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Strategic Approach On Promoting Reform Of China's Natural Protected Areas System With National Parks As Backbone, Huang Baorong, Ma Yonghuan, Huang Kai, Su Liyang, Zhang Conglin, Cheng Duowei, Wang Yi

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

China has formed a natural protected areas system with various types and functions, which has played an important role in protecting important natural ecosystems and biodiversity. However, for a long time, China basically implemented a "rescue" conservation strategy, focused on protected area expansion, and ignored the improvement of management quality and ability. The construction and management of protected area cannot keep China's pace of promoting ecological civilization construction. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes to establish a natural protected areas system with national parks as the main backbone, which poses urgent demands …

The Effect Of Styrene-Maleic Acid (Sma) Copolymers On Solubilizing Lipid Bilayers And Forming Nanodiscs, Ghada Alramadan

Dissertations and Theses

Cell membranes, or plasma membranes, play an essential role in the structure and the function of living cells. In 1972, the fluid mosaic membrane model was the first unifying paradigm of membrane structure. It is no longer considered adequate because evidence of many non-homogeneous lipid structures in both natural and model membranes have been discovered over the past thirty years. The field of membrane biophysics now uses updated versions of the mosaic model, which consists of the complex mixture of different lipid species. The lipid species found in natural membranes produce a range of dynamic, laterally segregated, non-homogeneous domains, which …

The Years Of Permanent Midnight: The Liberalist Construction Of The Philippine Nation In Cinema Under The Us-Aquino Administration, Jeffrey Deyto

Mabini Review

This study seeks to define the role of cinema in the formation/construction of the nation amidst the acceleration of global capital and the heightened need for outsourced and remotely-managed workers (both were manifested to the fruition of the BPO industry) in the earlier part of 2010s – both of which are supported by the intensification of the liberal economics and politics of the then administration of Benigno Aquino, III. Cinema is not referred in this study as a general aspect of nation- formation/construction, but rather a node from a wide network of apparatuses deployed to support and maintain the nation …

Selecting And Implementing Leading Edge Technology Services: Library As Partner In The Innovation Ecosystem, Patrick Tod Colegrove

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The practice of libraries – and with it, librarianship – continues to evolve. New technology and services are fundamental to library support of innovation and creativity; deciding which technologies and/or services to implement can be less clear. The overlap of design thinking with best practices of emerging technology and libraries offers a practical approach: real-world examples of success and failure reveal the outlines of an emerging framework for improved selection and implementation of leading-edge technology in the library environment. Novel services and technologies offered by a library that is part makerspace, part accelerator, and full partner in the innovation ecosystem …

Studio 55: Library Makerspace With A Difference, Gillian Barthorpe, Hans Tommy

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

AUT Library launched Studio 55, the Library Makerspace in 2017, the first in a New Zealand university library. While the concept of a library makerspace is not unique our approach has been a little different. We have adopted a more ‘low-tech’ approach in that we don’t have a 3D printer and other more ‘hi-tech’ equipment that is fairly standard in most makerspaces. It is a highly visible space that is open to all to ‘think, make, do’ and share skills, ideas and work together across disciplines. It is designed to engage the community in new ways of working and learning …

Evaluating Evaluative Bibliometrics: A Case Study Of Two Research Groups, Jimi Thaule, Marte Strand

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Bibliometrics is a method increasingly used to perform evaluations of scientific output and impact, in particular in order to distribute means, such as research grants. But also internally within universities and other research institutions. Various performance and impact meaures are used to establish quality of research. This can be highly problematic, not only in terms of ethics, but also with regards to method. Especially considering the proliferation of tools to perform bibliometric analysis, which means that analyses are increasingly performed without actual understanding of bibliometrics as a scientific method. In our research we have compared two research groups in the …

Quadcopters Or Linguistic Corpora – Establishing Rdm Services For Small-Scale Data Producers At Big Universities, Göran Hamrin, Viola Voß

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

During the IATUL Conference 2017, the authors had many productive exchanges about similari-ties and differences in Swedish and German higher-education libraries. Since research data management (RDM) is an emerging topic on both sides of the Baltic Sea, we find it valuable to compare strategies, services, and workflows to learn from each other’s practices. Aim: In this talk, we aim to compare the practices and needs of small-scale data producers in engineering and the humanities. In particular, we try to answer the following research questions: What kind of data do the small-scale data producers produce? What do these producers need in …

Inspiring Innovation With Patent Information Literacy In The Engineering Technology Curriculum, David Zwicky, Margaret Phillips

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Patents have wide appeal to students, faculty, and employers and can be a potent tool for integrating information literacy (IL) into engineering and technology curricula. There is evidence to show that students use patents to assess the patentability of their design ideas, explore the state of the art in a given area of technology, and to inspire creativity in their work. Faculty use patents and other complementary forms of gray literature to go beyond the traditional IL world of scholarly literature and engage students with information problems that reflect real-world design challenges. Working with patents allows students to develop strategic, …

Engineering Graduates At Work: Reality Check For Information Literacy, Caroline Leiss, Pia Ludwig

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Information Literacy (IL) in the Workplace is a relatively new and increasingly important area of research in library science. Many libraries offer IL programmes in order to help students find, ac-cess and use literature for their studies and final papers. But to what extent does instruction in IL help students in their future employment? In international library science, a number of publications already investigate concepts of em-ployability and their relation to information literacy. In Germany, the discussion is just beginning. There is little evidence that German libraries include information literacy for the workplace in their strategic programme development. The University …

On The Role Of Tasks In Virtual Game-Based Learning: The Example Of “Lost In Antarctica“, Simone Kibler, Linda Eckardt

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There is evidence that tasks play an important role in the context of the development of virtual learning scenarios. This paper will focus on this fact and identify the relationship between tasks and their purpose in the context of “Lost in Antarctica”. This game-based blended-learning scenario contains a huge variety of tasks ensuring the acquisition of different skills within the broad range of information literacy (IL)-topics. In conclusion, general recommendations for the use of tasks in the conceptional process of e-learning environments should be given. "Lost in Antarctica” is a game-based blended-learning platform for about 150 students of Industrial Engineering …

Using Technology To Teach Students Information Literacy Skills: An Online Module For First-Year Students At The University Of Johannesburg (Uj), Elize Du Toit

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Being information literate is a basic requirement for 21st-century learning and assessment. As the shift in 21st-century education moves towards e-learning and the use of technology in education, libraries have to recognise that their role to provide ‘traditional’ support to teaching, learning and research needs to change to support web-based learning. This shift in education necessitates libraries to look at new ways to enhance students’ academic experience by incorporating web-based technology to train students in information literacy skills. The UJ library developed an online information literacy module to support students’ information literacy skills. A pilot study was conducted to analyse …

Using Virtual Reality To Create Real World Collaborations, Richard Smith, Oliver Bridle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) is Oxford University’s principle science library and it provides easy access to digital tools to enhance teaching, learning and research. Previous projects have developed lending programmes for e-readers and iPads and introduced a popular 3D printing service. The library’s interest in adapting to disruptive technology and providing innovative tools to support academic projects and exploration of new technologies led us in 2017 to initiate a Virtual Reality (VR) lending programme. University members can now borrow VR Headsets, 360⁰ degree cameras and supplementary equipment free of charge from the RSL. In this paper we describe how …

Academic Libraries Support Cross-Disciplinary Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Heather A. Howard, Dave Zwicky, Margaret Phillips

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Supporting innovation is essential in today’s academic ecosystem, and libraries are well-positioned to connect prospective entrepreneurs with the myriad resources and services available. Libraries are able to leverage pre-existing collaborations and partnerships with groups both inside and outside the university (from local community groups to international level organizations); libraries’ status as information brokers across disciplinary boundaries also enables them to make new connections with a wide array of potential stakeholders. Librarians from different subject specialties will share experiences and discuss ways in which libraries can support global entrepreneurship efforts by university faculty, staff, and students, as well as the general …

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 …

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.

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.

Web Search Of Mathematical Expressions, Victor Cărbune, Thomas Deselaers

Defensive Publications Series

Internet search engines, which make information nearly universally accessible, still perform poorly at handling queries with mathematical content. The reasons for suboptimal handling of mathematical content by search engines include the following: the difficulty of entering mathematical expressions into search engines, the lack of standard encoding for mathematical content, the difficulty of determining if a given page or information source is relevant to a mathematical query, etc.

This disclosure describes techniques that address the aforementioned problems, e.g., by enabling easy entry of mathematical expressions into search engines, by creating a standard representation of mathematical content based on a machine-learning embedding …

Pennsylvania Gas: Trusts, Takings, And Judicial Temperaments, Joshua Ulan Galperin

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Turning The Tide In Coastal And Riverine Energy Infrastructure Adaptation: Can An Emerging Wave Of Litigation Advance Preparation For Climate Change?, Dena Adler

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

We Are ... Marshall, December 19, 2018, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Dynamic Response Analysis Of Rutting Resistance Performance Of High Modulus Asphalt Concrete Pavement, Chundi Si, Enli Chen, Zhanping You, Riulan Tian, Ran Zhang, Junfeng Gao

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering Publications

In order to systematically study the rutting resistance performance of High-Modulus Asphalt Concrete (HMAC) pavements, a finite element method model of HMAC pavement was established using ABAQUS software. Based on the viscoelasticity theory of asphalt, the stress and deformation distribution characteristics of HMAC pavement were studied and compared to conventional asphalt pavement under moving loads. Then, the pavement temperature field model was established to study the temperature variation and the thermal stress in HMAC pavement. Finally, under the condition of continuous temperature variation, the creep behavior and permanent deformation of HMAC pavement were investigated. The results showed that under the …

Within-Canopy Experimental Leaf Warming Induces Photosynthetic Decline Instead Of Acclimation In Two Northern Hardwood Species, Kelsey R. Carter, Molly A. Cavaleri

College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Publications

Northern hardwood forests are experiencing higher temperatures and more extreme heat waves, potentially altering plant physiological processes. We implemented in-situ leaf-level warming along a vertical gradient within a mature forest canopy to investigate photosynthetic acclimation potential of two northern hardwood species, Acer saccharum and Tilia americana. After 7 days of +3°C warming, photosynthetic acclimation was assessed by measuring differences between heated and control photosynthetic rates (A_opt) at leaf optimum temperatures (T_opt). We also measured the effects of warming and height on maximum rates of Rubisco carboxylation, stomatal conductance, transpiration, and leaf traits: leaf …

2012 - Historic American Landscapes Survey - Mission San Antonio De Padua

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The intent of this report was to summarize existing written histories of the site and to document the existing conditions of the physical and cultural landscape at the Mission, This report focused on the viewshed and overall physical and cultural landscape of Mission San Antonio de Padua and its surroundings. There are no drawings of the site included in this documentation nor was the precise location and species of each plant type within the study area have not been documented or recorded. The study area encompasses approximately 650 acres.

2006 - Salinas Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Functionally Equivalent Plan Summary Document Update

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) are encouraging local and regional water management planners to establish integrated regional water management plans through the collaboration of planning efforts and project coordination. The intent is to encourage planners to implement projects focused on meeting multiple water resources needs on a regional basis. Jointly, both agencies are soliciting grant applications for Proposition 50 Chapter 8 grant funding, which was established to provide a fiscal tool to support integrated regional water management. In order to take advantage of this funding opportunity, Monterey County Water Resources …

2010 - Excerpt From Master Response 4 - Water Supply Re Salinas Valley Water Supply (10-28-10)

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

In addition to the Master Response to the Monterey County General Plan pertaining to the analysis of the Salinas Valley water supply, tables and figures referenced in the response are included at the end of the response. This document is for informational purposes only to provide a summary of information relative to the Salinas Valley water supply analysis contained in the Final EIR.

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 …

Lateral Circulation In A Partially Stratified Tidal Inlet, Linlin Cui, Haosheng Huang, Chunyan Li, Dubravko Justic

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hotline Press Newspaper- December 2018 Vol 34 No 36, Hotline Press Newspaper

Hotline Press Newspaper 2018

No abstract provided.

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

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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 …