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Beyond seeking: Information use among older adults with diabetes

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology"

DOI: 10.1002/asi.70027

Abstract: Health information empowers individuals to manage their health, but its impact is limited unless effectively used. Yet information use, that is, the specific actions individuals take after finding the information they need, remains under‐researched. This… read more here.

Keywords: information; adults diabetes; information use; health ... See more keywords

Unleashing the BEAST: a brief measure of human social information use

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recommendations! Published in 2019 at "Evolution and Human Behavior"

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.005

Abstract: Abstract Social information enables individuals to reduce uncertainty and increase decision accuracy across a broad range of domains. Intriguingly, individuals and populations consistently differ in social information use. Understanding the underlying causes of this variation… read more here.

Keywords: information use; social information; human social; information ... See more keywords

Promoting Performance Information Use Through Data Visualization: Evidence from an Experiment

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recommendations! Published in 2019 at "Public Performance & Management Review"

DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2019.1592763

Abstract: Abstract “We have all this data, why don’t we use it?” This question seems to be a constant in performance literature. Although the uptake in performance management throughout the public sector has been pronounced in… read more here.

Keywords: information; performance information; evidence; performance ... See more keywords

Performance Measurement System Design as Link Between Strategy Formulation and Performance Information Use in Public Sector Organizations

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "Public Performance & Management Review"

DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2024.2360158

Abstract: Abstract There has long been calls for improving the link between strategic planning and performance management. Despite such calls, there are few empirical studies of how performance management system design is related to performance information… read more here.

Keywords: system design; performance; performance information; information use ... See more keywords
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Interspecific social information use in habitat selection decisions among migrant songbirds

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Behavioral Ecology"

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arx029

Abstract: Lay Summary A late arriving migrant bird species (wood warbler) are attracted to simulated presence of an earlier arriving species (chiffchaff). This habitat selection strategy was previously only described for migrants attracting to resident species,… read more here.

Keywords: habitat selection; selection; social information; interspecific social ... See more keywords

Conceptual preferences can be transmitted via selective social information use between competing wild bird species

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recommendations! Published in 2022 at "Royal Society Open Science"

DOI: 10.1098/rsos.220292

Abstract: Concept learning is considered a high-level adaptive ability. Thus far, it has been studied in laboratory via asocial trial and error learning. Yet, social information use is common among animals but it remains unknown whether… read more here.

Keywords: symbol; conceptual preferences; information use; social information ... See more keywords

A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements

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recommendations! Published in 2022 at "Biological Reviews"

DOI: 10.1111/brv.12881

Abstract: Environmental variability poses a range of challenges to foraging animals trying to meet their energetic needs. Where food patches are unpredictable but shareable, animals can use social information to locate patches more efficiently or reliably.… read more here.

Keywords: information; food; information use; social information ... See more keywords

What information can we use to help determine futility in paediatric patients presenting in traumatic cardiac arrest?

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recommendations! Published in 2022 at "Archives of Disease in Childhood"

DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324138

Abstract: There is something beguiling about a result where p read more here.

Keywords: paediatric patients; help determine; information use; determine futility ... See more keywords

Older Adults’ Information Use on Social Media: The Role of Psychological Needs and Personality Traits

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Research on Aging"

DOI: 10.1177/01640275251341447

Abstract: This study explores how basic psychological needs and personality traits relate to the types of information that older adults use on social media platforms. Relying on a nationally representative survey of 1100 German Facebook and… read more here.

Keywords: information; psychological needs; social media; information use ... See more keywords
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Inside the library: Academic librarians’ knowing in practice

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Journal of Librarianship and Information Science"

DOI: 10.1177/0961000618769970

Abstract: There is a dearth of studies on librarians’ information practices, in particular their information use. At the same time the professional field of librarianship is infused with an imperative dictating that the work of librarians… read more here.

Keywords: information; inside library; library academic; practice ... See more keywords

Level and contributing factors of health data quality and information use in two districts in Northwest Ethiopia: social-ecological perspective

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recommendations! Published in 2021 at "BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making"

DOI: 10.1186/s12911-021-01741-1

Abstract: Background The health management information system has been implemented at all levels of healthcare delivery to ensure quality data production and information use in Ethiopia. Including the capacity-building activities and provision of infrastructure, various efforts… read more here.

Keywords: health data; health; quality; information use ... See more keywords