83 research outputs found
Neglect of structural comforts in libraries
No full textExamines the planning of space for different functions in three UGC-financed university libraries, located in Karnataka State, India. Planning aspects have been analysed on the basis of recommendations made by University Grants Commission (India), and standards provided by Indian Standards Institution. The findings indicate that the planners have not given due thought to the application of ISI standards and UGC recommendations made for different types of buildings resulting in a lot of wastage of space
Corporate Publications in Aacr-Ii: Analytical Approach
No full textThis paper highlights the extent of instructions given in AACR-II for cataloguing of corporate publications. Examine the problems of application in different situations like abbreviated names, photographs by corporate bodies, motion pictures and conference publications. Attempts to provide lines of thinking towards identifying solutions and achieving uniformity
University of Agricultural Sciences Library(GKVK) , Bangalore: Structural Evaluation of the Library Building
No full textTraces the library and development agricultural Education in Kamataka. Describes the various aspects of library building of the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, Kamataka. The space utilised at different functional points of the library are evaluated
Relay cooperation in multiaccess networks
No full textCooperation in communication networks results when terminals use their energy and bandwidth resources to mutually enhance their transmissions. Cooperation can be induced in many ways and each approach entails a different tradeoff of power, bandwidth, complexity, and costs to achieve spatial diversity gains characteristic of antenna arrays. In this dissertation, we study a specific cooperative network - a multiaccess relay channel (MARC) where cooperation is induced via a dedicated relay node in a network where multiple users communicate with one destination.
We extend the relaying strategies of decode-and-forward (DF), compress-and-forward (CF), and amplify-and-forward (AF) to the MARC. Specifically, for DF we show that real-time decoding at the destination using a sliding-window incurs a rate loss relative to an offline backward decoding technique. We develop an offset encoding technique that improves sliding window decoding and achieves the corner points of the backward decoding rate region with significantly smaller delay.
Next we compare two approaches to inducing cooperation in a multiaccess channel. In one approach we allow the users to cooperate while in the other we induce cooperation via a relay when the users cannot or do not cooperate. Using the total transmit and processing power consumed at all nodes as a cost metric, we compare the DF and AF sum-rates and outage probabilities for the two networks. Our results show that cooperation is most desirable in the regime where processing power is significantly smaller than the transmit power. We also show that relay cooperation is on average more energy efficient than user cooperation.
Finally, we develop a capacity result for the MARC. The MARC belongs to a class of multi-terminal networks whose capacity is, in general, not known. For a degraded Gaussian K-user MARC, we use max-min optimization techniques to show that DF achieves the K-user sum-capacity.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-167)
Emerging Trends in Library Marketing and Engagement through Digital Media
Full text linkPreviously, the effectiveness of traditional forms of communication and marketing were adequate in library engagement and
marketing activities. In the recent past, the Library Marketing has undergone a lot of change, and the information technology has proved and
brought substantial changes in digital marketing channels. With innovative technology, libraries are engaged in a constant search for better
ways for communicating its resources and services and marketing them effectively. The internet world has brought all users and libraries
together to find each other and share their information requirements. Libraries are capturing its user through multi marketing-channels
including social media. Here an attempt has been made to understand the library marketing and engagement tools in the digital era and case
study of Alliance University Library as example for marketing e-resources as well
E-Books: A Paradigm Shift and Legal Issues
Full text linkIn the digital era, the publication industry talks more about e-books utility across the world. But in the Indian
scenario, usage of e-books is predominantly low compared with other developed countries. The publisher’s
strategies like control over e-books platform, licencing and other legal issues are pushing back libraries from the
procurement of e-books. This article makes a modest attempt to describe the conceptual framework, advantages,
disadvantages, usage, legal issues, access models and licencing pertaining to e-books procurement
Designing Incentive Schemes For Privacy-Sensitive Users
No full textBusinesses (retailers) often wish to offer personalized advertisements (coupons) to individuals (consumers), but run the risk of strong reactions from consumers who want a customized shopping experience but feel their privacy has been violated. Existing models for privacy such as differential privacy or information theory try to quantify privacy risk but do not capture the subjective experience and heterogeneous expression of privacy-sensitivity. We propose a Markov decision process (MDP) model to capture (i) different consumer privacy sensitivities via a time-varying state; (ii) different coupon types (action set) for the retailer; and (iii) the action-and-state-dependent cost for perceived privacy violations. For the simple case with two states ("Normal" and "Alerted"), two coupons (targeted and untargeted) model, and consumer behavior statistics known to the retailer, we show that a stationary threshold-based policy is the optimal coupon-offering strategy for a retailer that wishes to minimize its expected discounted cost. The threshold is a function of all model parameters; the retailer offers a targeted coupon if its belief that the consumer is in the "Alerted" state is below the threshold. We extend this two-state model to consumers with multiple privacy-sensitivity states as well as coupon-dependent state transition probabilities. Furthermore, we study the case with imperfect (noisy) cost feedback from consumers and uncertain initial belief state.Peer reviewed
A study on the Class III Endochitinase of Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) seeds
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
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