Certification Institutions Expected to Update and Transfer Information on Present Standards

Standards are the basis for production enterprises to organize production, ex-factory inspection, trade (delivery) and technical exchanges, product certification, quality arbitration and supervision. It is important for certification institutions to explore methods for updating and transferring present standards, to accelerate the transfer of standard information and ensure present standards are implemented in a timely manner.

Information standardization for typical toxic and harmful algae in China's coastal waters——a case study of Karenia mikimotoi

To assist the researches of toxic and harmful algae and provide government workers with judgment basis for decision-making related events,we established a biological information management system for toxic and harmful algae in China’s of fshore to assist relevant research.In this study,Karenia mikimotoi was studied as a typical toxic and harmful algae species,and the basic biological information and biogeographic distribution information of K.mikimotoi were systematically studied and collected.In the part of basic biological information,the name,toxin,and molecular characteristic sequence of K.mikimotoi were sorted out by literature searching and website browsing.Through experimental means,the relevant information of morphological identifi cation,pigment composition,and lipid composition were obtained.In the part of biogeographic distribution information,this study sorted out the information of K.mikimotoi,analyzed the characteristics of its occurrence,and completed the standardized construction of biogeographic distribution information.Through the collation of basic biological information and biogeographic distribution information of K.mikimotoi,the standardization of related information was completed,which provided template and method reference for information collection of other toxic and harmful algae species,which was benefi cial to the database analysis and design.

Developing the information-seeking behavior scale for undergraduates

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to develop a standardized and reliable measurement tool for assessing information-seeking behavior of undergraduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Based on information literacy and information-seeking behavior theories, expert advice and students' interview, items of undergraduates' informationseeking behavior indicators were selected. With the analysis of homogeneity reliability, item analysis and factor analysis, this study constructs an assessment system to evaluate reliability and validity of the scale.Findings: The information-seeking behavior scale for undergraduates has divided undergraduates' information-seeking behavior into seven dimensions, which include 46 items. The reliability analysis of Cronbach's α was 0.910, and the coefficient of split-half reliability was0.817. The results of factor analysis showed that Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin(KMO) was 0.864,which indicates 55.536% of the total variation could be explained by the above seven dimensions.Research limitations: Due to a small sample size and limited sample distribution, further research need be conducted in an expanded sample size in order to explore the application scope of this evaluation system; in addition, the stability of the scale also need be confirmed.Practical implications: The paper sets up an information-seeking behavior evaluation system for undergraduates and explores the characteristics of their information-seeking behavior.This study provides guidance for the development of future information literacy education and the improvement of the information literacy level of undergraduates.Originality/value: An information-seeking behavior scale for undergraduates has been developed, which comprehensively covers information need, information source, information evaluation, information retrieval, information management, information utilization and information morality. The scale is proved to have good reliability, validity, popularity anddiscrimination that it is qualified to be an assessment tool of information-seeking behavior for Chinese undergraduates.

Study on the Diffusion Performance of Standard E-Government Information Systems

Standard e-government information system(SEIS) including mobile-government applications are playing more and more important roles in the establishing of national e-government framework. It can be beneficial not only for avoiding redundant e-government IS development but also for improving collaboration among government agencies. Two research questions were explored: what are the factors influencing the performance of SEIS? Will mandatory SEIS create a better performance than non-mandatory SEIS? Specifically, the use of five categories of IS aspects--information system quality, online service quality, offline service quality, diffusion modes and standard network size—is proposed to understand the performance of SEIS through applying both survey study and simulation study. The results show that information system quality and online service quality of SEIS have strong effects on users' expectation and users' satisfaction, which thereafter promotes the performance of SEIS. Government agencies' offline service quality shows a significant effect on users' satisfaction while not on users' expectation. Furthermore, the diffusion speed of SEIS in non-mandatory and mandatory modes and the standard network size also have great influence on the utility of SEIS.

The Work of JTCA in Standardizing and Improving the Quality of Operating Information in Japan

Main Activities of JTCA JTCA activities cover the following five areas: ……

Weighted Integral of Infinitely Differentiable Multivariate Functions is Exponentially Convergent

We study the problem of a weighted integral of infinitely differentiable mul-tivariate functions defined on the unit cube with the L∞-norm of partial derivative of all orders bounded by 1.We consider the algorithms that use finitely many function values as information(called standard information).On the one hand,we obtained that the interpolatory quadratures based on the extended Chebyshev nodes of the second kind have almost the same quadrature weights.On the other hand,by using the Smolyak al-gorithm with the above interpolatory quadratures,we proved that the weighted integral problem is of exponential convergence in the worst case setting.

Optimal Recovery on the Classes of Functions with Bounded Mixed Derivative

Temlyakov considered the optimal recovery on the classes of functions with bounded mixed derivative in the Lp metrics and gave the upper estimates of the optimal recovery errors. In this paper, we determine the asymptotic orders of the optimal recovery in Sobolev spaces by standard information, i.e., function values, and give the nearly optimal algorithms which attain the asymptotic orders of the optimal recovery.