An Evaluation Of An Application Designed For The Ipad® To Measure Stimulus Overselectivity For Future Use In Autism Research, Adrienne A. Fitzer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Twenty-three college students participated in two studies evaluating an application designed to measure stimulus overselectivity in pictures depicting facial affect. We analyzed whether this application worked as designed by evaluating whether it could provide a robust analysis of the types of errors users make (e.g., by matching by the top features, the bottom features, or not by the top or the bottom features), and the extent to which the application worked to decrease selective responding in the event a user was not matching consistently by all features. We also evaluated if participant scores on the Autism Quotient and RAADS-14 could …

Migration And Work: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis Of Migrant Groups And Their Labor Experiences, Post Migration, Jill Douek

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Although there is a large body of literature about migration and employment post migration, much of it is limited to study designs restricting either migrant groups or countries. In other words, current research is limited to focusing either a) only on one migrant group (usually expatriates), thereby failing to compare it to other migrant groups within the same country or cross-nationally or b) on multiple migrant groups in one country, thereby making it difficult to draw comparisons cross-nationally across those migrant groups. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to 1) examine the career-related outcomes, post migration, of three …

A Reflection On The Dialectical Relationship Of Librarian | Teacher: The Need For Pedagogical Training In Core Mlis Curriculum, Melanie C. Locay

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis maps a shift in my understanding of knowledge production and teaching and learning. Teaching has a critical role in Librarianship, yet there is a glaring absence of teacher training across MLIS programs. Drawing from established literature on Critical Pedagogical theory, multiple logics of inquiry, and Critical Librarianship we can adopt practices of teaching and learning that elevate marginalized voices and center reflexive theory. This thesis includes a scope of applications of pedagogical theory to LIS practice and identifies an immediate need for an overhaul of the Master’s in Library and Information Sciences core curricula.

Framing The Border: Liminality In The Network Narratives Of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Muhammad Muzammal

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores liminality conveyed as displacement before death in the network narrative films of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu. Due to their depiction of existential crises and possibly fatal scenarios of several characters in different countries and regions, these network narrative films are colloquially referred to as the “Death Trilogy.” Therefore, rearranging the many strands of death-related abstractions and notions in these films around liminality becomes a jumping-off point to explore deeper layers of these works. Through interdisciplinary yet markedly film studies excavations, this thesis projects the liminal spaces of Iñárritu’s films onto border spaces. With borders considered as sites of …

Place Branding As A Mode Of Urban Governance And Verticalisation: The Case Of Tokyo And New York, Z. Ruya Yuksel

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores how place branding activities are amalgamated into the urban governance policies and how skyscrapers are weaved into this process by studying two of the top ten most vertical cities in the world: Tokyo and New York.

Fascination with building up towards the sky is nothing new. Yet what is new is that skyscrapers are becoming as part of place branding strategies which are seeping into urban governance practices. Concepts of place branding, urban development, spatial planning and governance are now being discussed and understood as significant elements of the same process where branding informs configurations and development …

Progress Narratives In Trans Internationalism: Surveying A Collected Archive Of The Global Trans Movement, 2008–2018, Flora P. Wolpert Checknoff

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Trans liberation as a global movement began to be documented in public reports in the mid-2000s. Gathered together from their first decade (2008-2018), publications produced by three trans INGOs—Transgender Europe (TGEU), the Asia Pacific Trans Network (APTN), and Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE)—demonstrate the cultivation of a global trans imaginary and materialize records of a coalescing struggle. The publications depict tensions between an evolving global trans imaginary and the construction of a rights deserving trans population in the development sector. The seeking of international action and resources has compelled the unification of messaging through rhetoric and data aggregation across …

Reimagining What It Means To Be Black In The United States: Family Cultural Socialization Practices That Shape Racial Identities Among Diverse Young Adults, Latifa T. Fletcher

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study explores racial identity development as it is influenced by family cultural socialization practices across diverse ethnic groups that identify either racially or ethnically as Black. The literature on Black racial identity development has relied predominantly on the experiences of African Americans in the United States. This study aims to build on earlier Black identity research by exploring the developmental experiences of the growing ethnic and cultural Black population in the United States.

Young adults between the ages of 18-35 who identify as African American, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Caribbean were recruited to complete a brief questionnaire and participate in an …

Auto®Ficción Latinx De Nueva York (1999–2020), Jacqueline Herranz Brooks

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This research on the intersection of Literary Criticism, Latino Studies, Persona Studies, and Performance Studies has led me to question the accepted definitions of autoficción (Doubrovsky, Gasparini, Alberca, Casas, Schlikers) and expand that definition into a more multifaceted and operational term. Hence, I created auto®ficción, a new term describing the hybrid creations of a group of underrepresented contemporary Latinx authors living/producing/circulating their work in New York City, during the first two decades of the 21^st Century. For these authors, their life experiences and quotidian uses of this city’s spaces are the subjects of their work. Auto®ficción draws attention …

In The Shadow Of China: Autonomy Movements And Local Government Responses In Hong Kong, Jessica M. Mahlbacher

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In the past few years, Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, has had formidable autonomy movements that have managed to force the territory’s Chief Executive to withdraw legislation that would have allowed extradition to other parts of China. Often the federalism literature investigates contentious relationships between a regional government and a central government. However, in Hong Kong, the local government often relies on the Chinese state and local elite are largely integrationist in orientation. What conditions empower grassroots forces to influence the local government’s implementation of autonomy from central government institutions? While scholars have …

Prevention In Context: An Examination Of Factors Associated With Recent Hiv Testing Among Men In New York City, Anthony Freeman

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Using intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and Quare theory as theoretical frameworks, this dissertation employs hierarchical logistic regression and data from New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Community Health Survey (CHS) to examine the relative association of key variables and domains -- demographics, sexual characteristics, risk factors and engagement in medical care variables -- on recent HIV testing for a sample of 3997 men. Further, this study explores these effects separately for White, Black, Latino and Asian men.

Findings shows that respondents who were 18-24 years old, 45-64 years old, residing in Queens or Staten Island, employed, …

El Chapo's Trial As Legitimation Of The War On Drugs: A Neoliberal Mechanism Of Social Control And Imperial Intervention, Maurizio Guerrero

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

While it has been established in the academic literature that the War on Drugs is a mechanism deployed by the neoliberal state to control people of color in the United States and justify imperial interventions in Latin America, there's a lack of research on how this approach to the drug problem is legitimized in the public opinion. The 2018-2019 trial in a New York federal court of the drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, considered one of the most notorious criminals in history, was rendered into a spectacle by the media and, thus, provided a prime example of the discourses …

Hybrid Ethnobotanical Practices: Afro And Indigenous Place-Making In The Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation is an ethnography of Indigenous and AfroIndigenous ethnobotanical practices in four communities in Cauca, in the Andean Pacific region in the Western Amazon of Colombia. Through collaborative field work, including interviews and active participant observation, I document the use of herbs and food as medicine, and agricultural and land tenure practices that depart significantly from those of racial-capitalist agribusiness. These ethnobotanical practices recuperate precolonial and ancestral knowledge as one of many efforts to build community autonomy and self-determination in Colombia as it fitfully enters the post conflict period.

Through an intersectional and topographic analysis, I show both the …

Educational Investments In Low-Income Households: The Role Of Parental Occupational Identity And Substitutability, Aparna Anand

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Poor parents face difficult trade-offs when investing in their children's education. This dissertation studies how low-income urban households in Southern India, where child labor is a concern, make educational investments for their children. First, I build a model that shows how educational investments are shaped by the possibility of children substituting labor for their parents. Second, I collect parent surveys, child surveys, and student-level administrative data from schools and construct a linked dataset. Third, I examine the relationship between educational investments and several pertinent factors, with an emphasis on child labor substitution and the strength of occupational identity. I find …

Effectiveness Of Career Services On Students Transition From University To Work In Egypt, Marianne Elia

Theses and Dissertations

Career services is a newly introduced field in Egyptian universities especially the public sector. This study is aiming to assess the benefits of these services in public, private and non-profit universities through the perceptions of some students who have experienced two or more services offered by their university’s Career Center and are about to graduate and join the job market. Qualitative in-depth interviews with university’s students and a couple of career services professionals were used. The analysis of the study followed the conceptual framework of the influence of career services in easing the transition of students to the job market. …

Rrh Library Newsletter, February 2021, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Vaccine Hesitancy; Library Services during COVID-19

The Integration Of Roman Catholic Traditions And Evidence-Based Psychological Services, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest, and most enduring continuous organization, secular or religious, of any kind in the world with a 2,000-plus-year history. It currently includes well over a billion people. Regardless of its size, scope, history, and impact, the Roman Catholic Church is often greatly misunderstood and people frequently maintain stereotypic and even discriminatory views about Catholics and their clerical leaders. The purpose of this article is to present the integration of the Roman Catholic tradition into psychological assessment and therapy and to provide several examples of this integration. The article highlights how this integration can be …

Panel Threshold Regression With Unobserved Individual-Specific Threshold Effects, Ping Yu, Peter C. B. Phillips, Shengjie Hong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper studies the estimation and inferences in panel threshold regression with unobserved individual-specific threshold effects which is important from the practical perspective and is a distinguishing feature from traditional linear panel data models. It is shown that the within-regime differencing in the static model or the within-regime first-differencing in the dynamic model cannot generate consistent estimators of the threshold, so the correlated random effects models are suggested to handle the endogeneity in such general panel threshold models. We provide a unified estimation and inference framework that is valid for both the static and dynamic models and regardless of whether …

Analytical Coding: Performing Qualitative Data Analysis Based On Programming Principles, Gennady Kanygin, Viktoria Koretckaia

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, we argue that qualitative data analysis software lacks a tool that can be used to fulfill an algorithmic evaluation of conceptualization carried out in qualitative studies. We propose the context-oriented models of coding that conjugate single codes, that is, brief denotations made in natural language, by unusual local relationships called context-fixed elucidation (CFE). CFE is a local relationship between miscellaneous aspects of a case under study. The set of separate CFEs, originated by the analyst during conceptualization and called thesaurus, represents the case as a whole. On the basis of CFE structure and using the thesaurus’ single …

Comparison Of Emotional Intelligence, Self-Development, Decision For Selecting A Profession And Work Productivity Between Librarian With Education In Library Science And Inpassing Librarian In Indonesia, Muhammad Azwar, Ade Abdul Hak, Muhammad Rum

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the differences in emotional intelligence level, self-development, the decision to select a profession, and work productivity between librarians with education in library science and inpassing librarians. Librarians with library science education are those with a library science education background. In contrast, inpassing librarians are those with non-library education who decide to switch professions to become librarians by following librarianship recruitment and training procedures. This study uses a comparative approach. Collecting data uses a survey method by distributing an instrument in the form of a questionnaire with a Likert scale to 126 librarians …

Internet Usage And Its Effect On Senior High School Students In Bantama Sub-Metro In Kumasi Metropolis Of Ghana, Christiana Oduraa Kwaah Ms., Akwasi Duffour Frimpong Mr., Ebenezer Ankrah Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The internet has become the fountain of information access for senior high school students and academics. Poor telecommunication infrastructure, difficulties in accessing relevant information, inadequate computers, high cost of bundle, system failure, low internet bandwidth, power fluctuation are some challenges Senior High students find in their quest to access information on the internet. The study sought to determine internet usage and its effect on students of three Senior High schools in the Bantama Sub- Metro in the Kumasi Metropolis. The study adopted the survey research design, and the quantitative research approach was used; hence questionnaires were the main instrument …

Global Research Performance On Covid 19 In Dimensions Database, Jeyapragash Balasubramani, Muthuraj Anbalagan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This paper examines the global research performance on COVID 19 in Dimensions Database. Dimensions contains more than 100 million publications, ranging from articles published in scholarly journals, books and book chapters, to preprints and conference proceedings.

Methodology: The data were extracted from Dimensions Website (https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication). The word “Covid 19” has been used to retrieve the data as on 2^nd December 2020. A total of 200852 records and 810426 citations received for the year 1871-2020. The study also analyzed top twenty researchers, source wise publications, funding wise publications, types of publications and top twenty highly cited research …

Webometric Analysis Of Open Access Digital Repositories Of Agricultural Sciences In Continents Of Oceania, Sanjib Ghosh, Dr. Bijan Kumar Roy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper focuses on the Webometric analysis and visibility of websites of digital repositories of Agricultural sciences in Oceania and also discusses several link structures and therefore the presence of the web through different indicators like Internet access, WebPages, and link count. Throughout this study, a popular search engine like Google has been used to analyze and measure the presence on the web of those agricultural repositories. The result shows that DAFWA Research Library, Australia occupies first place with 0.2719 % Self-Link WIF presence amongst 04 digital agricultural repositories in Oceania continents. aCQUIRe: CQUniversity's institutional repository ranks first position with …

Information Literacy Skills And Use Of E-Resources By Undergraduate Students In Nigeria In Relation To Kuhlthau’S Model Of Information Search Process (Isp), Aminu Ahmed Buba, Mr., Usman Muhammed Song, Mr., Zainab Mohammed Abdullahi, Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The study investigated the level of information literacy skills and use of EIRs through the application of Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (ISP) by undergraduate students of Federal Universities in Nigeria and developed a conceptual model framework to represent the findings. The study adopted the principles of positivist assumptions using Cross-Sectional survey and a Two-Stage Cluster sampling technique on a sampled 2,402 undergraduate students. Data were collected using questionnaire and analyzed through descriptive statistics. The study found out that the Model is effective to this study as it describes the information search process from the perspective of the user which …

Scientometric Portrait Of Child Sexual Abuse Research In 21st Century India, Soumita Mitra, Arindam Sarkar, Ashok Pal Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract: Sexual abuse during childhood can destroy the backbone of a society because children are the future citizens. Significant research in this area is desirable to increase awareness against this heinous crime. The present scientometric study has been conducted to present the growth of research in this subject domain in India. Data analysis reveals that among the total 300 articles published on this topic, the highest number of publications i.e. 42 was published in 2015 and year 2001 has published only 2 articles. Journal articles were the highest in number among different types of publication. According to chronological distribution of …

Metadata Research Development: A Bibliometric Study On Science Direct, Seno Yudhanto, Taufik Asmiyanto

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to identify (1) the number of publications by year; (2) number of publications by type of document; (3) the top ten publications that publish metadata; (4) the distribution of metadata research topics based on subjects and keywords; and (5) mapping research trends in the discussion of metadata. The method uses a bibliometric study sourced from the Science Direct database (www.sciencedirect.com). Data is collected through published searches with the keyword "metadata" in the title, abstract or author-specified keywords area and limited to the last 10 years (2011-2020) and it is managed and analyzed using Ms. Excel. Meanwhile, metadata …

Understanding Information-Seeking Behaviour Of Undergraduate Extension Program Students In Faculty Of Administrative Science, Universitas Indonesia, Indah Perdana Kusuma, Taufik Asmiyanto, Rahmi Rahmi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The information revolution presents opportunities as well as challenges for students in finding and getting information that suits their needs. By examining information-seeking behavior in meeting information needs, especially in the undergraduate extension program students in the Faculty of Administrative Science, Universitas Indonesia, a quantitative approach with the descriptive analysis used in this research. The results showed that the information needs of students related to their role as students were to increase knowledge and final project references. Meanwhile, as workers, information is used as a means to develop themselves and meet the demands of work. Information-seeking starts from identifying the …

Job Satisfaction And Organisational Commitment Among Library Personnel In Public Tertiary Institution Libraries In Ogun State, Nigeria, Babatunde Ogunbanjo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated the correlation between job satisfaction and organisational commitment of library personnel in public tertiary institution libraries in Ogun State. This study made use of a descriptive research design of survey type. A total enumeration sampling technique was used to select all the librarians and library officers in the libraries for the study. Data relevant for the study was collected using a questionnaire from the respondents. 106 copies out of 130 copies of the questionnaire distributed were returned and found usable. Data were analysed by mean, percentages and frequency, person Moment Correlation Analysis and, Chi-square analysis. The findings …

A Study On The Organizational Staff Structure Among The Selected College Libraries Of West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, Nandita Barman, Norik Ch. Marak

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Organizational structure involves a combination of relationships being operated among positions and jobs to achieve and accomplish the organization’s objectives. It is a pattern of relationships that has been generated through a conscious planning process. It operates within an environment which comprises economic, social, cultural, political, and legal subsystems. Meanwhile, any change in factors can impact the design of an organization which will necessitate a change in the structure to suit the new conditions. Generally, it can be affected by goals, strategy, environment, technology, organization size, and the psychological characteristics of workers. Since an organization is continuously interacting with its …

Web Content And Design Trends Of Agricultural Universities’ Library Website In Rajasthan State, India: An Evaluation, Manoj Kumar Verma Dr., Sur Chandra Singha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the advent of new emerging technology in the library, the library website plays an important role and making a handy tool for promoting library services to reach and disseminate information in every corner of the world without physically visiting the library. The present study evaluated the content of Agricultural University Library Websites/Webpages in Rajasthan State, India. Sixty-five criteria of a checklist method are prepared and used for data collection for analysing the feature of library website/webpage. The finding result revealed that the Swami Keshwan and Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner Library Websites/Webpage scored 35 (53.84%) out of 65, which ranked …

Publication And Collaboration Pattern Of College And Research Libraries Journal During 2009-2018: A Scientometric Analysis, Saumen Das, Kiran Kaur, Manoj Kumar Verma Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal titled College and Research Libraries for the period between 2009 to 2018. The analysis focused on the distribution pattern of articles, the author’s productivity, collaboration pattern and Collaborative coefficient, Relative Growth rate and doubling time. It showed that the highest 14.47% of articles were published in the year 2015. The majority of articles are singled authored with 35.02% of the total contribution. The degree of collaboration among the authors was found decent, the average growth rate was in an upward direction from beginning to latest years. Total 14942 citations were appended …