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December 5, 2006

Precedence of Operators… She Googled it?!

Professor Glass did say that these assignments were ment to be applied to real world searches, so I used Google for these search strings…
 When entering a search string with Google, they give you the helpful hint of capitalizing ”OR”, as well as including “AND” by default; Though I did include it anyway.

“D”- Death Penalty
“C”- Capital Punishment
“N”- [...]

December 2, 2006

Assignment #2 – Lenore Chiriboga

(Database: Project Muse)
(1A) “New York State” and (“death penalty” or “capital punishment”) = 26 hits
(1B) (“New York State” and “death penalty”) or “capital punishment” = 371 hits
(1C) “New York State” and “death penalty” or “capital punishment” = 371 hits
(1D) (“New York State” and “death penalty”) or (“New York State” and “capital punishment”) = 26 hits
(2) Statements [...]

November 18, 2006

Irene Mazeski        Math101A          Assignment 2      Dr. Richard Glass  Project Muse
 
 
1)    a)
       “
new york state”  and  ( “death penalty or capital punishment”) 26 hits
 
       b)
       (“
new york state and “death penalty”) or “capital punishment” 371 hits
 
      c)
       “
new york state” and “death penalty” or “capital punishment”  371 hits
 
      d)
       (“
new york state” and “death [...]

October 27, 2006

Danny Psomas

Danny Psomas                                                                                                           10/13/06
Con Math 101                                                                                               Professor Glass
 
1.    A) How many results were returned by putting in the words death and penalty and then searching for death penalty?
<!–[if !supportLists]–>-         <!–[endif]–>I found out that that Death and Penalty had 12,757 hits and Death Penalty had the 12,757 which was amusing that they were off only [...]

October 26, 2006

Assignment #1-Lenore Chiriboga

Answers: (project muse database) 
(1a) 930, 943 (1b) words death & penalty, most often appear in the text and are adjacent (1c) put phrase in quotations
(2a) 930 (2b) 23,312 (2c) 478 (2d) 17 (2e) 461 (2f) 731 (2g) 101
(3a) And, or and not can be typed in the search statement or use boxes in advanced screen [...]

October 26, 2006

Assignment #1-Steve Smaragdas

Steve Smaragas
Math 101
Dr. Glass
Assignment #1
I’m doing problems 2 and 4b and my partner is doing problems 1, 3 and 4a.
2.)If d = death, p = penalty s = the phrase death penalty, c = the phrase capital punishment and n the phrase New York State. Form for your database and document the results for:
a.)d^p= [...]

October 23, 2006

assignment 1 Irene Mazeski

Irene Mazeski         Project Muse Database          Assignment 1
1)   a)  death and penalty   934  results
          death penalty        934
1)   b) The words death and penalty sometimes do not appear at all.  Instead the phrase capital punishment comes up in the title.  Sometimes the word death comes up by itself in the title .  .  A few times the [...]

October 20, 2006

extra credit-Irene M-hopefully this will work this time

Go to the site or do a quick web search if you don’t know the URL.
Look for a little orange button like this: . This indicates the site syndicates its content. Usually, the button points directly to the site’s RSS file. (The page looks like raw code, but don’t let it scare you!)
To find the [...]

October 20, 2006

extra credit -Irene Mazeski