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In the context of computer science and information management, an ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts and relationships within a domain of knowledge. It is used to define and represent the terms and concepts that are relevant to a particular domain, and the relationships between them.
Ontologies are often used in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and other fields that involve the management and analysis of large amounts of structured and unstructured data. They can be used to organize and classify information, to facilitate information retrieval and search, and to enable the integration and interoperability of different data sources.
A question ontology is a specific type of ontology that is used to represent and classify the structure and purpose of questions. It may include categories or concepts that are used to classify different types of questions, as well as relationships between questions and other concepts within the domain of knowledge.
A question ontology can be used to facilitate the interpretation and processing of questions, and to enable systems to make suggestions or recommendations based on the content of the question and its relationships with other concepts in the domain ontology. It can also be used to support the mapping between the question ontology and a domain ontology, and to enable the construction of a question graph that contains all the relevant information about a particular question.
In a question answering system, the process of matching the user’s question ontology with a reduced set of service target subset graph paths that have been previously calculated in the background using semantic distance algorithms is known as semantic matching. This process involves comparing the concepts and relationships in the user’s question ontology with those in the service target subset, in order to identify the most relevant information and provide a relevant answer to the user’s question.
Semantic connectors are used to describe the relationship between the user’s question ontology and the system’s knowledge ontology, allowing the system to understand the context and meaning of the user’s question.
Some question answering systems use ontology languages like OWL (Web Ontology Language) to represent and organize their knowledge. OWL-Path is a specific type of ontology language that allows different ontologies to be imported and used in the ontology repository. This can enable the system to access a wider range of knowledge and provide more comprehensive answers to users’ questions.
If a question answering system is unable to provide an answer to a user’s question because it lacks the necessary knowledge, it may generate additional questions for the user in order to gather more information. This process is known as question generation. The system may use the content of the user’s question ontology and its relationships with the domain ontology to make suggestions for additional questions that could help gather the necessary knowledge to answer the initial question.
In the machine learning task of question classification, the set of question categories or classes that a system is trained to recognize is often referred to as a question taxonomy or question ontology. These categories may be used to classify questions according to their content, purpose, or other characteristics.
Question classification involves assigning a question to one or more categories in the question taxonomy or ontology based on its content and other characteristics. This process can be performed using a variety of techniques, including rule-based systems, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing techniques.
There are several approaches to question classification, including ontology-based approaches, which classify questions based on their relationships to concepts in the question ontology, and cluster-based approaches, which classify questions based on their similarity to other questions in the training data. In some cases, a combination of these approaches may be used, with multiple strategies learned from training questions in each cluster or ontology node.
Ontology learning methods from texts involve the use of natural language analysis techniques to extract ontologies from texts. These methods may be used to build or refine a question ontology or other types of ontologies by extracting concepts and relationships from text-based data sources.
References:
- Ontology-Based Question Analysis Method (2013)
- A survey of state-of-the-art methods on question classification (2011)
- Question generation and answering (2010)
See also:
Ontology Engineering & Dialog Systems | Question Generators
OWLPath: An OWL ontology-guided query editor R Valencia-García, F García-Sánchez… – Systems, Man and …, 2011 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … The question ontology plays the role of a grammar, providing the basic syntactic structure for building sentences. … The system makes then suggestions based on the content of the question ontology and its relationships with the domain ontology. … Cited by 36 Related articles All 8 versions Cite Save
(Semantic web) services for e-learning DE Millard, K Doody, HC Davis, L Gilbert… – International Journal of …, 2008 – Inderscience … question RDF —– question ontology subject ontology syllabus RDF —– syllabus ontology Page 7. … We modelled these two sets of information using three ontologies. The first is a question ontology that describes all the properties of a question’s structure and purpose. … Cited by 7 Related articles All 11 versions Cite Save
Using goal modeling to capture competency questions in ontology-based systems PCB Fernandes, RSS Guizzardi… – Journal of Information …, 2011 – seer.lcc.ufmg.br Page 1. Using Goal Modeling to Capture Competency Questions in Ontology-based Systems Paulo C. Barbosa Fernandes, Renata SS Guizzardi and Giancarlo Guizzardi Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil paulo … Cited by 11 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save
Towards automatic generation of e-assessment using semantic web technologies M Cubric, M Tosic – International Journal of e-Assessment, 2011 – uhra.herts.ac.uk … done in this area in two important directions: first, we add new ontology elements (annotations), to the meta-ontology used for generating questions; second, we add semantic interpretation of the mapping between the ‘domain’ ontology and the target ‘question’ ontology. … Cited by 7 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
Semantic enhancement for legal information retrieval: Iuriservice performance N Casellas, P Casanovas, JJ Vallbé, M Poblet… – Proceedings of the 11th …, 2007 – dl.acm.org … to detect grammatical patterns; 2) these patterns are then searched for in the Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowl- edge (OPJK, described in the next section) in order to build a graph path or trace; 3) finally, the system tries to match the user question ontology graph path with … Cited by 19 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Classifying what-type questions by head noun tagging F Li, X Zhang, J Yuan, X Zhu – … of the 22nd International Conference on …, 2008 – dl.acm.org … Table 1. Question Ontology … 5500 ques- tions are selected for training, and 500 questions are selected for testing. The classification catego- ries have been introduced as question ontology in section 1. This paper only focuses on 50 fine classes. … Cited by 16 Related articles All 9 versions Cite Save
Semantic Business Process Analysis. I Celino, AKA de Medeiros, G Zeissler, M Oppitz… – SBPM, 2007 – ibis-thome.de … ontologies can capture these notions. The focus of Semantic RBE is the business question ontology which allows the generalization and reusability of RBE content and provides semantic analysis. Thus a flexible and standardized … Cited by 20 Related articles All 15 versions Cite Save More
Question generation and answering F Linnebank, J Liem, B Bredeweg – DynaLearn, EC FP7 STREP …, 2010 – hcs.science.uva.nl … A question and question request import the question ontology, but also the super state and QR vocabulary. The question request is represented using concepts in the question ontology, but also refers to concepts in the super state and QR vocabulary. … Cited by 5 Related articles Cite Save More
Interactive Mapping Tool for HL7 RIM-to-Relational Database Using Knowledge Game M Gul, M Afzal, M Hussain, M Alam, K Latif… – IHIC Conference, Rio De …, 2010 – hl7elc.org … The R-MIM ontology is specialization of HL7 RIM ontology developed elsewhere [1]. Question ontology, on the other hand, doesn?t share its base with other ontology. … Make the ontology of these Questions. QuestionBody class in question ontology contains the question text. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save More
Enabling Intelligent Service Discovery with GGODO. M Rico, F Garcia-Sanchez, JM Gomez… – Journal of …, 2010 – search.ebscohost.com … This list of terms are generated by the “Suggester” module, which makes use of the “Grammar checker” to determine the terms that can come next in the query by combining the knowledge in both a question ontology and a domain ontology, and taking into account the … Cited by 4 Related articles All 9 versions Cite Save
Semantic Technologies for the Project Management Life Cycle Improvement B Dippelreiter, M Pöttler – 6th International Workshop on Semantic …, 2011 – videolectures.net Page 1. Semantic Technologies for the Project Management Life Cycle Improvement Birgit Dippelreiter dippelreiter@ec.tuwien.ac.at Electronic Commerce Group Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems E-Commerce Group … Cited by 2 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More
Design for Item Bank in Exam System Based on Network L Guohong, W Xiaodong, Q Yubin… – Advanced Technology in …, 2012 – Springer … Page 4. 636 G. Li et al. two kinds of indictors that are question ontology indictor and question supplementary indictor. It will be described separately below. … 4.2 The Question Ontology Indicator The question ontology indicator is the question and the answer of question. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Translating Natural Language Competency Questions into SPARQLQueries: A Case Study L Zemmouchi-Ghomari, AR Ghomari – WEB 2013, The First …, 2013 – thinkmind.org … CNL editor extends OntoPath in providing a context-free grammar with lexical dependence for defining grammars. OWLPATH editor It uses controlled language and grammar which are determined by question ontology. Defining … Cited by 3 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Cluster-Based Selection of Statistical Answering Strategies. LV Lita, JG Carbonell – IJCAI, 2007 – aaai.org … IJCAI-07 1654 Page 3. Figure 1: (a) Classification according to a question ontology versus classification according to a set of clusters in the training data (b) Answering a new question using multiple strategies learned from training questions in each cluster (or ontology node). … Cited by 3 Related articles All 21 versions Cite Save
Model-driven knowledge-based development of expected answer type taxonomies for restricted domain question answering K Vila, JN Mazón, A Ferrández, JM Gómez – Metadata and Semantic …, 2010 – Springer … Within this phase is highly important to determine the semantic type of the answer or Expected Answer Type (EAT) by means of a predefined taxonomy (also known as question hierarchy [8] or question ontology [9]). Importantly, a correct specification of the EAT taxonomy … Cited by 2 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save
Boosting passage retrieval through reuse in question answering M Mansoori, H Hassanpour – International Journal of Engineering, 2012 – sid.ir … of the focus of Q7, retirement plan. Moreover, if an open domain QA system uses its own internal question ontology it is unlikely that it would extract answer entity stock in Q8 as an answer to Q7. This is an example of a situational … Cited by 3 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save More
Using linguistic patterns in FCA-based approach for automatic acquisition of taxonomies from Malay text MZA Nazri, SM Shamsudin, AA Bakar… – … , 2008. ITSim 2008. …, 2008 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … Ontology learning methods from texts consist of extracting ontologies by applying natural language analysis techniques to texts, in our case the Malay literature. We have discussed methodically, an approach proposed by Cimiano to induce concept hierarchy. … Cited by 2 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save
Ontology-driven question answering and ontology quality evaluation S Tartir – 2009 – athenaeum.libs.uga.edu … Induced ontology PowerSet Any Wikipedia articles Sentences PANTO NL Question Ontology SPARQL query AquaLog NL Question Ontology Answers As it can be seen, previous approaches have tried different methods to tackle the problem of question answering. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Semantic Interaction Model of Knowledge Transfer Process in Virtual Communities of Practice Y Bai, G Deng – Information Technology, Computer …, 2011 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … Output: ) ,.. 2 1 i p pp QST = : The sorted nodes table of the selected knowledge senders, where nki <<? 0 . begin ?= QST for each ST pk ? do for each q wmq ? do if?sim(sj,q)> ? ) // Judge whether or not that the correlation degree between question ontology and nodes … Cited by 1 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
A study of the application of ontology to an FAQ automatic classification system RS Shaw, CF Tsao, PW Wu – Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 – Elsevier Many enterprises collect Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from their customer service departments or technical support centers and compile the questions and re. Cited by 1 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
Ontology engineering aspects in the intelligent systems development A Czarnecki, C Or?owski – Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information …, 2010 – Springer Page 1. R. Setchi et al. (Eds.): KES 2010, Part II, LNAI 6277, pp. 533–542, 2010. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Ontology Engineering Aspects in the Intelligent Systems Development Adam Czarnecki and Cezary Or?owski … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save
Analysis of automatic translation of questions for question-answering systems. L García-Santiago, MD Olvera-Lobo – Information Research, 2010 – search.ebscohost.com … [Incomplete draft notes (Part of CoSy deliverable DR.02.01: Requirements study for representation)]. Retrieved 11 December, 2010 from http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/question- ontology.pdf (Archived by Webcite® at). • Sokolova, S. (2009). How the computer translates. St. … Cited by 3 Related articles Cite Save
Learning performance support system for adult learning JP Zhang – Hybrid Learning, 2010 – Springer … [4]) • Analysis question ontology (note: every ontology has already own concept – be- forehand dictionary) • Filtrate ontology not related to issues, find out ontology related to issues • Rank according to the size of relevant degree • Take the biggest relevant degree ontology as … Cited by 1 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save
Model-driven Development for Adapting Question Answering Systems to Restricted Domains. K Vila, JN Mazón, A Ferrández – Journal of Research & …, 2011 – search.ebscohost.com … to note that within the question analysis phase (see Figure 1) it is crucial to determine the semantic type of the answer or Expected Answer Type (EAT) by means of a predefined taxonomy (also known as question hierarchy (Li and Roth, 2006) or question ontology (Metzler and … Cited by 1 Related articles All 11 versions Cite Save
Intelligent Search Engine For Online Access To Municipal Services JM Gómez-Pérez, R Benjamins, M Blázquez… – The Semantic Web, 2008 – Springer … or trace. Finally, the system tries to match this user question ontology graph path with a reduced service target subset graph paths previously calculated in the background using some semantic distance algorithms. Next, we … Cited by 1 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
A multi-dimensional ontology model for product lifecycle knowledge management L Li-shuang, D Yan-zhong, S Jing… – E-Product E-Service and …, 2010 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … on product structure tree. Problem Question ontology: it includes various problems raised in the production process, such as technology issues, quality problems, equipment and equipment problems and so on. It is the main … Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
SISN: a toolkit for augmenting expertise sharing via social networks J Zhang, Y Ye, MS Ackerman, Y Qu – Online Communities and Social …, 2007 – Springer … This number specifies the number of hops the message can travel in the referral network. The question ontology represents the domains from which the information seeker wants to get the answer. The question is the details of the actual question typed in by the user. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save
The Smart Office Hours Assistant: an Intelligent Student-Centered FAQ System A Al-Ayed, S Gamalel-Din – … on E-Learning, University of Bari, …, 2009 – books.google.com … The modi?ed question ontology with relations between questions has been also implemented. Different combinations of student models have been used in testing the prototype. Student is allowed to choose either Asking a Question, or Browsing FAQs Collection as in Figure 10. … Cited by 1 Related articles Cite Save
Question Classification using Semantic, Syntactic and Lexical features. M Mishra, V Kumar Mishra… – International Journal of …, 2013 – search.ebscohost.com … to document processing. [11][12]. 2. Question Classification 2.1. Question type taxonomy The set of question categories (classes) are usually referred as question taxonomy or question ontology. Different question taxonomies … Cited by 1 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
Ontology-Based Question Analysis Method G Besbes, H Baazaoui-Zghal, A Moreno – Flexible Query Answering …, 2013 – Springer … the user’s question. Second, a question graph, containing all the information about the question, is constructed based on a generic question graph using knowledge from WordNet and from a question ontology. Then the question … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Research on the Semantic of Computer Programming Problem Based on Ontology Y Wang, YQ Cheng, JH Shi – Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2012 – Trans Tech Publ … Page 4. Figure 1. Program Design Question Ontology Figure 2.Ontology Model of Data … Then we can analogy other subclasses. The code above is the formalized knowledge representation of test question ontology, that is , the definition of questions metadata. … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
An ontology-based shared semantic space for interacting between human and computer J Yi, Z Junwu – … , Control, and Management, 2009. CCCM 2009. …, 2009 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … knowledge-based system. In this paper, an architecture named S3 is presented, and some semantic connectors are designed to describe the relation between users’ question ontology and system knowledge ontology. For the … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
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Research on Chinese restricted domain question answering system J Liu, JB Fu, XY Jiang, K Chen – Machine Learning and …, 2008 – ieeexplore.ieee.org Page 1. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Kunming, 12-15 July 2008 RESEARCH ON CHINESE RESTRICTED DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM JIE LIU1,2, JI-BIN FU1, XIAO-YU JIANG1, KANG CHEN1 … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
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Research of Passage Retrieval for Question Answering System ??????????????? – 2010 – lbms03.cityu.edu.hk … Figure 4 the Architecture of QA System…..15 Figure 5 the Question Ontology…..16 Figure 6 the Architecture of Community QA System (from (Liu et al., 2006)) ..23 … Cite Save More
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Introduction to the semantics of questions R Šim?k – sfb632.uni-potsdam.de Page 1. Introduction to the semantics of questions Radek Šim?k University of Potsdam, SFB 632 simik@uni-potsdam.de EGG summer school, July 25–29, 2011, Ceské Budejovice Page 2. 2 Page 3. Contents 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Questions and truth-conditions . . . . . … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save More
Restructuring the Social Web M Krijgsman – 2013 – repository.tudelft.nl Page 1. Restructuring the Social Web Master’s Thesis, 16-01-2013 Mark Krijgsman Page 2. <> Page 3. Restructuring the Social Web THESIS Submitted in the partial fulfillment of The requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More
[BOOK] Essentials of business research: A guide to doing your research project J Wilson – 2014 – books.google.com Page 1. J o n a th a n W ilso n E s s E n t ia l s o f B u s in E s s R E s E a R c h A G u id e t o D o in g Y o u r R e s e a r c h P r o je c t S E C O N D E D I T I O N Page 2. Page 3. SAGE has been part of the global academic community … Cited by 68 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
A novel ontological approach to semantic interoperability between legacy air defence command and control systems C Partridge, M Lambert, M Loneragan… – International Journal of …, 2011 – Inderscience … metaphysical) notion of ontology is useful (Ku?nierczyk, 2006) – where this is “the set of things whose existence is acknowledged by a particular theory or system of thought”8. This view was famously summarised by Quine, who claimed that the question ontology asks can be … Cited by 2 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save
Illuminating Cultural Diversity T Eder, E Fuglesang, D Hervik, D Frimodt Lauritzen… – 2008 – diggy.ruc.dk Page 1. Abstract Through methodological reflections based on critical discourse analysis, we intend this project to be an evaluation of Salaam DK’s ideological discourse, while investigating the festival’s relations to the socio-cultural context it exists in. … Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save
Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Databases in Multidatabase System S Lohar, S Batra – 2010 – dspace.thapar.edu Page 1. Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Databases in Multidatabase System Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of Master of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering By: Sugandha Lohar (800832024) … Cited by 1 Related articles Cite Save
[BOOK] Semantic support for quantitative research H Rijgersberg – 2013 – cs.vu.nl Page 1. Semantic support for quantitative research Hajo Rijgersberg Page 2. Promotiecommissie: – prof.dr.ir. JL Top (promotor), – dr. D. Allemang, – dr. P. Buche, – prof.dr. F. van Harmelen, – prof.dr. E. van der Linden, – prof.dr. A. Th. Schreiber. ISBN 978-94-6228-061-8 … Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save More
[BOOK] Event and world C Romano – 2009 – books.google.com … This doctrine follows entirely from their calling into question ontology’s status as the most universal doctrine, since the domain of beings, the bodily, is interrupted on its margins by this obscure limit of aso¯mata, which no longer refer to ontology but rather exempt themselves … Cited by 15 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
[BOOK] Selfhood, Identity and personality styles G Arciero, G Bondolfi – 2009 – books.google.com Page 1. Selfhood, Identity AND Personality Styles ©WILEY-BLACKWEU. Page 2. Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles Giampiero Arciero and Guido Bondolfi Page 3. Page 4. Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles Page 5. Page 6. … Cited by 25 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save
The Relationship between Changes in Cash Dividends and Volatility of Stock Returns: A study of the Swedish Stock Market S Renberg, C Nylander – 2013 – diva-portal.org Page 1. The Relationship between Changes in Cash Dividends and Volatility of Stock Returns – A Study of the Swedish Stock Market Authors: Cecilia Nylander Sandra Renberg Supervisor: Catherine Lions Student Umeå School … Related articles Cite Save
Patient Education Based on Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations to Improve Shared Decision Making in Healthcare Using Semantic Web Technology SA Hassan – 2012 – dalspace.library.dal.ca Page 1. PATIENT EDUCATION BASED ON CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE SHARED DECISION MAKING IN HEALTHCARE USING SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY by Syed Alay Hassan … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Grounding Truthmaking B Rettler – 2013 – etd.nd.edu Page 1. GROUNDING TRUTHMAKING A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Bradley Rettler Michael Rea, Director Graduate Program in Philosophy … Cite Save
Dismissivism in metaphysics: debates about what there is and debates about what grounds what LC Porro – 2013 – research-repository.st-andrews.ac. … … One must first of all figure out what things exist (or might exist); then one can attend to the further question of what they are. Van Inwagen [2009, pp. 289-290] argues that: Philosophers call the branch of metaphysics that addresses the ontological question ‘ontology’. [. . … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Taupaenui: Maori positive ageing: a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health at Massey University, … WJW Edwards – 2010 – mro.massey.ac.nz Page 1. Copyright is owned by the Author of the thesis. Permission is given for a copy to be downloaded by an individual for the purpose of research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author. Page 2. Taupaenui … Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
[BOOK] Imaginary games C Bateman – 2011 – books.google.com … The matter at hand, you may recall, is “what is a game?“ and it’s far from clear that this is best dealt with as an ontological question. Ontology is principally concerned with what exists, the nature of being, or, in its wider scope, the grouping and relation- ships between entities. … Cited by 7 Related articles Cite Save
A Framework for Adaptive e-Learning K Maycock – 2010 – eprints.nuim.ie Page 1. A Framework for Adaptive e-Learning by Keith Maycock, BSc. Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. … Cited by 2 Related articles Cite Save
Engaging Buddhism: Why Buddhism Matters to Contemporary Philosophy JL Garfield – jaygarfield.commons.yale-nus.edu. … Page 1. Engaging Buddhism: Why Buddhism Matters to Contemporary Philosophy Jay L Garfield Yale-NUS College National University of Singapore Yale University Smith College The University of Melbourne Central University of Tibetan Studies Draft of January 2014 … Cite Save More
[BOOK] Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life K Fields, BJ Fields – 2012 – books.google.com Page 1. RACECRAFT 1716 Soul of Inequality in American Life KAREN E. FIELDS AND BARBARA]. FIELDS Page 2. RACECRAFT Page 3. Page 4. RACECRAFT The Soul of Inequality in American Life KAREN E. FIELDS AND BARBARA]. FIELDS V VERSO London – NewYork … Cited by 8 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
The performance of government information technology officers in e-government policy implementation. NR Nengovhela – 2013 – wiredspace.wits.ac.za Page 1. THE PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICERS IN E-GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPLEMENTATION NTHUMENI R.NENGOVHELA STUDENT NUMBER: 338035 A Research report … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save
Discovering Orientation between Theory and Narrative MH Clark – 2009 – etd.lib.umt.edu Page 1. DISCOVERING ORIENTATION BETWEEN THEORY AND NARRATIVE By MAXWELL HAUS CLARK Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2004 Thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of … All 2 versions Cite Save
Understanding health through the eyes of rural adolescents JL Morrissey – 2012 – ir.uiowa.edu Page 1. University of Iowa Iowa Research Online Theses and Dissertations 2012 Understanding health through the eyes of rural adolescents Joanna Lynn Morrissey University of Iowa Copyright 2012 Joanna Lynn Morrissey … Related articles Cite Save
Critical Social Marketing: Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Alcohol Marketing on Youth Drinking R Gordon – 2011 – dspace.stir.ac.uk CRITICAL SOCIAL MARKETING: ASSESSING THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL MARKETING ON YOUTH DRINKING A PhD by publication submitted to the University of Stirling for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Ross Gordon 1524612 July 2011 ii The … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save