Thesaurus Construction and Use

Thesaurus Construction and Use
Author: Jean Aitchison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135476446

A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered.

English Edition

English Edition
Author: Europäische Gemeinschaften / Kommission
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2012-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 311143625X

Subject Analysis Methodologies

Subject Analysis Methodologies
Author: E. D. Dym
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1985-10-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780824773540

Your choice for a text n document analysis is no longer limited to books containing only one specific method. This workbook of Readings-representing an introductory. state of the art approach to document analysis-combines a full range of subject analysis techniques into a comprehensive, single source volume.

Science, Technology and Society

Science, Technology and Society
Author: Klaus-Heinrich Standke
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483148289

Science, Technology and Society: Needs, Challenges and Limitations focuses on the role of science and technology in promoting development as well as its limitation in shaping the society. The text outlines the contributions that this field has provided in health, industries, agriculture, transportation, and communication. The book puts emphasis on the role of technologists and scientists in promoting development, such as in the fields of biology and medicine. The text notes the emergence of socio-economic problems in the sector of food and agriculture and how these problems can be solved by the application of agricultural technologies. Case studies in this regard that is presented in this book include fish handling and distribution, improving soil fertility, and feed resources for animal feeding. The role of science and technology in the management of water resources is noted, and the problems associated with the application of science and technology to water resources development are discussed. Science and technology has also played an important role in improving the quality of life in human settlements. The text is a valuable source of data for scientists and technologists who aim to improve science and technology and serve the interest of mankind.

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Author: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0819571520

This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today’s world. As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and sophistication, it shares a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. A strikingly high proportion of today’s films, commercial art, popular music, video games, and non-genre fiction are what Csicsery-Ronay calls “science fictional” —stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the “seven beauties” of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technoscience’s development into a global regime.