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What Kind Of #Communication Is Twitter? A Psycholinguistic Perspective On Communication In Twitter For The Purpose Of Emergency Coordination, Hemant Purohit, Andrew Hampton, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth, John Flach

Kno.e.sis Publications

The present research aims to detect coordinated citizen response within social media traffic to assist emergency response. We use domain-independent linguistic properties as the first step in narrowing the candidate set of messages for domain-dependent and computationally intensive analysis.

การรู้สารนิเทศของนิสิตปริญญาตรี จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย Information Literacy Of Chulalongkorn University Undergraduate Students, จินดารัตน์ เบอรพันธุ์

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

การรู้สารนิเทศเป็นทักษะพื้นบานที่มีความสำคัญต่อการเรียนในระดับอุดมศึกษา ผลการศึกษาเกี่ยวกับการรู้สารนิเทศของนิสิตนักศึกษาในประเด็นต่าง ๆ จึงเป็นประโยชน์แก่หน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้อในการประเมินและกำหนดแนวทางการส่งเสริมทักษะการรู้สารนิเทศแก่นิสิตนักศึกษาได้อย่างเหมาะสม บทความนี้นำเสนอข้อสรุปผลการศึกษาจากงานวิจัย 2 เรื่อง ซึ่งเกี่ยวกับการรู้สารนิเทศของนิสิตปริญญาตรี จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย โดยเน้นในด้านการตระหนักรู้ขอบเขตของสารนิเทศที่ต้องการ การใช้กลยุทธ์สืบค้นเพื่อเข้าถึงสารนิเทศ การประเมินสารนิเทศ และการใช้สารนิเทศให้เกิดประโยชน์ได้อย่างเหมาะสมถูกต้อง Information literacy is a key basic skill for studying in higher education. The research results on students’ information literacy will, therefore, be useful to related agencies for assessing and planning to Promote their students’ information literacy appropriately. This article presents the research results of two studies investigating Chulalongkorn University undergraduates’ information literacy, particularly on their recognition of information needs, searching strategies to locate and access information, information evaluation, and information use.

บทวิจารณ์หนังสือ (Book Review) เรื่อง: Introduction To Information Science By David Bawden And Lyn Robinson วิจารณ์โดย สมศักดิ์ ศรีบริสุทธิ์สกุล, สมศักดิ์ ศรีบริสุทธิ์สกุล

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

Bawden and Robinson’s the latest textbook is a pleasure to read because they depict historic dimensions, philosophical paradigms, basic concepts, theoretical domains, and substantive aspects of information science (s) with such clarity and precision. The key readings and references provided in each chapter, including additional resources at the final section of this book, are noteworthy for delving into further information on the basis of personal interests. Bawden and Robinson’s “Introduction to Information Science” is different from the others in the market because of its emphasis. Since the authors intend to focus on basic principles and theories of information science (s) …

รายชื่อวิทยานิพนธ์ ปีการศึกษา 2554, คณะอักษรศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

No abstract provided.

การจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือนในห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัย Managing Virtual Reference Services In, ระวิภร พิมพขันธ์, อรนุช เศวตรัตนเสถียร

วารสารบรรณารักษศาสตร์ (Library Science Journal)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษา การจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือนของห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยในด้านวัตถุประสงค์ การจัดการ และการให้บริการ รวมถึงปัญหาในการจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือนของห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัย โดยใช้ แบบสอบถามในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลจากผู้รับผิดชอบหลักในการจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือนในห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยที่มีฐานะเป็นห้องสมุดกลางและมีการจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือน จำนวนทั้งหมด 64 แห่ง ได้รับแบบสอบถามกลับคืนมา จำนวน 45 ชุด (ร้อยละ 70.03) ผลการศึกษา พบว่า ห้องสมุดจำนวนมากที่สุดจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือนเพื่ออำนวยความสะดวกแก้ผู้ใช้ในการติดต่อกับ บุคลากรที่ให้บริการได้ทุกที่และทุกเวลา ในด้านการจัดการ พบว่า ห้องสมุดส่วนใหญ่ไม่กำหนดนโยบายเกี่ยวกับการจัดบริการ อ้างอิงเสมือน และไม่ใช้งบประมาณในการจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือน ทั้งนี้ ห้องสมุดจำนวนมากที่สุดมี บรรณารักษ์ฝ่าย/งานบริการ เป็นผู้รับผิดชอบหลักในการจัดบริการและให้บริการ สำหรับการประชาสัมพันธ์บริการอ้างอิงเสมือนนั้น ห้องสมุดส่วน ใหญ่มีการประชาสัมพันธ์บริการอ้างอิงเสมือน แต่ไม่ประเมินบริการอ้างอิงเสมือน สำหรับด้านการให้บริการ พบว่า ห้องสมุดจำนวนมากที่สุดให้บริการอ้างอิงเสมือนทั้งแบบเอกเทศและแบบความร่วมมือ รวมทั้งเปิดให้บริการทั้งในเวลาทำการและล่วง เวลา ทั้งนี้ ห้องสมุดจำนวนมากที่สุดให้บริการอ้างอิงเสมือนผ่านเทคโนโลยีเว็บ 2.0 โดยเฉพาะเครือข่ายสังคม ส่วนปัญหาใน การจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือนนั้น พบว่า ปัญหาที่มีค่าเฉลี่ยสูงสุด คือ ห้องสมุดกำหนดนโยบายในการจัดบริการอ้างอิงเสมือน ไม่ชัดเจน This study was a survey research which was aimed to investigate the management of virtual reference service in university libraries, in terms of objectives, management, and services, as well as problems in managing virtual reference service. Sixty-four questionnaires were distributed to collect data from the staff members mainly responsible for managing …

Does Terrain Slope Really Dominate Goal Searching?, Daniele Nardi

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

If you can locate a target by using one reliable source of information, why would you use an unreliable one? A similar question has been faced in a recent study on homing pigeons, in which, despite the presence of better predictors of the goal location, the slope of the floor in an arena dominated the searching process. This piece of evidence seems to contradict straightforward accounts of associative learning, according to which behavior should be controlled by the stimulus that best predicts the reward, and has fueled interest toward one question that, to date, has received scarce attention in the …

The Welfare Of Animals In The Veal Industry

Agribusiness Reports

Intensive confinement of calves raised for veal has long raised pointed concerns regarding the animals’ welfare. Traditional production practices include individually isolating calves in narrow wooden stalls or pens, which severely restrict movement, feeding the animals an all-liquid diet deliberately low in iron, and prematurely weaning the animals. Stressful conditions lead to a high incidence of stereotypic behavior and illness. Scientific reviews of the welfare of intensively confined calves raised for veal have concluded that the young animals suffer when reared in conventional systems.

The Welfare Of Intensively Confined Animals In Battery Cages, Gestation Crates, And Veal Crates

Agribusiness Reports

Within U.S. animal agriculture, the majority of egg-laying hens, pregnant sows, and calves raised for veal are reared in battery cages, gestation crates, and veal crates, respectively. The intensive confinement of these production systems severely impairs the animals’ welfare, as they are unable to exercise, fully extend their limbs, or engage in many important natural behaviors. As a result of the severe restriction within these barren confinement systems, animals can experience significant and prolonged physical and psychological assaults. Indeed, extensive scientific evidence shows that intensively confined farm animals are frustrated, distressed, and suffering.

Be Your Own Architect: Manage Renovation Projects Internally - Part Ii, Eric C. Shoaf

Publications

Larger library building projects usually require an architect to manage design and construction, but these days many libraries find that the results of space planning often are implemented in smaller less-expensive pieces rather than a single large project. Many of these projects involve repurposing space freed from shelving or other uses, where the total of the project is to remove the shelves and
place new furniture. Further, many have realized that architects and engineers
are expensive, and when it comes to renovating an open space, it may be
possible to use internal library staff to complete the project. Here are …

Peer Influence Of Non-Industrial Private Forest Owners In The Western Upper Peninsula Of Michigan, Jillian R. Schubert, Audrey L. Mayer

College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Publications

Understanding how non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners gain and share information regarding the management of their property is very important to policy makers, yet our knowledge regarding how and to what degree this information flows over privately owned landscapes is limited. The work described here seeks to address this shortfall. Widely administered surveys with close-ended questions may not adequately capture this information flow within NIPF owner communities. This study used open-ended questions in interviews of clusters of NIPF owners to determine whether and to what extent owners influence each other directly (through conversations or referrals to sources of advice) or …

Slow Tourism At The Caribbean's Geographical Margins, Benjamin F. Timms, Dennis Conway

Social Sciences

The Caribbean tourism industry owes much of its success to beneficial geographical site and situation factors. Yet these geographical advantages have also contributed to the mass tourism-related pressures of economic dependency, social division and environmental degradation. We argue geographically marginal locales in the Caribbean have the potential to develop alternative tourism models that ameliorate these negative repercussions. With its conceptual roots originating from the slow food movement and theoretically rooted in Herman Daly’s ‘soft growth’ development, we propose slow tourism as a viable soft growth model that is a more culturally sensitive and sustainable genre of alternative tourism. This new …

Lister Hill Letter - July 2012, Lister Hill Library

Lister Hill Letter (2011-2015)

No abstract provided.

Comparative User Experiences Of Next-Generation Catalogue Interfaces, Rice Majors

Staff publications, research, and presentations

One of the presumed advantages of next-generation library catalogue interfaces is that the user experience is improved—that it is both richer and more intuitive. Often the interfaces come with little or no user-facing documentation or imbedded “help” for patrons based on an assumption of ease of use and familiarity of the experience, having followed best practices in use on the Web. While there has been much gray literature (published on library Web sites, etc.) interrogating these implicit claims and contrasting the new interfaces to traditional Web-based catalogues, this article details a consistent and formal comparison of whether users can actually …

Juridical Framings Of Immigrants In The United States And France: Courts, Social Movements, And Symbolic Politics, Leila Kawar

Political Science Faculty Publications

This paper reexamines the engagement of U.S. and French courts with immigration politics, aiming to provide a fuller accounting of how law and immigration politics shape one another. Jurisprudential principles are placed in national and historical context, elucidating the role of rights-oriented legal networks in formulating these arguments during the 1970s and early 1980s. The analysis traces how these judicial constructions of immigrants subsequently contributed to catalyzing a transformation of immigration politics in both countries. Immigrant rights jurisprudence is shown to be produced by, as well as productive of, broader political values, agendas, and identities.

Office Of Ministry With The Deaf Newsletter, July 2012

Office of Ministry with the Deaf Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Springfield, MA

Office of Ministry with the Deaf Newsletter Finding Aid

Editor’S Introduction Transpersonal Psychology At 45, Glenn Hartelius

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Dissipative Processes In Psychology: From The Psyche To Totality, Manuel Almendro, Daniella Weber

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This paper articulates a possible framework for understanding and resolving psychopathological

phenomena from the perspective of chaos theory and based on the application of Ilya

Prigogine’s concepts of dissipative structures and processes. Twenty-eight years in clinical

practice have shown the human being to be memory-inheritance, which produces a type of

“psychological DNA.” The personality is thereby crystallized, generating dynamic patterns

(fractals) in its interference with reality. Although necessary for living, this crystallization

is imprisoning. Once the shadow of memory has been resolved and dissolved, the person

achieves reorganizing and transrational processes. We develop the concepts of the emergent …

Spirituality And Hallucinogen Use: Results From A Pilot Study Among College Students, Adam Stasko, Satya P. Rao, Amy Pilley

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Anthropologists have studied the use of hallucinogens as a spiritual tool by indigenous

populations since the turn of the 20th century. However, literature is sparse in describing

use by non-indigenous populations. Using a study population of students from a university

in the Southwest United States, the current study investigated the spiritual development and

meaning that college students place on their use of hallucinogenic substances. The spiritual

framework developed by Love and Talbot (1999) and a transpersonal anthropological

approach were used to guide the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with

each participant. Results indicated that participants used hallucinogens for both spiritual …

Introduction To Special Topic Section: Shamanism, Adam J. Rock

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Shamans As Healers, Counselors, And Psychotherapists, Stanley Krippner

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Shamanic models of healing, counseling, and psychotherapy differ from Western models in that

they emphasize closeness to the natural world as well as to one’s body and life’s spiritual dimensions.

Shamanic practices reflect the ideals of harmony and knowledge. In shamanism, there is no division

between “mind” and “body,” hence what Westerners refer to as “mental illness” is seen as part of

the total client being treated by a shaman, a perspective that often includes the client’s family,

community, and the world of “spirits.”

Experiences Of “Soul Journeys” In The World’S Religions: The Journeys Of Mohammed, Saints Paul And John, Jewish Chariot Mysticism, Taoism’S Highest Clarity School, And Shamanism., Roger Walsh

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

“Soul journeys” are a central practice of shamanism. However, they have also been important

in many other religious traditions and have exerted a major impact on religions, cultures, and

history. This article surveys some important journeys in the world’s religions such as those of

Mohammed, the Christian saints Paul and John, Jewish Chariot Mysticism, Taoism’s Highest

Clarity tradition, and shamanism. The article explores the experiences of these journeys, techniques

for inducing them, culturally specific features, and the range of metaphysical interpretations of

them. It also examines some of the surprising ways in which journeys are currently impacting

Western culture, ranging …

A Reply To Abramson’S Response To My “Beyond Mind” Papers And Some Reflections On Wilber V, Elias Capriles

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Icda Midwest Region E-Newsletter, July 2012

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

St. Dominic Deaf Center, July-August-September 2012

Saint Dominic Deaf Center

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Houston, TX

Saint Dominic Deaf Center Finding Aid

Announcement: The Indians Of The Northern And Southern Districts Of North America: Levenshtein Comparisons Of The Tribe Lists From The 1764 ‘Plan For The Future Management Of Indian Affairs.’, Charles D. Bernholz, Brian T. O'Grady

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The Northern and Southern Districts of the British government in America contained tribes of Indians that were specifically enumerated prior to the preparation of the 1764 Plan for the future management of Indian affairs. That Board of Trade policy reassigned the responsibility for Indian affairs to the imperial government, rather than leaving it to be mediated by the individual colonies. Fourteen variants of those lists, from official and public sources, were compared with Levenshtein’s edit distance algorithm to assess similarity and provenance. Table I and Table II (Excel spreadsheets) are attached (below).

Transpersonal Effects Of Exposure To Shamanic Use Of Khoomei (Tuvan Throat Singing): Preliminary Evaluations From Training Seminars, Vladislav Matrenitsky, Harris L. Friedman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Khoomei is a Tuvan Siberian shamanic practice involving overtone throat singing. One hundred eighty-one Western participants completed questionnaires after attending Khoomei seminars, asking about the following: motivation of people to learn shamanic throat singing; self-perception at the levels of body, energy, and mind before-and-after the seminar; feelings and sensations from practicing throat singing; transpersonal experience during throat singing; experience of inner vibrations from listening to the singing; and general state and feelings after seminar. In general, most participants reported many benefits from attending the seminars, although a few reported mild negative effects (e.g., dizziness and sadness). Of particular interest are …

Sexuality As A Transformational Path: Exploring The Holistic Dimensions Of Human Vitality, Samuel A. Malkemus, Mariana T, Romero

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This article explores a holistic vision of human sexuality by contrasting it to the prevailing

trend of “cognicentrism” in sexological studies. To this end the authors propose that a

novel understanding of sexuality as a creative force of life energy can greatly enhance such

cognicentric approaches. Such a proposal rests on a holistic approach to human nature that

has been developed over many years of educational and clinical application. Within this

holistic vision, the role of a human multidimensional cognition that is somatically rooted in

bodily nature assists the articulation of sexuality as a transformational life path of embodied

spirituality, …

Transforming Self And Others Through Research: Transpersonal Research Methods And Skills For The Human Sciences And Humanities, Dorit Netzer

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Postmodern Trickster Strands In Shamanic Worlds, Jürgen W. Kremer

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This essay explores socio-philosophical meanings of shamanic cultures and practices and

their affirmation and revival. What is their potential significance for humanity’s future? I

argue that shamanism engages humans in practices that put us potentially at the center of

our creativity and creative visioning. The trickster figure, a pervasive indigenous presence,

so often seems pivotal in this process and this pervasively male figure plays an important

part in this regenerative interpretation of postmodernism; in fact, postmodernism can be

understood as trickster. Just like the trickster, the nature of postmodernism is ambiguous.

I explore this ambiguity and suggest that shamanic practices …

Behavioral Perspectives On Home Energy Audits: The Role Of Auditors, Labels, Reports, And Audit Tools On Homeowner Decision-Making, Aaron Ingle, Mithra Moezzi, Loren Lutzenhiser, Zachary Lawrence Hathaway, Susan Lutzenhiser, Joe Van Clock, Jane Peters, Rebecca Smith, David Heslam, Richard Diamond

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Our study focused on the perspective of homeowner decision-making in response to home energy audits, combined with attention to the quality of the recommendations that homeowners receive, as well as the perspectives of some key industry actors on auditing and home energy labels. Unlike a program evaluation, the research was not designed to answer detailed questions about program effectiveness in terms of costs, savings, or process, nor was it designed to provide direct answers to questions of how to get people to do more audits or more retrofits. Rather it “steps back” toward a better understanding of more basic questions …