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"All databases and search engines for the web have features which allow you to refine your search. Becoming familiar with these feature will enable you to navigate your way to an effective information search."

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Diabetes Australia is the national peak body for diabetes in Australia providing a single, powerful, collective voice for people living with diabetes, their families and carers. A non-profit organisation, Diabetes Australia works in partnership with diabetes consumer organisations, health professionals, educators and researchers to minimise the impact of diabetes in the Australian community. Diabetes Australia is committed to turning diabetes around through awareness, prevention, detection, management and the search for a cure.

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"5 Ways to Lift Your Mood Tecchniques to help you change your mood for the better! Research suggests that although some people are born happier than others, we can all learn from their habits to raise our own happiness levels. Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky from the University of California found that adopting certain exercises - or, "happiness strategies" was very effective in perking people up. The issue of working at happiness is crucial to her approach, however, there needs to be a balance - if you do the exercises too often you may get bored; if you don't do them often enough they may not make a difference. It is generally agreed that writing down your thoughts can be useful as it gives you an opportunity to learn about who you really are and to see the big picture of your life."

Info from Shawn about how to use search engines more effectively

"How to draw the mind map: Write the topic in a circle in the centre of a piece of paper (landscape position). For each of the main points, draw arms out from the circle. Write the key words of the main point along each or at the end. Draw smaller arms out from the main arms and write the sub-points that relate to each main point. Continue with smaller arms if you have other points or examples for the sub-points."

Here is a definition of Truncation that makes sense to me... It is a tool we can use in search engines and databases to help us find information. Discovered I use truncation symbols! Did you realise you do to?