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 penalty”) or (“
new york state” and “capital          punishment”)                                                                                        26 hits

 

 

 

2)     a and d showed the same results . “ NYS” and “death penalty” or “capital punishment”  means the exact same thing as “NYS” and “death penalty” or “NYS” and “capital punishment”. The first is just a simpler way to state it.

        b and c  had the same results. Whether using brackets or not these statements are the same.

 

       

 

3) 

     a) corresponds with the  c) Venn diagram.    

     b) corresponds with the  d) Venn diagram.

     c) corresponds with the  d) Venn diagram.

     d) corresponds with the  c) Venn diagram.

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 two words death and penalty are adjacent in the title and the text.

1)   c) If you wanted the exact phrase death penalty to appear you would use quotation marks.  ie)  “death penalty”

2)  a)  d ^ p  =  934  results    –  death and penalty

     b)  d v p  =   23, 395  –    death or penalty

     c)  s =  479      –  “death penalty”

     d)  s ^ n  = 17   –   “death penalty” and  “New York
State”     e)  s ^  ~ n =  462  –   “death penalty”  and  not “New York
State”

     f)  s v c =  734   -“death penalty” or  “ capital punishment”

     g)  s ^ c =  101  –  “ death penalty”  and “ capital punishment”

3)

•   Boolean “operators” AND, OR, and NOT are supported:
  • Either type in “operators” AND, OR, and NOT in the search statement.
  • Or, use the multiple boxes in advanced screen and select the operators from the pull-downs.
• Use quotation marks (“”) to search for phrases (words together in exact order).
• Search boxes in both basic and advanced screens automatically combine terms so you don’t need to type “AND.”

4) a)  d ^ p =  428   –  baseball and players

        d v p =  4702  –  baseball or players                   

        s  = 126  –   “baseball players”

        s ^ n =   0  -“baseball players” and  “steroid use”

        s ^ ~n =  126  – “ baseball players” and  not “steroid use”

        s v c =  405  –  “baseball players”  or “drug abuse”

       s ^ c =  1   – “baseball players” and “ drug abuse”

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

1. Go to the site or do a quick web search if you don’t know the URL.
2. 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!)
3. To find the RSS URL, right-click on the orange XML button to “Copy Shortcut.” Or click on the “XML” button and use “Ctrl-C” on your keyboard to copy the URL found in the address bar of your browser.
4. Return to this page, use “Ctrl-V” to paste the URL into the field above, and click “Add”.
5. A valid RSS URL will take you to a preview page where you can see how the module will look on your page. If you like what you see, confirm by clicking “Add.”Congratulations! You’ve just added a new feed to your page.

Sorry about that.  My homepage is Verizon Yahoo.  First I clicked on the orange box next to where it said Assignment.  I then right clicked on the address on the browser box on my homepage which was the address of the assignment.  I clicked copy .  I then went to “add content ”  on my homepage and it brought me to another page where I clicked on “add RSS”  . I right clicked again and hit paste.  Which pasted the address of the assignment .  I then approved the way it would look and walllaaa!  It now appears on my homepage and I can click on it any time I need to go the assignment.

extra credit -Irene Mazeski