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Plotting The Literature On Learning Outcomes And Academic Performance In Higher Education From 2001 To 2020: A Scientometric Analysis, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Behzad Anwar, Bilal Shaukat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to evaluate the teaching skills, learning skills, learning outcomes, and academic performance using scientometrics analysis from 2001 to 2020. The scientometrics method and a total of 7536 published documents were found. The results reveal that the topic of academic performance and article as a type of published document was highly used. The high majority of these published documents are published in the English language and gradually increased in the number of published documents in terms of the year. Further, the author Chamorro-Premuzic T is the top author with 1139 citations and Univ. Grandada at top of twenty …

Disruptive Innovative Library Services @ International Nalanda University: Present And Future Roadmaps, Dr. Nihar K. Patra

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper discusses innovative technologies that have implemented at international Nalanda University, Rajgir, Bihar, India and also planning to implement some other advanced tools and technologies in future. The Nalanda University is an avant-garde International University, a truly “sui generis” supported by 17 partner countries of the East Asia Summit. The Government of India designates it as an “Institution of National Importance” under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Nalanda University envisions its library to be the central fulcrum of its master plan, both in terms of its design and bearing. This paper explains in details the services which are …

Library Professionals Learning Behaviour With The Level Of Expertise: A Survey From Pakistan, Ahsan Ullah Bhatti, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Tufail Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study is designed to examine the relationship of learning behavior with the level of expertise among library professionals working in Pakistan. It aims to compare the level of professional skills for different library areas. The study also explores the correlation of demographic factors with the level of expertise.

Research Methodology: A quantitative research design is used to carry out the current study. A structured questionnaire is developed to seek responses from respondents. Some hypotheses are developed to check these relationships. Library professionals working as practitioners in different library sectors or faculty members teaching at library schools are the …

Biogenic Sinking Particle Fluxes And Sediment Trap Collection Efficiency At Ocean Station Papa, Margaret Estapa, Ken Buesseler, Colleen A. Durkin, Melissa Omand, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Montserrat Roca-Martí, Elly Breves, R. P. Kelly, Steve Pike

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Comprehensive field observations characterizing the biological carbon pump (BCP) provide the foundation needed to constrain mechanistic models of downward particulate organic carbon (POC) flux in the ocean. Sediment traps were deployed three times during the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing campaign at Ocean Station Papa in August-September 2018. We propose a new method to correct sediment trap sample contamination by zooplankton “swimmers.” We consider the advantages of polyacrylamide gel collectors to constrain swimmer influence and estimate the magnitude of possible trap biases. Measured sediment trap fluxes of thorium-234 are compared to water column measurements to assess trap …

Sinking Diatom Assemblages As A Key Driver For Deep Carbon And Silicon Export In The Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean), D. Zúñiga, A. Sanchez-Vidal, M. M. Flexas, D. Carroll, M. M. Rufino, G. Spreen, A. Calafat, F. Abrantes

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Physical and biogeochemical processes in the Southern Ocean are fundamental for modulating global climate. In this context, a process-based understanding of how Antarctic diatoms control primary production and carbon export, and hence global-ocean carbon sequestration, has been identified as a scientific priority. Here we use novel sediment trap observations in combination with a data-assimilative ocean biogeochemistry model (ECCO-Darwin) to understand how environmental conditions trigger diatom ecology in the iron-fertilized southern Scotia Sea. We unravel the role of diatoms assemblage in controlling the biogeochemistry of sinking material escaping from the euphotic zone, and discuss the link between changes in upper-ocean environmental …

Plotting The Literature On Precautionary Measures Of Covid-19: A Scientometric Analysis Of Web Of Science, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Abeel Naseer

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study attempted to evaluate the scholarly publications on COVID-19, social distance, physical distance, social isolation, and self-isolation employing the scientometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The main purpose was to consolidate the published scholarship on the COVID-19 in the Web of Science indexed documents. A total of 635 publications were found. The results indicated that social distance and COVID-19 was the top topic along with the article as a type of document, and the majority were published in the English language in 2021. The name of Gimenez-Llort L was at top of the list of authors, along with …

Assessment Of Literature Growth In Anthropometric Measurement Research: A Bibliometric Analyses Of Scopus Indexed Publications, Khadeeja M N Ansari, Norizzah Binti Nabi Khan, Nur Fadhilah Binti Mohd Omar, Hala A. El-Wakeel, Md Safiqur Rahaman

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: To evaluate the global published literature in anthropometric measurement research between 1971-2021. Anthropometry is the study of the size and shape of the human body generally refers to the measurements and data used to characterize the size of human users.

Method: Scientometric and bibliometric tools applied to analyze the research published indexed in the Scopus database. The study focused on indices, namely annual research growth, impactful author, relevant source, country collaboration, productive organization, country, etc. MS Excel, Bibexcel, RStudio (Biblioshiny), Scientopy, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer are used for the quantitative analysis.

Results: There is steady growth in the literature of …

A Review On Recent Advances In Content-Based Image Retrieval Used In Image Search Engine, Smita V. Bhoir Ms., Sunita Patil

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Since the advent of visual data on the Web, there has been a more significant increase in image search activity. Lack of knowledge of visual content can lead to inconsistencies in methods that employ text retrieval. Searching an image and getting a relevant image is a challenging research issue for the computer vision community. The value of recent research on Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has gone up significantly in the last decade because it has focused on discovering relevant images. The first is the problem is due to the intention gap and the second is due to the semantic gap. …

Scientometric Study Of The Journal- Carbon, Sivankutty V S Dr, Jinu Sudhakaran Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Scientometric evaluations have gained popularity in the academic and research fields over the last decade. The present study is a comprehensive scientometric evaluation of the Journal - Carbon. Carbon is a peer-reviewed international journal published by Elsevier and created in collaboration with the American Carbon Society. The author metrices, the applicability of Lotka’s Law and the word metrices in the output during the years 2016-2020 are attempted in this study. The results show that the journal is widely cited. The analysis of author metrices reiterates the extent of collaborative authorship in the journal.

Principals’ Management Of Library Resources And Teachers’ Lesson Preparation Practices In Secondary Schools: A Predictive Evaluation, Valentine Joseph Owan, Rosemary O. Osim Ph.D., Emanghe E. Emanghe Ph.D., Eyiene Ameh Ph.D., John Asuquo Ekpenyong

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The literature is predominated by studies seeking to clarify the extent of the availability, functionality, accessibility and/or utilisation of library materials in schools at various levels. The extent of principals' management of library resources and their contribution to the lesson preparation activities of teachers seems to have been under-researched. In bridging the gap, the current study was designed to assess the extent and contribution of principals’ management of library resources to teachers’ lesson preparation practices. Six specific objectives were of interest to the researchers. The quantitative research method, following the ex-post facto research design, was adopted. The stratified proportional random …

Library And Information Science Professional Skills And Entrepreneurial Intention Among Undergraduates Of Universities, Martina Ekpenyong Ekeng Dr., Abimbola Labake Agboke Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated the relationship between Library and Information Science Professional Skills and

Entrepreneurial Intention among Undergraduates of Universities Cross River States and the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The correlational survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 284 undergraduates and this was also used as the sample. A validated research-made questionnaire with a reliability range of 0.71- 0.79 was used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis showed that acquisition of the following variables: indexing …

The Perspectives Of Engineering College Librarians On Information Literacy Programmes For User Empowerment, Somaraya B. Tallolli Dr, K R. Mulla Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study presents the opinion survey of the librarians about information literacy programs (ILP) impact on library users. The samples were collected through a survey of librarians working in engineering colleges affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University. The 82 (80.39%) librarians have been responded to the study. It has been ascertained that the Information literacy programs impact the users in mastering the complex resources, search skills, need of evaluation of the programs, influences on the electronic environment, understanding economic issues, legal decisions, social problems, resource utilization, and enhancement library usage. The opinion survey has found that Information Literacy and its assessment …

Professional Variables And Staff Readiness To Utilise Internet-Based Channels For Research Communication In An Era Of Covid-19, Valentine Joseph Owan, Levi Udochukwu Akah Phd., Mary Mark Ogbeche, Moses Eteng Obla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed the professional variables of academic staff in African varsities and their readiness to Utilise Internet-Based Channels for Research Communication in an era of Covid-19. Drawing from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, the study was guided by four null hypotheses. The quantitative research method based on the virtual cross-sectional survey design was adopted. A total of 8,591 academics in African universities were the targeted demographic of this study. However, data were collected from a virtual snowball sample of 1,977 respondents (males, N = 1347; females, N = 630) from 24 African countries. A validated electronic survey, with three …

[Review Of] Tagore And Nationalism, By K. L. Tuteja And Kaustav Chakraborty, Sukanya Chakrabarti

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Scientific Mapping Of Research On Digital Pulmonary Function Test: A Bibliometric Analysis, Aditya Kekre Mr., Ashutosh Desai Mr., Ashwin Sujit Mr., Dhruv Dewett Mr., Shilpa Hudnurkar Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Digital Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) is a non-invasive test that helps in evaluating the efficiency of a patient’s lungs. The test is key to keeping tabs on a patient’s health that may be suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, Restrictive Respiratory Disease, etc, as pollution increases day by day in the world the amount of people getting affected from it and being diagnosed with respiratory diseases the importance of PFT continues to grow. The Scopus database has been used exclusively for this analysis. A key observation of this survey has been that engineering and medicine have gone hand in …

The Effect Of Infographics On Developing The International Scientific Publishing Literacy Among Graduate Students In Humanities, Saffanah Zedan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Supporting scientific research and enhancing effective scholarly communication services for graduate students and academic researchers is one of the most pivotal services of the academic libraries, especially in the context of the procedures set for publishing research results in high-impact international scientific journals. On the other hand, the repercussions of Covid-19 pandemic have cast a shadow over the academic library's services, activities, and programs intended to support scholarly communication among graduate students at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this context, the current study aims to measure the effect of using infographics within the …

The Impact Of Temporally Coherent Visual Cues On Speech Perception In Complex Auditory Environments, Yi Yuan, Yasneli Lleo, Rebecca Daniel, Alexandra White, Yonghee Oh

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Speech perception often takes place in noisy environments, where multiple auditory signals compete with one another. The addition of visual cues such as talkers’ faces or lip movements to an auditory signal can help improve the intelligibility of speech in those suboptimal listening environments. This is referred to as audiovisual benefits. The current study aimed to delineate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions under which visual presentations of the acoustic amplitude envelopes have their most significant impact on speech perception. Seventeen adults with normal hearing were recruited. Participants were presented with spoken sentences in babble noise either in auditory-only or auditory-visual …

Measuring The Impact Of Legal Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriage Among Sexual Minority Women, Laurie A. Drabble, Amy A. Mericle, Angie R. Wootton, Cat Munroe, Libo Li, Karen F. Trocki, Tonda Hughes

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Reductions in structural stigma, such as gaining access to legalized same-sex marriage, is associated with positive psychological and physical health outcomes among sexual minority adults. However, these positive outcomes may be less robust among sexual minority women (SMW; e.g., lesbian, bisexual, queer) than sexual minority men and new measures are needed to develop a more nuanced understanding of the impact of affirming policies on the health and well-being of SMW. This study assessed the psychometric properties of measures developed to assess the psychosocial impacts of legalized same-sex marriage on the lives of SMW. Participants (N = 446) completed an online …

Research Visualization Of Journal Of Library Administration (2005-2020): A Bibliometric Study, Muhammad Naveed, Sanila Aslam, Nusrat Ali, Nadeem Siddique

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This work embodies a bibliometric investigation of Research Visualization of the Journal of Library Administration from 2005-2020. The Journal of Library Administration is a peer-reviewed academic journal and deals with library management. It has been providing services since 1980 and is published eight times each year by Routledge. This research aims to make a bibliometric examination of the Journal of Library Administration. The journal highlights the various forms of publications such as articles, editorial material, review, correction, and biographical items from the last sixteen years regularly. Data for research have been collected from the Science Citation Index database, Web of …

Science Research Output Pattern Of University Of Delhi (2015-2019), Rajesh Singh Dr, Avijit Mahala Dr, Shreya Yadav

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current research has been conducted to tress out the science research output of University of Delhi (DU) in the last five years (2015-2019) after using Web of Science (WOS) database. The present study has used Web of Science databases to collect the science research output of University of Delhi for the specified period. The retrieved data were analyzed using specific parameters. This study investigates the most productive institutes, countries, authors the impact of their output in terms of Relative Citation Impact (RCI) and Citation per Paper (CPP). For visualizing purposes, VOS Viewer has been used. We retrieved 6500 papers …

Future Directions Of Doctor Of Public Health Education In The United States: A Qualitative Study, Chulwoo Park, Gene Migliaccio, Mark Edberg, Seble Frehywot, Geralyn Johnson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Background: The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree is an advanced and terminal professional degree that prepares the future workforce to engage in public health research, teaching, practice, and leadership. The purpose of the present research was to discuss the desirable future direction and optimal education strategies for the DrPH degree in the United States.

Methods: A total of 28 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited DrPH programs in the United States was identified through the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Academic Program Finder. Then, a qualitative analysis was conducted to obtain perspectives from …

Visualization And Scientometric Mapping Of Global Public Administration Research During 2016-2020, Md Kaiyum Shaikh, Dr. Sibsankar Jana

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is a scientometric and visualization study of Global Public Administration research. The study aims to traverse the present status of Public Administration research through network analysis and visualizations study of the Public Administration publications during the study period 2016-2020. A total number of 7383 documents has been retrieved from the Web of Science database. VOSviewer, MSExcel, Bibexcel, and RStadio statistical software are used for data analysis. The study focuses on numerous aspects of the public administration research such as document types, the growth of publications, most relevant sources, most prolific authors, authorship pattern, corresponding authors country, most …

Bibliometric Analysis On Artificial Compressibility Method Based Cfd Simulations, Bhavna Hemraj Joshi Miss, Chandrakant R. Sonawane Dr, Priyambada Bada Praharaj Mrs, Anand Kumar Pandey Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This bibliometric analysis in this paper aims to study the quantitative progress done in the artificial compressibility (AC) method-based CFD simulation and analyze its potential in solving incompressible flow simulations in computational fluid dynamics smoothly. The sector of CFD is enhancing more and more maturely due to advancements in computing architecture, numerical methods, and simulation tools. There have been various attempts to solve the pressure-velocity coupling issue in the Navier-Stokes equation. The artificial compressibility method (ACM), as opposed to pressure-correction methods, solves the incompressible equation in a non-segregated manner. With the introduction of the ACM, the system of the equation …

Bibliometrics Analysis And Comparison Of Global Research Literatures On Research Data Management Extracted From Scopus And Web Of Science During 2000 - 2019, Pallab Pradhan, Lavji N. Zala

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Researchers, to conduct any bibliometric analysis prefer to retrieve publications data mostly from Elsevier’s Scopus or/and Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science (WoS) databases, though many other platforms/databases, i.e. Google Scholar, Dimensions, Crossref, PubMed, etc. are now available those are providing bibliographic data of publications. This study is based on the globally published literatures on research data management during 2000 – 2019 (20 years of duration) data extracted from the Scopus & Web of Science (WoS) databases and their Merged file. The analysis and results compares the similarity and differences in between Scopus & WoS, and further each one of them …

Library Use And Satisfaction Of Undergraduate Students Of University Of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State, Akor Solomon Obotu Mr, Ikani Joshua Adaji, Okechukwu Obedia Chukwuka, Umar Danladi Abubakar, Mohammed Umar Galadima

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Robotic Parking Technology For Congestion Mitigation And Air Quality Control Around Park & Rides, Mahdi Yoozbashizadeh, Forouzan Golshani

Mineta Transportation Institute

A lack or limited availability for parking may have multiple consequences, not the least of which is driver frustration, congestion, and air pollution. However, there is a greater problem that is not widely recognized by the public, namely the negative effect on the use of transit systems due to insufficient parking spaces close to key transit stations. Automated parking management systems, which have been successfully deployed in several European and Japanese cities, can manage parking needs at transit stations more effectively than other alternatives. Numerous studies have confirmed that quick and convenient automobile access to park-and-ride lots can be essential …

Advancing The Ability To Predict Cognitive Decline And Alzheimer’S Disease Based On Genetic Variants Beyond Amyloid-Beta And Tau, Naveen Rawat

Master's Projects

A growing amount of neurodegenerative R&D is focused on identifying genomic- based explanations of AD that are beyond Amyloid-b and Tau. The proposed effort involves identifying some of the genomic variations, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), allele , chromosome, epigenetic contributors to MCI and AD that are beyond Aβ and Tau.

The project involves building a prediction model based on a support vector machine (SVM) classifier that takes into account the genomic variations and epigenetic factors to predict the early stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD). To achieve this, picking up important feature sets which …

Witness For Two-Site Enabled Coordination, Sriram Priyatham Siram

Master's Projects

Many replicated data services utilize majority quorums to safely replicate data changes in the presence of server failures. Majority quorum-based services require a simple majority of the servers to be operational for the service to stay available. A key limitation of the majority quorum is that if a service is composed of just two servers, progress cannot be made even if a single server fails because the majority quorum size is also two. This is called the Two-Server problem. A problem similar to the Two-Server problem occurs when a service’s servers are spread across only two failure domains. Servers in …

Transcriptional Profiling Of Neurological Development Of Drosophila Following Bisphenol A Exposure, Eden Johnson

Master's Projects

The ubiquitous environmental chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is an emerging risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). BPA is an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) that is thought to interfere with neuron development by changing neuronal gene expression. Impacting neurodevelopment in this manner can cause lasting changes in behavior and potentially lead to the development of NDDs. Delineating the molecular processes that incur changes in gene expression following BPA exposure will advance our understanding of how BPA impacts neurodevelopmental pathways and affects the pathophysiology of NDDs. An RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) analysis pipeline was created for transcriptional profiling of neurological development in wild-type Drosophila melanogaster …

Information Seeking Behavior Of Undergraduate Students Of The University Of Karachi, Pakistan, Humera Ilhaq, Khushbakht Tousif

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Every person needs information to fulfill their personal, professional, educational, teaching and learning need of information. People have different information seeking behavior to acquire, organize, use and disseminate information. The aim of this study is to identify information seeking behavior, information sources and to know their searching preferences and determine behaviors of undergraduate students in information searching at University of Karachi, Pakistan.

In this study quantitative approach was applied. A survey method was used. A structured questionnaire was develop as a data collection tool. In the questionnaire two types of questions; (closed-ended and multiple choice questions) were developed. Sample size …