishing active learning methods, and gaining experience in practically applying these competencies.

The Context of IST for Solid Information Retrieval and Infrastructure Building

Development and progress mainly depends on education and its solid dissemination. Technologies as well as engineering solutions are important for the business and corporate houses. In this context, educational initiatives and programs play a vital role. Developing countries are suffering from many problems and therefore fostering new academic innovation and researches on economic development in today's context. Information Technologies and management science are important for solid business solutions. Therefore, education and knowledge dissemination play an important and valuable role. In many developing countries, gaps between industrial needs and the availability of skilled labor are limited. Information Sciences and Computing are the most valuable areas of study in today's knowledge world. The components, subsets, and subfields of Information Sciences and Technology are rapidly emerging worldwide. Among the emerging and popular areas, a few include Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Green Systems, Big-Data Science, Internet, Business Analytics, and Business Intelligence. Developing countries (like China, Colombia, Malaysia, Mauritius, India, Brazil, South Africa) depend in many ways on knowledge dissemination and solid manpower for their development. Thus, there is an urgent need to introduce such programs and the majority of these programs have been proposed here. Information Science and Technology (IST) with programs such as Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral Degrees have been listed here with academic and industrial contexts. This article highlights these programs with proper SWOT analysis.

Development of a Database Course for Bioinformatics

Biology databases (bioDBs) play an ever-increasing role in the post-genome era for bioinformatics education. In order to handle the increasing demand for bioDBs in bioinformatics education, since Spring 2005, the College of Information Science and Technology (IST) at University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) has offered a course entitled “Database Search and Pattern Discovery” for seniors of our undergraduate Bioinformatics program (which is also available for graduate students majored in Compute Science program) on an annual base. This paper summarizes considerations behind development of this course, describes how the course is structured, reports our findings and observations, and raises issues of urgent tasks. The main objective of this paper is to exchange our thoughts of bioinformatics course development and solicit feedbacks and suggestions from colleagues working in bioinformatics education and related fields.

Method for the deviation inspection of integrated circuit chip pin based on Harr wavelet transform

Nankai UniversityInstitute of Modern OpticsOpto-electronic Information Science andTechnology Laboratory, MOETianjin, 300071, ChinaE-mail: gangluo@sun.nankai.edu.cnAbstract. A fast method for chip pin location inspection based on theHarr wavelet transform is presented. A cross line at the pin tip is ana-lyzed, and the method locates the central line of a pin according to thezero crossing position of the transform of the 1-D cross line without the-oretical error. The requirement of being theoretically error free is that theconstant segment of the pin image is wider than 2 pixels. The experimentshows a measurement precision of 1/40 pixel.

Competitive Intelligence as an Extension of Library Education

This paper begins with a definition of competitive intelligence (CI) and identification of the core skills and abilities required of a CI professional. It provides a brief overview of the current state of CI education as background to a discussion of the process used to develop and implement CI education in Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology (IST). Sections focus on how the unique educational needs and technology requirements of each of these constituent populations drives the instructional design and delivery of CI courses. The results, backed by examples from students' fieldwork experiences, demonstrate the relevance of this educational experience as preparation for twenty-first-century information organizations.

Interdisciplinary Nature of Information Science and Technology (IST):A Quantitative Analysis

This is a study of the literature published in the field of Information Science and Technology(IST). It identifies different types of bonding, such as, borrows, clustering, fusion and other associations. The study uses the review articles published in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology during 1985-89. It analyses the term-concept relations in the summarized topics of the texts. The rate of incidence of the different disciplines associated with IST are studied. The quantitative analysis indicates that the transaction concepts to IST are provided by the fields of Computer Technology, Telecommunication Technology, Information Storage Technolgy and Artificial Intelligence. The fields in which information is utilized are indicated as Business, Commerce, Law, Medicine, Engineering, Chemical Technology, and Agriculture. Humanities and Social Sciences have been providing the theoretical base for human transactions in information science.