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Homosexuality And Adoption Of Children: A Bibliometric Analysis, Karthiayani A. Ms., Manika Kamthan Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is based on the bibliometric analysis of research publications that focus on highlighting the impact of homosexuality on the process of adoption of children. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the frequency of publications focusing on the impact of parental sexual orientation on the process of adoption in different countries. The data required for this study was collected from the Scopus database and was analyzed using VOSviewer software. Literature published from 2000 to January 2021 were extracted and analyzed. A total of 284 documents which are classified into articles, letters, editorials, conference papers, and reviews …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Plant Disease Classification With Artificial Intelligence Using Convolutional Neural Network, Sumit Kumar, Rutuja Rajendra Patil, Vasu Kumawat, Yashovardhan Rai, Navaneeth Krishnan, Shubham Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In 2021 and the modern future which everyone is going to be a part of, Artificial intelligence is going to be the biggest part of our livelihood. In the future there is going to be a huge expansion of population especially at the rate right now which we are moving but the biggest problem which everyone should be concerned about is the food supply as many of the nations would not be able to feed and make survive their population as even now, there is scarcity of it. Currently in the world the people revolving around the artificial intelligence are …

Mucormycosis (Black Fungus) Maiming Covid Patients: Scientometrics Analysis Through Prism Of Biblioshiny, Sivankalai S, K Sivasekaran

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study analyses the global level outlook of research publications on Mucormycosis output between the period of 1923 to 2021 (May) on different limitations including contribution of authors, communication channel, publications on Institutions, countries, Journals, cited articles and mode of languages. 4451 data was downloaded from core collection of Web of Science bibliographic database using the search term ‘Mucormycosis’ and limited the publications 1900 to 2021, first publication was started in 1923 onwards. 3798 institutions and 8562 different disciplines contributed and 2808 records are in Articles. 4451 records published by 17320 authors and 23552 collaborated authors, documents per author are …

An Empirical Study Of Awareness And Use Of Ict By School Teachers Before And During Lockdown Due To Covid-19 Pandemic, Pooja P. Dadhe, Shraddha M. Patil

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken almost all the countries across the globe by surprise. It was this time a year ago when the sudden outbreak of the coronavirus forced the closure of educational institutions resulting billions of children out of the classroom. Like many countries worldwide, India also faced the challenges of unexpectedly switching to online classes. Given to this background the study aims at understanding the practical experiences of teachers who were part of the teaching which undertook remotely and on digital platforms. This is a quantitative research using survey technique through a questionnaire that comprised demographic variables, ICT …

Sustainable Agricultural Development And Grassroots` Information Provision: An Appraisal Of Information Needs Of Adani Rice Farmers In Enugu State Of Nigeria, Godwin S. Ezeh, Rebecca C. Ojobor, Chioma C. Onoh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigates sustainable agricultural development and grassroots information provision: an appraisal of information needs of Adani rice farmers in Enugu State of Nigeria. It catalyzes to achieve the sustainable development goals 1 and 2 as projected in 2030. The study adopted a descriptive survey design with a population of 500 rice farmers from the three villages in Adani. Sixty (60) rice farmers were randomly selected from each of the three villages summing up a sample size of 180 respondents. Questionnaire and interview were used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using frequency count and percentage. The findings of …

Information Needs And Seeking Behaviour Of Children In Public Libraries: A Case Study Of Benue State Public Library, Tofi Simon Ternenge, Tamen Timothy Torkuma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The study investigated information needs and seeking behavior of children in public libraries: A case study of Benue state public library. Five (5) objectives with corresponding research questions were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted survey research design, the population of the study was 490 children registered with the Benue state library Board headquarters, Makurdi. However, a sample sized of 220 were drawn using simple random sampling and Taro Yamene’s formula was used to determine the sample size from the population. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire developed by the researcher and validated by two experts …

Socio-Cultural And Economic Factors As Correlate Of Academic Performance Of Undergraduates In The Department Of Library And Information Science Benue State University, Makurdi, Tofi Simon Ternenge, Tamen Timothy Torkuma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The study investigated socio-cultural and economic factors as correlate of academic performance of undergraduates in the department of Library and Information Science, Benue State University, Makurdi. Three (3) research questions were raised in line with the objectives of the study. The study adopted correlation research design, the population of the study was 951 undergraduates in the department of Library and Information Science Benue State University, Makurdi from 2019/2020 session. However, a sample sized of 282 using proportionate stratified random sampling method, simple random sampling and Taro Yamene’s formula was used to determine the sample size from the population. The …

Attitude, Anxiety, And Technostress As A Correlate Of The Use Of Mobile Phones By Undergraduate Students In A Delta State University (Delsu), Abraka, Marcus L. Isebe

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed attitude, anxiety, and technostress as a correlate of the use of mobile phones by undergraduate students in Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka. The total population for this study was 6,675 undergraduate students registered with the library of Delta State University in the 2019/2020 academic session. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire which was designed in print formats. A total number of 1001 copies of the questionnaire were distributed to the respondents with the aid of 5 research assistant and a total of 797 questionnaires was duly completed and found usable for the study. …

Clickbait Detection In Youtube Videos, Ruchira Gothankar

Master's Projects

YouTube videos often include captivating descriptions and intriguing thumbnails designed to increase the number of views, and thereby increase the revenue for the person who posted the video. This creates an incentive for people to post clickbait videos, in which the content might deviate significantly from the title, description, or thumbnail. In effect, users are tricked into clicking on clickbait videos. In this research, we consider the challenging problem of detecting clickbait YouTube videos. We experiment with logistic regression, random forests, and multilayer perceptrons, based on a variety of textual features. We obtain a maximum accuracy in excess of 94%.

Spaceflight And The Differential Gene Expression Of Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes, Eugenie Zhu

Master's Projects

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has performed many experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) to further understand how conditions in space can affect life on Earth. This project analyzed GLDS-258, a gene set from NASA’s GeneLab repository which examines the impact of microgravity on human induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs). While many datasets have been run through NASA’s RNA-Seq Consensus Pipeline (RCP) to study differential gene expression in space, a Homo sapiens dataset has yet to be analyzed using the RCP. The aim of this project was to run the first Homo sapiens dataset, GLDS-258, through the …

Prediction Of Financial Capacity Using Diffusion Compartment Imaging, Lok Yi Tai

Master's Projects

Financial Capacity (FC) is the ability to manage one’s financial affairs, which is essential for autonomy and independence particularly for aging adults. Since dementia develops gradually, it is often difficult to detect the early signs that this cognitive dysfunction is developing This project aims to use Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) to identify the white matter tracts that are associated with FC. Diffusion Tensor Images (DTI) and T1 Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of 18 Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) subjects, 47 Mild Cognitive Impaired (MCI) subjects, and 193 healthy control (CN) are compared to neuropsychological tests. Orientation Dispersion Index (ODI) …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Library Philosophy And Practice From 1998 To 2020: Focus On The Top 200 Most Cited Documents, Waseem Hassan, Amina Ara

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background:

We performed the bibliometric analysis of Library Practice and Philosophy (LPP) from 1998 to 2020.

Methodology:

In April 2021, the data was collected from Scopus, one of the largest databases in the world.

Results:

From 1998 to 2020, LPP published 3364 research documents with 6169 citations. The highest documents (n=988) were published in 2019, while the highest citations (n=1469) were noted in 2020. As per Scopus data, the overall h-index was twenty-one (n=21). In all publications, 4428 authors, 4238 institutes and 56 countries contributed. The number of publications, citations, and citations per documents (CPD), for all authors, and institutes …

Qr Code And Its Effectiveness In Library Services, Indrakshi Das Assistant Librarian, Digbijoy Das Assistant Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study the paper relates to the concept of Quick response (QR Code), and how it works to disseminate information in quick way. The main objective of this paper is to amend the basic concept of QR Code, their structure, advantageous nature and its activities. This research paper mainly focuses on the effectiveness of QR Code & its applications on library services in the present scenario also has discussed other services in which people are dependent during covid19 pandemic and how it placed as a position of successful tool in this technical age.

Public Access To Primary Legal Information In Ghana: Opportunities And Challenges, Comfort Asare, Janet Odetsi-Twum Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information to a large extent can have economic, political and social impact on the lives of people globally. Information enables one to adjust in the global system through the effective utilization of local resources. It has become common that the fundamental human right to access to information is mostly interpreted in the legal frameworks of countries that support freedom of information. Citizens need to have access to information that is produced and held by governmental agencies.

The objective of this article was to establish and assess Ghana’s legislation on making legal information readily accessible to the general public especially at …

Information Needs And Seeking Behaviour Of Nursing Students Of Bhubaneswar, Odisha During Covid-19 Pandemic Outbreak, Payel Saha, Pushpanjali Jena

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In December, the outbreak of a new Corona virus disease called as Covid-19 in China triggered the infection and deaths of many including medical personnel. The disease is extremely infectious since in extreme cases it can be fatal and there are no specific medications. Being the front line workers this poses a huge risk to the lives and welfare of nurses and has a significant effect on their emotional reactions and coping with strategies. This study would also explore emotional reactions and coping with styles for nursing students. A famous parameter that motivated people to practice protective behaviour either directly …

Fake News Analysis And Graph Classification On A Covid-19 Twitter Dataset, Kriti Gupta

Master's Projects

Earlier researches have showed that the spread of fake news through social media can have a huge impact to society and also to individuals in an extremely negative way. In this work we aim to study the spread of fake news compared to real news in a social network. We do that by performing classical social network analysis to discover various characteristics, and formulate the problem as a binary classification, where we have graphs modeling the spread of fake and real news. For our experiments we rely on how news are propagated through a popular social media services such as …

Computer-Aided Diagnosis Of Low Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma (Lgess), Xinxin Yang

Master's Projects

Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (LGESS) is rare form of cancer, account- ing for about 0.2% of all uterine cancer cases. Approximately 75% of LGESS patients are initially misdiagnosed with leiomyoma, which is a type of benign tumor that is also known as fibroids. In this research, uterine tissue biopsy images of potential LGESS patients are preprocessed using segmentation and staining normalization algorithms. A wide variety of classic machine learning and leading deep learning models are then applied to classify tissue images as either benign or cancerous. For classic techniques, the highest classification accuracy we attain is 85%, while our …

Management Of Hypothyroidism Research Publications: A Bibliometric Analysis, Abhilashbabu Babu R, Umadevi L. N Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Endocrine and metabolic diseases are among the the most common contemporary human afflictions particularly in the United States and other developing countries like India and Srilanka. Hypothyroidism is due to the under activity of thyroid gland and results from its failure to secrete sufficient hormones into the blood stream. Hypothyroidism is a condition that reflects decreased concentrations of thyroid hormones due to any cause. This paper attempts to analyse management of hypothyroidism as reflected in publication output covered by Web of Science online database during 2018-2020 USA advanced with 156 (23.5 %) Articles and it occupies the first place in …

American Sign Language Assistant, Charulata Lodha

Master's Projects

Our implementation of a prototype computer vision system to help the deaf and mute
communicate in a shopping setting. Our system uses live video feeds to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) gestures and notify shop clerks of deaf and mute patrons’ intents. It generates a video dataset in the Unity Game Engine of 3D humanoid models in a shop setting performing ASL signs. Our system uses OpenPose to detect and recognize the bone points of the human body
from the live feed. The system then represents the motion sequences as high dimensional skeleton joint point trajectories followed by a time-warping …

Automating Text Encapsulation Using Deep Learning, Anket Sah

Master's Projects

Data is an important aspect in any form be it communication, reviews, news articles, social media data, machine or real-time data. With the emergence of Covid-19, a pandemic seen like no other in recent times, information is being poured in from all directions on the internet. At times it is overwhelming to determine which data to read and follow. Another crucial aspect is separating factual data from distorted data that is being circulated widely. The title or short description of this data can play a key role. Many times, these descriptions can deceive a user with unwanted information. The user …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Face Presentation Attacks Based On Domain Adaptation, Smita C. Khairnar, Shilpa Shailesh Gite Dr., Sudeep D. Thepade Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background: This research aims to look into the work that has been done on Face Presentation attacks and detection with domain adaptation techniques from 2011 to 2021 utilizing bibliography methods.

Approaches: Diverse research articles on Face Presentation Attacks were retrieved using the two most popular databases Web of Science & Scopus. Research articles consider between 2011-2021. Some research results, such as documents by year, documents by source, documents by funding agencies, countries, etc are obtained using Web of Science and Scopus Analyzers. The analysis is performed using Vos Viewer version 1.6.16 and various parameters such as keywords, co-authorship, co-occurrences, citation …

Use Of Social Media By Leaders Of Charismatic Churches In Ghana, Noah Darko-Adjei, Mariam Ansaa Animante, Harry Akussah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examined the use of social media platforms by leaders of the Charismatic Churches in Ghana. This study is germane in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic where churches are embracing social media platforms to supplement the conventional face-to-face church meetings.

The study was conducted within the framework of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). A questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data from a sample size of 152 respondents. Also, 2 head pastors and their deputies, as well as 2 IT personnel, were interviewed. The study found a high level of awareness of social media platforms adopted by the …

Addressing Barriers To The Use Of Value Capture To Fund Transit-Oriented Developments, Shishir Mathur, Aaron Gatdula

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Fiqh On Finance: A Scientometric Analysis Using Bibliometrix, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Aisyah As-Salafiyah, Yulizar Djamaluddin Sanrego, Lina Marlina

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the development and trend map of fiqh on finance published by Scopus-indexed journals in the theme of Islamic economics and finance. The data analyzed were 547 publications of document publications. The export data is then processed and analyzed using the R Bibliometrix application program to find out the bibliometric map of the fiqh on finance research development. The results showed that the number of publications on fiqh’s theme on finance experienced a significant increase. The results show that the most popular journal is the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance …

Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.11, Iss.1, Slis Srj

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Designing Human-Computer Conversational Systems Using Needs Hierarchy, Souvick Ghosh

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Student Research Journal: A Decade Of Building A Global Community Of Scholars, Ruth Huard

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Investigating Intra-Disciplinary And Extra-Disciplinary Relationships Of Iran’S Rehabilitation Articles Indexed In The Web Of Science During 2013-2017, Fatemeh Haji Hosein Khabbaz, Azam Shahbodaghi, Maryam Shekoufteh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background and purpose

Establishing Intra-disciplinary and extra-disciplinary relationships are a prerequisite for the growth and expansion of various scientific disciplines, including rehabilitation science. In this study, we have tried to examine the intra-disciplinary and extra-disciplinary relationships of scientific articles in the field of rehabilitation sciences of Iran, indexed in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2013 to 2017.

Materials and methods

This research was conducted using scientometric techniques, content analysis and citation analysis through a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the research included 392 articles of Iran consisting of original articles and conference articles indexed in the Web …

Marketing Of Lis Product And Services By Allopathic Medical College Libraries In Assam (India), Anjuma Saikia, Amit Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Purpose – The paper intends to explore the use and practice of the marketing concept by libraries, find out their problems followed by the best possible suggestions to improve the level of practicing the concept among medical college libraries in Assam.

Design/methodology/approach – In order to accomplish the objectives of study, the librarians viewpoint was gathered through a structured questionnaire consisted several question keeping in mind the objectives of study, followed by personal interview and thorough discussion with librarians/Incharge of libraries taken for study. The quantitative and qualitative both methods were employed to analyse the collected data and conclusion …

How This War Of Mine Creates Empathy For Virtual Characters, Cole Pergerson

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

Is it possible to empathize with virtual characters? Are game characters just a means for game and story progress or can we develop a strong emotional connection with them? In this research essay, I analysis This War of Mine, a game about surviving a worn torn city where food is limited, and the player must make difficult moral decisions survive. The player controls a small group of characters who all need to be feed, get enough sleep, may need medical care, and other human needs. To look how This War of Mine creates empathy for the virtual characters, I will …