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Information As A Major Criterion For Success In Women's Group Activities In Borno State, Nigeria, Adam Gambo Saleh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Women's groups constitute an important segment of the labour force in Borno and Nigeria in general. As early as 1930s, women groups such as Aba Market Women, The Amazons, and Matan Arewa had engaged in various activities aimed at improving their lives and contributing towards national development. Government on its part has recognized this fact and involved women groups in various development programs such as Family Economic Advancement Program (FEAP), Better Life Programme for Rural Women (BLRW), and National Program for the Eradication of Poverty (NAPEP); establishment of a ministry for Women Affairs; a host of NGOs; and spends huge …

Status Of E-Theses Repositories With Special Reference To India, Shantashree Sengupta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction

In the past, researchers were not able to access all the scholarly literature published across the world due to lack of proper communication technologies. With the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), this problem is solved to a major extent and the results of the research going throughout the world is made available to the public without any restriction. The researchers adopted Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) in 2002 and with the help of Open Access (OA) made the research literature available to the world wide user community.

The Open Access Movement

In the last few years, the …

Global Technology Initiative At San Jose State University: Results Of Seven Years Of An International Experience For Students, Belle Wei, Patricia Backer, Wenchiang Chung, Andrew Wood

Faculty Publications

For XXX students to thrive in the highly competitive global economy, it is critical to develop international perspectives and knowledge. The $1 million Global Technology Initiative (GTI), established in 2004, provides SJSU students with an opportunity to gain a global perspective of the world by learning about technology and business developments in the Asia Pacific region. GTI donors are high-tech business leaders with strong business ties in Silicon Valley and the Asia Pacific region. Given the current trend of engineering globalization in the global economy, particularly the trend of outsourcing Silicon Valley manufacturing, development, and design work to foreign countries, …

Characterization Of Muscle Spindle Afferents In The Adult Mouse Using An In Vitro Muscle-Nerve Preparation, Katherine Wilkinson, H. E. Kloefkorn, S. Hochman

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

We utilized an in vitro adult mouse extensor digitorum longus (EDL) nerve-attached preparation to characterize the responses of muscle spindle afferents to ramp-and-hold stretch and sinusoidal vibratory stimuli. Responses were measured at both room (24°C) and muscle body temperature (34°C). Muscle spindle afferent static firing frequencies increased linearly in response to increasing stretch lengths to accurately encode the magnitude of muscle stretch (tested at 2.5%, 5% and 7.5% of resting length [Lo]). Peak firing frequency increased with ramp speeds (20% Lo/sec, 40% Lo/sec, and 60% Lo/sec). As a population, muscle spindle afferents could entrain 1:1 to sinusoidal vibrations throughout the …

Spartan Daily May 14, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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Emosonet: An Emotion-Aware Social Network For Emotional Wellbeing, Zerrin Yumak-Kasap, Yu Chen, Pearl Pu

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

This paper presents our initial ideas towards developing an emotion-aware social network for the purpose of increasing emotional wellbeing. The framework will use sensors and behavior analysis methods in order to infer users’ stress level automatically with minimal user effort and use audio, animation and vibro-tactile feedback for enhanced engagement. Additionally, we will explore the role of social support, social influence and gamification for sustained behavior change.

Citation Analysis Of Dissertations And Theses Submitted To The Department Of Agricultural Economics And Extension, Federal University Of Technology Akure, Nigeria, Joseph Kehinde Fasae

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction

Agricultural Economics and Extension programme is an aspect of social science courses in the field of agriculture which prepares and trains individual as an expert or specialist that manage agricultural business using economic principles. In the course of achieving this aim for master's and doctoral students in an institution of higher learning, dissertations and theses are submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings (Wikipedia, 2011). There is no clear distinction between thesis and dissertation. Some institutions use thesis for master's and dissertation for doctoral while others use it …

Online Guides To Indian Languages With Particular Reference To Hindi, Punjabi, And Sanskrit, Preeti Mahajan, Neeraj Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction

India is a multilingual country and the second most populated country on earth There are a quite a number of languages spoken in India. Some of these languages are accepted nationally while others are accepted as dialects of that particular region. The Indian languages belong to four language families namely Indo-European, Dravidian, Austroasiatic (Austric) and Sino-Tibetan. Majority of India's population are using Indo-European and Dravidian languages. The former are spoken mainly in northern and central regions and the latter in southern India. India has 22 officially recognised languages. But around 33 different languages and 2000 dialects have been identified …

Staff Motivation In The University Of Lagos Libraries, Nigeria, A.S. Obajemu, N.A. Dekpen, J.A. Ojo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction

In most establishments, the desire to achieve optimal level of productivity is very central to managerial objectives. To attain this level, management of any organisation needs to look in wards as to how best the staff's morale can be boosted through a number of incentives. Researchers have over the years looked into how best workers can be motivated and how the employees were expected to behave and conduct themselves for the purpose of organisational effectiveness and a high level of productivity. Therefore, the continued existence and functioning of an organisation according to Adebisi (2000) depends largely on the extent …

Access, May 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Access Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Framework For Developing And Integrating Effective Routing Strategies Within The Emergency Management Decision-Support System, Research Report 11-12, Anurag Pande, Frances Edwards, Joseph Yu

Mineta Transportation Institute

This report describes the modeling, calibration, and validation of a VISSIM traffic-flow simulation of the San José, California, downtown network and examines various evacuation scenarios and first-responder routings to assess strategies that would be effective in the event of a no-notice disaster. The modeled network required a large amount of data on network geometry, signal timings, signal coordination schemes, and turning-movement volumes. Turning-movement counts at intersections were used to validate the network with the empirical formula-based measure known as the GEH statistic. Once the base network was tested and validated, various scenarios were modeled to estimate evacuation and emergency vehicle …

Spartan Daily April 26, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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University Scholar Series: Alejandro Garcia, Alejandro Garcia

University Scholar Series

Collaborating with DreamWorks

On April 25, 2012 Professor Alejandro Garcia spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Ellen Junn at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Professor Alejandro Garcia developed and teaches Physics of Animation, a science course for visual artists. During 2011, he took a professional leave and worked in DreamWorks Animation's department of Artistic Development as a physics consultant on Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. In this seminar, Alejandro Garcia describes the animation industry from both the scientific and artistic perspectives

Spartan Daily April 24, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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Current Controversies, Vol. Iii, Spring 2012, San Jose State University

Current Controversies

No abstract provided.

Spring 2012 Newsletter, Malena Hernández, Jaime Barajas Hernandez, Luis Xacon, Robert M. Gutierrez, Raúl Navarro, Isidoro Guzman, Roberto Reyna, Maribel Gómez, Tenoch Ortiz, Juan Carlos Jáuregui, Felipe Ponce, Isidro Zaragoza, Juan Pablo Mercado, José García

XGC: Xicana/o Graduate Council Newsletter

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Text Summarization, Youn S. Kim

Master's Projects

With the overwhelming amount of textual information available in electronic formats on the web, there is a need for an efficient text summarizer capable of condensing large bodies of text into shorter versions while keeping the relevant information intact. Such a technology would allow users to get their information in a shortened form, saving valuable time. Since 1997, Microsoft Word has included a summarizer for documents, and currently there are companies that summarize breaking news and send SMS for mobile phones. I wish to create a text summarizer to provide condensed versions of original documents. My focus is on blogs, …

Visualization Of Online Deals, Praveen Thiruvathilingam

Master's Projects

This project identifies the impact of online deals and coupons on the life of people. The basic idea is to find the trend in the sales of these deals and this project would be helpful for companies, restaurants and dealers who are trying to sell coupons to popularize their product. The final output of the project would be a timeline graph with the deals displayed based on the month of their sale. Information like the original price, deal price, discount and number of coupons sold will be displayed in a pop-up window when a deal is selected. Different colors are …

Link Ide : A Real Time Collaborative Development Environment, Kevin Grant

Master's Projects

While working on large scale development projects all software engineers find themselves, at some point, working with a source control system in order to add or re-vert changes to code. With software projects involving a multitude of programmers this is a crucial part of successful development. When working on a smaller project howev-er, with a tight knit group, setting up and dealing with such a system can become more work than it is worth. To solve this problem a real time collaborative integrated devel-opment environment could be used. The IDE’s focus would be on providing a collabora-tive setting for programming …

Cloud Information Summarization With Mobile Interface, Hrishikesh Paranjape

Master's Projects

There is a large driver for making existing data accessible everywhere, not just for people who happen to be at connected computers. This project aims to design, develop, and test Information Summarization System with its mobile application, which will allow end user the quick mobile access to underlying data on the web. The mobile application allows users to search for information about topic of their interest. This application will make use of existing established search engines to summarize the information on requested topic. The computation will be done on the cloud and communication between client and server will be done …