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Born Believer?, Mark Siderits

Comparative Philosophy

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Reflection And Emotional Well-Being In Nietzsche And Zhuang Zi, Danesh K. Singh

Comparative Philosophy

Nietzsche and Zhuang Zi both believe that the supposed value of certain emotions they deem harmful should be questioned and that reflection can be utilized to change the emotions. They intend to disabuse those of their respective times of conventional morality, with the aim of achieving a state in which negative moral emotions are eliminated and a more natural way of life is embraced. Specifically, Nietzsche examines guilt, a remnant of an ascetic morality endorsed by the religious elite; Zhuang Zi, similarly, considers grief, a moral emotion tied to traditional culture and endorsed by Confucian morality. Living naturally involves the …

Delineating Knowledge Domains In Scientific Domains In Scientific Literature Using Machine Learning (Ml), Abhay Maurya, Smarajit Paul Choudhury Mr., Kshitij Jaiswal Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The recent years have witnessed an upsurge in the number of published documents. Organizations are showing an increased interest in text classification for effective use of the information. Manual procedures for text classification can be fruitful for a handful of documents, but the same lack in credibility when the number of documents increases besides being laborious and time-consuming. Text mining techniques facilitate assigning text strings to categories rendering the process of classification fast, accurate, and hence reliable. This paper classifies chemistry documents using machine learning and statistical methods. The procedure of text classification has been described in chronological order like …

Library And Information Science Research On Web Of Science Database From 2014 To 2018: An Overview, Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain, S.N. Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A country's progress in all aspects like economic, educational, medical, defense, living standards of citizens is possible only through research and the platform for quality research is a university. The generation of knowledge and its transmission has been a requirement for long term progress of a university which is having a direct impact on a nation's development. Universities through research make the highest contribution to a nation's industrial and business growth than any other academic institutions. Library Science evolving as an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field applying the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology,education, in two …

Lis Research Productivity According To Gender, Vinay R S Mr., Sampath Kumar B T Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose-The present study aims to explore the publication trend, authorship pattern and research productivity by male and female authors in the field of Library and Information Science research.

Design/Methodology/Approach- A total of 571 articles published in selected three LIS Emerald journals viz., i) Library Management, ii) New Library World iii) Performance Measurement and Metrics during 2009-2018 are downloaded from Emerald group of publishing. The data related to the author’s gender, affiliation, university and country are extracted and saved in a separate file for further analysis. Influence of gender was assessed with respect to at individual and collaborative level. The …

Research Publication Pattern On Songklanakarin Journal Of Science And Technology (Sjst) Indexed In The Scopus Database: A Scientometric Analysis During 2006-2019, Tipawan Silwattananusarn, Pachisa Kulkanjanapiban

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST) founded in 1979 is dedicated to topics related to multidisciplinary science and technology. This paper aims to explore the current state of research published in SJST and employs quantitative and qualitative assessment using scientometric analysis and visualization analysis with VOSviewer. The data for this analysis consists of 1,619 documents based on data from Scopus between 2006 and 2019. In this study, the number of SJST papers, the topmost cited publications, year-wise distributions, authorship patterns, country-wise distribution, top-cited authors and their affiliation and keywords, the keywords distribution, and author co-citation maps were identified …

Library Anxiety: An Overview Of Re-Emerging Phenomena, Nikica Gardijan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Since 1986, when library anxiety phenomenon was first mentioned by Mellon, numerous scientific papers have been written on this subject. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse and summarize existing scientific literature regarding library anxiety with a special emphasis on academic libraries.

By thorough review of literature authors reached two conclusions. First one being that library anxiety is a real occurrence among university library users and it impairs academic success and second that library anxiety can be prevented or alleviated by librarians.

In this paper we have listed definitions of library anxiety, scales for measuring library anxiety and …

Covid-19 Pandemic And Its Impact On Cancer Patients: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Recent Studies, Gyanajeet Yumnam, Ibohal Singh Ch

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cancer is one of the dreaded diseases for which no drugs have been invented so far for its complete cure. While the world is advancing so fast with the advancement of science and technology, at the same time, new dreaded diseases continue to emerge around the world. One such global pandemic disease currently witnessing is COVID-19. No exact medicine has been developed to control and cure this new pandemic which has a serious impact on aged persons; patients of diabetics, asthma, cancer, pneumonia, etc. Some recent and current studies conducted around the world have shown us many facts about this. …

The Intrinsic Structure Of Nuclear Chemistry: A Scientometric Study, Sivamani Muthusamy, Sarangapani R, Shyamala R

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

: In the last two decades, the research in nuclear chemistry has experienced a regular as well as voluminous structural changes and has grown notably with interaction from other fields in terms of theory building, methodology, and applications. This study focus a quantitative assessment of the scientific literature for mapping the intellectual structure of nuclear chemistry research and its scientific development over a 11-year period from 2008 till 2018. A total of 109281 publications were subjected to examination in order to draw statistics and depict dynamic changes to shed new light upon the growth, dispersion and structure of the studied …

Library Environment :Microbial Quality Assessment And Antibacterial Activity Of Cinnamomum Verum And Piper Nigrum With Respect To Microorganisms Of Srcw Library, Shyamala R, Mekala M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Background research interest focuses on medicinal herbs such as Cinnamomum verum and Piper nigrum extracts can be used to trap the microbes from the atmosphere.

• To collect bark of Cinnamomum verum and Piper nigrum plants and make a dry powder.
• To perform Phytochemicals analysis for the extracted powder.
• To perform antimicrobial susceptibility test and MIC against different strains.
• To develop herbal coated tissue paper.

METHODOLOGY:

• The bark of Cinnamomum verum and Piper nigrum were collected and finely powdered.
• Different extracts of C. verum and P. nigrum (10 μl to 40 μl) were loaded on to the wells of …

Differential Gene Expression Analysis Of Rodents Exposed To Long-Term Space Flight And Insights Into Physiological Effects, Jonathan Oribello

Master's Projects

Space travel presents inherent risks to human health and a better understanding of space biology is required to mitigate harm in an oncoming age of increased space travel. Omics analysis will play a central role in better understanding human health in space. In this project, differential gene expression analysis was performed on GLDS-104, an open science dataset provided by NASA’s GeneLab. GeneLab’s RNA-Seq Consensus Pipeline was implemented using Nextflow, performed on San Jose State University’s College of Science High Performance Computing Cluster, and optimized for computational resource efficiency. Comparison of the Nextflow implemention developed in this project to GeneLab’s posted …

Estimating The Quality Of Arabian Journals Using Bibliometric Indicators, Isam Mohammed Abdel-Magid, Md. Safiqur Rahaman, Abu Waris, Dr. Mirza Muhammad Naseer, Shakil Ahmad, Manuelraj Peter

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Scholarly published scientific journals’ quality and the standard were measured in recent years based on their scientific indicators such as Journal Impact Factor (IF), citation values, and journal ranking values. Any experimental writer and researcher will investigate these factors of journals before publishing their research output. Analyzing and comparing these indicators among different bibliographic databases are welcomed by the research community and will give them some insight to decide or to choose which journals they need to select for publishing their research outputs. The main objective of the research work undertaken was to assess the impact and visibility of 66 …

The Effect Innovation Of Information Technology, Product, Work, And Service Toward Development Performance Academic Business Laboratory In Indonesia, Ilham M, Tanti Handriana, Fendy Suhariadi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was conducted to compile a work plan and create an integrated laboratory information system and improve academic services at Uin Sunan Ampel Surabaya based on the implementation of work programs towards a world class university. The purpose of this research activity is to design and implement a system capable of providing work information for each manager of the integration laboratory and maximizing the utilization of the integration laboratory so that the use of the integration laboratory is better and more precise. The results of this research can form an integrated laboratory information system that can optimize the performance …

The Extent Of Awareness And Adoption Of Unesco Conservation Guidelines On Restoration Practices By University Library Management In South East Nigeria, Ngozi Chima-James

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is an attempt to find out the extent of awareness and adoption of UNESCO conservation guidelines on restoration practices by university library management in South East Nigeria. The study was guided with two (2) research questions and one (1) hypothesis. A survey research design approach was adopted for the study, with target area on university library management in south east Nigeria. The questionnaire was used as the research instrument for data collection, which was subjected to a reliability test using the cronbach alpha statistics which gave an alpha value of α=0.90. The study found that the extent of …

Bibliometric Of Feature Selection Using Optimization Techniques In Healthcare Using Scopus And Web Of Science Databases, Rahul Joshi, Harita Gadikta, Saneeka Kharat, Soumi Mandal, Kalyani Kadam, Anupkumar M. Bongale Dr., Siddhant Pandit

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Feature selection technique is an important step in the prediction and classification process, primarily in data mining related aspects or related to medical field. Feature selection is immersive with the errand of choosing a subset of applicable features that could be utilized in developing a prototype. Medical datasets are huge in size; hence some effective optimization techniques are required to produce accurate results. Optimization algorithms are a critical function in medical data mining particularly in identifying diseases since it offers excellent effectiveness in minimum computational expense and time. The classification algorithms also produce superior outcomes when an objective function is …

Contribution Of The University Of Burdwan And Kalyani University During 2000-19: A Scientometrics Analysis, Subhodip Bid, Dr Sukumar Mandal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present paper attempt to compare the contribution of two state universities of West Bengal i.e. University of Burdwan (BU) and University of Kalyani (KU) under different parameters like publication size, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, subject, language, geographical distribution during the period 2000 to 2019 ( 20 years) by using Web of Science as a source database. The study revealed that both the universities have almost similar authorship pattern, citation distribution and prefer to publish articles in journals. The USA ranked top as the most favorite country for collaboration for both the universities.

Text Mining Of Biomedical Literature: Discovering New Knowledge, Saikat Goswami, Sourav Mazumder, Sumana Chakrabarty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Biomedical literature is increasing day by day. The present scenario shows that the volume of literature regarding “coronavirus” has expanded at a high rate. In this study, text mining technique has been employed to discover something new from the published literature. The main objectives of this study are to show the growth of literature (Jan-Jun, 2020), extract document section, identify latent topics, find the most frequent word, represent the bag of words, and the hierarchical clustering. We have collected 16500 documents from PubMed. This study finds most number of documents (11499) belong to May and June. We explore …

Diabetes Prediction Using Machine Learning : A Bibliometric Analysis, Vijayshri Nitin Khedkar, Sina Patel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease which can be deadly if undetected for longer time. Artificial intelligence is helping in healthcare industry to a great extent by helping professionals to derive useful information and patterns from data available in various formats: Survey data, electronic health records, laboratory data.. Diabetes, if predicted at an early stage can help many people to save lives and cost for healthcare. Decision-making, diagnosing and predicting diabetes have become an increasing trend in recent years. There are numerous publications in diabetes prediction and yet it’s an ongoing research topic with availability of new data and methods. …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of The Tea Quality Evaluation Using Artificial Intelligence, Amruta Bajirao Patil Research Scholar, Mrinal Rahul Bachute Ph.D Guide And Associate Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT: In this study, we have carried the bibliometric review of the “Tea quality evaluation using artificial intelligence”. Only the Scopus database is under consideration for this analysis. To coat all possible research approaches here we have generated the valid search queries which excludes irrelevant literature. The result analysis shows overall 602 useful papers are available on the tea quality evaluation out of which 12 papers are specifically on artificial taste perception of tea. This survey illustrates the emerging trend of quality evaluation and assurance (QEA) in tea industry and its importance. As the production of tea is huge, storage …

Scientometric Profile Of The Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University: A Leading University Of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Md Safiqur Rahaman, Prof Isam Mohammed Abdel Magid, Shakil Ahmad Lecturer, Dr. Abu Waris Assistant Professor, Dr. Mirza Muhammad Naseer Assistant Professor, Dr Manuelraj Peter Assistant Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: The research conducted for a systematic analysis of the development and trends in scientific literature production and collaboration pattern of the faculties of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU), between 2010 to 2020 as the research productivity is one of the evaluation parameters of universities performance.

Design/methodology/approach: The study comprises the data collected from the web of science core collection (WoSCC) for the selected period. MS-Excel, MS. Access 2016, open-source software namely, Biblioshiny, ScientoPy and VOSviewer used for data analysis. The work tackled with the annual scientific research paper production, prolific authors, collaborations, most relevant sources, frequently used keywords, …

Research Trend Of Metal Matrix Composites Reinforced With Silica Extracted By Green Route: A Bibliometric Analysis, Rinku Datkhile, Meena Laad, Babaji Ghule

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Metal Matrix Composites have acquired an important place in the engineering applications due to their distinctive characteristics such as high specific strength, lower specific gravity, improved material stiffness, better durability, enhanced creep and fatigue strength etc. Worldwide scientists are working on the improvement of mechanical properties of composite materials. The present work attempts to summarise all the research carried out on metal matrix composites reinforced with silica extracted by green route and provides up-to-date research material for researchers who are interested in the field of composites with metal matrices. Scopus databases and software such as Gephi Vos Viewer and Table2Net …

Nanotechnology Research In Saarc Nations During 1996 To 2020: A Scientometric Assessment Based On Scopus Database, Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain Mr, Ahmad Nazri Mansor Dr., Manoj Kumar Verma Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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I am submitting my paper entitled- "Nanotechnology Research in SAARC Nations during 1996 to 2020: A Scientometric Assessment based on Scopus Database" for your kind consideration for LPP.

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Usage Of Researchgate By The Research Scholars: A Study Of The University Of Calcutta, Debdas Mondal Mr, Debal C. Kar Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Academic social network sites (ASNS) have emerge as an opportunity to facilitate outreach of research work, share research data, ideas, collaboration, and knowledge. The present study is an attempt to report the use of ResearchGate, one of the academic social networking sites by the Research Scholars of the University of Calcutta. The study has used the two most common methods of survey, namely the descriptive survey method and the questionnaire tool. A sample of 140 researchers from Calcutta University was invited to participate in the survey. An online questionnaire was prepared over Google forms platform and spread. It was found …

Applying Comprehensive Model Of Information Seeking To Hepatitis B And C Patients’ Information Seeking In The South African Context: A Scoping Review, Irewole Dorcas. Ibinaiye

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The continuous spread of Hepatitis B and C Viral diseases have affected over 248 million people worldwide. Despite the frustrations expressed regarding patients information needs, awareness and knowledge about the mode of contact of the disease, information access and use, studies addressing hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) patients information needs and seeking behaviour are lacking. This paper examines the relevance of comprehensive model of information seeking (CMIS) in addressing hepatitis B and C patients’ information behaviour, to ascertain the trend of use to inform the future applications of the model. Four databases were searched for articles published between 1993 …

An Evaluation Of The Indian Chemical Science Research Publications Output Of The Last Two Decades (2000 – 2019), Mahadevi Nyamagoudar, Gavisiddappa Anandhalli

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study evaluates the Indian chemical science research output of the last two decades (2000 to 2019). We have made a scientometric analysis of contributions from India in leading chemical science journals over 20 years period 2000 – 2019. We have compared India’s performance with that of the USA. The data was sourced from the Scopus database during 2000 – 19. The study finds that the research output of the world in chemical science research was 76, 08,260 publications and it was 469,689 publications by India, accounting for 6.1% global publications share in a 20 years window covering the period …

Research Publications Trend Of St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru, Karnataka: A Bibliometric Study, Felcy Dsouza

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examined the bibliometric analysis of the research publication output of the St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru indexed in Scopus during 2004 to 2019. The parameters such as the growth of publications, authorship pattern, author productivity, degree of collaboration, major areas of contribution, most preferred journals, geographical distribution etc are studied to attain the objectives. The findings revealed that, among the 230 publications published during the period of 16 years, highest numbers of 50 papers were published in the year 2019. The conference proceedings were the most preferred channels of publications followed by journals. There is an increasing …

Allelopathy Research In Global Perspective: A Scientometric Study Of Academic Productivity Over A Period Of 25 Years (1995 - 2019), Abdurahiman Pattukuthu, Abdul Jaleel Pottachola, Mohamed Idhris

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research is concerned with the Allelopathy research literature published from 1995 to 2019 obtained from SCOPUS and studied to identify the trends in research publication in terms of various document types, annual growth, the share of publication, citation growth, average citation per paper, most productive country, authors, journals, highly cited articles during this period. These factors were identified and compared for their research impact over a period of 25 years.

Research Trends In Water Scarcity: A World Perspective, Arikrishnan R Mr, Rajendran N Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study Water Scarcity involves water crisis, water shortage, water deficit or water stress. Water scarcity plays a big facts or effects on the planet and attracts for several scientist to review it. Therefore, during this research topic explored the new topics and new trends of through the statistics of the journal between 2011-2020 from the attitude of scientometric supported the keyword,” water scarcity”. This paper attempts to analyses the expansion and developments of water scarcity research in world supported the publications output using Scopus database. 7332 records were downloaded from the Scopus database from the category of Environmental …

Bio-Bibliometric Portrait Of Dr. Tasawar Hayat, Distinguished Professor Of Mathematics, Ikram Ul Haq

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Aim: This article aims to present the bio-bibliometric portrait of the research productivity created by Dr. Tasawar Hayat, a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan.

Methodology: The retrospective method has been applied in this study to assess the attributes of bibliographical records of the documents produced by Dr. Hayat. Elsevier’s Scopus database was used to extract the required dataset on the 28^th of October 2020. The required features of the dataset of all types of published papers were downloaded for analysis. The five bibliometric indicators of the dataset were evaluated, the publications and citations ratio by …

Online Library Skills Of Music Educators And Music Students In Nigeria, Edith Nwakaego Nwokenna, Ogechukwu Vivian Amanambu, Blessing Chisom Umeano

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Tertiary institution libraries have expanded the traditional library model, which focuses on the management of physical resources and activities, to include an online library model, which converts resources and services into digital formats to support teaching, learning, and research, as academic library functions and activities continue to evolve. This change has had an impact on professional roles and activities of both educators and students as a result of the increased skills required. The purpose of this research is to investigate the extent of online library skills among music educators and music students in Nigerian tertiary institutions. A study sample of …