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The Heart Of Academia: Medieval Universities, Textbooks, And The Birth Of Academic Libraries, Christopher Proctor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The contemporary academic library occupies a crucial role in the teaching and learning mission of universities. This centrality is perhaps best exemplified by the popular saying that the library is the heart of the university. But has this always been the case since the inception of universities in the High Middle Ages? To help answer this question, the following discussion traces the creation of universities within the medieval world, the textual traditions that informed their scholarship and pedagogy, and the later birth of academic libraries within the college and university system. The author attempts to demonstrate that the rise of …

How Scopus Is Shaping The Research Publications Of Feature Fusion-Based Image Retrieval, Jaya H. Dewan, Sudeep D. Thepade

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Research trends have shown an increase in the preferences for feature fusion-based image retrieval. The primary objective of this study is to show the current state of research regarding image retrieval and feature fusion. The research papers indexed in the Scopus database are considered here for quantitative analysis. A bibliometric analysis of the research publications indexed in Scopus is presented in this study. During this study, 461 documents from 276 different sources are obtained. The important keywords, sources, authors, countries, and funding agencies are presented, which will help future researchers in research directions.

Integration Management: A Bibliometric Study Of Research Trends, Shabir Hussain Khahro, Ayaz Babar, Fida Hussain Siddiqui, Tauha Hussain Ali, Ali Raza Khoso

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Integration management has always been a topic of interest for researchers. It plays a significant role in the success of the projects. Integration management effectively incorporates all the aspects of projects and provides a roadmap towards their success. Based on the significance of the term, this paper assesses the research output of integration management since 1970 in different fields of the application using the Scopus database. The data was collected and analyzed through Microsoft Excel to analyze the research publications trend line, publication types and their access to the audience, organizations and countries involved, languages of publications, authors participating, and …

Intellectual Structure And Publication Pattern In Journal Of Money Laundering Control From 2014 To 2020: A Bibliometric Study, Prof (Dr.) Sasmita Samanta, Dr. Bijayalaxmi Rautaray, Dr. Dillip K Swain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study comprehends intellectual structure and publication pattern of scholarly articles published in the Journal of Money Laundering Control ranging from the year 2014 to 2020 through the prevailing methods of bibliometric analysis. The study finds that the JMLC has published the lowest number of 29 papers in 2014 and the highest number of 117 papers in the publishing year 2020. Regarding country wise distribution of research productivity, the UK is the top performer followed by Switzerland, and the USA. The degree of collaboration (DC) in JMLC publications is found to be 0.34. The study intends to provide its readers …

Integration Of Kerala Academic Library Network (Kalnet) And Indian Access Management Federation (Infed) In The Higher Educational Institutions Of Kerala: A Conceptual Research, Ashok Thomas, Prasanth Mp

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The terms ‘Network’ and ‘Resource’ have a wide range of importance in our day-to-day life. Resource Sharing and Information Networking are the two important elements in a modern knowledge society. In India, many library networks are already established, like INFLIBNET, DELNET, KALIBNET etc. Library networks have a greater role in resource sharing through information networks. Normally, this follows a network of libraries with de-centralization rules & regulations and provides a common platform for libraries and library staff to come together, communicate, and extend help to enhance access to information and fulfil the unexpected demands of users [3]. This article discusses …

Influence Of Gender On Hours Of Supervised Library Use On Students’ Performance In Senior Secondary Schools In Imo State., Kelechi Ibegbulem

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study, the researcher examined the influence of gender on hours of supervised library use on students’ performance in senior secondary schools in Imo State. Four objectives, four research questions were posed and four hypotheses formulated in the study. The study was carried out using quasi-experimental design which involved pre-test, treatment and post-test of non-equivalent group method. The population of the study was 94,963 Senior Secondary School Students (SS1-SS3) from 275 public secondary schools in Imo State. The sample size for the study comprised of 127 senior secondary II students drawn from three senior public secondary schools in Imo …

Authorship Pattern Of Library Philosophy And Practice Journal: A Bibliometrics Analysis, Deep Kumar Kirtania

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of the study is to identify the pattern of authorship and collaborative nature of Library Philosophy and Practice journal during 2001 to 2020. Bibliographic data were collected from 2008 articles through the Lens database, based on the key areas of authorship studies such as authorship pattern, number of authors etc. The study found that Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaborative Coefficient (CC) and Collaborative Index (CI) of these articles were 0.63, 0.36 and 1.93 respectively, which clearly indicate that the authorship trend is towards the shared or joint authorship in Library Philosophy and Practice journal.

Load Flow Solution Of Distribution Systems - A Bibliometric Survey, K. V. S. Ramachandra Murthy, Vijay Kumar D, Lakshmi Kambhampati, Rayudu Srinivas, Rayudu Srinivas

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this paper, Bibliometric Survey has been carried out on ‘Load Flow Solution of Distribution Systems’ from 2012 to 2021. Scopus database has been used for the analysis. There were total 1711 documents found on this topic. The statistical analysis is carried out source wise, year wise, area wise, Country wise, University wise, author wise, and based on funding agency. Network analysis is also carried out based on Co-authorship, Co-occurrence. Results are presented. During 2020 and 2018, there were 263 documents published which is the highest. ‘IEEE Transactions on Power Systems’ has published 90 documents during the period of study …

Bibliometrics Visualization Of Desidoc Journal Of Library & Information Technology And Srels Journal Of Information Management During 2016 - 2020: A Comparative Study, Laltu Aich, Ankit Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study analyses the articles published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) and SRELS Journal of Information Management, the leading UGC-CARE enlisted Indian journals in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) during the year 2016-2020 which explores the volume wise, issue wise pattern of distribution of articles, authorship pattern of articles, geographical distribution of major contributions and contributors, state wise distribution of articles from India, reference distribution pattern and its authorship pattern. The study reveals that DJLIT (277) has more publications than SRELS Journal (248) during the mentioned period. DJLIT has got maximum contribution …

Analyzing The Theses & Dissertations To Inflibnet Shodhganga By Central And State Universities Of North East India, Nipan Haloi, Digbijoy Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have provided various means to the institutions in carrying out research as for the intellectual output of any academic institution is variably measured, analyzed and interpreted by the quality of contributions through research publications. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), its creation and use has made the way for more scholarly outreach. 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 …

A Bibliometric Study On Research Of Cloud Computing In Libraries, Shanmugam Rajeswari, Praveena Krish

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cloud Computing is internet based computing where virtual shared servers provide software, infrastructure, platform devices and other resources and hosting to customers on a pay-as-you-use basis. All information that a digitized system has to offer is provided as a service in the cloud computing model. Users can access these services available on the “Internet Cloud” without having any previous know- how on managing the resources involved. Publication is essential to productivity in research, the work will be recognized only when it takes a conservative, physical form which can be received , accessed and recongised by professionals. This study aims to …

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, …

Growth And Development Of Indian Open Access Scholarly Publications: A Bibliometric Assessment, Deep Kumar Kirtania

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this study is to trace out the growth and development of Indian open access scholarly publications during the period of 1970 to 2020. The data required for this study has been collected through the Lens database and analyzed on the basis of various indicators of bibliometrics assessment. This study showed that India has published a large number of articles (417887) in open access publications. The most significant findings in this study are that India ranks 13th in the world with positive growth, Indian Institute of Science has contributed the most of the papers, dominance of science …

The Comparison Of Scimago Institutions Rankings (Sir), Scopus, And Sinta Profile: A Case Of The Top Indonesian Institutions, Nadi Suprapto, Nining Widyah Kusnanik, Sri Setyo Iriani, Setya Chendra Wibawa, Sujarwanto Sujarwanto, Bambang Yulianto, Suprapto Suprapto, Agus Hariyanto, Nurhasan Nurhasan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research aimed to explore the profile of the top Indonesian institutions based on the Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2021 and to clarify whether there was any consistency among the SIR, the Scopus, and the SINTA profile of the top Indonesian institutions. The authors considered a desk study through a bibliometric analysis. All data were extracted from Scimago, Scopus, and SINTA database. The top 25 institutions (including 29 universities with a double in some rank positions) from Indonesia in the SIR 2021 were analyzed their profile at the end of April 2021. Universitas Indonesia (UI) is the best in SIR …

Comparative Study On Information Seeking Behaviour Of Research Scholars And Teachers Of Selective Science Departments In Burdwan University, Amit Kumar Das, Sukumar Mandal Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose

The study has been made on selected three departments of pure science research scholar and teachers’ information seeking behavior in Burdwan University and to find out the various aspects of information seeking behavior, (i.e., motivation, various library visits and spending times, and resources used, satisfaction level, success rate of seeking information resources etc.).

Methodology

This study encompasses on research scholars and teachers in pure science departments (i.e. Chemistry, Physics and mathematics of the University Burdwan. The online Google form questionnaires were disseminated to teachers and research scholars in three science departments in Burdwan University. Out of that 186, 154 …

Bibliometric Review Of Fpga Based Implementation Of Cnn, Priti Shahane, Piyush Tyagi, Purba Saha, Shravan Sainath, Swanand Bedekar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Nowadays Convolution Neural Network (CNN) has become the state of the art for machine learning algorithms due to their high accuracy. However, implementation of CNN algorithms on hardware platforms becomes challenging due to high computation complexity, memory bandwidth and power consumption. Hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) are suitable platforms to model CNN algorithms. Recently FPGAs have been considered as an attractive platform for CNN implementation. Modern FPGAs have various embedded hardware and software blocks such as a soft processor, DSP slice and memory blocks. These embedded resources …

Efficient Metadata Lookup In Inline Deduplication Systems Leveraging Block Similarity, Rakesh Gururaj

Master's Projects

Data deduplication is a concept of physically storing a single instance of data by eliminating redundant copies to save the storage space. The adoption of deduplication is minimal in actively accessed primary storage because of its complexities, such as random access patterns to data and the need for quicker request response time. Most of the solutions designed for primary storage are offline and dependent on the concept of locality. This paper proposes an inline deduplication system with a Machine Learning based cache eviction policy to reduce the metadata overhead in the deduplication process, eliminate the redundant writes and improve the …

A Study Of Renewable Energy And Solar Panel Literature Through Bibliometric Positioning During Three Decades, Mochamad Choifin, Achmad Fathoni Rodli, Anita Kartika Sari, Tri Wahjoedi, Abdul Aziz

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Renewable energy as a solution to supply future and current needs. This paper aims to review the status and visual map position of research in the internationally renewable energy and solar panel literature indexed Scopus that used a bibliometric positioning overview. The research was carried out using bibliometric techniques. Data analysis as well as visualization utilising VOSViewer program and the Scopus function for analyse search results. In this review, the details collected applied to 1,598 documents issued from 1989 through 2020. The study reveal that National University of Singapore and India Studies were the most active affiliated institutions scientists and …

Literature In The Field Of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation: A Bibliometric Analysis, Jagannathan Ramakrishnan Dr, Govindan Ravi Sankar Dr, Kotti Thavamani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the literature in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The records as indexed in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in MEDLINE data covered in PubMed for the period 2010-2019 considered. It is observed that a total of 49613 records are in the MEDLINE data covered by Pubmed. It is found that the maximum number of 8098 records was published in the year 2019. It was also found that 42.69% are journal articles. It is seen from this study that RGR has been decreasing trend and the Doubling Time (Dt) has …

Federated Research Profile Management In Indian Institute Of Technology (Iit) In The Context Of Indian Research Information Network System (Irins), Sunil Tyagi, Dr. Jasbir Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Tracking the visibility of research activities towards evaluating research projects and outcomes with means become an important component of Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS) in the context of institutions. The present study is based on empirical analysis of twenty-three (23) Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) of India in the context of IRINS to explore the number of faculties, highest scholarly publications with Scopus and CrossRef citations, departments, and faculty’s publications of IITs. The analysis observed that the implementation of IRINS depends on the level of success and user acceptance. It has been revealed that the institutional and technological factors …

Research On Psychology In India And South Africa A Comparative Scientometric Study, Praveen Bhoopal Hulloli

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Psychology is one of the field in which constant research is going on, the main objective of this paper is to compare the quality of research output of the two countries like India and South Africa in the field of psychology. The study is conducted by taking citations from WOS database. In this paper the analysis of 14,30,700 global research publications out of which, India contributed 12,543 (0.88%), 96,871 citations with 107 h-index and South Africa 9,938 (0.69%) papers, 1,21,385 citations with 126 h-index received is considered. Study during the years from 2001to 2020 has been compared in the form …

Grey Literature Citation In Doctoral Theses Of Library And Information Science Awarded By Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad From 2015-2019, Mahendra Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Grey literature has an important role in information transferring process. This study evaluates the citations of grey literature by the researchers to analyze the citations of grey literature forms in doctoral theses which are awarded by the Department of Library and Information Science by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad during the period from 2015 to 2019. For analyzing the data, average, percentage distributions (presented in charts, tables etc.).The study reveals that Grey Literature is the most utilized as reference materials in the theses. The highest number of Grey Literature cited in the year 2016, 140 citations per thesis and …

Traveling Wave Solutions For Two Species Competitive Chemotaxis Systems, T. B. Issa, R. B. Salako, W. Shen

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In this paper, we consider two species chemotaxis systems with Lotka–Volterra competition reaction terms. Under appropriate conditions on the parameters in such a system, we establish the existence of traveling wave solutions of the system connecting two spatially homogeneous equilibrium solutions with wave speed greater than some critical number c∗. We also show the non-existence of such traveling waves with speed less than some critical number c∗0 , which is independent of the chemotaxis. Moreover, under suitable hypotheses on the coefficients of the reaction terms, we obtain explicit range for the chemotaxis sensitivity coefficients ensuring c∗ = c∗0 , which …

A Scientometric Study Of Highly Cited Journals In Science Discipline Indexed By Scopus And Web Of Science, Geeta Gadhvi, Kinjal K. Parekh Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main objective of this is to explicitly characterize a quantitative analysis by utilizing scientometric study for highly cited journals in scientific discipline indexed by Scopus and WOS. The Paper published during the years 2012-2016 are considered for research analysis with distinct objectives and correlated conclusions. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the data in a variety of methods such as document types, country, institutions/organisation etc. This study will be beneficial for the research scholars to understand the various areas of research work conducted during 2012-16.

Indian Journal Of Finance: A Bibliometric Analysis, Rakesh Trivedi, Mital Manavadriya

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the “Indian Journal of Finance” for the period between 2015 to 2019. The analysis covers various aspects such as year-wise distribution of articles, authorship patterns, degree of collaboration, distribution of articles (issue wise), year-wise authorship patterns, length of the article, ranking of contributors, etc. All studies point towards the merits and limitations of the journal which will be helpful for its further development.

Sjsu Erfa News, Summer 2021, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter

Volume 34, No 4

Reinforcement Learning Applied To Metamaterial Design, Tristan Shah, Linwei Zhuo, Peter Lai, Amaris De La Rosa-Moreno, Feruza Amirkulova, Peter Gerstoft

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This paper presents a semi-analytical method of suppressing acoustic scattering using reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. We give a RL agent control over design parameters of a planar configuration of cylindrical scatterers in water. These design parameters control the position and radius of the scatterers. As these cylinders encounter an incident acoustic wave, the scattering pattern is described by a function called total scattering cross section (TSCS). Through evaluating the gradients of TSCS and other information about the state of the configuration, the RL agent perturbatively adjusts design parameters, considering multiple scattering between the scatterers. As each adjustment is made, the …

Developing An Effective Targeted Mobile Application To Enhance Transportation Safety And Use Of Active Transportation Modes In Fresno County: The Role Of Application Design & Content, Samer Sarofim

Mineta Transportation Institute

Do pedestrians and cyclists need their own app? Pedestrians and cyclists in Fresno county think so, and this research examined this need and how it relates to the importance of app design. Survey participants (all who regularly use active transportation modes) along with a variety of transportation stakeholders, including the Fresno Council of Government, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 6, and the City of Fresno — Public Works Department, indicated the importance of designing effective communication tools to enhance the utilization of active transportation modes and to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users. In this study, over …

Website Based Library Service Development For Elementary School Library Services (Case Study: A Private Elementary School Library In Surabaya), Nasa Zata Dina, Iva Nur Annisya, Nyoman Juniarta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was conducted to develop library services at a private elementary school by developing a system using the waterfall method and PHP framework. It is developed to provide website based library. Many users, especially librarian, experience restlessness in cataloging, processing and lending services because all the services had been processed manually. Librarian’s workload increased because there is limited number of people work in the library. The purpose of this research is to make librarian easier to provide library services which are packaged in a website based library services. This study uses the waterfall method to develop library services. The …

Analysis Of Laminated Beams: A Bibliometric Review, Arati Waghmare, Sanjay Kulkarni

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this paper statistical analysis of literature on “Analysis of Laminated Beams” using Scopus and Web of Science database is done. Reason behind bibliometric study of literature is to understand the extent of research in this particular area. Since Scopus and Web of Science indexing are known as the most reliable sources amongst all the peer reviewed journals, literature from Scopus and Web of Science database only is taken into consideration. Benchmarks used for the analysis are publications in a year, published articles of different authors, citations of authors etc. Considered period is from 2000 to 2020. It is found …