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Growth And Productivity Of Agricultural And Biological Sciences Research In State Agriculture Universities Of Gujarat (India), Jignesh Amin, Yogesh Parekh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of growth and productivity of agricultural and biological sciences research in state agriculture universities of Gujarat, India. The publications, which have been published during 2010-2019, are considered for the present research. The required data was extracted from the indexing database SCOPUS for the analysis, which includes 1,742 publications. Necessary metric-based indicators are considered to draw the conclusion about the growth and status of research outputs of selected samples. Several aspects like patterns and trends about authorship and publications, are also discussed. These include a ranking of authors based on a number of publications and …

Evaluation Of Nigeria Universities Websites Using Alexa Internet Tool: A Webometric Study, Samuel Oluranti Oladipupo Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper seeks to evaluate the Nigeria Universities websites using the most well-known tool for evaluating websites “Alexa Internet” a subsidiary company of Amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data. The present study has been done by using webometric methods. The top 20 Nigeria Universities websites were taken for assessment. Each University website was searched in Alexa databank and relevant data including links, pages viewed, speed, bounce percentage, time on site, search percentage, traffic rank, and percentage of Nigerian/foreign users were collected and these data were tabulated and analysed using Microsoft Excel worksheet. The results of this study reveal …

A Study Of Competencies And Attitude In Use Of Ict Among Librarians Of Govt. And Aided First Grade Colleges Affiliated To University Of Mysore, Hemesha Hebbandi Nagappa, Santhosh Kumar K.T.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims at assessing the competencies and attitude in using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among librarians working in Govt. and Govt. Aided First Grade Colleges (Affiliated to University of Mysore) of Mysore region in Karnataka, India. The study emphasizing on exploring the competency level in using ICT based applications, library automation and digital library software, use of e-resources, difficulties faced among the responding librarians and also knowing attitude towards using ICT. The results of the study shows that majority of librarians have good competency level in using basic ICT & e-resources and also felt the need for further …

Role Of Library Professionals In Satisfying User Needs During Pandemic Phase, Sumaira Baba, Sofi Gh.Mohiuddin Jeelani, Dr Shabir Ahmed Ganaie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries are considered as treasures of knowledge providing access to huge variety of materials (books, journals, manuscripts, audio/visual etc.) with the help of institutions to which these (libraries) are associated. But, the preservation of such knowledge (material) is also of prime importance in order to make these resources (material) available for information seekers. In this whole process of collection, storage as well as dissemination of (knowledge), library professionals (librarians) has a great role to play. Which cannot be separated at any cost. Even at the time of pandemic, their (library professionals) role need to be very much vibrant to benefit …

Examining Usability Of The Internet By The Teaching Staff Of The Peshawar Medical College, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abid Hussain, Sarah Saeed, Abdus Salaam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aims to examine the access and purpose of internet use by the teaching staff of Peshawar Medical College, Peshawar.

Method(s)/Materials: Data were collected through a tested questionnaire from 115 teaching staff members of two major groups’ basic sciences and clinical sciences with a response rate (57.39%) of 66 members positively. Teaching faculty comprising 71.40% Male faulty members and 28.60% female took part in the study. Data were analyzed and tabulated using the SPSS tool.

Research Limitation(s): This study was limited to the teaching faculty of basic and clinical science departments of Peshawar Medical College Peshawar.

Key …

Impact Of Digital Media On Information Needs And Seeking Behavior Of University Teachers In Pakistan, Gulnaz Akhtar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The core objective of this study was to examine the impact of digital media on information needs and seeking behavior of university teachers in Pakistan: A study of federal area universities. There are thirteen (13) federally chartered universities located in the federal capital, having faculties of applied/natural sciences, social sciences/humanities, and engineering covered by the study. With the insurrection of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) flow of information is rapidly enhanced. User needs are fulfilled through a single mouse click. Wide-ranging reading of volume of information is an additional dilemma. It is a reality that wide mountain range information creates …

Cultural Literacy In Building The Character Of The Community In Sindangkerta District, Tasikmalaya Regency, Encang Saepudin, Ninis Agustini Damayani, Tine Silvana Rahmawati

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The lack of appropriate strategies in cultural development has become one of the reasons for the weakness of Sundanese culture in maintaining the power and quality of its life. Thus, there is a need for an appropriate and tested cultural development strategy. This strategy must be compiled and built together based on the principles of strategic and equitable. This study aims to create a literacy model as part of cultural preservation.The researcher used a descriptive method with a case study approach. Data collection is done through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation study. Respondents in this research were the managers …

Practical Server-Side Indoor Localization: Tackling Cardinality Outlier Challenges, Anuradha Ravi, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In spite of many advances in indoor localization techniques, practical implementation of robust device independent, server-side Wi-Fi localization (i.e., without any active participation of client devices) remains a challenge. This work utilizes an operationally-deployed Wi-Fi based indoor location infrastructure, based on the classical RADAR algorithm, to tackle two such practical challenges: (a) low cardinality, whereby only the associated AP generates sufficient RSSI reports and (b) outlier identification, which requires explicit identification of mobile clients that are attached to the Wi-Fi network but outside the fingerprinted region. To tackle the low-cardinality problem, we present a technique that uses cardinality changes to …

Server-Aided Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption For Cloud Computing Services, Hui Cui, Tsz Hon Yuen, Robert H. Deng, Guilin Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been regarded as a promising solution in cloud computing services to enable scalable access control without compromising the security. Despite of the advantages, efficient user revocation has been a challenge in ABE. One suggestion for user revocation is using the binary tree in the key generation phase of an ABE scheme, which enables a trusted key generation center to periodically distribute the key update information to all nonrevoked users over a public channel. This revocation approach reduces the size of key updates from linear to logarithmic in the number of users. But it requires each user …

Spatial Multi-Objective Land Use Optimization Toward Livability Based On Boundary-Based Genetic Algorithm: A Case Study In Singapore, Kai Cao, Muyang Liu, Shu Wang, Mengqi Liu, Wenting Zhang, Qiang Meng, Bo Huang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this research, the concept of livability has been quantitatively and comprehensively reviewed and interpreted to contribute to spatial multi-objective land use optimization modelling. In addition, a multi-objective land use optimization model was constructed using goal programming and a weighted-sum approach, followed by a boundary-based genetic algorithm adapted to help address the spatial multi-objective land use optimization problem. Furthermore, the model is successfully and effectively applied to the case study in the Central Region of Queenstown Planning Area of Singapore towards livability. In the case study, the experiments based on equal weights and experiments based on different weights combination have …

Planningvis: A Visual Analytics Approach To Production Planning In Smart Factories, Dong Sun, Renfei Huang, Yuanzhe Chen, Yong Wang, Jia Zeng, Mingxuan Yuan, Ting-Chuen Pong, Huamin Qu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Production planning in the manufacturing industry is crucial for fully utilizing factory resources (e.g., machines, raw materials and workers) and reducing costs. With the advent of industry 4.0, plenty of data recording the status of factory resources have been collected and further involved in production planning, which brings an unprecedented opportunity to understand, evaluate and adjust complex production plans through a data-driven approach. However, developing a systematic analytics approach for production planning is challenging due to the large volume of production data, the complex dependency between products, and unexpected changes in the market and the plant. Previous studies only provide …

Deterministic Identity-Based Encryption From Lattice-Based Programmable Hash Functions With High Min-Entropy, Daode Zhang, Jie Li, Bao Li, Xianhui Lu, Haiyang Xue, Dingding Jia, Yamin Liu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

There only exists one deterministic identity-based encryption (DIBE) scheme which is adaptively secure in the auxiliary-input setting, under the learning with errors (LWE) assumption. However, the master public key consists of basic matrices. In this paper, we consider to construct adaptively secure DIBE schemes with more compact public parameters from the LWE problem. (i) On the one hand, we gave a generic DIBE construction from lattice-based programmable hash functions with high min-entropy. (ii) On the other hand, when instantiating our generic DIBE construction with four LPHFs with high min-entropy, we can get four adaptively secure DIBE schemes with more compact …

Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Children’S Libraries: A Study Of Children’S Centre Library, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka., Ngozi Eunice Osadebe Mrs, Ezi Onwuka Njoku Mrs, Martina Ugwuona Mrs, Judith Ezugwu Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children’s libraries using the Children’s Centre Library, the University of Nigeria Nsukka as an example. It is a descriptive study that employed the qualitative method. Oral interview was used for data gathering. Four members of the Children’s Centre Committee served as respondents to the interview questions. The data collected from the interviews were analysed using content analysis. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown affected the Children’s Centre Library in a number of ways. On the negative side, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about the lockdown of the …

China’S Regulatory Approach To The Sharing Economy: A Perspective On Ride-Hailing, Huiqin Jiang, Heng Wang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

While the sharing economy brings significant social benefits in China, it comes with regulatory challenges that are novel and unpredictable. How should regulators handle these challenges? This paper offers fresh insights into the regulatory approach to the ride-hailing industry, the most comprehensively regulated sharing industry in China. A historical review identifies three regulatory approaches deployed to date: self-regulation, market-based regulation and government regulation. Self-regulation relies on the platforms with incentive to provide better service for greater profit, and to deal with sharing-specific challenges. Market-based regulation invites rivals to keep a watchful eye on other players, in order to enhance their …

Holding Company's Liability For Inducing Its Subsidiary's Contractual Breach, Pearlie M. C. Koh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

A decision by a company to breach a contract is necessarily made on its behalf by one or more natural persons. Although the relevant decision-makers may be said to have “procured” the company’s breach of contract, there is authority, albeit not without detractors (see Welsh Development Agency v Export Finance Co Ltd [1992] B.C.L.C. 148; [1992] B.C.C. 270), for the proposition that these individuals are not to be made liable in the tort of inducing breach of contract, provided they had acted in good faith and within the scope of their authority (Said v Butt [1920] 3 K.B. 497). As …

The Ouster Of Parliamentary Sovereignty?, Benjamin Joshua Ong

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (“RIPA”) establishes the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”), which hears complaints relating to surveillance activities by public authorities. The Supreme Court case of R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“Privacy International”) concerned the Secretary of State’s power under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 to issue a warrant authorising MI5, MI6, or GCHQ to enter or interfere with property “specified” in the warrant. The IPT had to decide whether it was lawful for the Secretary of State to issue a warrant in respect of a class of property (sometimes known as …

Sexual Grooming As An Offence In Singapore, S. Chandra Mohan, Yingqi Lee

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The offence of sexual grooming of a minor under 16 was introduced in the Singapore Penal Code (Cap 224, 2008 Rev Ed) in 2007. It was designed to protect the growing number of young Internet users from adult sex predators prowling the online platforms. However, there have been very few reported cases of sexual grooming under s 376E of the Penal Code and a noticeable dearth of any local legal comment on this provision. Until the review by the Penal Code Review Committee in 2018 and the consequent legislative changes in May 2019, the offence of sexual grooming has not …

Rethinking The Regulatory Sandbox For Financial Innovation: An Assessment Of The Uk And Singapore, Christopher Chen

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

After the UK launched the first regulatory sandbox regime in 2016, the approach was quickly transplanted to numerous other countries as a means of promoting innovation, improving competition and enhancing financial inclusion. However, it remains unclear whether the approach can effectively achieve the relevant policy goals and thus justify the differential regulatory treatment. This chapter provides a broad overview of the regulatory sandbox regime and examines its potential benefits and problems. The chapter then provides some empirical evidence by analyzing the sandboxes awarded in the UK and Singapore between 2016 and 2018 with the aim of identifying what the businesses …

[Introduction To] Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter, Olivier Delers, Martin Sulzer-Reichel

Bookshelf

"Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography. In addition to offering new insights into his cult masterpieces, the 10 essays in this volume highlight the thematic and aesthetic continuities between his early films and his latest productions. Wenders's films have much to contribute to current conversations on intermediality, whether it be through his adaptations of important literary works or his filmic reinventions of famous paintings by Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth. Wenders has also positioned himself as a decidedly transnational and translingual filmmaker …

Importance Of Taxonomic Group, Life Stage And Circumstance Of Rescue Upon Wildlife Rehabilitation In Ontario, Canada, Gillian Kelly, Javier Delbarco-Trillo

Faculty Publications – Biological Sciences

Wildlife rehabilitation is an increasingly important and global practice, aiming towards advancements in animal welfare and species conservation. Although there are ongoing discussions on the benefits and limitations of wildlife rehabilitation, there is a general agreement on the importance of wildlife rehabilitation on improving the welfare of wild animals and identifying threats to wildlife. Determining which factors lead to a successful outcome of rehabilitation can allow wildlife rehabilitation centres to best focus their resources to benefit animals with the greatest chance of a successful release. In this study, three factors affecting the success of rehabilitation were evaluated: taxonomic group, life …

Privacy Injuries And Article Iii Concreteness, Peter Ormerod

Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court's 2016 decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins requires federal courts to investigate the "concreteness"of a plaintiff's injury, even after Congress has recognized the injury by statute. Spokeo's concreteness discussion is a confusing mixture of several distinct considerations,and there is little rhyme or reason to how the lower courts have interpreted and applied Spokeo to other statutorily authorized injuries.

This Article identifies four distinct informational injuries in the Court's past cases: injuries arising from the withholding, acquiring, using, and disseminating of information. To avoid Spokeo's mistakes, federal courts should give binding deference to Congress's decision to make an …

May 2020 Quicknotes, Southern Adventist University

QuickNotes – Advancement e-Newsletter

QuickNotes is an e-newsletter that comes from Advancement at Southern Adventist University. The May 2020 edition features the article, "On-Campus Classes Scheduled to Resume for Fall Semester."

Measuring Nurse Competence In The Emergency Department, Matthew Lojo

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Background: “Nurses provide essential care to the millions of people who are hospitalized each year as a result of illness or injury” (Smith, 2012, p. 172). The Institute of Medicine reported approximately 44,000-98,000 patients die annually resulting from a medical error, and health care errors ranked among the top 10 for the leading causes of death in the United States (Smith, 2012).

Problem: Nurse competence impacts safe and quality nursing, and several research studies investigated the measurement of nurse competence among nurses in various nursing settings (Flinkman et al., 2016). However, a review of the research revealed limited studies in …

Conflict In Communication: Evaluating Potential Predictors For Pro-Social Communication Outcomes, Paul Javier Villa

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The importance of communication in every aspect of our lives cannot be understated, in many ways it is the foundation upon which society rests. As a result of communication being ubiquitous in nature, it becomes inevitable that at some point conflict will occur as competing ideas, world views, or beliefs are exchanged. This inevitability, therefore, necessitates researchers make attempts to better understand the role conflict tendencies can play in influencing communication variables that are generally understood to be pro-social. The researcher administered a questionnaire to 226 college students from one private university and three community colleges on the west coast …

Facilitating Collaborative Supervision In A University Speech-Language Pathology Clinic, Benjamin K. Reece

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Clinical education is a key element of graduate school training in the field of speech-language pathology. Graduate students are required to obtain 375 supervised clinical practice hours in order to earn their provisional license and begin their career. Supervision of clinical hours is most often provided by experienced speech-language pathologists with minimal, if any, training in effective supervision practices.

Within the field of speech-language pathology, Anderson’s Continuum of Supervision (Anderson, 1988) is the most widely accepted model and provides a structure and sequence for supervisors to follow in order to facilitate the clinical development of their student clinician. Anderson’s model …

Designing Leadership: Using Design Thinking To Create, Practices, And Implement A Formal Leadership Development Program, Jon Samuel Wedding

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine what happens when design thinking is used to create a leadership development program, increase leadership competencies, and participants perceptions of design thinking. This study uses action research to examine the experiences and design thinking to create a leadership program in a formal hierarchical. This study collected data during a two-cycle action research process. The findings from this study revealed that design thinking can be used to create a formal leadership development program. The ability to use design thinking’s human centered design can also help increase the leadership competencies of trust and collaborations. …

Understanding The Experiences Of Underemployed First-Generation Hmong Graduates, Mong Vang

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Underemployment has a rich and lengthy body of literature spanning across multiple disciplines, such as economics, business, psychology, and sociology. Past scholars studying the phenomenon have provided a framework for understanding underemployment and have identified the harm it has on organizations and individuals. Although underemployment is not a new phenomenon, gaps are present in understanding how it affects first-generation, Hmong graduates. This study provides a framework for bridging this gap. As such, this study answered three questions related to how underemployed, first-generation, Hmong college graduates describe their experience finding adequate employment after graduation, perceive the relationship between their personal upbringing …

The Evaluation Of Schools To College And Career (S2c) Readiness Program For Middle School Student, Sima D. Gandhi

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There is a lack of research on what it means to be college and career ready at the middle school level, and this creates confusion for students when they enter high school and must select courses that are aligned with their college and career goals. This study sought to understand how the Schools to College and Career (S2C) Readiness Program impacts middle school students at the charter school. In order to understand this impact, the study looked at how the S2C Readiness Program relates to students’ understanding and awareness of CCR at the school.

Using a quantitative approach this study …

Amphibian Vocalization: Implications Of A Novel Laryngeal Muscle In The Calling Mechanisms Of The TúNgara Frog Engystomops Pustulosus, Amy D. Lagorio

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The current functional model of the anuran larynx includes four pairs of laryngeal muscles. Their contractions do not account, however, for the behavioral control of call complexity observed in male túngara frogs (Engystomops pustulosus), which optionally add a secondary note with distinct harmonic structure to their advertisement call. Examination of the túngara frog's laryngeal morphology through dissection, microtomography, and resin histology has revealed that the m. dilatator laryngis is divided into two separate bundles (superficial and deep). The superficial bundle closely matches the typical description of the m. dilatator laryngis and is well positioned to open the glottis. …

Midazole-Based Ph-Sensitive Convertible Liposomes For Anticancer Drug Delivery, Ruiqi Huang

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Solid tumors possess biological features that are different from those in healthy tissues, which provides opportunities of anticancer treatment by nanomedicines. Due to the presence of the fenestrated tumor vasculatures, nanomedicines can selectively accumulate in tumor tissues by the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. The acidic pH in tumor interstitium (pH 6.0-7.0) also provides a promising mechanism to trigger the nanomedicines to promote the cellular uptake of cargo drugs. The previously reported stealth liposomes coated with PEG are known to accumulate in tumors owing to their prolonged circulation time. The PEG coating on liposomes can hinder serum protein adsorption …