2,233 research outputs found
E-Books and New Library Service Models: An Analysis of the Impact of EBook Technology on Academic Libraries
No full textEffectively introducing e-books into a library has significant implications on our users, our existing services, and how we do business. The capabilities and the limitations of the e-book and related technologies are therefore used in this paper to provide a framework for examining the implications of this technology on service in academic libraries. It is the author’s view that we must understand not only the technology but also the end-to-end process that will transform the capabilities of the technology into an effective service.Peer reviewe
A union list of New Jersey annual publications in the library collections of the New Jersey Historical Society and Rutgers University
No full textA fully subject indexed guide to hundreds of annual publications held at the New Jersey Historical Society and Rutgers University Libraries.compiled by Ronald L. Becker, E. Richard McKinstr
The Impact of Reference Desk Queries on Undergraduate Scholarship
No full textThe goal of this research is to understand what impact, if any, the usage of the academic library reference desk has on undergraduate scholastic performance. Part of the motivation for this study is the dramatic drop in reference desk usage in most academic libraries over the past ten years. If the use of the reference desk does not improve scholarly performance of undergraduates, it is important to understand how reference librarians might better advance undergraduate scholarship. This study will therefore explore the reasons why undergraduates do not use the reference desk and what new services or facilities within the library they view as important. The results of this study have important implications not only for undergraduate study but also for the profession of academic librarianship.Paper submitted for the course Research Foundations (Professor James E. Katz), December 13, 2007
Partisan Bias Scores for Web Domains
No full textPartisan Audience Bias Scores
These scores were derived from the sharing patterns of web domains by ~500K known Democrats and Republicans on Twitter. The scores scale from -1 (shared only by Democrats) to 1 (shared only by Republicans), and we excluded domains shared by less than 50 unique accounts. For more details on the scores, you can download the full paper here.
We provide our scores below for research purposes only. All scores have been rounded to four digits past the decimal, and to prevent the potential for reidentification, we do not provide the number of tweets or unique accounts that shared a domain, only the domain and the rounded score. In addition, we also provide the partisan bias scores from several other projects that we used to validate our scores.
If you use our scores, please cite our work:
Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., & Wilson, C. (2018). Auditing partisan audience bias within Google Search. In Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 1(2), Article 148. DOI: 10.1145/3274417
BibTeX citation:
@article{robertson2018auditing,
title={Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search},
author={Robertson, Ronald E and Jiang, Shan and Joseph, Kenneth and Friedland, Lisa and Lazer, David and Wilson, Christo},
journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
volume={2},
number={CSCW},
pages={148},
year={2018},
publisher={ACM}
}
</pre
A Computational Analysis of Heteroepitaxial Growth in BST 60/40 thin films
No full textThis work was produced while the author was an undergraduate student in the Summer Research Institute of the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Degree Achievement Program at Rutgers University
Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?
No full textIn this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own right but also because of its relevance to the debate about the competitiveness of labour markets. The essence of monopsonistically competitive labour markets is that labour supply to a firm is imperfectly elastic with respect to the wage rate. The intuition is that, where workers have heterogeneous preferences or face mobility costs, firms can offer lower wages without immediately losing their workforce. This is in contrast to the perfectly competitive extreme, in which the elasticity is infinite. Therefore a simple test of whether labour markets are perfectly or imperfectly competitive involves estimating the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm. We find that the Australian wage elasticity of labour supply to a firm is around 0.71, only slightly smaller than the figure of 0.75 reported by Manning (2003) for the UK. These estimates are so far from the perfectly competitive assumption of an infinite elasticity that it would be difficult to make a case that labour markets are perfectly competitive.monopsony, imperfect competition, separation, labour supply elasticity
Direito, saber e decisão: uma análise da teoria de Ronald Dworkin a partir da dogmática jurídica
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2014.O presente trabalho analisa a teoria jurídica de Ronald Dworkin a partir dos aspectos epistemológicos e funcionais da dogmática jurídica enquanto modelo paradigmático do direito no Brasil. Questiona-se em que medida a obra desse autor possibilita um deslocamento do direito brasileiro no sentido de constituir limites ao poder de decisão dos juízes. Em divergência à ideia comum que concebe a teoria da integridade uma superação da discricionariedade do intérprete na aplicação do direito, aponta para as especificidades de sua leitura no contexto jurídico brasileiro. Por um lado, se os princípios estimulam a produção de raciocínios complexos desvinculados na mera vontade do jurista, por outro, o apelo à moralidade da comunidade política em países de modernidade periférica, com uma esfera pública marcada pelo dissenso, não fundamenta limites epistemológicos substanciais a esse poder de decisão. Sem deixar de reconhecer a relevância da teoria da interpretação dworkiana no âmbito da metodologia da teoria do direito, a pesquisa ressalta que, na esfera de alusão de seus enunciados, funda-se a ideia de que o judiciário consiste em um espaço privilegiado de decisão pública. Dessa forma, a leitura moral do direito constitui uma confiança no juiz enquanto Autoridade legitimada a exercer a força em nome do direito a despeito de quaisquer limites éticos, submetendo qualquer dimensão da vida à opinião dos juristas. Nesse sentido, a leitura da obra de Ronald Dworkin no contexto brasileiro, em detrimento das categorias clássicas da dogmática jurídica baseadas no direito legislado, legitima um estado de indiscernibilidade entre regra e exceção. Conclui-se, assim, que o esvaziamento da aparente consistência do discurso mito-ideo-lógico do juiz Hércules possibilita ? ao tornar presente os limites inerentes à condição humana - invocar nos sujeitos de determinada ordem jurídica uma noção de responsabilidade.Abstract : This dissertation analyzes the Ronald Dworkin?s jurisprudence from epistemological and functional aspects of juridical dogmatic asparadigmatic model of law in Brazil, questioning if the work of this author enables the shifting of Brazilian law in order to establish limits on the power of judges' decision. In disagreement to the common idea that conceives the theory of integrity overrun the discretion of the interpreter of the law, the work points to the specifities of the reading of that theory in brazilian legal context. If in one hand, the principles estimulate the production of complex reasoning unbounded from mere will of the jurist, in another hand, the appeal to the morality of the political community in countries of peripheral modernity, marked by dissent in the public sphere, did not support substantial epistemological limits to that discretion. While acknowledging the relevance of Dworkin?s theory interpretation to the methodology of jurisprudence, the research highlights also the idea that the judiciary is understood as a privileged area of public decision. Thus, the moral reading of the law trusts the judge as legitimate authority to exercise the power on behalf of the law, despite any ethical limits, subjecting any dimension of life to the opinion of jurists. In this sense, Dwokin's reading in the Brazilian context, instead of the classical categories juridical dogmatic, legitimizes a state of indiscernibility between rule and exception. Finally, the work concludes that the deflation of the apparent consistency of the myth-ideo-logical of the judge Hercules enables - while it express the limits of the human condition ? invoke a sense of responsibility for the subjects
The Value of Hiring Information Technology Interns
No full textAuthor\u27s biography: Ronald E. Shiffler is the dean of the College of Business Administration at Georgia Southern University. He can be reached at shiffler@ georgiasouthern.edu
Letter from Ronald T. Symms to Mr. Manuel [E.] Ikari, April 18, 1946
No full textThis response letter to Manual E. Ikari's request to take over the management of a barber shop in Peru, has been denied.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
No full textThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
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