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Impact Of Covid-19 On Parents/Guardians In The Library Profession Authors Stephanie Clare Roth,, Elizabeth Hinton, Stephanie Clare Roth, Bridget Jivanelli

Publications

Objective: The authors sought to collect qualitative data with support from the literature to elucidate the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. parents and guardians working in the library profession.

Methods: The research team conducted a literature search in January 2022, with an update completed in January 2023 of several bibliographic databases and Google including the search terms COVID-19, parents, guardians, librarians, workplace, among others. In addition, requests for participation in a survey was sent out over listservs within and outside of the Medical Library Association (MLA), including regional library groups, and on social media to collect stories from library professionals …

Re-Situating The Buffer State In International Relations: Nepal’S Relations With India And China, Bibek Chand

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

No abstract provided.

Research Data Management Practices And Challenges In Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Review, Subaveerapandiyan A

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This comprehensive review article delves into the current landscape of research data management (RDM) practices and challenges faced by academic libraries across various regions. Utilizing a wide range of studies and data collected from different countries, this article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of RDM services, the role of librarians, and the advancements in technology within academic libraries. The review explores the importance of RDM in supporting open science, data sharing, and reproducibility while also shedding light on areas that require further development and improvement.

Participatory Mapping Of Tree Equity, Preferences, And Environmental Justice In Portland, Or, Katharine Vezin Gregory

Dissertations and Theses

Studies have shown that marginalized communities do not have the same access as more privileged groups to urban tree canopy cover due to historic and current processes of discrimination and disinvestment. This study explores the lived experiences, narratives, and values related to trees and greenspaces for residents of Portland, OR, through participatory mapping focus groups. It uses an environmental justice and urban political ecology framework to examine how values, lived experiences, and narratives compare for Portland residents across neighborhoods, socio-economic status, and racial or ethnic identity and how the changes that matter to residents can inform more just urban greening …

May Microbial Ecological Baseline Exist In Continental Groundwater?, Sining Zhong, Shungui Zhou, S Liu, Jiawen Wang, Chenyuan Dang, Qian Chen, Jinyun Hu, Shanqing Yang, Chunfang Deng, Wenpeng Li, J Liu, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Jinren Ni

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Background Microbes constitute almost the entire biological community in subsurface groundwater and play an important role in ecological evolution and global biogeochemical cycles. Ecological baseline as a fundamental reference with less human interference has been investigated in surface ecosystems such as soils, rivers, and ocean, but the existence of groundwater microbial ecological baseline (GMEB) is still an open question so far. Results Based on high-throughput sequencing information derived from national monitoring of 733 newly constructed wells, we find that bacterial communities in pristine groundwater exhibit a significant lateral diversity gradient and gradually approach the topsoil microbial latitudinal diversity gradient with …

Visual Question Answering: A Survey, Gehad Assem El-Naggar

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been an emerging field in computer vision and natural language processing that aims to enable machines to understand the content of images and answer natural language questions about them. Recently, there has been increasing interest in integrating Semantic Web technologies into VQA systems to enhance their performance and scalability. In this context, knowledge graphs, which represent structured knowledge in the form of entities and their relationships, have shown great potential in providing rich semantic information for VQA. This paper provides an abstract overview of the state-of-the-art research on VQA using Semantic Web technologies, including knowledge …

Identifying Patient Perceptions Of Inequality In Public Health Care Services: Evidence From A Single Indian Administrative District, Barnali Biswas, Piyal Basu Roy

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Assessment of patient experiences is an essential step to revamp patient-centered care and identify systemic effectiveness as part of universal health coverage. This paper analyzes the variation of health care at different levels of the public health care system in India by measuring patients’ experience with the care they have received in the Alipurduar district of India.

Methods: From May 2021 to April 2022, stratified sampling technique was applied to collect primary data from 450 patients having different health problems from different levels of the public health care system. In addition, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) …

Secondary Analysis Of A James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership To Facilitate Knowledge Translation In Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (Dcm): Insights From Ao Spine Recode-Dcm, Benjamin Davies, Jamie Brannigan, Oliver D. Mowforth, Danyal Khan, Angus G.K. Mcnair, Lindsay Tetreault, Iwan Sadler, Ellen Sarewitz, Bizhan Aarabi, Brian Kwon, Toto Gronlund, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Carl Moritz Zipser, Peter John Hutchinson, Shekar Kurpad, James S. Harrop, Jefferson R. Wilson, James D. Guest, Michael G. Fehlings, Mark R.N. Kotter

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: To explore whether a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership could provide insights on knowledge translation within the field of degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM).

DESIGN: Secondary analysis of a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership process for DCM.

PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: DCM stake holders, including spinal surgeons, people with myelopathy and other healthcare professionals, were surveyed internationally. Research suggestions submitted by stakeholders but considered answered were identified. Sampling characteristics of respondents were compared with the overall cohort to identify subgroups underserved by current knowledge translation.

RESULTS: The survey was completed by 423 individuals from 68 different countries. A total …

Hurricanes: Climate Change & Social Inequality, Hannah Szymanski

The Mall

No abstract provided.

Creatività Diasporiche Dialoghi Transnazionali Tra Teoria E Arti, Simone Brioni Dr., Loredana Polezzi Dr., Franca Sinopoli

Department of English Faculty Publications

Creatività diasporiche è un volume bilingue costituito da tredici conversazioni tra studiosi/studiose di materie umanistiche e artisti/artiste il cui lavoro si concentra sul tema della migrazione e dell’identità. I contributi nella raccolta abbracciano forme di produzione che vanno dalla letteratura alle arti visive, dal cinema alla performance teatrale, dai podcast alla musica rap, mentre tra le tematiche ricorrenti emergono dibattiti su identità, lingua, migrazione, memoria e cittadinanza. Questo volume è anche un invito a ripensare il lavoro creativo e quello accademico, in area umanistica, come intrinsecamente legati al dialogo e alla collaborazione. Ciascuna conversazione si concentra sull’Italia intesa come un …

The Relationship Between Water Temperature And Proximity To Surface Urban Heat Islands Within The Lower Chesapeake Bay Watershed For The Summer Of 2019, Sarah Kerner

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) are land surfaces with high concentrations of impervious surfaces like roofs, roads, sidewalks and other infrastructures that trap, absorb, and re-emit heat throughout the day/night and typically present higher temperatures than their surrounding rural areas. In this study, I evaluate how presence of and distance to SUHIs are associated with water temperature in the lower Chesapeake Bay watershed for the summer of 2019. When heavy precipitation events occur, flooding creates stormwater runoff, which is exposed to the hotter temperatures in urban areas. This introduces thermal pollution to nearby rivers and streams disrupting aquatic ecosystems. The …

Hypertension Education To Enhance Health Literacy, Kylee Westrip

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: The health of patients suffers greatly when their health literacy is not addressed through evidence-based education material.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was, in adult patients with hypertension (P), how does evidence-based education material (I) compared to the current state of verbal instructions provided (C) affect health literacy rates based on the high blood pressure health literacy scale (O) within 12-weeks (T)?

Evidence: The literature evidence revealed three strong themes, which included information on who is most at risk for low health literacy levels, education delivery methods, and specific education to be used.

Intervention: …

The Perception Of Autonomous Driving In Rural Communities, Kevin Chang, Jade Williams

CSET Project Reports

Autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles have the capability to either fully or partially replace a human driver in the navigation to a destination. To better understand how receptive society will be to these types of vehicles, this study focused on the perceived level of trust in autonomous vehicles (AVs) by rural drivers and passengers. An online survey that examined the behavioral and value-based perspectives of drivers was developed and distributed to respondents across the United States, and a total of 1,247 valid responses were collected and analyzed. Based on the results, rural (and non-rural) respondents had similar levels of trust when …

Assessing The Impacts Of Increasing The Availability Of Non-Automobile Modes Of Transportation On Carbon Emissions And Accessibility In Worcester, William Schechter

Sustainability and Social Justice

Over-reliance on cars in Worcester, Massachusetts represents a significant barrier to the introduction of accessible and ecologically sound modes of transportation. Through increases in frequency, accessibility, and service area, bus transportation in Worcester can offer a viable alternative to personal vehicle usage. In conjunction with the changes to buses, improvements to infrastructure for non-motorist transportation modes such as cycling, walking and assistive equipment will further reduce reliance on personal motor vehicles. Additional policies discouraging the use of motor vehicles is also suggested, with limited traffic zones and vehicle weight restrictions being implemented. With the developments and policy outlined within this …

The State Of Homelessness In Nevada, 2020, Annie Vong, Mae Ling Catayong, Christine Guardian, Abigail Boron, Maria Jerinic, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Demography

This fact sheet examines data on homelessness in Nevada between 2007 and 2020. The original report, “State of Homelessness,” by the National Alliance to End Homelessness includes the number of homeless individuals that slept outside on any given night, how many beds in shelters went empty, and the number of homeless individuals per 10,000 individuals in each continuum of care in Nevada.

The Duality Of Deaths In The Sea, Debangana Chatterjee

Popular Media

“Loss of life is tragic, period. However, one cannot help but notice the selective mourning, which seems to stem from sociopolitical apathy towards the refugees. The tragic agony in the death of the refugees is normalised and almost in the same breath, the deaths of the affluent reverberated across the world.”

This article draws a contrast between the rescue efforts and media attention devoted to the Titan submersible tragedy and the deaths of asylum seekers off the coast of Greece in June 2023: “two incidents of tragic deaths in the international seas, miles apart both in terms of location and …

Chatgpt, Lamda, And The Hype Around Communicative Ai: The Automation Of Communication As A Field Of Research In Media And Communication Studies, Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Stephan Dreyer, Juliane Jarke, Sigrid Kannengießer, Christian Katzenbach, Rainer Malaka, Michaela Pfadenhauer, Cornelius Puschmann, Wolfgang Schulz

Human-Machine Communication

The aim of this article is to more precisely define the field of research on the automation of communication, which is still only vaguely discernible. The central thesis argues that to be able to fully grasp the transformation of the media environment associated with the automation of communication, our view must be broadened from a preoccupation with direct interactions between humans and machines to societal communication. This more widely targeted question asks how the dynamics of societal communication change when communicative artificial intelligence—in short: communicative AI—is integrated into aspects of societal communication. To this end, we recommend an approach that …

Menstrual Inequality In Women's Correctional Facilities, Tara Lee Sexton

Online Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this analysis is to examine how those who menstruate while incarcerated experience menstrual inequality within correctional settings. This research focuses on vulnerable populations of menstruators most likely to experience menstrual inequality and the underlying causes of this systematic inequality within the prison industrial complex in the United States. The content of this work will focus on how menstruating bodies face stigma, discrimination, and punitive treatment within correctional institutions throughout the United States. Based on the lack of access to feminine hygiene products and adequate restroom facilities within correctional institutions, menstruators face potential issues of privacy, concealment, and …

Quid Multa?: What More? A Translation And Digital Annotation Of Selected Letters From Cicero To Atticus, Kelly Zach

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Modern Classicists are modernizing and digitizing the field of Classical Studies with great success. Philology, translation, and annotation are all aspects that have been evolved using techniques from the Digital Humanities. This project is a foray into the intersection between Classics and Digital Humanities combining traditional Classical work with a digital aspect. This digital aspect of annotation using a dependency grammar-based approach and intuitive software enhances the understanding and translation of selected letters from Cicero to Atticus.

Constrained Tropical Land Temperature-Precipitation Sensitivity Reveals Decreasing Evapotranspiration And Faster Vegetation Greening In Cmip6 Projections, Boyuan Zhu, Yongzhou Cheng, Xuyue Hu, Yuanfang Chai, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Louise Slater

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Over the tropical land surface, accurate estimates of future changes in temperature, precipitation and evapotranspiration are crucial for ecological sustainability, but remain highly uncertain. Here we develop a series of emergent constraints (ECs) by using historical and future outputs from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Earth System Models under the four basic Shared Socio-economic Pathway scenarios (SSP126, SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585). Results show that the temperature sensitivity to precipitation during 2015–2100, which varies substantially in the original CMIP6 outputs, becomes systematically negative across SSPs after application of the EC, with absolute values between −1.10 °C mm−1 day …

Green Growth And Competitiveness In Eu Climate Policy: Paradigm Shift Or 'Plus De La Même Chose'?, O Fitch-Roy, I Bailey

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Mothers Born Or Produced?: An Analysis Of The Mother-Daughter Relationship In Well-Behaved Indian Women, Shivalika Agarwal, Nagendra Kumar

Journal of International Women's Studies

The word motherhood has been used for centuries without thorough examination of what it encompasses. Literature exhibits the changing reality and needs of mothering irrespective of the outcome: imposed motherhood, and institutionalized mothers. Motherhood has been bifurcated in meaning as “the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children; and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential-- and all women--shall remain under male control” (Rich 13). A woman’s biological capacity to bear and nurture a child has been a significant factor in the existence of human life. Another facet of this is the …

Female Representation In Hard Times By Charles Dickens, د / نبراس احمد عبدالله

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The fight for women's emancipation has existed for centuries, dormant in the previous era. Still, the sprouting of radical activity in the women's movement gathered impetus and peaked in the late Victorian era. The feminist agitation of the era was a noticeable feature that shocked the Victorian conservative. The term was first used by French dramatist Alexander Dumas in 1872. From the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy to the present, the female tends to be defined by negative reference-weak, docile, virile, and sensual. The study of Victorian feminists is a source of interest to the extent of modern feminism. The …

حصاد مياه الامطار وامكانية استثمارة في حوض وادي العلية في بادية الجزيرة العراقية, أ.م.د عبد الباقي خميس حمادي, الباحث. عمر عبد الجليل تركي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

توصلت الدراسة الى امكانية محدودة لتطبيق نظام حصاد مائي في المنطقة ، بالاعتماد على المعايير الجيولوجية والتضاريسية والهيدرولوجية ، من خلال اختيار موقع الخزان الامثل المقترح لحصاد المياه لغرض خزن المياه والاستفادة منها في فترات الجفاف، لتنمية الاراضي الزراعية وزراعة محصول القمح عن طريق هذا الحصاد والعمل على استخدام نظام المرشات (زراعة الديم )، وحددت كمية المياه التي يمكن خزنها في الحزان الامثل بحوالي (1176000000م3) ، وهذه النتائج التي تم التوصل اليها تساعد مستقبلا عند تطبيقها الى تنمية المنطقة من عدة جوانب كتنمية الاراضي الزراعية وتوسيع المراعي ، من خلال ابراز دور الحصاد المائي كوسيلة لتعويض النقص …

الاثار السلبية للتوسع السكني والمعالجات التخطيطية والتوقعات المستقبلية لنمو السكان في قضاء الراشدية, الاستاذ الدكتور حاتم حمودي حسن, الباحث. محمود مجيد رشاد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يهدف البحث الحالي الى التعرف على الاثار السلبية للتوسع السكني والمعالجات التخطيطية والتوقعات المستقبلية لنمو السكان في قضاء الراشدية ، حيث تعد مشكلة الزحف العمراني على حساب الاراضي الزراعية من المشاكل التي ادت الى تناقص الاراضي الزراعية في قضاء الراشدية بسبب النمو السكاني المتزايد في منطقة الدراسة والهجرات المتعاقبة والمستمرة من مدينة بغداد مما احدث استعمالات ارض مختلفة على حساب الاراضي الزراعية .

حيث تشهد الكثير من المدن والمناطق حول العالم توسعا سكنيا كبيرا وهذا الأمر يترتب عليه العديد من الآثار السلبية على البيئة والمجتمع، وقضاء الراشدية ليس استثناء من ذلك.

وازداد الزحف العمراني بعد عام 2003 حيث ادى الى …

نمذجة الملائمة البيئية لزراعة الرز في سهل عقرة الجنوبي بالاعتماد على تكامل منهج Mcdm وتقنيات الجيوماتيكس, د. سمير صباح رجب ئاكره يى

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يعد التكامل بين منهج اتخاذ القرار متعددة المعايير او (MCDM) و تقنيات الجيوماتيكس نهجا متجددا و واعدا لحل المشاكل المتعلقة بصنع القرارات في مجموعة واسعة من المجالات المتعلقة بإدارة البيئة و التخطيط الحضري و النقل و النشاط الزراعي وغيرها ..، اذ يوفر (MCDM) اطار منهجي منظم لتقييم العديد من المعايير المتداخلة و المتعارضة في مشكلات صنع القرار، بينما يوفر ال(Geomatics) مجموعة من الادوات و التقنيات الخاصة بمعالجة وتحليل البيانات الجغرافية المكانية وتخزينها وعرضها، ومن خلال الجمع بين كلتاهما يمكن لمتخذي القرار الاستفادة من المعلومات الغنية التي تشتق عن تقييم خيارات القرار واختيار الافضل منها …

مظاهر الانزلاقات الارضية المؤثرة في طريق كويه - بيستانه في جبل هيبت سلطان ( دراسة في الجيومورفولوجيا التطبيقية ), ا.م.د. سنور أحمد رسول

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يتناول هذا البحث مخاطر الانزلاقات الأرضية التي يتعرض لها طريق هيبت سلطان وتاثيراته في الانسان والبيئة. وذلك في منطقة الطريق الرابط بين كوية وبيستانة على جبل هيبت سلطان والذي يعبر الجبل بطريق متعرج (زكزاك)، وهو طريق رئيسي تستخدمه السيارات وشاحنات النفط. يتعرض هذا الطريق الى مخاطر حركة المواد (MASS WASTING ) بأنواع عديدة في أماكن عديدة إلا أن أكثرها خطرا هي الحركات التي يتعرض لها الطريق في جزئه العلوي، حيث تميل الطبقات الصخرية بزاوية كبيرة تصل الى أكثر من (60 درجة) وباتجاه انحدار الجبل ومجاورة الطريق من الجهة الأخرى للوادي وبانحدار يصل الى ( 8- 14 ْ). يتعرض هذا …

Issue 422: July 13-27, 2023, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

The Realisation Of Grammatical Tone In Cigogo Verbs, Amani J. Chipalo

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This descriptive study aims to investigate how grammatical tone is realized in Cigogo verbs. The information was gathered through interviews and oral history techniques in the villages of Muungano, Ilolo, and Ndebwe in the Mvumi division. The replies from the interviews and the storytelling were captured using an MP3 recorder. The verb forms were then evoked for the analysis of the tone patterns based on the autosegmental theory. The findings show that Cigogo uses a grammatical tone to convey the perfective aspect, imperative mood, and reflexiveness in the past tense (immediate past). The kind of verb stem determines where the …

Time-Varying Predictability Of Financial Stress On Inequality In United Kingdom, Edmond Berisha, David Gabauer, Rangan Gupta, Jacobus Nel

Department of Economics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose: Existing empirical evidence suggests that episodes of financial stress (crises) can act as driver of growth of inequality. Consequently, in this study, the authors explore the time-varying predictive power of an index of financial stress for growth in income (and consumption) inequality in the UK. The authors focus on the UK since income (and consumption) inequality data are available at a high frequency, i.e. on a quarterly basis for over 40 years (June, 1975 to March, 2016). Design/methodology/approach: The authors use Wang and Rossi's approach to analyze the time-varying impact of financial stress on inequality. Hence, the method provides …