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Spartan Daily, February 6, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 162, Issue 5

Cybersecurity Is Privacy And Confidentiality: Best Practices For Libraries, Michelle Vannatta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examines the values of privacy and confidentiality in libraries. Maintenance of privacy is arguably costly, yet protecting it is essential to maintain the library mission of providing free access to information. Through a review of secondary sources, the paper considers the shift from the library as primarily a physical space with physical materials to the library as a repository of digital materials with high levels of online library patron engagement. This shift toward cyberspace demands changes in the conception of privacy and steps to protect it in libraries. The paper discusses recent literature addressing how best practices in …

The Impact Of English Language Propagated By The Advancements Of Information And Technology Services In Libraries On The Vernacular Languages Of Sri Lanka, Anurin Diwakara Prof., P.D.D.D. Wickramasinghe, N.S. Gunawardana, Chaminda Chiran Jayasundara

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The development of information and communication technology has become the prominent reason for language contact in the native language varieties spoken in the South Asian region. The island nation Sri Lanka is home to a multi-ethnic population and the main vernacular spoken in the country is Sinhala Language. Using materials drawn from social media platforms, websites, internet forums and personal knowledge, this study sets out to examine the ways in which the English language has been making significant contact with the Sinhala language, which is the dominant vernacular language spoken in Sri Lanka due to the advancements in information technology. …

Bjet_Mcmc: A New Tool To Automatically Fit The Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions Of Blazars, Olivier Hervet, Caitlin A. Johnson, Adrian Youngquist

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Multiwavelength observations are now the norm for studying blazars’ various states of activity, classifying them, and determining the possible underlying physical processes driving their emission. Broadband emission models became unavoidable tools for testing emission scenarios and setting the values of physical quantities such as the magnetic field strength, Doppler factor, or shape of the particle distribution of the emission zone(s). We announce here the first public release of a new tool, Bjet_MCMC, that can automatically fit the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of blazars. The complete code is available on GitHub and allows for testing leptonic synchrotron self-Compton models with …

Long-Term Network Structure Evolution Investigation For Sustainability Improvement: An Empirical Analysis On Global Top Full-Service Carriers, Wendong Yang, Yun Jiang, Yulin Chi, Zhengjia Xu, Wenbin Wei

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The continuous and strategic planning of full-service carriers plays a prominent role in transferring and adapting them into resilient full-service carrier network structures. The exploration of full-service carrier network structures using the latest long-term empirical data facilitates enhancing cognitive capabilities in aspects of identifying network development tendencies, readjusting network structures, and supporting determinations of strategic business routes. Aiming at providing sustainable transport network solutions with historical long-term network structure analysis, this paper researches the global top 10 full-service carriers’ air transport networks from 2007 to 2022, applied using social network analysis (SNA). The static metrics from local to path-based perspectives …

Enhancing Product Design Through Ai-Driven Sentiment Analysis Of Amazon Reviews Using Bert, Mahammad Khalid Shaik Vadla, Mahima Agumbe Suresh, Vimal K. Viswanathan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Understanding customer emotions and preferences is paramount for success in the dynamic product design landscape. This paper presents a study to develop a prediction pipeline to detect the aspect and perform sentiment analysis on review data. The pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT) model and the Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) are deployed to predict customer emotions. These models were trained on synthetically generated and manually labeled datasets to detect the specific features from review data, then sentiment analysis was performed to classify the data into positive, negative, and neutral reviews concerning their aspects. This research focused on eco-friendly products …

Divergent Responses Of Highly Migratory Species To Climate Change In The California Current, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Stephanie Brodie, Heather Welch, Michael G. Jacox, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Jerome Fiechter, Megan Cimino, Barbara Muhling, Heidi Dewar, Elizabeth A. Becker, Karin A. Forney, Daniel Costa, Scott R. Benson, Nima Farchadi, Camrin Braun, Rebecca Lewison, Steven Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Aim: Marine biodiversity faces unprecedented threats from anthropogenic climate change. Ecosystem responses to climate change have exhibited substantial variability in the direction and magnitude of redistribution, posing challenges for developing effective climate-adaptive marine management strategies. Location: The California Current Ecosystem (CCE), USA. Methods: We project suitable habitat for 10 highly migratory species in the California Current System using an ensemble of three high-resolution (~10 km) downscaled ocean projections under the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5). Spanning the period from 1980 to 2100, our analysis focuses on assessing the direction and distance of distributional shifts, as well as changes in core …

Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Attention Networks With Temporal Convolution-Aware Nested Residual Connections, Yupeng Wei, Dazhong Wu, Janis Terpenny

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Degradation of engineered systems can result in poor performance and failure. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been used to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of engineered systems by analyzing condition monitoring data. Conventional GCNs typically stack multiple spectral graph convolutional layers, where each layer aggregates condition monitoring data and then projects the aggregated data into another feature space. However, conventional GCNs suffer from two issues. Firstly, repeated aggregation operations affect the temporal correlation of condition monitoring data. Secondly, repeated aggregation and projection operations may generate less significant features, resulting in poor prediction performance. To address these issues, we introduce …

Spartan Daily, February 1, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 162, Issue 4

Does Destination Nostalgic Advertising Enhance Tourists’ Intentions To Visit? The Moderating Role Of Destination Type, Lujun Su, Chengzhi Ye, Yinghua Huang

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This study investigates the impact of nostalgic advertising and perceived destination types on tourists using four experiments. Study 1a and Study 1b revealed that destination nostalgic advertising is more likely to evoke tourists' history sense and further trigger visit intention, while destination non-nostalgic advertising is more likely to evoke tourists' fashion sense and further trigger visit intention. Study 2a and Study 2b revealed that perceived destination type plays a moderating role in these effects. Nostalgic advertising in utilitarian destinations is more likely to evoke tourists' history sense and further trigger visit intentions, while non-nostalgic advertising in hedonic destinations is more …

Investigating The Effects Of Alcohol Consumption On Manual And Automated Driving: A Systematic Review, Miaomiao Dong, Yuni Lee, Jackie Cha, Gaojian Huang

Mineta Transportation Institute

There are direct correlations between drunk driving and car-related injuries, disabilities, and death. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may provide useful driver support systems to prevent or reduce road accidents. However, AVs are not yet fully automated and require human drivers to take over the vehicle at times. Therefore, understanding how alcohol affects driving performance in both manual and automated driving is important because manual drives may offer insights into the takeover process in AVs. A systematic review of 53 articles from eight databases was conducted. Findings were categorized based on the human information processing model, which can be extended to the …

Understanding Workforce Diversity In The Transit Industry: Establishing A Baseline Of Diversity Demographics, Asha W. Agrawal, Evelyn Blumenberg, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Brittney Lu

Mineta Transportation Institute

This study provides baseline data on the status of the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of the transit agency workforce in the U.S. and identifies potential barriers and promising practices for diversifying this workforce. Public transit agencies function best when the diversity of their workforce represents the communities they serve, yet previous research finds an underrepresentation of women and minorities in senior and managerial roles, along with an overconcentration of men and workers of color—particularly Black workers—in operational roles (e.g., drivers, janitors).

The study updates those earlier studies with newer data drawn from five discrete research tasks: 1) review of the …

Spartan Daily, January 31, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 162, Issue 3

Spartan Daily, January 30, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 162, Issue 2

[Review Of] Maria W. Stewart And The Roots Of Black Political Thought, By Kristin Waters, Jennifer Rycenga

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Book Clubs And Displays: Ra For Readers And Communities, Kelly Fojtik

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Readers’ advisory (RA) can be informally defined as match making between readers and books, with a librarian functioning as matchmaker. Published literature agrees that RA is an important professional practice when carried out by librarians; and that RA is important for increasing literacy, benefitting individual readers and also their communities. The literature describes new types of book clubs and displays that provide RA services for patrons in attractive, less direct ways than the standard RA interview. This paper reports on and examines the benefits of two library initiatives, book clubs and displays, that function as less direct forms of RA. …

Awareness And Utilization Of E-Resources By Faculty Members Of Government Serchhip College In The Digital Environment: A Study, F Chanchin Mawia, Bhaigyashree Boro, Chawng Than Sangi, Jacob Ms Dawngliana

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examines how faculty members at Government Serchhip College access e-resources. This research aimed to examine faculty members' understanding of e-resources and their associated components, such as identifying and acknowledging sources of information utilized for teaching, as well as determining techniques for locating and assessing information resources. A structured questionnaire was constructed and distributed to all 53 faculties at Government Serchhip College for data collection, with 41 (77%) completed questionnaires obtained for analysis. A purposive sampling technique was carried out for this study. Further, the data was scrutinized using both Google Forms and MS Excel. Overall, it was determined …

Effect Of Staff Training On Information Services Delivery To Library Users In Public Libraries In The South-West Nigeria, Abdulahi Mayowa Olaniyi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Training has been observed to be a very important element in personnel management. Even though no organisation can grow in its services without continuous training of their staff, it has been observed that most public libraries’ staff are not well trained nor exposed to continuous training programmes. This study, therefore, seeks to examine the effect of staff training on information services delivery to library users in public libraries in the South-west of Nigeria.

The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises all the staff in the six State Library Boards in the …

Content Analysis And Applicability Of Zipf’S Law In Technical Writing In The Domain Of Library & Information Science, Pallavi Ramkrushna Dhoke Miss, Mohan Kherde Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Through content analysis of articles published in library and information science journals, this work aims to analyse, determine, and apply Zipf's Law in the technical writing of library and information science. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, Annals of Library and Information Studies, and Library Herald are the journals that were picked for this research. The examination of the 573 articles that were published in the three mentioned journals during the years 2013 to 2017 is the primary focus of the study. If we assume that an abstract should be between 100 and 200 words in length, then 342 …

Habitat Characterization Of American Badgers (Taxidea Taxus) Of Northern California, Mitchell Victoria

Master's Theses

American badgers (Taxidea taxus) are a semi fossorial mammal that lives in grassland and open prairie ecosystems as well as coastal prairies, agricultural fields, deserts, and deforested habitats. Many researchers have published work on badgers, but we still require more information on their ecology. The American badger is a semi fossorial, solitary, predatory mammal of grassland ecosystems. They are classified as mesopredators when compared to larger apex predators such as brown bears, wolves, and pumas. However, when larger carnivores are absent, Badgers become apex predators of their ecosystems. Los Vaqueros Watershed in Brentwood, California, was my study site because badgers …

Spartan Daily, January 24, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 162, Issue 1

Utilisation Of Mobile Library Technologies And Library Service Delivery In Public And Private Universities In South West, Nigeria, Daniel T. O. Kolawole, Udauk U. Enang, Affiong E. Effiong

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examined the differences between the utilisation of mobile library technologies and library service delivery in public and private universities in south west, Nigeria. In addition to stating the purpose of the study and the associated research questions and hypotheses, two models and one theory were used which include the technology acceptance model, service quality models and diffusion of innovation theory. The technology acceptance model suggests that the acceptance of any technology is based on the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of the introduced technology. Diffusion of innovation theory suggests ways mobile technologies can be introduced and …

Book Review On Kyoto School Philosophy In Comparative Perspective: Ideology, Ontology, Modernity (By Bernard Stevens), Dennis Stromback

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Emotion In Indian And Western Philosophy, Prasasti Pandit, William Krieger

Comparative Philosophy

This paper aims to develop a comparative analysis of the place of emotion from Indian and Western philosophical perspectives. Both Eastern and Indian philosophy consider three mental states as being involved with the arousal of emotions, i.e., cognitive (epistemic), conative (desire), and affective. In Indian philosophy, there is no such single term or specific equivalent definition to the Western term ‘emotion.’ Further, there is no clear dichotomy (cognitive & non-cognitive) between reason and emotion in Indian culture. In Indian scriptures, there are various, at times intermingled conceptions of emotion. From a religious standpoint, emotion can be an expression of religious …

Golden Rule Ethics And Complementary Learning Process With The Other: From Confucius’ And Christian Approaches To Hatatas’ Approach, Fasil Merawi

Comparative Philosophy

Through the development of a comparative analysis that explores the conceptions of the Golden Rule that are expressed in the teachings of Confucius, Christianity and the Hatatas, the article shows that the combined insights that emerge from these three teachings have a contemporary significance in the attempt to develop a complementary learning process with the Other. Throughout its variations, the Golden Rule is grounded on the need to treat others as how we want to be treated. Such a moral vision occupies a central importance in Confucius’s ren, Christianity’s Gospel of Matthew and the commandments, and the Hatatas’ principle of …

Intersecting Perspectives: A Comparative Dialogue On Respect In Confucian And Western Philosophies, Chuan Chih Hsu, Antonio Calderón, Chia Shih Su

Comparative Philosophy

Present study analyzes the concept of respect in both Confucius' and Western philosophical traditions. It reveals the differences in interpretation and practice of respect due to their distinctive cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Confucius' philosophy emphasizes respect towards authority, traditions, and the elderly through dedication and commitment, while Western philosophy, primarily Aristotle's perspective, emphasizes reciprocal respect and the inherent rights of individuals. Both systems of thought, although contrasting, seek to promote values fostering cooperation, understanding, and peaceful coexistence. Despite their varied conceptualizations of respect, the ultimate goal remains the same – to provide ethical and moral guidance for a harmonious …

The Social Relevance Of Comparative Philosophy, Timothy Connolly

Comparative Philosophy

Early proponents of comparative philosophy believed that the dissemination of comparative methods would lead to step forward in human consciousness and contribute to a more peaceful world. Can comparative philosophy today still aspire to such goals? On the one hand, the aims of the field have narrowed, so that comparative philosophy is seen as a method of interpreting particular thinkers and texts or as a tool for addressing specific philosophical problems. On the other hand, critics argue that comparative philosophy is an outmoded enterprise that should give way to more pluralistic forms of inquiry. In this paper, I examine three …

Heraclitus And The Rig Veda: A Cross-Tradition Engaging Examination, Eleni Chronopoulou

Comparative Philosophy

As early as the 18^th century, the similarities between Greek and Iranian thought have raised questions about the origins of Greek philosophy and a possible Oriental influence many have ventured to highlight parallels and to explain this proximity of ideas. However, although it is very well-known that Iranian philosophy is influenced by the early Hindu thought, and there are studies on the analogies between the Greek and the Indian philosophy only few scholars have studied the closeness of the Heracletean philosophy with the early Indian thinking. This article attempts to compare some fragments of the Ionian philosopher on fire …

The Hand Of Thought: A Cross-Tradition Examination Of Kosho Uchiyama And Martin Heidegger, Gregory Burgin

Comparative Philosophy

This paper presents how the Sōtō Zen priest, Kōshō Uchiyama, and the mercurial and polarizing German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, approach what the former calls “opening the hand of thought” (omoi no te banashi). For Uchiyama, the metaphoric opening of our mental hand requires the meditative practice of zazen or “just sitting” (shikantaza) and is said to mean that we avoid the act of thinking. Conversely, Heidegger maintains that the “releasement” (Gelassenheit) of our conceptual grasp is the basis of a more essential and “meditative” mode of thinking and discourse (besinnliches Denken). While Uchiyama and Heidegger appear to be at odds, …

Vol 15 No 1 Contents Page

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.