Digital Content Collection Development: A Case Study Of The Asian Cultural Documentation Center, Hamidreza Radfar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The growth and influence of cyberspace in people's daily lives and their efforts to access valuable digital content is evident. Therefore, the issue of how to prepare, produce and develop digital content is also of great importance. The purpose of this study is how the Asian Cultural Documentation Center (ACDC) prepares, produces and develops different types of digital content according to its goals and missions. The present research has been done by descriptive survey method with a case study approach. The results show that the ACDC still does not use an intelligent system to assess the needs of the audience. …

Measuring Impact Of ‘E-Shodh Sindhu’ In Scholarly Publications, Geeta Gadhvi, Roshni S. Yadav

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Publication quantity and quality are regarded as a measure of the success of individual scientists, researchers, academic institutes, or any universities in general. Therefore, ‘Publish or Perish’ pressure is seen among scientists and academicians. They prefer to publish their research in reputed journals. The main purpose of this study is to determine the usage of e-resources and determine the contribution of the universities to the academic community. E-resources play a valued role in research activity and it has quicken growth in usage of the research items in academic libraries. This study focuses on the usage and the impact of the …

Unveiling The Usage Of Technology In Higher Education Institutions (Heis) In Pakistan: A Study Employing Multi-Group Analysis (Mga), Muhammad Asif Munir Mr., Ghulam Shabir Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Technology has brought changes in the behavioral intentions of students in higher education institutions (HEIs). It also helps them to be creative and innovative during their studies at universities. Literature review reveals that technology acceptance model (TAM) has been widely studied but unfortunately the usage of technology at academia has never been comparatively measured between private and public higher education institutions. This study measures effects of TAM-core variables on academic performance of graduate students of public and private HEIs, additionally, the moderating role of academic self-efficacy between actual usage of social media and academic performance was tested. By using a …

Content Analysis Of Top View Youtube Videos On Open Educational Resources, Alekha Karadia

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

YouTube is a Web 2.0 platform of distributed video sharing, widely used by students, universities and scholars. This article looks into the Content Analysis of Top Viewed YouTube Videos on Open Educational Resources. The focus of analysis is on the sample of videos each scholar uploaded and categorized as “Open Educational Resources” in YouTube. To find out subject orientation of the videos such as business, entertainment, education etc. The data collected from the content analysis allows to understand what content is being shared and with what approach. All the videos address similar concepts and ideas regarding the integration and use …

Information Needs Of Mathematicians In Sri Lankan Universities, Abhirame Sivasanthiran, Mls, G D Manoja Nilanthi Samaradiwakara, Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study attempts to fill an essential knowledge gap on the information needs of the mathematicians in Sri Lankan universities. As the indispensability of the teaching and research of the university mathematicians towards all the other disciplines and various sectors of the country is widely understood, it is essential for the university libraries to methodically learn the characteristics of their information requirements for their academic endeavours. However, the unavailability of any such research output on the mathematicians of Sri Lanka led to this study with the objectives of examining the purposes of information, frequency of information seeking and the factors …

Evaluation Of Resources, Services And Systems Of Tevta College Libraries In Punjab, Ayub Aslam, Arslan Sheikh, Shamshad Ahmed

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose

This study aims to evaluate the resources, services and system of TEVTA libraries in the Punjab. A total of 40 libraries are established in TEVTA colleges in Punjab. In order to evaluate these libraries, their physical, information resources, services, systems and staff was main considerations of this study.

Methodology

This study was quantitative in nature; therefore, to achieve the objectives of this study a self-structured questionnaire was designed and distributed among the respondents. The data were collected from the librarians through an online questionnaire designed in Google forms. The collected data was analyzed through SPSS software version 21.

Findings …

Perceptions Of Librarians On The Usefulness Of Drm Technology In Protecting Against Copyright Violation, Arnold Mwanzu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of the study was to establish the perceptions of librarians on the usefulness of digital rights management systems in digital libraries as mechanisms of securing digital content from copyright violation in order to assess the general usefulness of the DRM technology. The study used Strathmore University library and Moi University Nairobi Campus library as the case studies. A Census was carried out because the population under study was small with a total of 34 respondents. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed in this study.

The study established that there exists a positive correlation between the awareness of …

Measuring The Extent Of Applying Metadata And Dublin Core Standards In University Libraries Of Jordan: An Analytical Study, Omar Al Jaradat, Fatema Ahmad Al- Samraie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims to identify the extent of Jordanian Public and Private University Libraries to implement the International Indexing standards of Metadata and Dublin Core at its websites. The study adopted the descriptive analytical method in two stages; the first is to analyze the websites according to Dublin Core standard in a manual way while the second stage is to use the Metachecker.net program as one of the famous software on the Internet that contains all the Metadata Tags for websites analysis, which enables the analysis of Metadata. The analysis program was able to identify (6) University libraries sites that …

Exploring The Practices For Knowledge Management By Doctors Of Services Hospital Lahore, Rashid Siddique Mr., Khurram Shahzad Mr., Muhammad Aamir Hashmi Dr., Imran Siddique Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

Goals:

The objectives of the study were to investigate the practices for capturing, sharing, and generating knowledge practiced by doctors and to explore the purposes of managing knowledge among doctors.

Methodology:

The nature of this study is quantitative. Survey research method was based on a self-administered questionnaire. The target population of this study is all senior and junior doctors whose are currently working in different department of services hospital Lahore. The simple random sample technique was used to select the participants from the whole population. There were 286 questionnaires which were distributed among the doctors of different departments randomly. …

Measuring The Awareness And Usage Level Of The Libraries By Law Students Of Law Colleges Of Lahore, Pakistan, Bushra Mansha Mrs., Muhammad Shahzad Chaudhry Dr., Imran Ghaffar Sulehri Mr., Mudassar Zafar Bhatti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In any society and institution the libraries play an important role in nation building and to create knowledgeable society. Law students during their whole life try to read and locate the relevant references related to their cases. Therefore, they are considered the information literate and able to locate the relevant information. During the studies, libraries and their professional usage make the law students able to locate their needed information from anywhere using their skills and abilities acquired during the studies. This study is conducted by following the quantitative research method and the population of the study was law students. Results …

User Satisfaction On The Use Of Kendriya Vidyalaya Libraries Of Guwahati, India: A Pilot Study, Nitupan Sarmah, Narendra Lahkar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is a pilot study of the user satisfaction in the Kendriya Vidyalaya Libraries of Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. The users of a school library generally are the students and the teaching and non -teaching staff of the Vidyalaya. A survey method was adopted for the collection of data and to address the research problem. KV libraries are well equipped with both human constituent and bibliographical constituent. The KV libraries are rendering some services and this paper is concentrated on the satisfaction of the users in the services provided by the library authority. A total number …

Hr Process Automation: A Bibliometric Analysis, Shubham Mishra, Monica Kunte, Netra Neelam, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Preeti Mulay

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Automation is interpreted as the replacement of manual operations by electronics and computer-controlled systems. Human resource management is an indispensable part of every firm be it the space of retail, healthcare, education or any other sector. Activities such as hiring new workers, training, or making sure that local labour laws are obeyed with HR processes and are a crucial part of every organisation. HR has typically been believed of as an extremely manual department procedure. Employees are accustomed to doing this manually and getting the job done themselves. But everything around the HR processes are changing rapidly. HR Automation is …

The Extent Of Online Platforms Utilization For Scholarly Research Work Dissemination: A Survey Of Academic Staff In African Universities, Valentine Joseph Owan, Michael Ekpenyong Asuquo Ph.D, Violet Makuku Ph.D., Eno Etudor-Eyo Ph.D.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

An assessment of the extent of the use of electronic platforms by African academic staff in universities to disseminate research was done in this study. The study is informed by the growing importance of online repositories and preprint servers in the scientific communication of scholarly output, especially in an era where the use of metrics for research appraisals and funding decisions is commonly practised. The quantitative research method was adopted, based on the descriptive survey research design. The snowball sampling technique was used for data collection. Data were collected from 1,977 respondents, distributed across 24 African countries, through the use …

On Trust Optimisation For Decentralised M2m Services, Besfort Shala

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The service provision in traditional Machine-to-Machine Communication (M2M) ecosystems relies on commercial service providers. Their services are implemented using centralised infrastructures and focus on specific business processes. Recently, the role of end-users and their personal environments became interesting in terms of service provision. Intelligent devices located in the end-user's environment can be used to create M2M services. These services enhance the competition in the M2M marketplace and provide more service variety. The end-user integration creates a decentralised network of service providers, coming with benefits such as energy efficiency or platform independence. However, inexperienced end-users and missing authorities monitoring the service …

Tracing Learning Environment In Java Programming Language, Sarah Alhammad

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The visualisation approach is one of the programming learning styles that has been taken into account in programming education. A collection of visualisation tools has emerged with the aim of assisting novice programmers in learning how to program. Each tool has its own set of features that may or may not be helpful in gaining a better understanding. The methods that we used in this study are focused on using memory referencing and visualisation to clarify what happens during individual program statement executions. Understanding the efficacy of current instructional resources is a critical component of gathering students' requirements and needs …

Identifying Social Signals From Human Body Movements For Intelligent Technologies, Madeleine Bartlett

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Numerous Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) contexts require the identification of human internal states such as emotions, intentions, and states such as confusion and task engagement. Recognition of these states allows for artificial agents and interactive systems to provide appropriate responses to their human interaction partner. Whilst numerous solutions have been developed, many of these have been designed to classify internal states in a binary fashion, i.e. stating whether or not an internal state is present. One of the potential drawbacks of these approaches is that they provide a restricted, reductionist view of the internal states being experienced by a human user. …

An Investigation Into The Roots Of Bernstein Via Cohomology Of Differential Form, Aqeel Noor

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This work considers the Bernstein polynomial and the methods to calculate it.We consider the polynomial f 2 C[x1;x2; : : : ;xn] and explain how to find the Bernstein polynomial, bf (s), and the operator D 2 An[s], which satisfies D f s+1 = bf (s) f s : The calculation of this polynomial depends on the Weyl algebra, An. We explain these calculations by a lot of examples for one dimensional, two dimensional and three dimensional polynomials. All algorithms which are developed to calculate the Bernstein polynomial did not gave a method to calculate the operator D above, in …

Wave Farms And Coastal Protection On Gravel Dominated Beaches, Cristobal Rodriguez-Delgado

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The repercussions produced by the use of fossil fuels, e.g. climate change and sea level rise, have increased attention on the development of renewable energies. The European Commission has adopted the replacement of carbon fuels by renewable energy sources as one of the main objectives for the XXI century. Among these, wave energy is poised to become one of the most important due to the extensive worldwide resource and comparatively low environmental impacts. Although this renewable energy is yet in an early stage of its development and further research is required, the global resource, including the Mediterranean Sea, provides a …

Dynamic Generation Of Spatial Referring Expressions For Social Robots, Christopher Wallbridge

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Robots are an increasing part of our daily lives. As robots become more pervasive it is important that we are able to interact with them naturally. The field of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) seeks to improve interactions between human and robot. People spend many years in their childhood learning to communicate the locations of objects naturally to other people. When trying to communicate the location of objects, people generate under-specified statements and then generate further repair if necessary to guide the listener as part of an interactive dialogue. The focus in HRI up until now has been on trying to …

A Novel User Oriented Network Forensic Analysis Tool, Dany Joy

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In the event of a cybercrime, it is necessary to examine the suspect’s digital device(s) in a forensic fashion so that the culprit can be presented in court along with the extracted evidence(s). But, factors such as existence and availability of anti-forensic tools/techniques and increasing replacement of hard disk drives with solid state disks have the ability to eradicate critical evidences and/or ruin their integrity. Therefore, having an alternative source of evidence with a lesser chance of being tampered with can be beneficial for the investigation. The organisational network traffic can fit into this role as it is an independent …

A Framework For Understanding And Establishing An Effective Information Security Culture, Alaa Tolah

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

A challenge facing organisations is information security, as security breaches pose a serious threat to sensitive information. Organisations face security risks in relation to their information assets, which also stems from their own employees. Individuals who work in organisations can cause serious risks, even though investments are generally provided to improve security control measures and other devices. Organisations need to focus on employee actions and behaviour to limit security failures, as they aim to establish effective security culture with employees acting as a natural safeguard for information assets. However, the literature review highlights the lack of prior research models that …

Autonomic Management Of Service Level Agreements In Cloud Computing, Stefan Edwin Karl Frey

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Autonomic Management of Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing Cloud computing has been one of the major trending topics of recent years in the Information Technology (IT) industry. In contrary to the previous IT service delivery models, where all the services and resources were hosted locally, the idea behind cloud computing is to deliver computing resources or services on-demand over a network on an easy pay-per-use business model. This paradigm change included almost all areas of the modern IT landscape, be it the storage and sharing of data for example with services like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive or …

Statistical Inference About Bivariate Survival Data With Semi-Competing Risks Using Copulas, Lexy Sorrell

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Bivariate, semi-competing risk data are survival endpoints where a terminal event can censor a non-terminal event, but not vice versa. An example is the endpoints of graft failure and death; death can censor graft failure, but graft failure cannot censor death. There are potential correlations between these endpoints as they are measured on the same individual. Traditional methods of calculating correlations cannot be used directly as censoring can occur on one or both survival endpoints. We develop methods using a copula-based approach to study the dependence structures between two survival endpoints while the marginal distributions are fixed. We use several …

Technology Strategy For Developing The Assistive Robotics Market, Gabriel Esteban Aguiar Noury

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Robotics has increased productivity in industries such as manufacturing, defence and construction but less so in healthcare where, despite the pressures from demographic changes, barriers to the adoption of assistive robotics (AR) persist. Due to the cutting-edge nature of the technology, the field requires studies that explore how it is developed and applied, effectively resulting in the development of an AR market in healthcare. Therefore, the research question for this thesis is ‘What strategy can be adopted to develop the AR market?’ This thesis adopted a Collaborative Action Research methodology to explore the development of an AR market in one …

Model Identification, Navigation, Guidance And Control Of Autonomous Sailboats, Ulysse Vautier

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The purpose of this study is to investigate novel methods on model identification, navigation, guidance and control of autonomous sailboats in order to sail robustly and efficiently in a wide variety of situations. The study has focused on the development of a robust platform, a model identification process for sailboats, robust control and path-planning methods. A hardware and software system was developed in order to build a research plat- form on which to experiment. Five sailboats were effectively adapted to be able to sail autonomously. Two one-meter long model sailboats, a two-meter long sailboat, a trimaran and a catamaran were …

Virtual Environments For Chemistry Education Using Gesture-Based Technology, Shaykhah Aldosari

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Gesture-based technology has considerably improved in recent years. Such technology allows users to interact naturally with objects in a three-dimensional virtual space. The Leap Motion controller is one example of a device using gesture-based technology, and such devices have vast potential in education. This research focuses on identifying the effects of gesture-based technology on learning, specifically on chemistry education. The research hypothesis is that such technologies in the education field positively influence the general learning experience and improve student comprehension. A chemistry educational system using a gesture-based device and integrating the experiment simulations and the visualisation of molecules in secondary …

Emotional Body Language Synthesis For Humanoid Robots, Asimina Marmpena

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In the next decade, societies will witness a rise in service robots deployed in social environments, such as schools, homes, or shops, where they will operate as assistants, public relation agents, or companions. People are expected to willingly engage and collaborate with these robots to accomplish positive outcomes. To facilitate collaboration, robots need to comply with the behavioural and social norms used by humans in their daily interactions. One such behavioural norm is the expression of emotion through body language. Previous work on emotional body language synthesis for humanoid robots has been mainly focused on hand-coded design methods, often employing …

Dc And Impedance Sensors Based On Graphene For The Early Detection Of Alzheimer’S Protein Biomarkers, Carrie Jean Haslam

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder, responsible for 60-70% of all dementia incidences. Estimates suggest that there are over 47 million people affected by dementia, of which ~65% suffer from AD worldwide, costing the global healthcare system ~$1 trillion annually or over 1% of global GDP. As such, the prevention and management of AD has now become a public health priority. Here five distinctively different biosensing models are reported, explicitly developed for the ultrasensitive and label-free detection of selective biomarkers associated with AD, as well as cancer, using impedance/admittance spectroscopy. The approach based on 4-probe (using direct current …

The Role Of Information Literacy On Family Life Education Curriculum Among Youths Of Ikwo Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, Chimeziem Chimdiadi Gabriela Udeze Phd, Joseph Oluchukwu Wogu Prof, Oluebube Amarauche Chukwu Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study determine the essentiality of information literacy in family life education among youths of the Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi State. The major purpose of the study was to ascertain the vital role of information literacy in upholding/transmitting family life curriculum from one generation to another among the inhabitants of the study area. Though the scholarly review, the study reviewed that family-life education is innate and therefore could be strengthened if adequate information is given and that youths of the area and beyond can also only uphold their family-life education if information literacy is properly inculcated. The study …

Blue Communities In Southeast Asia, V Cheung, A Bell, L Creencia, Le Fleming, Hc Goh, C Maharja, K Morrissey, I Richter, Ay-H Then, Mc Austen

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

MARINE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES The global ocean and its marine resources play an important role in the livelihoods, food and general wellbeing of humanity. This is especially relevant to the coastal communities in Southeast Asia where almost all the countries have extensive coastlines and a long and rich history of marine-related activities that are key contributors to their economies, social structures and human health. The Southeast Asian seas link the Pacific and Indian Oceans and are characterised by high diversity habitats including coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows, favoured by the tropical climate and heavy precipitation that transports nutrients to the …