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Creating Knowledge Awareness On Library Resources And Services Among The Students Of St Xaviers College, Palayamkottai, Sankha Subhra Das, E Santhana Kumar, P Balasubramanian Oct 2019

Creating Knowledge Awareness On Library Resources And Services Among The Students Of St Xaviers College, Palayamkottai, Sankha Subhra Das, E Santhana Kumar, P Balasubramanian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims to know the knowledge of Library resources and services among St. Xavier's college students. The questionnaire method was used for data collection. Keeping in view the objectives of the study well-structured questionnaire was prepared and distributed to St. Xavier's college students. A total of 150 questionnaires were distributed among the undergraduate (B.A., B.com.) students out of which 144 filled in questionnaires were received back with an overall response rate of 96%. From a total of 144 respondents, 113(78.47%) are aware of the services provided by the Library and 31(21.53%) of respondents were unaware of library resources and …


Usability Evaluaton Of Users’ Experience On Some Existing E-Commerce Platforms, Akinbowale Nathaniel Babatunde, Oluwakemi Christiana Abikoye, Olanrewaju Emmanuel Falaju May 2019

Usability Evaluaton Of Users’ Experience On Some Existing E-Commerce Platforms, Akinbowale Nathaniel Babatunde, Oluwakemi Christiana Abikoye, Olanrewaju Emmanuel Falaju

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Internet has become increasingly popular nowadays. Several million of websites have been built and used for electronic buying and selling. Many designers have begun to focus their attention on whether these platforms can really be used to the satisfaction of users. Hence, the need to evaluate users’ experience on E-Commerce platforms. This research compares five platforms (Jumia, Ali-Express, Konga, Amazon and Jiji) based on users’ review through the use of online questionnaires for evaluating the platforms. From the data retrieved, Jumia, Konga and Ali Express recorded a total number of 105, 67 and 45 respondents representing 47.29%, 31.08% and 20.27% …


Reading Habits Among Children In District Central Libraries In Southern Tamil Nadu: A Case Study, Dr.P.Balasubramanian Subramanian Bala Subramanian, Bindhu S Mrs, Balasubramanian P Dr Apr 2019

Reading Habits Among Children In District Central Libraries In Southern Tamil Nadu: A Case Study, Dr.P.Balasubramanian Subramanian Bala Subramanian, Bindhu S Mrs, Balasubramanian P Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The information seeking behaviour of Library users among children was studied based on the objectives of study a questionnaire was set and imparted among randomly selected children respondents. The study was limited to only five districts of Southern Tamil Nadu. The Study areas of five districts were selected based on the bilateral study from earlier research work done. Since, so far, no such study has been conducted on the reading habits among children in Southern districts of Tamil Nadu, the present study has been chosen by the researcher for her research work.


Measuring The Frequency Of Inner-Experience Characteristics By Self-Report: The Nevada Inner Experience Questionnaire, Christopher L. Heavey, Stefanie A. Moynihan, Vincent P. Brouwers, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Alek E. Krumm, Jason M. Kelsey, Dio K. Turner Ii, Russell T. Hurlburt Jan 2019

Measuring The Frequency Of Inner-Experience Characteristics By Self-Report: The Nevada Inner Experience Questionnaire, Christopher L. Heavey, Stefanie A. Moynihan, Vincent P. Brouwers, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Alek E. Krumm, Jason M. Kelsey, Dio K. Turner Ii, Russell T. Hurlburt

Psychology Faculty Research

Descriptive experience sampling has suggested that there are five frequently occurring phenomena of inner experience: inner speaking, inner seeing, unsymbolized thinking, feelings, and sensory awareness. Descriptive experience sampling is a labor- and skill-intensive procedure, so it would be desirable to estimate the frequency of these phenomena by questionnaire. However, appropriate questionnaires either do not exist or have substantial limitations. We therefore created the Nevada Inner Experience Questionnaire (NIEQ), with five subscales estimating the frequency of each of the frequent phenomena, and examine here its psychometric adequacy. Exploratory factor analysis produced four of the expected factors (inner speaking, inner seeing, unsymbolized …