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Ddc-Wise Subject Mapping Of Ndli Indexed Multileveled, Multilingual Resources: A Special Reference With Indian Languages, Debasis Majhi, Sibsankar Jana, Amit Nath, Soumik Kerketta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study helped with the subject mapping of the resources on 22 languages included in the Indian constitution that were indexed in the National Digital Library of India from 2018 and covering the different fields of arts and humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, technology, and history. The subject mapping is based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 22nd edition. The relevant/required data was collected from the official website of the National Digital Library of India (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/) on 4th April 2021, Sunday by browsing subject-wise.

(https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/result?q={"t":"subject","b":{"browse":"subject","filters":[]}}) and filtering one by one of 22 officially recognized Indian languages in the Indian constitution. …

Role Of Public Libraries With Special Reference To Women Empowerment Through Kanyashree Prakalpa In West Bengal Of India, Md. Yeosuf Akhter, Prasenjit Deb, Jahar Biswas

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

According to the Western empiricists, an awareness or familiarity gained by experience is knowledge (Hume: Noonan 1999). Knowledge is the sum total of information conserved by civilizations and education is enriched by knowledge. Education is one of the paramount ways for the achievement of women empowerment. Women empowerment is one of the most challenging steps in surmounting the hindrance in a woman’s life that will finally enhance her qualities to contour her life and society. Women empowerment is integral to the achievement of all millennium development goals. Undoubtedly, the role of education in women empowerment is predominant and it has …

Islamic Bank Amid The 2008 Global Financial Crisis: A Bibliometric Analysis, Maulidar -. Agustina Ms., M. Shabri -. Abd. Majid Prof. Dr., Hafasnuddin -. Hafasnuddin Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to provide a bibliometric and science mapping analysis on the research area of Islamic banks and the 2008 global financial crisis published in the Scopus indexed database over the 2008-2021 period. The study used the VOSviewer software and MS Excel spreadsheet for data analysis. The study identified an increasing trend in publication on the topic. The study found that Alqahtani was the most productive author, while Bourkhis and Nabi were the highly cited authors. The authors from Malaysia were the productive publication, while the Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management was found to be …

The Evolution Of The “We Can Do It” Poster And American Feminist Movements, Reina Aguirre

McNair Research Journal SJSU

World War II created mass destruction and economic distress but was also responsible for creating new opportunities for women. The war had torn families apart and had altered family dynamics. The high demands of the wartime economy called for a reevaluation of American women’s roles in society. In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee to create a range of propaganda posters to encourage women to join the war effort.^[1] The most iconic was christened “Rosie the Riveter” and further popularized by Norman Rockwell. These images exemplified how the government …

Terrorism Hazard And Infrastructure Projects: The Moderating Role Of Home Experience And Institutions, Alfredo Jiménez, Nathaniel C. Lupton

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This paper analyzes the impact of terrorism hazard on the performance of private participation infrastructure projects. Applying transaction cost theory, we hypothesize that terrorism hazard has a negative relationship with infrastructure project completion, and that host government accountability and investor experience with terrorism hazard have opposing impacts on this relationship. Host government accountability, we argue, produces higher indirect costs of managing terrorism hazard, which reduces investor confidence, and reinforces the negative relationship between terrorism hazard and the probability of satisfactory project completion. Conversely, investor’s experience with terrorism hazard increases investor confidence and hence partially mitigates the negative consequences of terrorism …

Early Detection Of Wildlife Morbidity And Mortality Through An Event-Based Surveillance System, Terra R. Kelly, Pranav S. Pandit, Nicole Carion, Devin F. Dombrowski, Krysta H. Rogers, Stella C. Mcmillin, Deana L. Clifford, Anthony Riberi, Michael H. Ziccardi, Erica L. Donnelly-Greenan, Christine K. Johnson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The ability to rapidly detect and respond to wildlife morbidity and mortality events is critical for reducing threats to wildlife populations. Surveillance systems that use pre-diagnostic clinical data can contribute to the early detection of wildlife morbidities caused by a multitude of threats, including disease and anthropogenic disturbances. Here, we demonstrate proof of concept for use of a wildlife disease surveillance system, the 'Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System', that integrates pre-diagnostic clinical data in near real-time from a network of wildlife rehabilitation organizations, for early and enhanced detection of unusual wildlife morbidity and mortality events. The system classifies …

Exploring The Etds On Shodhganga Project: A Detailed Study On The State Universities Of West Bengal, Srijan Dey, Digbijoy Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The intellectual output of any academic institution is variably measured, analyzed and interpreted by the quality of contributions through research publications. The creation and use of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) have paved the way for more scholarly outreach. Beside keeping the hard copies in the library book-shelves, the academic institutions are in the process of making these research assets available for public sharing. ‘Shodhganga’ being one of the crucial projects undertaken by the INFLIBNET center provides a common space for the Indian Universities to upload and share their institutionally published theses and dissertations in electronic form. In this paper, …

Online Information Resources Utilization Among Students In Adeyemi College Of Education, Ondo, Nigeria, Peter Olubunmi Olubiyo, Victoria Yemi Fagbemi (Mrs), Robert Akinade Awoyemi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study is on online information resources utilization among students in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria. Five research questions guided the research work. 150 copies of questionnaire were administered to students through face to face method in order to collect data. Simple Random sampling technique was also used for the study. In the data analysis, frequency counts, simple percentages, mean and standard deviation were used for the statistical analysis. The findings revealed that that the level of students’ awareness of online information resources in Adeyemi College of Education Library is low. It also indicated the level of students’ of …

Access To Online Academic Databases To Improve The Quality Of Academic Research Among Postgraduate Students Of Education In Nigerian Universities, Baptista C. Chigbu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was designed to determine the access to and utilization of online databases by postgraduate students of the faculties of education of the six foremost universities in Nigeria. The study sought to ascertain the online databases accessed by the most of the students, factors influencing regularity of access and constraints to access regular access to the databases. A total of 365 postgraduate students were randomly drawn from the six universities by proportional allocation for the study. Questionnaire was used to obtain relevant data which were analyzed using multiple responses and binary logistic regression. The most accessed online databases were …

A Study Of Causes Behind Low International Scientific Publishing Rates In Social Sciences Majors, Saffanah Zedan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

International publishing of researchers’ intellectual production has become one of the most eminent indicators for ranking universities. This is because the number of research studies published in international journals reflects the extent of a university’s progress in world university rankings and its interest in the scientific research as an indispensable element. This study aims to uncover the causes of the low international scientific publishing ratios in scientific journals indexed in international databases among faculty members in social sciences majors at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, and to identify faculty members’ preferred methods in acquiring the international publishing culture through a …

Steps To Supplement Park-And-Ride Public Transit Access With Ride-And-Ride Shuttles, John S. Niles, J. M. Pogodzinski

Mineta Transportation Institute

Public transit ridership in California declined in the five years before the pandemic of 2020–21 and dropped significantly further after the pandemic began. A sharp downward step in the level of transit boarding occurred after February 2020, and continues to the date of this report as a result of the public-health guidance on social distancing, expanded work-at-home, and a travel mode shift from public transit to private cars. A critical issue has come to the foreground of public transportation policy, namely, how to increase the quality and geographic reach of transit service to better serve the essential trips of mobility …

Webometric Analysis Of National Importance Libraries And Archives Under The Ministry Of Culture, India, Uttkarsh Uttkarsh, Dr. S.K. Sonkar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aimed to analyse the websites of national importance libraries and archives, comes in group namely Knowledge Resources Heritage, under Ministry of Culture, India, which includes 16 websites. The websites were analysed based on languages, rich files, social media presence and network diagrams. Tools used to collect required data were Google Search Engine, Alexa Internet Tool and SocScibot4. The study found that English and Hindi languages are predominantly used in the website content. National Archives of India and Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti has the highest number of rich files, about 506 and 488, respectively. Also, the Central Institute …

Status Of Scientific Production Of University Of Birjand In Web Of Science During 2000-2018, Leili Seifi, Leili Seifi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the status of the scientific production of the University of Birjand on the Web of Science databases during the years 2000-2018. The method used in this study was descriptive which used scientometric technique. The findings showed that the researchers at the University of Birjand in WOS had the highest scientific collaboration with Ferdowsi University of Mashhad with 217 documents. Based on the findings of the research, the top 7 scientific clusters were extracted from the data obtained from the Web of Science database that the first to fourth clusters and sixth …

A Systematic Study Of Research Productivity Of The Disciplines In Social Sciences And Humanities: The Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda., Ashok S. Chaudhary, Dr. Ranjita Niladri Dash

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to explore and provide an overview of the growth and development of research output pertaining to the disciplines covered in Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH), in terms of number of publications, total citations from the year 2001 up to 2020 of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(MSU), Vadodara as reflected in Dimensions in various subject domains such as History and Archaeology, Historical Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Archeology, Education, etc. as shown in (Table-1). The main investigation is based on the primary literature, mostly scholarly articles from different subject fields. The authors attempt to employ …

A Study Of Teacher Educators’ Skill And Ict Integration In Online Teaching During The Pandemic Situation In India, Subaveerapandiyan A, R Nandhakumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information and communication technology prompted the sharing of information over the world. For its impact on education, the government and the authorities like the University Grants Commission in India have energized the higher education institutions in India to implement online education during the pandemic situation. This paper attempts to know the teaching faculties' ICT skills and related online class skills in higher educational institutions in India. In India, like developing countries, quick as the lightning change in traditional to fully online classes are like a rumble of thunder because faculties are adopting this situation but students are challenging to adopt. …

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 …

Hospitality Students' Adoption Of E-Books During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Developing Country Perspective, Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam Dr, Partho Pratim Seal Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Educational institutions worldwide faced a myriad of challenges and disruptions in teaching and learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The transition from a formal mode of teaching to online teaching created a challenge in access to library and learning resources. E-Books are considered a viable option for printed books that facilitate remote access to learning resources. The present study uses the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify the factors that may influence hospitality students adoption ande behavioural intention of e-Books. Data for the study were collected from 237 hospitality students using an online survey questionnaire. …

Research Trends And Mapping On Social Media In Smes: A Bibliometric Analysis, Abdurrahman Rahim Thaha, Erna Maulina, R. Anang Muftiadi, Mohammad Benny Alexandri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

As the backbone of the economy from various countries, SMEs use social media in their business activities. This study aims to determine trends and maps in social media and SMEs research from the Scopus database. This study uses bibliometric analysis on the Scopus database from 2009 to 2020. Social Media and SMEs search string use in titles, abstracts, keywords, and English article in the Scopus database. Further filtering by reading article content unrelated to SMEs to eliminate irrelevant articles. Search results were processed with VOSviewer software to acquire trends and co-occurrences of article keywords. A total of 210 articles were …

Do Multi-Use-Path Accessibility And The Clustering Effect Play A Role In Residents' Choice Of Walking And Cycling?, Chih-Hao Wang, Na Chen

Mineta Transportation Institute

The transportation studies literature recognizes the relationship between accessibility and active travel. However, there is limited research on the specific impact of walking and cycling accessibility to multi-use paths on active travel behavior. Combined with the culture of automobile dependency in the US, this knowledge gap has been making it difficult for policy-makers to encourage walking and cycling mode choices, highlighting the need to promote a walking and cycling culture in cities. In this case, a clustering effect (“you bike, I bike”) can be used as leverage to initiate such a trend. This project contributes to the literature as one …

What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options To Support Transportation? Results From Year Twelve Of A National Survey, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hilary Nixon

Mineta Transportation Institute

This report summarizes the results from the twelfth year of a national public opinion survey asking U.S. adults questions related to their views on federal transportation taxes. A nationally-representative sample of 2,516 respondents completed the online survey from February 5 to 23, 2021.

The questions test public opinions about raising the federal gas tax rate, replacing the federal gas tax with a new mileage fee, and imposing a mileage fee just on commercial travel. In addition to asking directly about support for these tax options, the survey collected data on respondents’ views on the quality of their local transportation system, …

Across Borders: External Factors And Prior Behaviour Influence North Pacific Albatross Associations With Fishing Vessels, Rachael A. Orben, Josh Adams, Michelle Hester, Scott A. Shaffer, Robert M. Suryan, Tomohiro Deguchi, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Fumio Sato, Lindsay C. Young, Corey Clatterbuck, Melinda G. Conners, David A. Kroodsma, Leigh G. Torres

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Understanding encounters between marine predators and fisheries across national borders and outside national jurisdictions offers new perspectives on unwanted interactions to inform ocean management and predator conservation. Although seabird–fisheries overlap has been documented at many scales, remote identification of vessel encounters has lagged because vessel movement data often are lacking. Here, we reveal albatrosses–fisheries associations throughout the North Pacific Ocean. We identified commercial fishing operations using Global Fishing Watch data and algorithms to detect fishing vessels. We compiled GPS tracks of adult black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis albatrosses, and juvenile short-tailed albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus. We quantified albatrosses-vessel encounters …

The Library's Adaptation Strategy Towards The Information-Seeking Behaviour Patterns Of The 2019 Outstanding Students In Universitas Negeri Malang (Um), Muhammad Salmanudin Hafizh Shobirin, Moh Safii

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information-seeking behavior for Outstanding Students of Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) is an activity to increase information literacy in the era of information technology development, and it is necessary to use this activity as a reference or an example for other students in improving their information literacy and achieving effective and efficient learning. Therefore, in order to find the pattern of information-seeking behavior as reference material, the role of the university library is needed for designing an adaptation strategy of this pattern. The purpose of this research is to show the strategies or efforts of the library in adapting to the …

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 …

Internal And External Factors In The Information-Seeking Behavior Pattern Of The 2019 Outstanding Students In Universitas Negeri Malang (Um), Muhammad Salmanudin Hafizh Shobirin, Moh Safii

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study is to determine the internal and external factors in the information-seeking behavior pattern of the 2019 Outstanding Students in Universitas Negeri Malang (UM). Within the behavioral pattern of each Outstanding Student in their activities of searching information, there are internal and external factors that form the structure of the behavioral pattern. This study used the descriptive qualitative approach. The sample was eighteen finalists of the 2019 Outstanding Student Competition in Universitas Negeri Malang that were selected using the purposive sampling technique. The data was collected through an interview. The results of this study show that …

Wildfire Risk Prediction For A Smart City, Rekha Rani

Master's Projects

Wildfires are uncontrolled fires that may lead to the destruction of biodiversity, soil fertility, and human resources. There is a need for timely detection and prediction of wildfires to minimize their disastrous effects. In this research, we propose a wildfire prediction model that relies on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) to explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making and weave the wildfire risks into the city’s resiliency plan. We incorporate fuzzy set theory to handle imprecision and uncertainties. In the process, we create a new data set that includes California cities’ weather, vegetation, topography, and population density records. The model …

A Hybrid Gaze Pointer With Voice Control, Indhuja Ravi

Master's Projects

Accessibility in technology has been a challenge since the beginning of the 1800s. Starting with building typewriters for the blind by Pellegrino Turri to the on-screen keyboard built by Microsoft, there have been several advancements towards assistive technologies. The basic tools necessary for anyone to operate a computer are to be able to navigate the device, input information, and perceive the output. All these three categories have been undergoing tremendous advancements over the years. Especially, with the internet boom, it has now become a necessity to point onto a computer screen. This has somewhat attracted research into this particular area. …

Central-Peripheral Information Behavior Theory, Laura Maw

School of Information Student Research Journal

In researching information behavior theory, a significant gap has been revealed: How can information behavior theory comprehensively identify the information behaviors and needs of information communities without the foundational understanding of information, communication, and community, and their intersection? It is asserted in this paper that information behavior theory must clearly define information, communication and community, and how these terms intersect, to comprehensively identify information communities’ information behaviors and needs. To test this thesis, a qualitative study on the tourist information community has been conducted. Seen through the lens of the novel central-peripheral information behavior (CPIB) theory, the tourist information community’s …

Jan Van Kessel I. Catalogs And Painting: Redefining The Role Of Animals In Seventeenth-Century Fish Landscapes., Ana Borlas-Ivern

Master's Theses

Images of animals were produced in abundance in the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Animals appeared in prints, the pages of natural history catalogs, and the backgrounds of paintings, eventually emerging in their own right as a primary subject in painting. This thesis begins by examining the economic circumstances that converged in sixteenth-century Antwerp to give way to this development. It then traces the legacy of the animal genre in the seventeenth century through five fish landscape paintings that Antwerp painter Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679) completed in the 1660s. This study argues that van Kessel redefined …

Corporal Punishment In Eastern Nigeria, Gerald N. Nwafor

Dissertations

In Nigeria, corporal punishment is used widely in Nigeria’s judicial system, the home, and the classroom. The prevalent opinion in the education community is that corporal punishment helps students learn better and faster, keeps order in the classroom, and promotes a high student performance level. Reliance on corporal punishment is embedded in the religious, cultural, social, and moral beliefs and understanding of life. Corporal punishment takes many forms, but the most common in the school system is caning or flogging, which is the forceful and severe striking of the student’s body, using a stick of wood, usually on the back, …