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Impact of a Library Instruction Session on Bibliographies of Organic Chemistry Students
Get PDFStudents in Chemistry 254: Organic Chemistry for Majors were required to write a paper about an organic name reaction (a reaction named after the chemist who discovered it). Before turning in this assignment, students had the option of attending a one-hour library instruction session covering SciFinder, sources for spectra, ACS Style, and print resources about organic name reactions. 25 students attended library sessions while 30 did not. Bibliographies were collected and graded for all students. Comparisons were made between those students who attended the session and those who did not, on such criteria as use of scholarly sources, properly citing articles and spectra, and correct use of ACS Style. Students achieved 14% higher bibliography scores (82% vs. 68%) by attending a library session, used more scholarly sources (96% of sources scholarly vs. 81% for non-attendees), and used spectra from appropriate sources better (86% of attendees vs. 32% for non-attendees). ACS Style proved difficult for session attendees and non-attendees alike
PRS Composite, Political, Financial, Economic risk tables for all countries from 1984 through 2013.
No full textPRS group's Researchers Dataset. The Researchers Dataset provides annual averages of all of the metrics affecting composite (Table 2B), political (Table 3B), financial (Table 4B) and economic (Table 5B) risk for the period from 1984 through 2013. It covers 140 countries and is very popular among researchers for its ease of use and timelines.
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Social and cultural identity in and through architecture
No full textAs a human race in the 21st century we are facing critical issues which affect our continuing coexistence on this planet: to mesh the colliding cultures of the global city created by air travel and modern communications, to reconcile rising economic growth with the need to repair and sustain our already damaged natural environment, to aid the unfortunate people and countries in an increasingly stratified world, and to provide refuge from the stresses and uproar of the marketplace, the media, and our increasingly urban lives. Architects, urban planners, interior designers, and all other professions which help shape our environment hold responsible the solution to all of these needs; these disciplines address them in the built environment that makes up homes, offices, factories, schools, airports, and civic buildings
Express yourself: engaging space and sensual experience between body, clothing, and the built environment
No full textThe inspiration of fashion development and the execution of architecture redevelopment are bound within a common motif of personality and its intended, as well as unintended, expression. A fashion designers approach in addressing personal expression while embracing and reinventing history, although on a smaller scale, is applicable to the inherently intimate process of renovating and modernizing a house. An analysis of the similarities allows the development of a method to approach incorporating a blend of contemporary ideas with individual, or collective expression, while maintaining the significance of the original. A well executed contemporary architectural intervention to a residential structure, even in the most culturally sensitive areas executed with careful skill and integrity can be more complementary by the contrast of new and old versus trying to copy or replicate the home. (Rogers, 1995) Thus it will ensure the continued use and value within the community and homeowner
Seasonality of Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica
Get PDFWe compared physiological characteristics and responses to experimental freezing and thawing in winter and spring samples of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, indigenous to Interior Alaska, USA. Whereas winter frogs can survive freezing at temperatures at least as low as −16°C, the lower limit of tolerance for spring frogs was between −2.5°C and −5°C. Spring frogs had comparatively low levels of the urea in blood plasma, liver, heart, brain, and skeletal muscle, as well as a smaller hepatic reserve of glycogen, which is converted to glucose after freezing begins. Consequently, following freezing (−2.5°C, 48 h) tissue concentrations of these cryoprotective osmolytes were 44–88% lower than those measured in winter frogs. Spring frogs formed much more ice and incurred extensive cryohemolysis and lactate accrual, indicating that they had suffered marked cell damage and hypoxic stress during freezing. Multiple, interactive stresses, in addition to diminished cryoprotectant levels, contribute to the reduced capacity for freeze tolerance in posthibernal frogs
Error free data collection
No full textTo improve upon paper based data collection, a new software tool was developed and is being used by Craig Williamson’s team for the Lakes as Sentinels of Climate Change project. We designed this to go beyond the typical data collection methods by providing interactive help for data collectors, using modern layout design principles and integrating the tool into the overall research data workflow.
This poster shows a few of the design considerations that others can use to improve their own data collection systems.
• Guidance is integrated into the form at the locations where the user will have questions
• Controlled vocabulary limits errors and makes later searching more effective
• Collected data is automatically uploaded and compiled into a single database to simplify queries and analysis.
• Data entry layout is optimized based on modern Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research.
• Data entry is interactive with prompts, guidance and dynamic color coding to help students and others collect accurate data.
• As data is entered, it is automatically validated. Errors are immediately reported to the data collector so they can be corrected while the data is fresh.
• Data validation rules adjust to match the site and conditions being observed and can be updated remotely by the Principal Investigator as needed
Adaptations to knowledge templates in Base-of-the-Pyramid markets: The role of social interaction
Get PDFWhile templates may facilitate knowledge sharing within the base-of-the-pyramid, it is often necessary for entrepreneurs to adapt the template for reasons of resource scarcity. We explore the role of social interaction in determining whether these adaptations are beneficial or detrimental. Our results suggest that interactions between the entrepreneur and technical experts who understand the ‘why’ behind each practice can result in improved performance while interactions with entrepreneurial peers can produce more varied results. Thus, the type of knowledge generated through social interaction plays a significant role in the degree to which adaptations to templates are principled versus presumptive in nature
Research Directions for Pushing Harnessing Human Computation to Mainstream Video Games
Get PDFIn this paper, we propose a research direction that will allow the harnessing
of human computation to be included in mainstream video games. Human
computing resources are vastly different and superior in some cases compared
to traditional computing machines. Previous findings in this domain
showed that humans playing FoldIt, a protein folding video game, created
new solutions to the problem that were previously unknown. Successes like
these suggest that harnessing human computation through games can provide
the world with a new computation resource, but existing games in this
domain tend to be built around the problem. This means a large population
of game players remains unharnessed. We, however, hypothesize that
focusing research efforts on the synergy of understanding isomorphing problems,
identifying problem solving behavior in mainstream video games, and
an understanding of real-world problems is a direction that will allow us to
merge harnessing human computation into these mainstream games
Engaging Faculty in Scholarly Communication Change: A Learning Community Approach
Get PDFINTRODUCTION As the landscape of scholarly communication and open access continues to shift, it remains important for academic librarians to continue educating campus stakeholders about these issues, as well as to create faculty advocates on campus. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM Three librarians at Miami University created a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Scholarly Communication to accomplish this. The FLC, composed of faculty, graduate students, staff, and librarians, met throughout the academic year to read and discuss topics such as open access, journal economics, predatory publishing, alternative metrics (altmetrics), open data, open peer review, etc. NEXT STEPS The members of the FLC provided positive evaluations about the community and the topics about which they learned, leading the co-facilitators to run the FLC for a second year. The library’s Scholarly Communication Committee is creating and implementing a scholarly communication website utilizing the structure and content identified by the 2012-2013 FLC
Delivering Library Services With (And For) Google Glass
No full textGoogle Glass is Google’s latest consumer technology and is a wearable, head-mounted computer that acts like a voice-activated, hands-free smartphone. Hailed by some and reviled by others, Glass provides a peek into the future of information delivery. In July 2013, Google chose the presenter as an initial “Glass Explorer” — one of approximately 7,000 people wearing, testing, and providing feedback about Glass. She introduces the features and limitations of Glass, demonstrates how Glass has been used at the Miami University Libraries, and then explores how librarians can begin thinking about providing future services with Glass in mind