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How Do Professional Engineers Use Information Compared To Undergradutes, And How Can Libraries Prepare Students And Support Engineers For Future Success?, Margaret Phillips, Michael Fosmire, Jing Lu, Kristin Petersheim, Laura Turner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Librarians at Purdue University seek to develop engineering graduates who are effective information users. Similarly, information specialists at Caterpillar Inc. are concerned with how well new hires are prepared for the information landscape at work as practicing engineers. Librarians from Purdue University and Caterpillar partnered to create and disseminate a survey to compare how students and practicing engineers seek and use information in the research process. Within a framework that asked survey participants to think about information use in a recently completed project, responses highlighted several gaps in information literacy training, including the use of external standards and internal document …

Developing A Digital Culture And Embedding Digital Agility Within A Library Workforce, Anne Horn, Eleanor Reynolds

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

“Culture is the most significant self-reported barrier to digital effectiveness” (Goran, LaBerge & Srinivasan, 2017). Universities are looking to a “different kind of education for a much more uncertain world” (Havergal, 2017). University Libraries are preparing students to be effective citizens in these changing times by ensuring graduates are information and digitally literate. To continue to evolve and provide excellent library services it is essential that the library workforce embraces the challenges that the Fourth Industrial Revolution poses. Following the successful development and launch of an Information and Digital Literacy (IDL) framework for learning and teaching, The University of Sheffield …

Courage And Co-Creation: Cultural Transformation In An Academic Library, Catherine Clark, Carolyn Hofmeester, Jane Pritchard

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

University libraries are transforming to be vibrant and distinctive online and physical spaces that, at their heart, continue to foster the connection of people to ideas. Rapid and continuously changing expectations of clients in the range of services that are delivered by libraries, combined with increasingly demanding resourcing environments are challenges for all library leaders. A library staff culture that is energised, focused and resilient is essential to ensure that service expectations are met or exceeded and that the library retains its valued position in the university. The University Librarian at Curtin University in Australia has initiated and led a …

Slowly But Surely: Leading The Workforce At The University Of Adelaide Into The Library Of The Future, Teresa Chitty

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2015, a broadly representative committee from across the University of Adelaide considered the next 20 years of the University’s Library: how to respond to changes in the academic and information management landscape while preserving and enhancing what is valued in the Library today. The Library of the Future Committee, as it was called, found that library services were struggling to be all things to all people; students, staff, alumni and the wider community. As in many academic libraries there was a large legacy print collection that was little used, and that use was continuing to decline; correspondingly the staff …

Cognitive Cloud Collaboration, M. David Hanes, Sebastian Jeuk, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Chuck Byers

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described for using a cognitive learning instance to learn a user's preferences across a wide range of cloud collaboration services and provide a customized user experience. This customized user experience is then leveraged on the back-end for optimizing cloud resources.

An Authoring Environment For Adaptively Formatted Text, Lucas Kovar, Shuo Diao

Defensive Publications Series

Online ads and other text content are designed such that the text content completely fits within a defined area. However, the size of the text container may change when viewed under different viewports. For example, a responsive ad is constructed to be displayable in viewports of varying sizes. Text sized for a certain container may no longer properly fit the container as it expands or shrinks. The techniques of this disclosure provide an authoring environment that smartly adjusts text content to maintain fit within the bounds of a container element as the container expands or shrinks, or if the text …

Machine-Learned Alt Text For Images And Videos, Sandro Feuz, Mohammadamin Barekatain

Defensive Publications Series

HTML has a provision for adding a textual description, known as alt text, to media elements in a webpage, such as images and videos. This is useful for improving accessibility of web pages, for display environments that do not support a particular media item, for content searching, etc. The alt text is currently added manually, e.g., by the web page developer or publisher. This is a labor intensive activity and does not work for dynamic media. This disclosure utilizes machine learning techniques to automatically add alt text to media content.

Uniting Energy And Environmental Law: Focus On Innovation, Creativity, And Economics, Inara Scott

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Editor’S Introduction, Collin Mccarthy

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Call For Manuscripts

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

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Copyright And Open Access

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

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Negotiating Practicum Experiences In A Reading Specialist Preparation Program, Karen Rissling, Linda Kucan

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In this cross-case study, we examined how two reading specialist candidates negotiated their yearlong practicum experiences in relation to university coursework and their previous teaching experience. Data sources included interviews, weekly teaching logs, and field observations. Findings reported in extended vignettes reveal how both interns were placed in positions that required them to negotiate instructional expectations at their internship sites and practices advocated in their coursework. In both cases, those two realities were often at odds when they were required to implement a program with scripted lessons and a required pacing guide. The findings raise important questions about the impact …

Implementation Of National Action Plans On Noncommunicable Diseases, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand And Viet Nam, Titiporn Tuangratananon, Sangay Wangmo, Nimali Widanapathirana, Suladda Pongutta, Shaheda Viriyathorn, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Kouland Thin, Somil Nagpal, Christian Edward L. Nuevo, Retna Siwi Padmawati, Maria Elizabeth Puyat-Murga, Laksono Trisnantoro, Kinzang Wangmo, Nalida Wellappuli, Phuong Hoang Thi, Tuan Khuong Anh, Thinley Zangmo, Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

By 2016, Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) had developed and implemented national action plans on noncommunicable diseases in line with the Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (2013–2020). In 2018, we assessed the implementation status of the recommended best-buy noncommunicable diseases interventions in seven Asian countries: Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam. We gathered data from a range of published reports and directly from health ministries. We included interventions that addressed the use of tobacco and alcohol, inadequate physical activity and high salt intake, as well as health-systems …

Probing The Promise Of Dual-Language Books, Lisa M. Domke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Because dual-language books (DLBs) are written entirely in two languages, they have the potential to help readers develop multilingual literacy skills while acting as cultural and/or linguistic windows and mirrors. However, the ways in which publishers choose words when translating, format languages, and represent cultures have implications for readers in terms of identity, readability, and language learning. This content analysis of 69 U.S. Spanish–English dual-language picturebooks published from 2013–2016 investigated trends in DLBs’ cultural, linguistic, formatting, and readability factors. It also determined these trends’ relationships with publisher types, original publication language, and author and character ethnicity. Findings include that publishers …

Concepts Of Online Text: Examining Online Literacy Skills Of Elementary Students, Jodi Pilgrim, Sheri Vasinda, Christie Bledsoe, Elda E. Martinez

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading online text presents unique challenges for elementary students as they develop and extend fundamental literacy skills to various media. Traditional assessments of concepts about print inspired the authors’ research, which applies a similar approach to address “screen handling” instead of book handling. The purpose of their ongoing research has been to develop an instrument to assess concepts related to online reading. The Concepts of Online Text (COT) assessment measures knowledge of online navigation and text features. Quantitative analysis of student performance data using the COT has the potential to provide developmental insight into elementary students’ proficiencies in conducting internet …

Unh Researchers Find Lasting Impact Of Concussions On Young Adults, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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2018-December-19-Rotc Commissioning, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY  (Dec. 19, 2018) – East Tennessee State University’s ROTC program has commissioned four cadets from the Buccaneer Battalion as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Kathleen Gainey provided remarks at the commissioning ceremony held Friday. She served in the U.S. Army for 35 years and led a major strategic review and period of increasing forces in Afghanistan and decreasing forces in Iraq as deputy commander, U.S. Transportation Command. As director of logistics for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gainey steered a review of the dependency of contractors on the battlefield and established …

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University of Miami Business Law Review

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Unh Research Finds Recreationists Support Offshore Wind Energy Development, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Four Tips On How To Manage Holiday Stressors With Dr. Angela Stowe, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

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Fundamental Limits On The Capacities Of Bipartite Quantum Interactions, Stefan Bäuml, Siddhartha Das, Mark M. Wilde

Faculty Publications

Bipartite quantum interactions have applications in a number of different areas of quantum physics, reaching from fundamental areas such as quantum thermodynamics and the theory of quantum measurements to other applications such as quantum computers, quantum key distribution, and other information processing protocols. A particular aspect of the study of bipartite interactions is concerned with the entanglement that can be created from such interactions. In this Letter, we present our work on two basic building blocks of bipartite quantum protocols, namely, the generation of maximally entangled states and secret key via bipartite quantum interactions. In particular, we provide a nontrivial, …

University Of Dayton Sets Another Research Record, Claims Top Spot Nationally For Materials Engineering, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton set another research record in fiscal year 2018 and claimed the top spot in the nation among universities for materials engineering research in the latest National Science Foundation rankings for fiscal year 2017. UD ranks in the top 25 of all U.S. colleges and universities in seven categories.

La Promesa Cumplida [The Promise Fulfilled]: How The U.S. Constitution Has Enabled Colonialism, Dean Delasalas

Catholic University Law Review

In 2016, as a debt-ridden Puerto Rico tried and failed to protect its assets from rapacious creditors, Congress enacted the Puerto Rico Oversight and Economic Management Act (PROMESA). PROMESA created the Financial Oversight and Management Board, a group of unelected officials charged with helping Puerto Rico restructure its debt and “achieve fiscal responsibility.” To the surprise of many, the Oversight Board was empowered to invalidate Puerto Rican laws, strong-arm the Puerto Rican government into accepting draconian spending cuts in education, healthcare, and pensions and sue officials who refused to comply.

Sadly, the extent of power given to the Oversight Board …

Drug Possession Arrests Reported In Alaska, 1986–2017 — Drug Types By Sex, Benjamin Ervin

AJiC Fact Sheets

This fact sheet presents data on drug possession arrests by type of drug and sex of arrestee as reported by Alaska law enforcement agencies for the 32-year period 1986 to 2017. Types of drugs include narcotics, synthetic narcotics, marijuana, and other non-narcotic drugs. Overall, males comprise roughly four out of five drug possession arrests in the state of Alaska. The female and male rates parallel one another in that they rise and fall at the same points in most years. In 2002, the synthetic narcotics and other non-narcotics possession arrest rates sharply increased for both males and females until the …

Drug Sale And Manufacture Arrests Reported In Alaska, 1986–2017 — Drug Types By Sex, Benjamin Ervin

AJiC Fact Sheets

This fact sheet presents data on drug sale and manufacture arrests by type of drug and sex of arrestee as reported by Alaska law enforcement agencies for the 32-year period 1986 to 2017. Types of drugs include narcotics, synthetic narcotics, marijuana, and other non-narcotic drugs. Overall, males comprise roughly three-fourths of the total drug sale and manufacture arrests in the state of Alaska. The female and male rates parallel one another in that they rise and fall at the same points in most years. For all drugs, the difference between female and male arrest rates in 2017 are smaller than …

A Textbook Program Is Not For Us! Re-Imagining Failure Into New Possibilities, Heidi Blackburn, Tammi Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Sometimes, despite all our efforts, projects fail. We’re here to tell you that’s okay. In 2017, the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Criss Library created a Textbook Reserves Pilot Project. At the time we weren’t sure it would work out. We were optimistic, though. After all, we had plenty of evidence that said it would work: our literature review had examples of successful textbook programs. Our data showed textbook prices rising. We met with advisors across our campus who said students desperately needed textbooks to succeed. We had buy-in from library administrators, the bookstore, and student government, but something just …

India Announces Usd 1.4 Billion Assistance Package To Maldives, Republic Of Maldives: Ministry Of Finance

Documents

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Argentina Media Highlights 19 December 2018, Bbc Monitoring

Documents

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Fall/Winter 2018: Pbs To Feature Snc Role Models For The Latinx Community, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

Twin Cities (Minnesota) Public Television was on campus last week to interview Raquel Cowell (Psychology), and Corinna Jauregui ’19 for a pair of upcoming PBS videos. The videos are part of a project that aims to showcase neuroscience careers for the Latinx community by highlighting role models in the field.

Country's Unwanted Children, Amr Alfiky

Capstones

The 9/11 attacks in 2001 thrust American Muslims into the spotlight, where they were bombarded with suspicion. Their lives, habits, and religion were intensely scrutinized by the government and their fellow Americans. Yet, they were also portrayed in the media in a simplistic and stereotyped manner. Millennial Muslim Americans – who came of age after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent rise of Islamophobia in the U.S – have known no other America.

Website: https://www.amralfiky.com/countrysunwantedchildren