UNIV 300 – Week 6 Assignment

Part One:

-          What parts of the brain do P. gingivialis bacterial infections affect in Alzheimer’s patients? 

-          What is significant about P. gingivialis bacterial infections that differ from other bacterial infections?

Part Two:

-           a. Look at your question and identify the main concepts of this question. Please list only 2 or 3 primary concepts.

o   In the question above, the main concepts are (1) P. gingivialis bacterial infections (periodontal disease) and (2) Alzheimer’s patients

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-          b. Write a search statement that you can use to search for information to address your research question.

o   (gingivialis OR gingivitis OR “periodontal disease”) AND Alzheimer*

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-          c. Do a search in Academic Search Complete with your search words and Boolean operators. Tell me exactly what words and Boolean operators you used.

o   Alzheimer’s (TI Title) AND gingivitis (TI Title) OR “periodontal disease” (SU Subject Terms) AND Alzheimer’s (SU Subject Terms)

-          d. Use at least two of the database limiters and tell me what they were. (These can be any of the options under “Search Options” in the lower part of the search page, or under “Refine Results” on the left side of the results page.)

o   2015-2018

o   Academic Journals

-          This produced 9 results, all of which appear to apply to the topic perfectly

Part Three:

I had a difficult time with using the Boolean operators in ASC.  I tried a number of combinations to limit the results but kept coming up with very large numbers as well as not finding the results as set in the operators.  For example, I was using ‘Alzheimer’s’ with (TI Title) but results were showing titles without Alzheimer’s in the title.  It took some moving around and realized that the results depend on the arrangement of the operators.  Now that I know how setting up the operators in a specific order can affect the outcome of the results, I can alter and adjust further searches.