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Perceptions And Experiences Of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Use In Libraries: A Study Of Library Users In Pakistan, Maqsood A. Shaheen, Amna Khurshid

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study sought to understand library users' opinions, attitudes, and needs regarding using artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries. A survey questionnaire was administered to 71 respondents from academic and public libraries throughout the region. This survey examined a range of topics related to AI use in libraries, such as its perceived benefits and drawbacks; ethical and privacy considerations; user demographics; and factors influencing user adoption of and satisfaction with AI-powered services. The survey results revealed a generally positive attitude toward AI use in libraries. However, concerns were raised regarding such decisions' privacy and ethical ramifications. Libraries must consider user needs …

Analysis Of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Change Of The West Bank, Palestine, Using Multitemporal Satellite Remote Sensing Data, Ahmed Ghodieh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The West Bank is characterized by the diversity of its climate despite its small area. It includes four climatic regions:- a humid, semi-humid, arid, and semi-arid climate. This in turn affected the geographical distribution of vegetation cover seasonally and over the years. This study investigated changes in the West Bank, Palestine vegetation cover using multitemporal Landsat data. Four images were selected for this purpose – two corresponding to 2001 and the other two corresponding to 2021. Seasonal change of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was investigated for the acquired images. ArcGIS 10.8 software was used for image processing and …

Legal Challenges For Sustainable Development In Palestine, Ahmed Abu Drabi

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

Sustainable development contributes to the development of societies, as they are an integral part of the relationships that are taking place there, which calls for the intervention of the law by the international and national branch to regulate this relationship and achieve sustainable development of its objectives. Here, the importance of the study was to highlight the legal challenges facing sustainable development in Palestine by demonstrating the extent to which legislation contributes to sustainable development and drawing the attention of those concerned to the absence of such a contribution from Palestinian legislation in order to overcome it and to work …

Difficult Faced By Palestinian Refugee Women In Nablus Camps, Asaad Taffal -, Shahd Zawatiya

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to identify the most prominent difficulties facing by the Palestinian refugee women inside the camps of Nablus city, in order to achieve these goals, the researchers used the qualitative approach as it fits the objectives of the study. The study was constructed on a sample of (40) refugee women who live in the camps of Nablus (Al-Ain camp, Balata camp and Askar camp). The interview was used as a study tool. The results showed that the refugee women in Nablus city camps suffer from economic difficulties represented in low income and lack of job opportunities. She also …

Coverage Of The Israeli Military Spokespersons Of The Six Self-Liberated Palestinian Prisoners From The Maximum-Security Israeli Prison Of Gilboa, Moeen Koa, Neveen Alawneh, Rinad Mahmmoud

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to find out how the spokespersons for the Israeli occupation army, specifically the "coordinator and Avichay Adraee" pages on Facebook, covered the issue of the six self-liberated Palestinian prisoners from the highly secure walls of Gilboa prison through a tunnel they dug under their cell's bathroom. The study used the total population sample to analyze the two pages' content from September 6, 2021, to November 30, 2021. The study found that these pages used media frames to distort the image of the Palestinian prisoners. The most dominant frame was the strategic frame by 40% to show the …

Reputation Themes From Communication Perspective: A Qualitative Systematic Review, Omar Abu Arqoub

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The article aimed to systematically review communication reputation-related research to shape the reputation literature from a communication perspective. After investigating several databases, a total of 366 peer-reviewed communication journal articles focusing on reputation were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. A qualitative text mining and thematic analysis approach was conducted using the NVivo program to examine the most frequently used words and major emergent themes. The results revealed that the topmost frequently repeated words in communication reputation-focused articles were “crisis,” “public,” “reputation,” “communication,” “media,” and “relations.” Also, this study discussed the six major themes that …

Determinants Of Foreign Policy In Turkish-Greek Relations, Rawa’A Mohammad Deifallah Aljazzazi

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The Turkish-Greek relations are thorny relations, dominated by military intervention on some occasions and the threat of the use of military force at other times. This study came to analyze the principles of both Turkey and Greek foreign policy, shed light on the most important factors that limit Turkish-Greek relations, and present three scenarios for the future of Turkish-Greek relations. To achieve these objectives, the study used a decision-making approach and revealed that Turkish-Greek relations are determined by various contentious issues represented by the dispute in the Aegean Sea, the dispute over the island of Cyprus, the dispute over the …

دور وسائل الإعلام المدرسي في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية لدى طلبة المدارس الثانوية في قصبة إربد الأُردن من وجهة نظر المدرسين, Salem Mohammad Al Quraan, Ayman Mohammad Naser Khraisat

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال التعرف إلى دور وسائل الإعلام المدرسي باعتبارها من أهم الوسائل التربوية في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية - من خلال ما تقدمه من مواد علمية وثقافية - لدى الطلبة من وجهة نظر أفراد عينة الدراسة البالغ عددهم 50 معلماً. استخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، والاستبانةالتي تكونت من (26) فقرة، بعد التأكد من صدقها وثباتها، كأداة لجمع بيانات الدراسة. واستُخدم برنامج (SPSS) لتحليل بياناتها واستخلاص نتائجها. أهم النتائج: أن هناك دوراً ايجابياً مرتفعاً المستوى لوسائل الإعلام المدرسية في تنمية المسؤولية المجتمعية لدى الطلبة، حيث كان تأثير هذا الدور مرتفع في تنمية المسؤولية تجاه المدرسة وبيئتها، وبدرجة متوسطة في تنمية المسؤولية تجاه …

أزمة الشرعية السياسية في الأنظمة العربية, Maysaa Zeyad Awwad, Mohammad Hamad Mostafa Alqatatsheh Prof.

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال إلى اعطاء لمحة تاريخية عن مفهوم الشرعية السياسية انطلاقاً من الفكر اليوناني وحتى الوقت الحالي، ونظريات نشوئها، كما تطرق المقال إلى أهم مصادر ومؤشرات بناء الشرعية السياسية، وقد استخدمت الدراسة منهجية معمقة شاملة تكونت من المنهج التاريخي ومقترب تحليل النظم ونظرية النخبة، وتوصلت النتائج إلى أن أزمة الشرعية السياسية تنشأ نتيجة لعجز الأنظمة السياسية عن التوفيق ما بين مصالحها ومصالح الشعوب.

The article aimed to give a historical overview of the concept of political legitimacy, starting from Greek thought until the present time, and the theories of its emergence. The study also touched on the most important sources …

الرضا الحركي وعلاقته بمستوى التعلم المهاري (الأداء) لسباحة الزحف على البطن لدى طالبات كلية التربية الرياضية في جامعة اليرموك, Ghaid Mandoub Obedat

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت الدراسة التعرف إلى علاقة مستوى الرضا الحركي بمستوى التعلم المهاري (الأداء) لسباحة الزحف على البطن لدى طالبات كلية التربية الرياضية في جامعة اليرموك على عينة تكونت من (49) طالبة من الطالبات المسجلات في مساقات السباحة في كلية التربية الرياضية في جامعة اليرموك. واستخدمت الباحثة المنهج الوصفي، ومقياس الرضا الحركي والاختبارات المهارية لقياس مستوى الأداء في السباحة. توصلت الدراسة إلى أن أفراد عينة الدراسة يتمتعن بمستوى متوسط من الرضا الحركي، وأن هناك علاقة وثيقة ما بين مستوى الرضا الحركي ومستوى الأداء لسباحة الزحف على البطن. وتوصي الباحثة على ضرورة التأكيد على مفهوم الرضا الحركي وتعزيزه لدى المتعلمين للمهارات الرياضية من …

درجة امتلاك معلمي الجغرافيا لمهارات استخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية جي آي أس في المدارس الحكومية في لواء دير علا, Afaf Omar Ibrahim Albalawneh

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت المقال إلى البحث في درجة امتلاك معلمي الجغرافيا لمهارات استخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية (GIS) في المدارس الحكومية في لواء دير علا، تمّ توزيع الاستبانة بشكلها الإلكتروني، وتمّ استرداد (100) استبانة، اعتمدت الباحثة على المنهج الوصفي، وقامت الباحثة بتطوير أداة استبانة، وتكوّنت الاستبانة في صورتها النهائية من (19) فقرة موزعة على محورين، وأظهرت النتائج أن هناك فروقاً ذات دلالة إحصائية (0.05a=) تعزى لأثر الجنس وجاءت الفروق لصالح الذكور، هذا وأوصت الدراسة إلى ضرورة إجراء المزيد من الدراسات حول استخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية (GIS).

The article aimed to investigate the degree to which geography teachers possess the skills of …

مستوى الدعم الاجتماعي لدى طلبة مساقات الجمباز في كلية التربية الرياضية في جامعة اليرموك, Ghada Mohammed Khasawneh, Khaled Mahmoud Alzyoud, Ameera Mohammad Magableh

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت الدراسة التعرف إلى مستوى الدعم الاجتماعي لدى طلبة مساقات الجمباز في كلية التربية الرياضية في جامعة اليرموك، اعتمدت الدراسة على الأسلوب الوصفي المسحي، وتم تطبيق الاستبانة على عينة عشوائية بلغت (80) طالباً وطالبة من طلبة مساقات الجمباز مستوى (تعليم وتدريب1+2). أظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن مستوى المساندة الاجتماعية لدى طلبة كلية التربية الرياضية جاء مرتفعاً، حيث أن المتوسطات الحسابية لجميع مجالات مقياس المساندة الاجتماعية جاءت بدرجة تقييم مرتفعة، حيث جاء بالمرتبة الأولى مجال المساندة من قبل الزملاء، وبالمرتبة الثانية مجال "المساندة من مدرسين مساقات الجمباز، وبالمرتبة الثالثة والأخيرة جاء مجال "المساندة من الأسرة، وكشفت الدراسة عدم وجود فروق إحصائية في …

أطر معالجة أخبار النزاع في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة في المواقع الإلكترونية الأردنية, Manal Almazahra

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

تمثلت مشكلة الدراسة في رصد وتحليل أطر معالجة المواقع الإلكترونية الأردنية لقضايا الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة في ضوء نظريتي الأجندة والأطر الإعلامية، وقد طبقت الدراسة التحليلية على المواقع الإلكترونية الإخبارية الأردنية "الدستور، الغد، الحقيقة الدولية" خلال الفترة من 1 نيسان وحتى 30 أيلول 2022، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى عدد من النتائج جاء أهمها أن أكثر القضايا التي ركزت عليها صحف الدراسة هي قضية "مواجهات واعتقالات لقوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي ضد الشعب الفلسطيني في القدس والمدن الفلسطينية المحتلة"، وأن الأخبار جاءت كأكثر الأنماط الصحفية استخداماً في عرض هذه القضايا، وأن إطار الصراع قد تفوق على بقية الأطر المستخدمة في المواقع الإلكترونية، …

The Kelce/Swift Phenomena: Real-Time Analysis Of Social Media Activity During The October 1st Chiefs/Jets Game, Yi Luo Montclair State University, Jin-A Choi, Bond Benton

College of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works

When the Kansas City Chiefs played the New York Jets in one of the world's major media centers, it presented a unique opportunity to study the phenomena of public interest in the Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift “romance.” A nationally televised game provides a specific timeframe and a moment of public visibility that invites dialogue and interaction. The space specifically built for such real time dialogue and interaction about a topic is social media. With that in mind, an investigation into the social media activity occurring in-game related to Kelce/Swift is merited

Making Decisions "In The Dark": Learning Through Uncertainty In Clinical Practice During Covid-19, Urvashi Vaid, Henriette Lundgren, Karen E. Watkins, Deborah Ziring, Grace A. Alcid, Victoria J. Marsick, Dimitrios Papanagnou

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Papers

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore how decision making and informal and incidental learning (IIL) emerged in the clinical learning environment (CLE) during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors' specific interest was to better understand the IIL that took place among frontline physicians who had to navigate a CLE replete with uncertainty and complexity with the future goal of creating experiences for medical students that would simulate IIL and use uncertainty as a catalyst for learning.

METHOD: Using a modified constructivist, grounded theory approach, we describe physicians' IIL while working during times of heightened uncertainty. …

Editor’S Introduction, Michael D.; Pante

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

10.02.2023 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Sociology Between The Gaps Volume 8 (2023)

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

No abstract provided.

Association Of Parental Status And Gender With Burden Of Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards Among Oncology Physicians, Brittney L Chau, Jonnby S Laguardia, Sungjin Kim, Samuel C Zhang, Eric Pletcher, Nina N Sanford, Ann C Raldow, Lisa Singer, Jun Gong, Sukhmani K Padda, Mitchell Kamrava, Tara Cohen, Devarati Mitra, Katelyn M Atkins

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

IMPORTANCE: Tumor boards are integral to the care of patients with cancer. However, data investigating the burden of tumor boards on physicians are limited.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate what physician-related and tumor board-related factors are associated with higher tumor board burden among oncology physicians.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Tumor board burden was assessed by a cross-sectional convenience survey posted on social media and by email to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center cancer physicians between March 3 and April 3, 2022. Tumor board start times were independently collected by email from 22 top cancer centers.

MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Tumor board burden was measured …

Lanthorn, Vol. 58, No. 04, October 2, 2023, Grand Valley State University

Volume 58, August 7, 2023 - April 15, 2024

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

From Patriarchal Stereotypes To Matriarchal Pleasures Of Hybridity: Representation Of A Muslim Family In Berlin, Rahime Özgün Kehya Dr

Journal of Religion & Film

Sinan Çetin’s blockbuster Berlin in Berlin (1993) is a Turkish-German co-production. In contrast to certain representational tendencies with German orientalism or Turkish occidentalism, it deconstructs the intersectional structures of migration, religion, and gender. The portrayal of religion in films about Turkish-German labour migration is a kind of cultural narcissism often projected into national cinema by denigrating the faith of the other and glorifying one’s own religion. However, perspectives at such intersections are critical and require sensitivity in filmmaking, as films can create prejudice or help build peaceful relationships around these sensitive issues. The paper employs discourse analysis in linking Derrida’s …

Herrens Veje: A Catalyst To Reflect Upon Military Chaplaincy And Ecclesial Issues In A Nordic Context, Jan Grimell, Mariecke Van Den Berg

Journal of Religion & Film

This article is based on an analysis of the first season of the Danish series Herrens Veje (The Way of the Lord; Price 2017). The series portrays the young, idealistic pastor and military chaplain August, who is deployed to a conflict zone with a military unit. He accompanies the unit on a patrol to win the trust of the soldiers. During the patrol, they engage in combat and August kills an innocent civilian woman. Upon return, the transition from military to civilian life proves to be increasingly challenging and troublesome. As the series proceeds, August’s mental health deteriorates and his …

Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing Behavior Among Undergraduate Students: A Case Study Of Khushal Khan Khattak University Karak, Saeed Ullah Jan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main theme of the study was to examine the factors that influence knowledge sharing among undergraduate students in Khushal Khan Khattak University Karak. Survey design guided the study and a questionnaire was used to collect data from 201 respondents. Data was analyzed using simple arithmetics. Findings showed that the organizational culture for knowledge sharing was found to be unsatisfactory, particularly regarding the exchange of awards or honors for sharing knowledge. However, incentives and management support were identified as motivating factors for knowledge sharing. The individual factors, such as knowledge self-efficacy, trust, personal interaction, personal expectation, and willingness to share, …

Tricritical Point As A Crossover Between Type-Is And Type-Iis Bifurcations, Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Joel Daou

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

A tricritical point as a crossover between (stationary finite-wavelength) type-I_s and (stationary longwave) type-II_s bifurcations is identified in the study of diffusive-thermal (Turing) instability of flames propagating in a Hele-Shaw channel in a direction transverse to a shear flow. Three regimes exhibiting different scaling laws are identified in the neighbourhood of the tricritical point. For these three regimes, sixth-order partial differential equations are obtained governing the weakly nonlinear evolution of unstable solutions near the onset of instability. These sixth-order PDES may be regarded as the substitute for the classical fourth-order Kuramoto­­­­­­–­­Sivashinsky equation which is not applicable near the …

Investigating The Intersection Of Physical Disability And Sexuality, Heather Tillewein, Grace Franklyn, Valerie Frederick, Raheleh Ghasseminia, Cameron Michels, Emily Stevens

Summer Sexuality Fellowship

Abstract, Physical Disability Data:

The Physical Disability group collected social media data at the intersection of physical disability and sexuality as part of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Human Sexuality Summer Research Fellowship. For the purpose of this work, physical disability is defined as a self-disclosed disability which can include: impairments of the neuromusculoskeletal systems including, for example, the effects of paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, absence or deformities of limbs, , arthritis, back disorders, bone formation or degeneration, and so on. The present definition of physical disability also includes blindness and vision impairment (not …

Neurological Disability Perspectives On Sexuality Through Social Media Platforms, Heather Tillewein, Norah Chen, Hana Choi, Margaux Kraemer, Laeek A. Siddiqui

Summer Sexuality Fellowship

ABSTRACT:

As part of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Human Sexuality Summer Research Fellowship, the Neurological Disability group collected social media data regarding the intersections of neurological disability and sexuality. For the purpose of the database, neurological disability is determined as self-identified neurological disorders and mental health diseases that can be congenital or acquired, including but not limited to: autism, depression, anxiety, traumatic brain injury, etc. (Wade, 1996). Key terminology for neurological disorders included both a review of literature focusing on biomedicalization of terminology and social justice terminology, as well as a practical review of the efficacy of …

Contemporary Family Conceptions: A Look At Social Media Narratives Of Donor Conception, Multi-Parent Families, And Adoption., Penny Harvey, Sameera V. Akella, Giovanna Colasanto-Giaramita, Samantha M. Costa, Dds Dobson-Smith, Kate Freeman, Ashley French, Teresa King, Amy E. Middleton, Lynn N. Rios-Rivera, Daniella Robinson, Martha Rockhill, Ashton Romines, Morgan Self, Star L. Steers, April M. Webber, Mason Wilson-Tanev

Summer Sexuality Fellowship

The purpose of this data set is to investigate the experiences of parents, children, biological and non-biological family members when families are constructed in non-traditional ways. We address families constructed with known donors, in polyamourous and platonic family formations, families with step parents, and through adoption. Social Media posts between 2018 and 2023 were systematically collected from Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and Twitter. Data were collected by a team of collaborative researchers focusing on three topical areas: Donor conception, Adoption, and Mutli-Parent Families.

Fluid Homes: Navigating Gender, Sexuality, And Housing Insecurity Discourses On Social Media, Kristen Dejarlais-Deklerk, Thomas Brooks, Moandra Johnson, Siiri Koski, Emma Rainey, Vivian Swayne

Summer Sexuality Fellowship

Abstract

As part of the Sexuality Summer Research Fellowship organized and facilitated by the California Institute for Integral Studies, this dataset focuses on 2SLGBTQI+ experiences and perceptions of housing insecurity and homelessness. Housing and rental affordability pressures, particularly for low-income earners, have become a pressing issue worldwide, especially as inflation has escalated over the past three years (Barrett, 2022). Much of this can be attributed to the build-up and fallout of the global financial crisis of 2008, where the culmination of stagnant growth in real wages and a sustained reduction in access to social security and welfare provisions has pushed …

The Cyberseduce Collection: Sex Work Commentary On Major Social Media Platforms., Amelia Davies Robinson, Joshua Warren, Emillion Adekoya, Jamal Brooks-Hawkins, Louise Foster, Rachael Green, Bruce Laoera, Ezra Langlois, Audrey Lutmer, Nabiha Nadeem, Athanasia Platis

Summer Sexuality Fellowship

Abstract

During a ten-week Human Sexuality fellowship program, one of the focal areas was sex work, undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty. Employing an emergent design approach, this team used multiple iterations to refine their data collection process. Initially comprised of sixteen fellows, the Sex Work team sought to compile a comprehensive dataset encompassing various aspects of sex work, as broadly defined, across four social media platforms: Reddit, TikTok, Twitter (aka "X"), and YouTube. The Sex Work Databank eventually amassed nearly 6,000 data entries, with YouTube yielding the largest share.

The data collection process began with …

Nonprofit Organizations And Arts Education In A Rural Community, Elise Lael Kieffer

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

The connection between public administration and nonprofit administration has been in existence since ancient times, when individual volunteers (the predecessors of a formal nonprofit sector) met humanitarian needs to which the government was unwilling or unable to attend. Addams (1910) formalized this intersecting relationship during her time working in Chicago’s slums with refugees. Pandey & Johnsons (2019) drew connections between public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management. They concluded that discoveries in one of those domains should necessarily be applied to the others. They advised that continued research should draw explicit connections across those sectors and highlighted examples of the …