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Awareness And Usage Of Online Journal Publishing Systems By University Academic Staff, Kelefa Mwantimwa, Evans Wema

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The extent to which academic staff and researchers are aware of and use online journal publishing systems to publish their work is not very well known. The present study examines awareness and use of online journal management and publishing systems by University of Dar es Salaam academic staff. A cross-sectional descriptive research design alongside a mixed research approach (i.e. quantitative and qualitative) was used to examine awareness and use of online journal publishing systems by the UDSM academic staff. Data gathered through questionnaires and interviews. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages helped to organise and summarise research data. The …

Status Of Library Resources And Services Of Selected College Libraries Of Barak Valley Districts Of Assam, India, Sufia Khanom Mozumder Mrs, P K. Barooah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Present study is intended to cover situation of college libraries in the Barak Valley, Assam in terms of status of collection, services offered, staff position, automation status, e-resources availability and user’s satisfaction. The position of services of college libraries during the pandemic situation is also highlighted. The findings revealed that the selected college libraries of Barak Valley have very limited print and electronic resources. In addition, the library services provided by the selected colleges are deplorable. Particularly, during the physical closer of libraries only one library provided online searching facility of subscribed electronic resources through log-in ID and password from …

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 …

Detection Of Antibiotic Resistance Genes In The Wastewater Microbial Metagenome, Alan Caparaz Le

Master's Projects

The existential threat of emerging antibiotic resistance in microbial communities poses significant risks to public health. In particular, wastewater can serve as a point of confluence for pharmaceuticals and antibiotic-resistant bacteria from urban and agricultural settings. While this is a prime environment for genetic drift and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile genetic elements, it also presents an opportunity for resistome monitoring via shotgun metagenomic sequencing and downstream analysis. This project reports the application of a hybrid assembly approach for the detection of ARGs within DNA derived from a wastewater sample collected from the San José-Santa Clara …

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 …

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, …

Marketing Of Special Library Services In Ghana: The Case Of Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Eunice Adomaa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

Marketing concepts are explored in the paper with much focus on strategies that can be employed in Special Library Services. Emphasis on understanding the user’s information needs and offering customer satisfaction is stipulated. The need for marketing, developing appropriate library services and products and some marketing concepts in libraries are explored. The case study approach was used for the study and Ghana Atomic Energy Commission was used as the case. It defined the various marketing concepts such as the 7ps of the marketing mix and how libraries can do marketing of their services and resources. The results showed that …

Research Performance And Trends In Seed Technology Research: A Scientometric Assessment, Suresh N Dr, Thanuskodi S Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study assesses the research performance and trends of global Seed technology research publications by using scientometric indicators i.e. publication growth pattern, author, institution and country research performance, the collaborative trend among countries. The study found that a total of 16613 publications contributed by 40588 authors from 1647 number of scholarly journals received with 350561 citations and h-index and g-index 182, 262 respectively, 148 countries have contributed in the Seed technology research. The English Language has the dominant language (96%) in Seed technology research. The research article title “Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops” has received 2215 …

Oxygen Therapy: A Scientometric Mapping Of Indian Publications, Surulinathi Muthuraj, Jayasuriya T, Duraipandi R, Senthamilselvi A

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study has been carried out to find out the research performance in the field of Oxygen Therapy in India during 1991-2021 as indexed in the Web of Science database. A total 1648 research publications have been found in the Web of Science during 31 years period of 1991-2021 and were downloaded for analyze with the help of Histcite, VosViewer and Biblioshiny. The study also provide comparative performance of different Scientometric parameters including total research productivity, yearly research output, authorship pattern, International collaboration, Institution wise concentration, Source wise distribution of publications, Subject wise publications, most prolific authors and highly …

Bibliometric Review On Iot Based System For Remote Downloading On Microcontroller, Arundhati Bandopadhyaya Ms., Diya Dodwad Ms., Diviyanshi Gupta Ms., Surya Koyyana Mr., Parag Narkhede Mr., Shripad Deshpande Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Working with sensors has become an area of expertise within the domain of electronic engineering. On a day to day basis, thousands of sensors are put to use around us, for instance, in smoke alarms, speedometers, motors, computers, radiators etc. to accumulate sensor data, cables that connect the sensors to the bottom station after which the information is worked on. But cabling is often expensive especially when handling large scale industrial applications ^[5]. For an equivalent reason, low-cost wireless networks came into the picture recently and are in high demand. A research paper we found during our review of …

Impact Of Social Networking Sites Among Postgraduate Students’ Of Manipur University: A Study, Haumin Lun

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of using Social Networking Sites among Postgraduate students of Manipur University. It aims to reveal the average amount of time spent on social media, the frequency with which it is used, the most commonly used SNS, and the social networking site's overall positive and negative influence. A quantitative survey was conducted using a structured close-ended question distributed randomly among the Post Graduate students of Manipur University. The data collected are processed with MS-Excel and analyzed and interpreted using SPSS. The findings show that SNS is widely used among students, and most students (98%) use …

Global Research Trends And Network Visualization On Climate Action : A Bibliometric Study, Binod K. Das, Mayuri Pandya, Shanti P. Chaudhari, Atul Bhatt, Dharmendra Trivedi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to explore the bibliometric features of scientific publications in the area of climate action for the period during 1995–2020, thus, enabling the scientific community to understand the research progress on the topic. The data of the scientific publications were retrieved from the Scopus database. The key word “Climate Action” were applied as topic terms to search articles published during the study period. Total 1638 scientific publications retrieved for statistical analysis for bibliometric analysis and for visualization network analysis study has VOSviewer© tools along with RStudio and MS Excel. Result shows steady progress on …

A Comparison Of Scholarly Journal Evaluation Between Indonesia And South Korea, Ayu Shabrina, Hani Febri Mustika, Yaniasih Yaniasih, Ambar Yoganingrum, Jungyeoun Lee

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Indonesian government has succeeded in increasing the number of local scientific journals. However, in terms of quality, such as the number of citations and errors in bibliographic writing still requires to be improved. This paper aims to explore the problems in Indonesian scientific journals' evaluation system by comparing the system to South Korea. The country has local journals like Indonesia. This paper uses references desk for collecting the data. The paper is focused on discussing publishers and journal citation databases. The conclusions are drawn by making arguments and reasons based on critical thinking analyzes. At the end of the paper, …

Dspace Information Retrieval System: A Study Using Dicom Metadata Standard, Hirak Jyoti Hazarika, Dr. S. Ravikumar, Dr. Akash Handique

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present paper talks about the use of institutional repository software (DSpace) in archiving DICOM images. In the current study, the authors have tried to integrate the DICOM metadata standard with DSpace, which was compatible with DC & OAI PMH. After integrating the DICOM standard with DSpace, and the repository tested with a sample of ten thousand images, the retrieval results using various DICOM tags was very satisfactory. This study paves for the use of OSS in storing and retrieving medical images. Digital Image Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard has become a centre component for making an application nonpartisan …

Single-Center Task Analysis And User-Centered Assessment Of Physical Space Impacts On Emergency Cesarean Delivery, Kenji T. Sotto, Laura C. Hedli, Lillian Sie, Kimber Padua, Nicole Yamada, Henry Lee, Louis Halamek, Kay Daniels, Dan Nathan-Roberts, Naola S. Austin

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery performed in the United States, accounting for approximately 32% of all births. Emergency Cesarean deliveries are performed in the event of critical maternal or fetal distress and require effective collaboration and coordination of care by a multidisciplinary team with a high level of technical expertise. It is not well understood how the physical environment of the operating room (OR) impacts performance and how specialties work together in the space. Objective This study aimed to begin to address this gap using validated techniques in human factors to perform a participatory user-centered analysis of physical …

Scientometric Analysis Of Published Papers On Total Quality Management, Mahadeva M, Anitha S. Rai

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research study is a Scientometric study of research publications on Total Quality Management (TQM) disciplines at Global perspectives from 2001 to2020. The paper summarises the global Research Trends in TQM from the analysis of the data. It uses different Bibliometric indicators in this context, and also applied the Growth of literature, Relative Quality Index RQI, Publication Efficiency Index, Absolute Citation Impact (ACI), and Relative Citation Impact (RCI)., and Quinquennial Publications. The results show that more research has been done in TQM. Additionally, it seems that the readability scores of publications have been growing up from 2001-2020. The total number …

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 …

Measuring The Global Research Output And Visualization On Gender Equality: A Bibliometric Analysis, Navaneeta Majumder, Mayuri Pandya, Shanti P. Chaudhari, Atul Bhatt, Dharmendra Trivedi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract:

The purpose of present study is to explore the bibliometric features of scientific productions in the domain of gender studies for the period of 2011–2020. The data of the scientific productions were retrieved from the Scopus database. The key words “Gender” and “Equality” were applied as topic terms to search articles published during the study period. The statistical analysis was conducted by using the R Studio, MS Excel and VOS Viewer. A total of 7619 scientific productions were published during the study period. It was found that in the last decade there is a 238% increase in the number …

Assessment Of Ict Facilities In The Public Libraries Of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Descriptive Study, Mohammad Hussain, Dr. Haroon Idrees, Dr. Khan Faqir, Muhammad Sohail Haider

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aimed to review the ICT facilities in the public libraries of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The specific objectives were to see the status of ICT resources, check the ICT tools used in delivering services, and point out problems faced by the public libraries in developing ICT infrastructure.

Research Design and Methodology: The study's population consisted of public libraries in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The census-based approach was employed, and data was gathered from library heads via questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.

Findings: It was found that most of …

A 2020 Scenario Of Brics Institutional Repositories Through Opendoar, Dr. Ravi Shukla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The open-access initiatives enhance the global visibility of an institution’s scholarly research output. This initiative has helped the scientists, teachers, students as well as researchers by providing visibility to their research outputs and increases the impact of their work as well their parent institution. Also, this has facilitated the users to access global information at a single location. In this study, the researcher tries to find out the scenario of institutional repositories of BRICS countries to open access in the year 2020 using OpenDoar (open directory of open access repositories). The list of 400 repositories from BRICS countries has been …

A Survey Of Covid-19 Information Dissemination Behavior Of Library And Information Professionals In Nigeria, Joy Iguehi Ikenwe, Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari, Oluwaseun Eniola Adegbilero-Iwari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The corona virus disease reported in 2019 became a global pandemic in 2020. It now maintains an unwelcome status as one of the most difficult public health challenge of modern era. The disease is highly contagious much as the rate of information and misinformation diffusion about it. Whereas members of the public might have shared information on COVID-19 but library and information professionals (LIPs) are trained on the meaningful use of information and information dissemination through social infrastructure. Thus, this paper studied in Nigeria, the COVID-19 information dissemination behavior of LIPs, using the survey research approach. Data were collected through …

2020-2021 Annual Report, Society Of American Archivists Student Chapter

Annual Reports

The 2020-2021 Annual Report records the activities of the San Jose State University Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC). This report is submitted to the Student Chapter's parent organization, the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The report lists SAASC members who are also individual members of SAA, provides a summary of the chapter’s events for the year, and updates to chapter outreach and visibility. The report also includes information on the publication of Archeota, the SAASC open source digital publication. SAASC Executive Committee members for 2020-2021 were Alison Quirion, Chair; Samantha Hamilton, Vice-Chair; Sabrina Holecko, Secretary.

Bibliometric Study On Analysing Impact Of Newly Launched Products Over Existing Ones Through Ai, Dipak Sharma, Vageesh Devrath, Abhinav Rajput, Gouranga Jyoti Kataky, Priyanka Tupe-Waghmare, Ismail Akbani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Different analysis models like Conditional Mean Analysis, Trend Analysis, Correlation Analysis helps us to analyse the delicate equilibrium between businesses that gets impacted when a new product is launched in a cluster. This paper shows a statistical report of research done on the businesses in a cluster based on ongoing trends and current customer needs . There is surplus data present on various platforms related to every product following the ongoing trends in the form of customer reviews.The research mainly speculates mainly how the businesses get impacted with change in consumer needs, wants and demands. With the help of datasets …

Removing The Noise From X-Ray Image Using Image Processing Technology: A Bibliometric Survey And Future Research Directions, Ayushi Kamboj, Mrinal Bachute

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The retrieval of superior-quality photographs with a minimal exposure is an interesting subject in radiography. Pre-processing is a key phase in signal and image processing such as healthcare, telecommunications, and satellite, and it focuses on reducing or eliminating the extent of noise in the image. Denoising aids in the recovery of finer data and relevant material. Medical images including ECG, Ultrasound, CT-scan, and X-ray provide incredibly fine data that has to be precise and noise-free in order for the knowledge and aspects of interest to be retained during diagnosis. Various noise reduction technologies for medical images, such as wavelet transform, …

Consumers’ Health Information Seeking Behaviour On Social Media: A Case Study Of Lautech Teaching Hospital Library And Lautech College Of Health Sciences Medical Library In Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria., Yemisi Oluremi Oladapo, Moses Oladele Adeoye, Susanah Olayinka Tomomowo-Ayodele, Isau Adewole Adegun

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was conducted to investigate the consumers’ health seeking information behaviour on social media using LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Library and LAUTECH College of Health Sciences Medical Library as a case study. The web of Science Core Collection and healthcare database was searched for existing literature on consumer health information seeking on social media. The study employed the use of Quantitative research method. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises 250 consumers of health information while 234 was retrieved and used for this study. Questionnaire containing structured question was designed and administered to …

Waqf On Education: A Bibliometric Review Based On Scopus, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Raditya Sukmana, Nisful Laila

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study tries to review research about waqf on education in Scopus indexed journals. This analysis uses descriptive statistical analysis based on 56 articles or selected papers related to waqf on education from reputable journals. All samples of publication journals have been published for 25 years, from 1995 to 2020. The export data is then processed and analyzed using the VOSviewer application program to determine the bibliometric map of waqf on education research development. The results of this bibliometric mapping study show a map of the development of research in the field of waqf on education. The most popular authors …

Bibliometric Review Of Predictive Maintenance Using Vibration Analysis, Aashna Midha Ms., Ishita Maheshwari Ms., Kaushik Ojha Mr., Kritika Gupta Ms., Shripad V. Deshpande Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Every day the world is depending more and more on machines in almost every aspect of life. With the increasing use of machines, there also needs to be an evolution in the maintenance of these machines. Predictive maintenance is a process used to monitor the equipment and machinery during its operation to detect any damages and/or deteriorations and enable the required maintenance plan in advance, resulting in reduced operational costs and full utilization of tools and parts. The fundamental goal of this bibliometric review paper is a comprehension of the extent and sources of the literature available for predictive maintenance …

Iot Solutions For Farmers On Livestock Management In Smart City: A Bibliometric Survey, Harikrishnan R, Mohini M Gaikwad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With modernize city approach, concept of IOT – Internet of things achieving popularity and becoming major source for smart innovations. Added advantage of internet application the technology enables sensing, processing and execution automatically and remotely on finger tip. IOT makes sure an easy availability and access to the information available at any corner of the world. In growing countries like INDIA, increase in urbanization led infrastructure expansion; most of the urban cities are now expanding in nearby towns and villages. So towns and villages are merging and becoming part of nearby cities. So the farms, farmer community and their domestic …

Global Exploration On Bibliometric Research Articles: A Bibliometric Analysis, Nisrutha Dulla, Sugyanta Priyadarshini, Sumita Mishra, Sukanta Chandra Swain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective Bibliometric analysis is one of the profound instruments to measure the research output quantitatively based on geometrical and statistical evaluation. The objective of the current study is to provide structural overview of the voluminous research work done so far via bibliometric analysis to access the significance of this tool in academic research.

Methods A bibliometric analysis is performed by extracting 842 documents from Scopus database in CSV form from 2000 till April 5, 2021. The retrieved data analyzed via Vos viewer reveals about the significantly contributing authors, countries, author keywords, cited references, total link strength, and co-occurrence of author …