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Author GOH Rivera Sun Speech
No full textAuthor GOH Rivera Sun gives her speech during the banquet ceremonies of Mythcon 52 in Albuquerque, NM on July 31st, 2022
Assessment of Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories: Depositorship and Full-Text Availability
No full textThis research evaluates the success of open access self-archiving in several well-known institutional repositories. Two assessment factors have been applied to examine the current practice of self-archiving: depositorship and the availability of full text. This research discovers that the rate of author self-archiving is low and that the majority of documents have been deposited by a librarian or administrative staff. Similarly, the rate of full-text availability is relatively low, except for Australian repositories. By identifying different practices of self-archiving, repository managers can create new strategies for the operation of their repositories and the development of archiving policies
Dr. Lin Sun, CAU, March 2013
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Lin Sun. Dr. Sun talks about an exhibit at the Woodruff Library titled "At The Boundary." Jordan Moore, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Numerical investigation of novel FRP composites towards high-strength, large-deformation, and tensile-behavior designable properties
No full textA FRP composite consisting of FRP skins, 3D printed inner cores and twisted knots has been developed to achieve low-density, high-strength, large-deformation, and tensile-behavior designable properties. Desired nonlinear responses could be achieved by loading FRP skins to plastically deform inner cores with carefully designed configurations. However, current investigations provided few computational tools for determining the tensile behavior of the composite with various core configurations. In this study, a two-dimensional finite element (FE) model has been calibrated for the composite having various brace thicknesses, shell thicknesses, core spans, core heights, brace angles, and core numbers. Predictions were compared with experimental measurements in terms of entire stress-strain shapes, ultimate stresses and strains. Good correlation between predictions and corresponding measurements validate the reliability of the proposed FE model. By using the proposed FE model, a more sophisticated and efficient FRP composite could be developed upon increasingly updated demands.</p
Numerical studies on the entire debonding propagation process of FRP strips externally bonded to the concrete substrate
No full textDebonding of FRP strips from concrete substrate is an important issue in FRP-strengthened concrete structures. While a great number of expressions have been published to determine the strength of the FRP-concrete bond, few closed-form solutions are available to well predict the entire load displacement responses. This paper has numerically studied the full-range behavior of FRP strips debondingfrom concrete substrate by using Finite Element (FE) predictions which show good correlation with experimental results. Based on the numerical predictions, solutions have been developed to describe the load-displacement responses at each loading stage. The impacts of the strip width, the bond length, the thickness and the elastic modulus of FRP strips on the proposed solutions have been discussed. The proposed solutions show good accordance with the experimental results and the numerical predictions, indicating its reliability in predicting the interfacial behavior of FRP-concrete bond
The complete mitochondrial genome of Orthonychiurus folsomi (Collembola: Onychiuridae)
No full textThe complete mitochondrial genome of Orthonychiurus folsomi (Schäffer 1900) was sequenced, assembled, and annotated. The mitochondrial genome of O. folsomi has a length of 15,283bp and comprises 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes. Two tRNA genes trnS(uga) and trnQ have changed position. A phylogenetic tree of Onychiuridae species showed the polyphyly of this family
Collembola associated with edible mushrooms in China
No full textSun, Xin, Xie, Zhijing, Yao, Haifeng, Weiner, Wanda Maria, Li, Yu, Zhang, Feng (2021): Collembola associated with edible mushrooms in China. Zoological Systematics 46 (1): 1-15, DOI: 10.11865/zs.202110
Climate and edaphic factors drive soil nematode diversity and community composition in urban ecosystems
No full textRapid urbanization profoundly affects global biodiversity. How urbanization modifies soil biodiversity and perturbs nematodes remains limited. Here, we investigated soil nematodes in four land-use types: Parks, residential areas, natural forests, and maize fields across 12 cities in China. Urban parks and surrounding forests had similar nematode richness exceeding that in urban residential areas and surrounding farmlands. Nematode
communities in parks and residential areas were, however, more homogenous than in forests and farmlands. Variations in nematode assemblages in both core urban and urban surroundings were mainly due to taxa replacement, indicating that nematodes were spatially isolated in cities. Urban residential areas were colonized by the lowest number of specialists (i.e., with narrow niche width) and smaller body sizes. Urban parks, conversely, served as hotspots for soil nematodes in cities. Together, our results indicate that urbanization processes reduce nematode diversity, with e.g., 30% loss in residential areas compared to forests, and homogenize soil nematode communities
Applying the NISO Metasearch Initiative Scheme to Enhance E-Resources Management at Rutgers University Library
No full textThis paper discusses problems in the management of library e-resources and attempts to identify potential solutions to the problems. By describing an e-resources enhancement project taken by Rutgers University Libraries, this paper points to the importance of providing contextually-rich metadata and reorganizing the accessibility of e-resources on a library’s website. It introduces how this Rutgers project adopted the National Information Standards Organization Metasearch Initiative to support the identification of appropriate e-collections for metaseaching. The outcomes of the project have facilitated a dynamic display of relevant e-resources to library users as an effective way of automatic access to library e-collections.Peer reviewe
A Metadata Manager's Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries Experience
No full textPurpose – This article discusses the roles and responsibilities of a metadata manager in collaborative digital projects.
Methodology – It describes the general requirements for metadata management, and introduces some scenarios in the practices of digital projects by the Rutgers University Libraries to support the generalized definition. A workflow of metadata management is illustrated.
Practical implications – With an explicit definition of the roles and responsibilities of the metadata manager, many other digital libraries that need to develop a new or optimize the existing workflow may find the Rutgers experience useful as reference.
Originality – Very few articles have explored this topic although the functions of metadata in the development of digital projects have been talked extensively.Peer reviewe
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