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Measuring Research Performance Of Himachal Pradesh Institutions: Using Citation Analysis, Suresh K. Chauhan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

At higher education front, Himachal Pradesh has been focusing on delivering quality education and research. Currently, the state has over 25 prominent institutions which are dealing with higher education. In this study, an effort is being made to know the research output of the 10 prominent institutions of the state. The data for the period from 2001 to 2015 were extracted from the Scopus. The analysis for assessing the total number of publications, citations, cited rate, an average annual growth rate of publications was derived for an individual institute. The degree of author collaboration for each institute was also assessed. …

A Scenario Of Special Libraries And Ict Application In The State Of Assam: A Study, Tehra Akhter Choudhury, Mukutor Rahman, Pronab Kumar Barooah 7562401

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Computing technology, communication technology and mass storage technology are some of the areas of continuous development that reshape the way libraries access, retrieve, store, manipulate and disseminate information to users. ICT has impacted on every sphere of Special library services. ICT has brought unrivalled changes and transformation to library services, in accordance with LIS such as OPAC, user services, reference services, bibliographic services, current awareness service, document delivery service, inter library loan, audio visual service and users requirement can be provided more efficiently and effectively using ICT, as they provide convenient time, place, cost effectiveness, faster and most-up-to-date dissemination.

Marine Pollution Bulletin: A Scientometric Analysis, Sudhakar K, S. Thanuskodi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to present a scientometric analysis of the Marine Pollution Bulletin journal (MPB) during the period of 2008 to 2017. A total of 5416 publications were published during the period of 2008 to 2017 in the MPB journal. The paper covers the scientometric analysis of year-wise distribution of publications Out of total 5416; the maximum numbers of publications are in the year 2017 contributing 905 (16.71%) papers. The relative growth rate (RGR) has decreased from 2009 (0.63) to 2017 (0.18) and the doubling time has increased from 2009 (1.10) to 2017 (3.85) in the span of 10 years. …

The Effect Of Motivation And Job Performance On Library Personnel Effectiveness In Universities Libraries In Nigeria, Toyin Dina, Grace Olubunmi Olowosoke

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is an enquiry into the potency of Motivation and job performance as a tool to enhance library personnel effectiveness in discharge of their duties. The method used for data collection was fact finding interviews and questionnaires. Two (2) Hypotheses were used for this research and most interestingly they were all proved to be true. Findings show that the problem of inefficiency would be encountered if staff are not motivated and that the most popular means of motivation is the financial method. Reward systems that include job enlargement, job enrichment, promotions, awards, monetary, and non-monetary compensation were considered. It …

Mapping Of Bioremediation Research Output In India: A Scientometric Study, Saravanan S, Research Scholar Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu. India, Baskaran C. - -

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

An analysis of 1981 publications published by Indian scientists during 1994 to 2018 indexed by Web of Science online Database indicates the Bioremediation Research Publication. This study tries to map the number of publications, growth rate and doubling time, scattering of publication over journals, and its impact on publication output, authorship patterns and Global citation score of bioremediation research publication in India using the HistCite, VOSviewer software. Indian Institute of technology, Baba atomic research centre and CSIR are the major producers of research output in the area of bioremediation.

Application Of Bradford’S Law Of Scattering On Research Publication In Astronomy & Astrophysics Of India, Satish Kumar, Senthilkumar R.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is focused on examining the application of Bradford’s law of scattering on research articles published in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics by Indian scientist during 1988-2017. The bibliographic data was retrieved from Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic data base for different period of time. Total 18,877 journal’s article have been published by Indian scientist in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics during 1988-2017 which was further retrieved and analyzed separately for different blocks of 10 years as well as for 30 years consolidated too. The core journal of the field was identified. The Bradford law of …

A Hundred Doors Of Boñar/ Las Cien Puertas De Boñar, Tiffany Defeyter

Culture, Society, and Praxis

En esta contribución Tiffany Defeyter nos ofrece una somera visión de un elemento de la cultura material y una documentación fotográfica de las puertas de las casas en Boñar. Los estudiantes aprender pronto que cualquier artefacto cultural merece la atención del investigador, dado que estos objetos representan con frecuencia a los valores, las conductas, las actitudes de la gente, y porque son también símbolos de estatus y logros. En este caso, DeFeyter ha deambulado por las calles de Boñar en busca de pistas para entender más a fondo las representaciones del límite de lo público y lo privado del presente …

15 Strategic Tips For Those Interested In International Service Learning, Noemi Chico

Culture, Society, and Praxis

Cuando viajamos al exterior enfrentamos nuevos retos que se suman a los nervios ante lo desconocido y al entusiasmo de meternos en una nueva aventura. Eneste ensayo Chico comparte con sus compañeros universitarios del presente y delfuturo alguna de los consejos que le hubiese gustado leer antes de salir de viaje. En una experiencia como la que ofrece el Programa España de Etnografía y Servicio Aprendizaje de CSUMB, a los retos normales de viaje se le suman demandas personales y adacémicas en una oportunidad para aprender y desarrollar nuevas habilidades y competencias profesionales.

La Diferencia Que Hace Una Oportunidad: Experiencias Internacionales En Comunidades Rurales De España, Laura Rodriguez

Culture, Society, and Praxis

In this article, Laura Rodriguez explores the upbringing of a young woman from Boñar, in the Province of León in Spain, as she recounts her experience as part of an international program that allowed her to stay during an academic year with an American family in the State of Texas. Through the experience, the interviewee discovers her potential and, according to Rodriguez, overcomes limitations to assume a positive and decisive attitude to forge her own future. It will not escape the attention of the reader that the author finds an important parallelism with her own experience as an international student …

Añoranza, Entre La Tristeza Y La Alegría Del Recuerdo De Los Mineros, Luis Canett

Culture, Society, and Praxis

Este artículo de Luis Canett nos presenta una parte del conjunto de su trabajo de fin de carrera, realizado en la región de Sabero, en León, España. La historia parece vacilar entre dos sentimientos de tristeza y felicidad. Tristeza por el dolor y pena que generó en su vida el trabajo de la mina, y la muerte de tantos compañeros de trabajo. Felicidad por lo que fue en su momento la industria minera, hace ya tiempo extinta, y que generó el medio de vida y los buenos tiempos de tanta gente de la región que también han marchado.

Work, Family Life, And Making A Living In A Small Rural Community In Spain, Nicolasa Villalobos

Culture, Society, and Praxis

Las historias orales narran desde la perspectiva de la persona que relata la historia pero también desde la perspectiva de quien entrevista. La persona que presenta sus memorias, hechos de la vida del individuo que reflejan al mismo tiempo el acontecer y aspectos de la vida de su comunidad y su entorno. En este artículo, Nicolasa Villalobos nos trae la historia de una persona de la comunidad de Boñar y su familia. En la entrevista se advierten aspectos de interés social, económico y psicológico que son claramente centrales al interés de la entrevistadora.

Machismo: Times Have Changed? / El Machismo: ¿Han Cambiado Las Cosas?, Melissa Urias

Culture, Society, and Praxis

In this oral history the author explores the current state of gender relations in a rural community in Northwestern Spain. While it is indeed the case that the appreciations from a visitor that has been in place for only a few weeks permits for only a glance on what the state of the matter is, it is just as true that there are schemes of behavior and apparent realities that deserve contrasting and comment.

Oral Histories: An Ocean Away / Historias Orales, A Un Mar De Distancia, Juan J. Gutierrez, Michell Figueroa

Culture, Society, and Praxis

In this editorial article Gutierrez and Figueroa provide a brief overview of the Spain Summer Program and of the actual work reflected in this particular issue of CSP.

Limiting Queer Reproduction In Hungary, Judit Takács

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article discusses several limiting factors that affect queer reproduction desires and practices in present-day Hungary, including distorting media representations, legislative frameworks, and social inequalities. It draws on relevant legal developments and results from previous research studies. The article focuses on how Hungarian LGBTQI people can resist the social norms and policies of heteronormatively prescribed childlessness resulting from normative expectations that non-heteronormative reproduction must be limited as much as possible, and highlights that better-off couples and individuals have more chance to realize their fertility plans through adoption, surrogacy or accessing ART than those in a more disadvantageous situation. In this …

Negotiating Access To Assisted Reproduction Technologies In A Post-Socialist Heteronormative Context, Hana Hašková, Zdeněk Sloboda

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article centres on the impact of heteronormativity on the ways in which parental desires, intentions and practices of lesbian, gay, or trans people in Czechia are subjected to barriers. It explores heteronormativity by analysing how access to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) for non-straight couples (including single women) has been negotiated. We discuss discrimination against, and the statistical marginalisation of, homoparental families; the fact that same-sex Czech couples are not yet allowed to marry and that instead a new legal institution, the civil union, was introduced exclusively for them, explicitly prohibiting them from forming parental couples; the political disregard of …

Unfit For Parenthood? Compulsory Sterilization And Transgender Reproductive Justice In Finland, Julian Honkasalo

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines the rationale of the continuing Finnish transgender sterilization requirement against the background of reproductive justice. I examine how and why the Finnish public debate on removing the sterilization clause from the Trans Act does not include an equal demand to 1) include a parental law reform and 2) a legislation on accessible, affordable and just reproductive health care for transgender persons and (cis)women alike. I will argue that since the citizens’ initiative of the marriage equality legislation in Finland was followed by another citizens’ initiative to reform the Maternity Act to include lesbian couples, transgender reproductive justice …

Unlearning Cisnormativity In The Clinic: Enacting Transgender Reproductive Rights In Everyday Patient Encounters, Theo Erbenius, Jenny Gunnarsson Payne

Journal of International Women's Studies

In recent years, transgender reproduction has become increasingly visible in public debates in Sweden. Heated debates and years of activism and advocacy ultimately led to a change in law in 2013. In the new law, the previously controversial demands for patients to be unmarried and sterile had been removed from the legal framework. As a consequence, transgender patients also became entitled to fertility preservation through assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). This gave rise to a new patient group of fertility patients with specific medical and psychosocial needs.

Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with healthcare professionals in a Stockholm clinic for reproductive …

Queer And Trans Access To Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Comparison Of Three Eu-States, Poland, Spain And Sweden, Doris Leibetseder

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article is about the legal challenges and difficulties of queer and trans reproduction with ART in three purposely selected European states: Sweden, Poland and Spain, representing the north, east and west of Europe. Isabell Engeli and Christine Rothmayr Allison’s (2017) continuum model of classifying countries according to their permissive, intermediate or restrictive regulations for ART access serves as an example how a national comparative analysis on ART policies is established. However, this framework needs to be adjusted to address the regulations pertaining to queer and trans people’s reproductive, parenthood, and partnership opportunities. Thus, the queer and trans model I …

Introduction: Queer And Trans Reproduction With Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Art), In Europe, Doris Leibetseder, Gabriele Griffin

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Gesture Text Input, Anonymous Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

The present publication describes a system that allows users to generate one or more emojis based on gesture inputs, while communicating using a computing device. The computing device may include a mobile phone, tablet, PC, or any other relevant computing device that can be used for communication. In one example, the communication takes place on an Instant Messaging (IM) application (app) running on a mobile device.

Volume 76, Winter 2002, Number 1

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Volume 75, Fall 2001, Number 4

St. John's Law Review

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Volume 75, Summer 2001, Number 3

St. John's Law Review

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Volume 75, Spring 2001, Number 2

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Access Point Transmission Optimizations Using Machine Learning Based Traffic Classification, Vincent Cuissard, Amine Choukir, Domenico Ficara, Salvatore Valenza

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein for optimizing access point transmissions. According to these techniques, configuration, state, and tuning of an access point transmission scheduler are externalized to a network core (e.g., a wireless LAN controller (WLC) or Dynamic Network Access Control (DNAC)) and a machine-learning system is used to classify wireless clients based on traffic analysis. The described techniques permit the use of fine-tuned configurations for each access point station and these configurations can be shared across all access points in the case of roaming.

Content Provenance Attribution And Verification Via Blockchain Certification, Daniel Golovin, Daniel Klein

Defensive Publications Series

Content such as images is sometimes used online without proper permission or attribution by parties other than content creators and owners. Prior to use, such parties may also alter the content as well as associated metadata. Such practices subvert rights of the content creators and owners and can mislead readers due to a lack of cues that can help determine the provenance, veracity, and credibility of the content.

This disclosure describes a mechanism to track, verify, and attribute provenance to content such as images. Per techniques of this disclosure, provenance information signed with a user’s private key is included in …

Enhanced Electronic Whiteboard, David Tigges

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an enhanced electronic whiteboard for visualization of cloud-based computing solutions. The electronic whiteboard includes technical icons that represent cloud computing solution elements and enables users to depict and manipulate various computer architectures. The electronic whiteboard is integrated with cloud migration solution software for collaborative design, sales presentations, and simulation. Depicting technical architectures is made possible by providing icons for servers, storage, networking appliances, etc. that can be dragged and dropped onto the whiteboard. With user permission, machine learning techniques are utilized to auto-populate operating data relevant to different architectures.

Enhancing User Interface Accessibility Using Computer Vision, Juhyun Lee

Defensive Publications Series

Accessibility features for vision-impaired users are typically provided by oral readouts of on-screen icons or other material. The task of transcribing in-app icons to text for text-to-speech conversion is typically left to the app developer. Icon-to-speech translation for apps from developers that are not conscious of the need to make their products accessible is often unsatisfactory. For example, a refresh button and a back button may both simply be transcribed as “button,” which is unhelpful to a vision-impaired user.

This disclosure uses computer vision techniques to automatically infer, and provide to a vision-impaired user, text corresponding to UI elements, e.g., …

Automated End-To-End Instrumentation And Testing Of Mobile Device Camera, Yu Zhong, Gregory Eitzmann, Kenneth Goldman

Defensive Publications Series

Due to reasons of security, mobile device operating systems generally allow the camera buffer to be written only by the camera - the camera buffer cannot be filled with mock frames. Due to write-restrictions on the camera buffer, e.g., technical infeasibility of feeding arbitrary, repeatable frame sequences to the camera buffer, apps that utilize device cameras such as photography apps, computer vision apps, etc. are currently tested manually.

This disclosure presents a test framework to instrument and automatically conduct end-to-end testing of apps that use a mobile camera as an input source. Under the test framework, the mobile device is …

Visualizing Classifier Performance, Lori Levy, John Burge

Defensive Publications Series

Classifiers are characterized by many measures, e.g., precision, recall, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, receiver operating curve (ROC), fall-out, class imbalance, etc. Some measures are synonymous, e.g., sensitivity and recall. The profusion of terms causes some difficulties.

This disclosure leverages the observation that most classifier performance metrics derive from just four elemental quantities, e.g., true positives, false positives, true negatives, and false negatives. Disclosed is a simple graphic that displays the four elemental quantities and enables quick, visual, estimation of the remaining measures of classifier performance.