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Digital Object Identifier And Their Use In Accessing Online Scholarly Materials In Africa, Joseph Kehinde Fasae, Chuks Daniel Oriogu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) has been internationally recognized as a standard for identifying information resources on the web. It is an advanced tool that provides unique identification or permanent links to find specific journal articles and other information resources online. This paper discusses digital object identifier and their use in accessing online scholarly materials in Africa. It looks at the extent of Uniform Resource Locators (URL), understanding DOI functionalities, and benefits of DOI, scholarly materials with DOI in Africa with a critical examination of African Online Journals (AJOL) which is the biggest database in Africa. It was therefore discovered that …

Development Of Multilingual Resource Management Mechanisms For Libraries, Sukumar Mandal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Multilingual is one of the important concept in any library. This study is create on the basis of global recommendations and local requirement for each and every libraries. Select the multilingual components for setting up the multilingual cluster in different libraries to each user. Development of multilingual environment for accessing and retrieving the library resources among the users as well as library professionals. Now, the methodology of integration of Google Indic Transliteration for libraries have follow the five steps such as (i) selection of transliteration tools for libraries (ii) comparison of tools for libraries (iii) integration Methods in Koha for …

Role Of Principal Supervision On The Relationship Between Students’ Personnel Services And Academic Achievement In Secondary Schools: A Preliminary Report, Yusuf Suleiman

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigates the role principal supervision on the relationship between students’ personnel services and academic achievement in secondary school via mixed-method approaches (quantitative and qualitative). Sample size of 100 students in one of the secondary schools formed the respondents for the quantitative study, while principals (junior and senior section) of the selected school formed the informants for the qualitative study. Questionnaire tagged “Students’ Personnel Services and Supervision Questionnaire (SPSPQ)” was used to elicit data from students while interview protocol tagged “Principal Supervision, Students’ Personnel Services and Academic Achievement (PSA)” was used to collect relevant data from the principals. Data …

Contributors, Linda Heindenreich

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Moises Serrano's Forbidden: A North Carolinian Dreamer’S Twist On Chicanx Memoir, Testimonio, And Geography, Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Femicide In The Americas, Daniella Hernández

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Sjsu Erfa News, Spring 2018, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter

Volume 31, Number 3

A Survey Of Viva Callesj Participants: San Jose, California, 2017, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hilary Nixon, Cameron Simons

Mineta Transportation Institute

This report presents the findings from a self-complete paper survey of participants at the Viva CalleSJ open streets event held on Sunday, September 17, 2017. The survey was designed to provide information that would help the City of San José assess the success of the event, guide planning for future Viva CalleSJ events, and inform potential funders and community partners about the benefits of Viva CalleSJ. A total of 860 adults at the event completed the one-page paper survey. Survey findings provide detail about how people traveled to the event, their reasons for attending, what they did at the event, …

Android De-Shredder App, Vasudha Venkatesh

Master's Projects

Sensitive documents are usually shredded into strips before discarding them. Shredders are used to cut the pages of a document into thin strips of uniform thickness. Each shredded piece in the collection bin could belong to any of the pages in a document. The task of document reconstruction involves two steps: Identifying the page to which each shred belongs and rearranging the shreds within the page to their original position. The difficulty of the reconstruction process depends on the thickness of the shred and type of cut (horizontal or vertical). The thickness of the shred is directly proportional to the …

Improved Hands-Free Text Entry System, Gaurav Gupta

Master's Projects

An input device is a hardware device which is used to send input data to a computer or which is used to control and interact with a computer system. Contemporary input mechanisms can be categorized by the input medium: Keyboards and mice are hand-operated, Siri and Alexa are voice-based, etc. The objective of this project was to come up with a head movement based input system that improves upon earlier such systems. Input entry based on head movements may help people with disabilities to interact with computers more easily. The system developed provides the flexibility to capture rigid and non- …

Ontology Based Technical Skill Similarity, Yeshwanth Bashyam Balachander

Master's Projects

Online job boards have become a major platform for technical talent procurement and job search. These job portals have given rise to challenging matching and search problems. The core matching or search happens between technical skills of the job requirements and the candidate's profile or keywords. The extensive list of technical skills and its polyonymous nature makes it less effective to perform a direct keyword matching. This results in substandard job matching or search results which misses out a closely matching candidate on account of it not having the exact skills. It is important to use a semantic similarity measure …

Speech Emotion Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques, Neethu Sundarprasad

Master's Projects

Communication is the key to express one’s thoughts and ideas clearly. Amongst all forms of communication, speech is the most preferred and powerful form of communications in human. The era of the Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly advancing in bringing more intelligent systems available for everyday use. These applications range from simple wearables and widgets to complex self-driving vehicles and automated systems employed in various fields. Intelligent applications are interactive and require minimum user effort to function, and mostly function on voice-based input. This creates the necessity for these computer applications to completely comprehend human speech. A speech percept …

Subtopics In Yelp Reviews, Riya Suchdev

Master's Projects

Yelp is a review platform that connects people to local businesses. It is a very popular platform that helps customers decide which business to choose. It relies on crowd sourced plain text reviews. From the business’s description some facts can be determined, such as category and location. However, more detailed description can be extracted from the reviews. Discovering latent topics and subtopics in Yelp reviews, can help summarize the reviews to gain knowledge. For example, we can deduce that reviews related to the Restaurant category tend to emphasize on service, food, order etc. Additionally, one can deduce positive or negative …

Sentiment Analysis Using An Ensemble Of Feature Selection Algorithms, Manankumar Bhagat

Master's Projects

To determine the opinion of any person experiencing any services or buying any product, the usage of Sentiment Analysis, a continuous research in the field of text mining, is a common practice. It is a process of using computation to identify and categorize opinions expressed in a piece of text. Individuals post their opinion via reviews, tweets, comments or discussions which is our unstructured information. Sentiment analysis gives a general conclusion of audits which benefit clients, individuals or organizations for decision making. The primary point of this paper is to perform an ensemble approach on feature reduction methods identified with …

Path2 Services Court: A Process Evaluation, Octavio Jimenez

Master's Projects

In 2014, the Santa Clara County Superior Court received a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant to improve the efficacy of the Juvenile Treatment Court (JTC) and Court for the Individualized Treatment of Adolescents (CITA) programs by streamlining the referral, screening, and court hearing processes. Receipt of the grant allowed the Superior Court to integrate JTC and CITA to establish the Progress Achieved Through Hope and Holistic Services (PATH2 Services) Court.

This research analyzed whether the Santa Clara County Superior Court successfully integrated the JTC and CITA programs when it established PATH2 Services. In addition it determined …

Image To Latex Via Neural Networks, Avinash More

Master's Projects

Many research papers in mathematics, computer science, and physics are written in LaTeX. Technical papers and articles in these areas often involve mathematical equations. Writing such equations in LaTeX takes longer than handwriting the same equations on paper. In this report, we want to show that the time-consuming process of typesetting LaTeX equations from images of these equations can be automated and optimized. Neural networks are good at solving related problems such as handwritten digit recognition, so we adapted these well-studied approaches to the LaTeX problem. Neural network model training involves large amounts of good quality data. So, for our …

Genetic Barcode Identification With Profile Hidden Markov Models, Vishrut Sharma

Master's Projects

DNA barcoding is a method that uses an organism’s DNA to identify its species. The gene cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) has been used effectively as a DNA barcode to identify organisms and elucidate relationships among species [1]. There also exists a database BOLD (Barcode Of Life Database) that contains COI sequences used for DNA barcoding for more than 1 million different species. Using BOLD to identify samples that have a match in the database is an uncomplicated process. However, this method fails to determine samples that are absent from the database. Given a sample that is not represented in …

Culturally Sensitive Diabetic Group Education, Kelly Marie Flores

Doctoral Projects

This study assessed the effectiveness of a culturally sensitive type 2 diabetes group education program delivered to Hispanic women in Merced County. Design: A pre-test post-test design. Purposeful sampling was used. Fifteen Hispanic women from a Merced County outpatient clinic were invited to participate in a culturally relevant group education workshop over a 6-week period. Four (N=4) women accepted the invitation, completed the educational workshop, and participated in the assessments. Topics discussed in the education sessions included: (1) diabetic diet, (2) exercise, (3) blood sugar monitoring, (4) medication, and (5) preventative health. A knowledge check was completed by …

Enhancing Elderly Advance Care Planning Experience At A Primary Care Clinic, Oi Shan Wong

Doctoral Projects

The purpose of the project was to examine if the identification of readiness for an advance care planning (ACP) discussion of elderly participants would enhance the outcomes of participants' satisfaction, improve the likelihood of having an ACP discussion and increase the completion rates of an advance directive (AD) document after an office visit.

Forty-four elderly participants, who met the selection criteria, were recruited from a primary clinic in Northern California from October 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Female, n =28). All participants were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (n= 22) or a control group ( …

Prevalence And Prevention Of Diabetes In School Age Children: A Parent Education Module, Christine Mary Whitmyer

Doctoral Projects

The Center for Disease Control reports that there continues to be an increasing number of children being diagnosed with childhood-onset Type Two Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The recommendation is to provide education to parents regarding the risks and possible risk factors of T2DM, and strategies to prevent and treat these risk factors (Center for Disease Control [CDC], 2014). Educating parents of school age children on T2DM risk factors, and prevention practices may help to slow down this rising number of new cases. The Aim is to provide educational modules that may increase knowledge, which could in-turn change behavior, that may prevent …

Understanding Occupational Injuries, Hanbit (Joyce) Choi

Doctoral Projects

The purpose of this project is to better understand the potential negative impact of longer commute times on work-related health complaints and its relationship with frequency of work-related injuries among general assembly workers from various factories in the Bay Area. Companies in the United States seek to reduce the cost of work-related injuries by investigating the causes of and implementing necessary programs in their workplaces. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 115,000 employees who spend more than 90 minutes commuting to their jobs in the San Francisco Bay and San Jose Silicon Valley areas (2013). However, there …

Perceptions Of Chinese Women Coming To The United States To Give Birth: Birth Tourism, Juanita Childs Jaramillo

Doctoral Projects

Birth experiences and perceptions vary greatly among different cultures. There has been an increase in Chinese women who specifically come to the United States (US) to give birth to their child and return back to their native country after being cleared at the postpartum checkup. This practice is known as birth tourism. The aim of this study is to explore the perceptions of childbirth and postpartum experiences among Chinese birth tourists. Twelve women self-identifying as Chinese, between the ages of twenty-four and thirty-eight, who came to the US to give birth to their child, and who were able to read …

Evaluating The Trustworthiness Of Consumer-Oriented Health Websites On Diabetes, Shahabedin Rahmatizadeh, Saeideh Valizadeh-Haghi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective: The patients involvement in disease management can decrease economic burden on diabetic patients and society. Quality health information may help patients to involve in their health management. Thus, individuals need to find the additional information from other information resources such as health websites. Nevertheless, health websites vary in quality and reliability. Therefore, it is of great importance to identify trustable health websites on diabetes. Thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the reliability of health websites concerning diabetes.

Materials and methods: The keyword ‘’diabetes mellitus ‘’ was entered as a search term into the three …

Deep Learning For Chatbots, Vyas Ajay Bhagwat

Master's Projects

Natural Language Processing (NLP) requires modelling complex relationships between the semantics of the language. While traditional machine learning techniques are used for NLP, the models built for conversations, called chatbots, are unable to be truly generic. While chatbots have been made with traditional machine learning techniques, deep learning has allowed the complexities within NLP to be easier to model and can be leveraged to build a chatbot which has a real conversation with a human. In this project, we explore the problems and techniques used to build chatbots and where improvements can be made. We analyze different architectures to build …

“Get The Mexican”: Attending To The Moral Work Of Teaching In Fraught Times, Grinell Smith, Colette Rabin

Faculty Publications

This article details a four-faceted approach we developed to help structure discourse about topics in partisan arenas, many of which intersect with issues of equity and social justice. The article’s narrative centers on challenging and emotionally charged discussions that unfolded in a classroom management class in our teacher preparation program on November 9, 2016, the day following the election of Donald Trump. We offer the approach, which centers on addressing cognitive biases common in partisan discourse, as a robust, straightforward, and nontechnocratic way to help teachers (both teacher preparation instructors and teachers of children) mediate partisan discussions among their students …

Library News, Spring 2018, San Jose State University Library

Library News

No abstract provided.

Do Americans’ Opinions About Federal Transportation Tax Options Depend On Survey Mode? A Comparison Of Results From Telephone And Online Surveys, Hilary Nixon, Asha Weinstein Agrawal

Mineta Transportation Institute

This research project compared the results from a public opinion survey about transportation taxes that was administered using two different survey modes, a national, random-digit-dial (RDD) telephone survey and an online survey with respondents recruited from a panel. There is considerable interest among survey researchers in using online survey panels as a replacement for RDD surveys. RDD surveys are becoming much more expensive to conduct, and researchers also worry that the quality of the results may be dropping because of rising refusal rates for phone surveys. However, a key question for researchers is to understand how a study’s results may …

Learning About The Information Seeking Behavior Of Allied Medical Sciences Students: Advices For Libraries Of Multidisciplinary Colleges, Saeideh Valizadeh-Haghi, Shahabedin Rahmatizadeh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries will have satisfactory performance in terms of providing services to users if they firstly identify the information needs of their clients and then, they seek to meet these needs. To accomplish this aim, identifying the information seeking behavior of users seems necessary. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the methods and motives of information seeking by students of allied medical sciences. The population of the study included the postgraduate students of Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences accepted to the university in 2015 to 2016.

The results indicated that …

Flow Of Business Newspaper Information In Scholarly Publications: A Study On The Wall Street Journal Newspaper Indexed In Web Of Science, Angom Jeevan Singh, Dr. S. Ravikumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Examining The Problems And Inconsistencies In The Interpolation Of English Transliterated Names Of Persian Language Researchers In Citation Databases, Azar Mohammadzadeh Sarab, Maryam Kazerani (Corresponding Author), Maryam Shekofteh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

English Transliterated names of Non-Roman language researchers have been indexed in citation databases in various ways and do not follow a specific rule. For this reason, all the works of a specific writer are not retrieved while searching. This problem is also evident in the transliterating the names of Persian language researchers widely. This study has examined the problems and inconsistencies in the interpolation of English Transliterated names of 1301 faculty members of SBMU [1] were indexed in Scopus and ISC[2] citation databases The results showed that 193 (15%) faculty members have not had indexed scientific production in both …