Hasil untuk "Information resources (General)"

Ting Li, Bowei Li, Yuying Jia et al.

Skin diseases are important factors affecting health and quality of life, especially in rural areas where medical resources are limited. Early and accurate diagnosis can reduce unnecessary health and economic losses. However, traditional visual diagnosis poses a high demand on both doctors’ experience and the examination equipment, and there is a risk of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. Recently, advances in artificial intelligence technology, particularly deep learning, have resulted in the use of unimodal computer-aided diagnosis and treatment technologies based on skin images in dermatology. However, due to the small amount of information contained in unimodality, this technology cannot fully demonstrate the advantages of multimodal data in the real-world medical environment. Multimodal data fusion can fully integrate various types of data to help doctors make more accurate clinical decisions. This review aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of multimodal data and deep learning methods that could help dermatologists diagnose and treat skin diseases.

Alina S. Bolshakova, Ksenia V. Mokhnatkina

Development of the EIEE (electronic information and educational environment) is one of the most important topics in modern pedagogical research. This process is currently undergoing a lot of changes and requires its detailed understanding within the framework of pedagogical science, as modern educational programmes for specialists’ training require implementation of innovative digital technologies. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to carry out theoretical analysis and case study in order to systematize this concept in the context of implementing educational programs for training highly qualified specialists in various sectors of the digital economy. EIEE plays the key role in terms of implementing educational programs for training highly qualified specialists in various areas of digital economy. This paper provides generalized analysis of existing theoretical approaches to the concept of "ecosystem" and considers various views on EIEE’s development. Particular attention is paid to the authors’ approach, which is based on cooperation with industrial partners. In this context, it is proposed to create EIEE through the development of technical specifications, integration of cross-platform solutions and sharing resources. In the course of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that EIEE’s development is an important step towards evolution of educational programmes that meet the requirements of modern digital economy and contribute to training of a new generation of specialists, who are ready for challenges that future presents.

Nivine Hanach, Roba Saqan, Hadia Radwan et al.

BackgroundThe postpartum period is a critical phase in a woman's life, marked by various physical, psychological, and social challenges. In light of the rapid proliferation and uptake of digital technologies, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), mothers increasingly seek informational and emotional support from digital resources. No previous study has thoroughly explored the usage of various digital resources beyond telehealth services in the UAE. This literature gap is particularly relevant for the postpartum period, which remains largely understudied in the UAE. ObjectiveThis study aims to delve into the digital experiences of postpartum women in the UAE by exploring the types of resources they navigate and the purposes those resources serve. In addition, it seeks to identify their perspectives and needs regarding digital resources that support their postpartum journey. MethodsFour focus groups were conducted synchronously on the web, involving a total of 27 multicultural mothers (mean age 32.47, SD 4.56 years), between 2 and 12 months post partum and living in the UAE. Descriptive interpretive thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. ResultsSixteen out of 27 women exhibited severe depressive symptoms at the time of the discussions (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score of >12). Two main themes were generated from the analysis: (1) Mothers’ Experiences with Digital Resources: Participants valued digital resources for providing immediate information, convenience, and support. They primarily used these resources to seek information on infant health, parenting advice, and emotional support through web-based communities. However, the abundance of conflicting information and the pressure to conform to health recommendations often created stress and anxiety. (2) The Perceived Need for Digital Resources: Despite their extensive use of digital resources, mothers articulated the need for a reliable UAE government digital platform tailored specifically to postpartum care, offering trusted information on infant health and postpartum mental well-being. They also emphasized the need for tailored postpartum telemedicine services and moderated web-based discussion forums to foster peer support among mothers. ConclusionsThis study reveals the multifaceted role of digital resources in supporting mothers during the postpartum period, highlighting unmet needs that present opportunities for advancing postpartum care in the UAE. It demonstrates the importance of developing reliable digital solutions for postpartum women, especially regarding mental health and to enhance access to care through tailored telemedicine services. Collaborative efforts are required to ensure the implementation of user-centered digital platforms. Future research should focus on the diverse needs of postpartum women, including cultural sensitivity, the feasibility of telemedicine services, and the integration of partner support in digital interventions to improve maternal health outcomes.

Gamidullaeva Leyla, Vornovskaia Anastasiia

Relevance and goal. The relevance of this work is due to the need of finding effective approaches to determining the long-term structure of the regional economy for an alternative strategy for making management decisions in order to ensure balanced development of the internal territory. The research analyzes the capabilities of big data technology and demonstrates promising analytical tools for more effective use of the “smart specialization” approach in order to determine industry priorities for the structural transformation of regional economies. Materials and methods. The research is based on general scientific (induction, deduction, comparison, system-structural, etc.) and special research methods – big data analysis of the social network VKontakte, comparative analysis, analysis of the regulatory framework. This study was carried out using materials from two regions of the Russian Federation: Kaliningrad oblast and Penza oblast. Resources such as portal “RosNavyk”, social network VK, analytical platform PolyAnalyst were used. The data sources were the Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2025 and HeadHunter.ru, a website providing job search and recruitment services. Results. The authors obtained the following specific results: firstly, promising sectors of the regions were identified, taking into account the main parameters of the labor market; secondly, the authors conducted a comparative analysis of the results obtained with the data from the Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation; thirdly, a relationship between promising regional specializations and the attitude of local residents towards popular professions in the region was identified based on social media data. Conclusions. The use of end-to-end big data technology to identify promising specializations in the region opens up new opportunities in this area and allows to operationalize the concept of “smart specialization” as a promising tool for implementing spatial development policies. The information about the attitude of local residents of the regions towards certain professions is of high value from the point of view of further connecting industry priorities identified as a result of the analysis of regional contexts, as well as the research and innovation potential that they possess, with the views and expectations of participants in regional economic systems. The practical use of this approach will allow to make effective management decisions and pursue a balanced industry policy that takes into account current patterns emerging in the labor market and the attitude of the region's population towards certain professions. Stakeholders of this information may be universities, employers, professional communities and associations, regional authorities, as well as relevant ministries and departments.

Beatriz Ferrús Antón

El Correo de Ultramar. Parte Literaria e Ilustrada Reunidas (1853-1886), publicado en París por editores españoles y pensado para difundirse en América Latina, reúne un importante conjunto de textos de literatura de viajes, con formatos diversos y destinos múltiples. Este artículo estudia el periódico como repositorio de ese género literario. Se centra en los viajes por España como ejemplo de las negociaciones identitarias que tenían lugar en la época, a causa de los cambios geopolíticos. Los recorridos por la península ibérica nos conducen a ciudades y paisajes con destacado significado nacional, que servían para reforzar la comunidad imaginada, además de divulgar una visión positiva del país, alejada de la tópica difundida por los visitantes extranjeros. Los textos dibujan un territorio con pasado glorioso y notables avances, donde comienza a emerger el turismo moderno.

Wenjin Sun, Wenjin Sun, Wenjin Sun et al.

The North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent area (STCC) is high in mesoscale eddy activities. According to the rotation direction of the eddy flow field and the sign of temperature anomaly within the eddy, they can be divided into four categories: cyclonic cold-core eddy (CCE), anticyclonic warm-core eddy (AWE), cyclonic warm-core eddy (CWE) and anticyclonic cold-core eddy (ACE). CCE and AWE are called normal eddies, and CWE and ACE are named abnormal eddies. Based on the OFES data and vector geometry automatic detection method, we find that at the sea surface, the maximum monthly number of the CCE, AWE, CWE, and ACE occurs in December (765.70 ± 52.05), January (688.20 ± 82.53), August (373.40 ± 43.09) and August (533.00 ± 56.92), respectively. The number of normal eddies is more in winter and spring, and less in summer and autumn, while abnormal eddies have the opposite distribution. The maximum rotation velocity of the four types of eddies appears in June (11.71 ± 0.75 cm/s), June (12.24 ± 0.86 cm/s), May (10.63 ± 0.99 cm/s) and June (9.97 ± 0.91 cm/s), which is fast in winter and spring. The moving speed of the four types of eddies is almost similar (about 10 ~ 11 cm/s). The amplitude of normal and abnormal eddies is both high in summer and autumn, and low in winter and spring, with larger amplitudes in normal than abnormal eddies. The eccentricity (defined as the eccentricity of the ellipse obtained by fitting the eddy boundary) of the four types of eddies is also close to each other, and their variation ranges from 0.7 to 0.8, with no apparent seasonal variation. The vertical penetration depth, which has no significant seasonal difference, is 675.13 ± 67.50 m in cyclonic eddies (CCE and CWE), which is deeper than that 622.32 ± 81.85 m in anticyclonic eddies (ACE and AWE). In addition, increasing the defined temperature threshold for abnormal eddies can significantly reduce their numbers but does not change their seasonal variation trend.

LI Peiwen, HE Jiahui, MA Ximin, QIAO Hui

Background Exploring the factors affecting health service utilization is of great significance for optimizing the allocation of health services. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) focuses on individuals' subjective self-assessment of their current health status, and may affect their health-seeking behaviors, but there are few studies on the impact of HRQoL on health service utilization of rural residents in China. Objective To explore the relationship between HRQoL and health service utilization of rural residents in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and to provide a reference for the development of relevant policies/plans, and for the optimization health services in rural areas. Methods Data were collected from the Health Survey of Rural Residents Families 2019 conducted in four sample counties of Ningxia (Haiyuan, Pengyang, Xiji, Yanchi) from July to August 2019, involving 9 310 cases (≥15 years) with complete key information (gender, age, HRQoL-related indicators, health service utilization indicators). Detailed data of the residents were extracted, including socio-economic and demographic characteristics, health services accessibility, prevalence of chronic diseases, HRQoL measured using European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 3 Level Version (EQ-5D-3L) and utilization of health services. The effects of health state utility values and visual analog scale (VAS) score on outpatient and inpatient health service utilization were analyzed by binary Logistic regression. Results The utilization rates of outpatient and inpatient health services of rural residents in Ningxia were 10.85% (1 010/9 310) and 18.86% (1 756/9 310), respectively. The mean health state utility values and mean VAS score of them were (0.965±0.090) and (69.97±17.84), respectively. Difference testing showed that residents with impaired self-care (in the EQ-5D-3L descriptive system) had higher rates of using outpatient health services〔OR (95%CI) =3.197 (2.633, 3.883), P<0.001〕and inpatient health services〔OR (95%CI) =4.802 (4.059, 5.681), P<0.001〕compared with those with impaired mobility, usual activities, or higher level of pain/discomfort or anxiety/depression. Binary Logistic regression analysis showed that after adjusting for various confounding factors, health state utility values and VAS score were associated with the use of outpatient and inpatient health services (P<0.05). Moreover, the prevalence of chronic diseases also significantly affect the utilization of outpatient and inpatient health services (P<0.05) . Conclusion HRQoL and the prevalence of chronic diseases were leading factors affecting the utilization of outpatient and inpatient services in Ningxia rural residents. As an independent predictive factor of residents' health service utilization, HRQoL can be used to assist in the evaluation and monitoring of health service quality and effect, and provide guidance for rational allocation of health resources.

Lingzi Xiaoli, Jill V. Hagey, Daniel J. Park et al.

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has spread globally and is being surveilled with an international genome sequencing effort. Surveillance consists of sample acquisition, library preparation, and whole genome sequencing. This has necessitated a classification scheme detailing Variants of Concern (VOC) and Variants of Interest (VOI), and the rapid expansion of bioinformatics tools for sequence analysis. These bioinformatic tools are means for major actionable results: maintaining quality assurance and checks, defining population structure, performing genomic epidemiology, and inferring lineage to allow reliable and actionable identification and classification. Additionally, the pandemic has required public health laboratories to reach high throughput proficiency in sequencing library preparation and downstream data analysis rapidly. However, both processes can be limited by a lack of a standardized sequence dataset. Methods We identified six SARS-CoV-2 sequence datasets from recent publications, public databases and internal resources. In addition, we created a method to mine public databases to identify representative genomes for these datasets. Using this novel method, we identified several genomes as either VOI/VOC representatives or non-VOI/VOC representatives. To describe each dataset, we utilized a previously published datasets format, which describes accession information and whole dataset information. Additionally, a script from the same publication has been enhanced to download and verify all data from this study. Results The benchmark datasets focus on the two most widely used sequencing platforms: long read sequencing data from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies platform and short read sequencing data from the Illumina platform. There are six datasets: three were derived from recent publications; two were derived from data mining public databases to answer common questions not covered by published datasets; one unique dataset representing common sequence failures was obtained by rigorously scrutinizing data that did not pass quality checks. The dataset summary table, data mining script and quality control (QC) values for all sequence data are publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/CDCgov/datasets-sars-cov-2. Discussion The datasets presented here were generated to help public health laboratories build sequencing and bioinformatics capacity, benchmark different workflows and pipelines, and calibrate QC thresholds to ensure sequencing quality. Together, improvements in these areas support accurate and timely outbreak investigation and surveillance, providing actionable data for pandemic management. Furthermore, these publicly available and standardized benchmark data will facilitate the development and adjudication of new pipelines.

Francisca Suau-Jiménez, Francisco Ivorra-Pérez

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information. Parascientific digital communication has pursued different avenues, from mainstream media news to social networking, at times combined. Likewise, citizens have developed new discourse practices, with readers as active participants who claim authority. Based on a corpus of 500 reader comments from <i>The Guardian</i>, we analyse how readers build their authorial voice on COVID-19 news as well as their agentive power and its implications. Methodologically, we draw upon stance markers, depersonalisation strategies, and heteroglossic markers, from the perspective of discursive interpersonality. Our findings unearth that stance markers are central for readers to build authority and produce content. Depersonalised and heteroglossic markers are also resorted, reinforcing readers’ authority with external information that mirrors expert scientific communication. Conclusions suggest a strong citizen agentive power that can either support news articles, spreading parascientific information, or challenge them, therefore, contributing to produce pseudoscientific messages.

Amirhossein Rastegari, Reza Hesarzadeh, Mohamadjavad Saey

Objective: The purpose of this research is investigating the effect of community social capital on asymmetric behavior of cost. Social capital refers to features of social organization such as norms and networks that simplify cooperation and harmony for mutual benefit. Community social capital captures the strength of cooperative norms and the density of social networks in a region. Cost stickiness is a behavioral property of cost that is substantially based on managerial decisions. In this case of cost behavior, managers are quick to expand resources when demand is increasing, but for a variety of reasons choose to stick with unutilized capacity when sales are decreasing. As such, community social capital is a socio-economic factor that might affect managerial resource adjustment decisions via different channels.  Methods: The method of the present research is descriptive-correlation because in this study the principle is to make hypotheses, test them, explain the relationships between phenomena and also analyze the dependent variable based on independent variables.For this purpose, we have collected the financial information related to 191 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period of 2012 to 2018 and measure the community social capital index by different provinces of the country. In order to measure the community social capital index, we used the components of participation rate in elections, labor force participation rate, density of social networks and density of non-profit organizations by quarterly method. We also use multiple linear regression patterns to test research hypotheses.  Results: Research findings indicate that, there is a significant relationship between community social capital and the degree of stickiness in selling, general and administrative costs. In this regard community social capital significantly increases the degree of stickiness in selling, general and administrative costs. The findings also show that, there is no significant relationship between community social capital and the degree of stickiness in the total operating costs and cost of goods sold. Hence, we observe an issue related to the personal motivations of managers and their opportunistic behaviors. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study, it can be argued thatcommunity social capital restrains managers from taking opportunistic resource adjustment decisions that would reduce costs stickiness. And this leads to an increase in the degree of costs stickiness. This article confirms the important role of managerial opinion in cost behavior and how local environmental factors show differences in firm’s cost behavior.

Gabriel Mascarenhas Maciel, Fábio Janoni Carvalho, Camila Soares de Oliveira et al.

In Brazil, pepper cultivation gives producers more marketing opportunities in various segments, either for fresh consumption or industry. Reproductive traits are efficient methods for comparing genetic divergence in pepper, once most differences among accessions could be verified at this stage. This study aimed to evaluate the genetic divergence in the reproductive phase of pepper accessions by multivariate analysis and test the efficiency of different methods. Sixty-five genotypes from the Federal University of UberlândiaCapsicum spp. Germplasm Bank were evaluated 145 days after sowing, and morphological characterization was performed at reproductive phase. Graphical representation of genetic distances was obtained by UPGMA. Tocher optimization method was also used to group accessions. Genotypes were arranged in seventeen different groups by Tocher method. UPGMA dendrogram collaborated with Tocher method, indicating the wide genetic variability of genotypes. Tocher and UPGMA methods were partially in agreement, allowing grouping 44 of the 65 analyzed accessionsequally. Multicategorical traits have the advantage of easy observation and require less time and labor, being ideal for use in gene bank and collections that do not have high human and financial resources. Moreover, these traits are not affected by the environment. Genetic divergence detected in this paper encourages other researchers to perform the characterization of pepper collections as completely as possible, because it becomes possible to generate more reliable information of the variability and genetic divergence among accessions. Our research discloses the reproductive biodiversity of pepper in “Alto Paranaíba” and “TriânguloMineiro” regions and the importance of maintaining these genotypes.

Andrés Chiappe, Silvia Irene Adame

Open Educational Practices (OEP) have become a growing educational trend based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), which have been linked both from literature and practice with emerging and complex topics such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and Open Educational Resources (OER). This essay presents a critical approach to Open Educational Practices regarding their conceptual framework and considering a current and rather than an excessive focus on free access to knowledge. We propose that transforming educational content, making it available, is not enough to produce educational innovation and consequently it becomes necessary to transform educational practices, turning them open. Although the transition from OER to OEP has already been considered in the literature, a new perspective beyond free access and costless is necessary to maximize the innovative potential of “openness”.

Xiaobo Luo, Liang Xu, Dongyi Liang et al.

Abstract Background Alternative splicing (AS) plays important roles in gene expression and proteome diversity. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and insertion/deletion (InDel) are abundant polymorphisms and co-dominant inheritance markers, which have been widely used in germplasm identification, genetic mapping and marker-assisted selection in plants. So far, however, little information is available on utilization of AS events and development of SNP and InDel markers from transcriptome in radish. Results In this study, three radish transcriptome datasets were collected and aligned to the reference radish genome. A total of 56,530 AS events were identified from three radish genotypes with intron retention (IR) being the most frequent AS type, which accounted for 59.4% of the total expressed genes in radish. In all, 22,412 SNPs and 9436 InDels were identified with an average frequency of 1 SNP/17.9 kb and 1 InDel/42.5 kb, respectively. A total of 43,680 potential SSRs were identified in 31,604 assembled unigenes with a density of 1 SSR/2.5 kb. The ratio of SNPs with nonsynonymous/synonymous mutations was 1.05:1. Moreover, 35 SNPs and 200 InDels were randomly selected and validated by Sanger sequencing, 83.9% of the SNPs and 70% of the InDels exhibited polymorphism among these three genotypes. In addition, the 15 SNPs and 125 InDels were found to be unevenly distributed on 9 linkage groups. Furthermore, 40 informative InDel markers were successfully used for the genetic diversity analysis on 32 radish accessions. Conclusions These results would not only provide new insights into transcriptome complexity and AS regulation, but also furnish large amount of molecular marker resources for germplasm identification, genetic mapping and further genetic improvement of radish in breeding programs.

Elly Cope

Georg F Striedter

Evo-devo biology involves cross-species comparisons of entire developmental trajectories, not just of adult forms. This approach has proven very successful in general morphology, but its application to neurobiological problems is still relatively new. To date, the most successful area of evo-devo neurobiology has been the use of comparative developmental data to clarify adult homologies. The most exciting future prospect is the use of comparative developmental data to understand the formation of species differences in adult structure and function. An interesting «model system» for this kind of research is the quest to understand why the neocortex folds in some species but not others.

Azza Osman

The environmental architecture has been appeared in the ancient civilizations in an aspect that man tried to adapt and live with his environment. The aspects of such adaptation could be vary when used the available materials in the local environment in construction, then through their using ways and ended with the followed styles to treat the environmental elements and their determinants such as rains, heat, sunlight and others. In Egypt, we find that the man of the ancient Egyptian civilizations has used the local materials like bricks, papyrus and wood in his relevant architectural systems such as the workmen houses, where they have used the natural stones and sculptured in the mountains their holy architectural systems like temples. The said trend was the prevalent one through eras and times, that man never neglected his environment, but he tried by every way to be adapted with its elements… till the industrial revolution has appeared, and the Egyptian architects got impression with the movement of post-modernity. Some attempts could appear to express about the movement's thought and philosophy, trying to realize its artistic features. Architecture and the architectural development in Egypt is a yield of past civilizations' experience, currently calls (post-modernity architecture). The architecture in Egypt is varying with its sources and schools according to the different civilizations that passed in Egypt, also it exposes to the direct sunrays, wind and sometimes to the strong dust. So, we must select the building and coating materials that are using in the architecture and murals particularly the relevant elements with the exterior façades. Such materials must be selected carefully, that if the glass and its derivatives consider an important element in the architecture, it must pay attention to treat it, as it must be made of the same materials of the Egyptian environment to fit with Egypt's climate. That, the glass can be double, thermally reinforces (securite or triplex) to bear the shocks and temperature changing, as it can be also colored and reflective till the heat losses a big portion before entering the building. It must also use the ceramics glass and the glassy tiles to coat the mural and architectural façades because they have features and properties fit with the coastal, desert and agricultural Egyptian architecture for the durability against salts, acids and frictions as well as their multi-colors and the variety f their touches according to the required designing aesthetical values, and also their ability of heat and sound isolation inside the building and the easy cleaning. That, to search in the objective resources of the artistic creativity – in the objective specifications of the creative work- we won't find no bigger, stable, and no more general or no more effect on man than the nature with its different silent, core aspects, the botanic and animal life. We found such resource could continue for fifteen billion years, the nature has appeared clear in its beauty and ugliness, in its goodness and badness, in its colors and touches, in its shapes and spaces, in its meanings and expressions. The natural environment is one of the most important and principal sources to obtain the artistic and designing thoughts in the different arts fields. The artistic and innovative work doesn't easy come, but it affects and reacting with the surrounded natural, religious, social, cultural and political environment and others. It is easy to us to extrapolate the tributary and mechanisms of the natural creativity and its antithesis that in the touches and shapes of the mountains, hills, desert, valleys, the current water, falls, animals, birds and fish. Such natural formations have composed and continued through millions years, as millions of human beings could enjoy with them, and the habitants were grown-up in their childhood and played in its space. The said formations could stay in their emotions, memories, their conscious and unconscious minds, as its principals became a pattern trying to simulate it, and judging through it on their artistic, industrial or architectural creativity to others. Research Problem: Confirm the benefit from the tributary and mechanisms of the natural creativity in designing the glass architectural façades in Egypt through developing the creativity and contemplative ability of the designers for their vision and analysis of the natural building systems and using them to design the glass architecture.   Research Goal: Try to reach an elicitation for the aesthetical and formative artistic relations in designing the architectural façades by using the technological progress in the glass to be fit with the Egyptian environment through studying the natural building systems and using them in the designing processes of the glass in the architecture to be fir and proper with the surrounded environment. Research Steps: Obtaining the artistic and technological information about the glass architectural façades and how to use them in designing the modern architectural façades. Obtaining designing results of a designing contemporary architecture can be applied in Egypt inspired from the tributary and mechanisms of the natural creativity.

Amanda Kathryn Nichols Hess

Motivational design theory complements instructional design theory and, when used together, both principles can impact learning, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge retention. In information literacy instruction, motivational design exists throughout the appropriate standards documents. However, there is limited current research on the best practices for using motivation in information literacy or library-based instruction. The existing research does indicate that librarians who deliver information literacy instruction attempt to implement motivational design theories such as Keller's ARCS model into their teaching, although often at a low level. Furthermore, studies of face-to-face and online library learning environments illustrate that using the ARCS model – and, more broadly, considering student motivation – can impact student learning and achievement. In considering how future information literacy instruction can be most effectively designed, expanding research on the meaningful inclusion of motivational design in information literacy instruction could help to impact this discipline's instructional significance, knowledge retention, and learning application.

M. W. V. D. Kamp, R. Schaeffer, Amanda L. Jonsson et al.

Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, A. Pfaff

Shelley Blundell

As presented at DOCAM’14, this proceedings paper discusses my ongoing dissertation research: Documenting the information-seeking experience of undergraduate students enrolled in a remedial English course at a 4-year state university in Ohio, United States. Because the information behaviors, needs, and information literacy abilities of these students are understudied areas in library and information science and higher education literature; I chose to investigate these areas in my dissertation research toward contributing research to this gap, using descriptive phenomenological (qualitative) methodology to do so. Although secondary data analysis is still in progress, this paper presents findings from primary analysis (a necessary step in phenomenological study to eliminate bias and assumption from secondary analysis). Ultimately, I aim to use study findings to create targeted, needs-based instruction for remedial undergraduate students, toward supporting their academic progress through information literacy development, and consequently encouraging their persistence toward graduation.