Hasil untuk "Bibliography. Library science. Information resources"

Masoumeh Hasani, Hamid Keshavarz, Amir Reza Asnafi et al.

Purpose: The current study examined the effectiveness of gamified reading of electronic books among adolescents in school libraries.Method: A randomized sample of students aged 11 to 12 years including two control and experimental groups from four schools participated in this study. According to the Mechanics, Dynamics, and Emotions (MDE) framework, six gamification elements were implemented as group challenges. The experiences were then evaluated based on a quasi-experimental design with a post-test via the GAMEX scale.Findings: Multiple independent t-tests using SPSS 26.0 showed that the gamified experience and its relevant subscales including enjoyment, absorption, creative thinking, activation, absence of negative affect, and dominance differed significantly between the two groups. Therefore, the results revealed that implementing gamification in the reading experience within a gamified environment is highly effective and will influence adolescents' interest, motivation and ability to read in library contexts, which can be of interest to experts and policymakers in education and computer science.Conclusion: Various game mechanisms can be integrated into the educational context or platforms like electronic books to make learning interesting and motivating to the students.

Emmanouil M. Athanasakos, Nicholas Kalouptsidis, Hariprasad Manjunath

This paper introduces a methodology based on Euclidean information theory to investigate local properties of secure communication over discrete memoryless wiretap channels. We formulate a constrained optimization problem that maximizes a legitimate user's information rate while imposing explicit upper bounds on both the information leakage to an eavesdropper and the informational cost of encoding the secret message. By leveraging local geometric approximations, this inherently non-convex problem is transformed into a tractable quadratic programming structure. It is demonstrated that the optimal Lagrange multipliers governing this approximated problem can be found by solving a linear program. The constraints of this linear program are derived from Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions and are expressed in terms of the generalized eigenvalues of channel-derived matrices. This framework facilitates the derivation of an analytical formula for an approximate local secrecy capacity. Furthermore, we define and analyze a new class of secret local contraction coefficients. These coefficients, characterized as the largest generalized eigenvalues of a matrix pencil, quantify the maximum achievable ratio of approximate utility to approximate leakage, thus measuring the intrinsic local leakage efficiency of the channel. We establish bounds connecting these local coefficients to their global counterparts defined over true mutual information measures. The efficacy of the proposed framework is demonstrated through detailed analysis and numerical illustrations for both general multi-mode channels and the canonical binary symmetric wiretap channel.

Anuradha Chopra, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien Herremans

This paper introduces an extendable modular system that compiles a range of music feature extraction models to aid music information retrieval research. The features include musical elements like key, downbeats, and genre, as well as audio characteristics like instrument recognition, vocals/instrumental classification, and vocals gender detection. The integrated models are state-of-the-art or latest open-source. The features can be extracted as latent or post-processed labels, enabling integration into music applications such as generative music, recommendation, and playlist generation. The modular design allows easy integration of newly developed systems, making it a good benchmarking and comparison tool. This versatile toolkit supports the research community in developing innovative solutions by providing concrete musical features.

Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Chenliang Li et al.

The session-based recommendation (SBR) garners increasing attention due to its ability to predict anonymous user intents within limited interactions. Emerging efforts incorporate various kinds of side information into their methods for enhancing task performance. In this survey, we thoroughly review the side information-driven session-based recommendation from a data-centric perspective. Our survey commences with an illustration of the motivation and necessity behind this research topic. This is followed by a detailed exploration of various benchmarks rich in side information, pivotal for advancing research in this field. Moreover, we delve into how these diverse types of side information enhance SBR, underscoring their characteristics and utility. A systematic review of research progress is then presented, offering an analysis of the most recent and representative developments within this topic. Finally, we present the future prospects of this vibrant topic.

Barbara M. Pope

Health sciences libraries serving universities and medical facilities have long used technology to provide library services, but COVID-19 presented libraries with unique challenges. Libraries shut their doors and adapted to conducting reference, instruction, and outreach, remotely. For some libraries described in Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: a Handbook, those services had been done in the library; for others, the library had considered adding virtual services. For those libraries that have not made the jump, this text presents strategies to which all health sciences libraries would find a useful reference. Given its practical strategies and engaging text, this reviewer finds Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: a Handbook to be an inspiring and a highly recommended reference for health sciences libraries. 

Muhammad Agung Riyaldi

Literasi kesehatan mental merupakan pengetahuan dan keyakinan tentang gangguan kesehatan mental yang membantu mengenali, mengelola, dan mencegah gangguan mental. Dibutuhkan adanya literasi kesehatan mental untuk memanfaatkan pelayanan kesehatan dan pengobatan untuk mengatasi gangguan mental. Dengan kondisi tersebut penelitian ini bertujuan menelaah lebih dekat keseharian pasien Rumah Sakit Jiwa (RSJ) dalam mengimplementasikan literasi kesehatan mental. Teknik penjaringan data dilakukan dengan observasi dan wawancara pada Juni hingga Oktober 2022. Hasilnya informan memahami gangguan mental, pengetahuan tempat pelayanan kesehatan, dan pengobatan yang tepat. Dengan saling mengenal ragam diagnosa gangguan mental lainnya pengetahuan pasien dan kemampuan bersosialisasi untuk berintegrasi dengan masyarakat bertambah. Pada dasarnya dengan hadirnya pasien di RSJ, literasi kesehatan mental telah diimplementasikan. Namun dorongan untuk mendapatkan literasi kesehatan mental masih terdapat stigma. Simpulannya, masih terdapat faktor penghambat literasi kesehatan mental, yaitu stigma. Apabila seseorang melihat anggota masyarakat yang mengalami gejala gangguan mental, maka dapat dibawa ke bantuan profesional kesehatan mental, salah satunya RSJ, tanpa perlu memberikan stigma. Sebagai pasien RSJ, para informan juga dapat bersikap seperti orang yang tidak terdiagnosa gangguan mental; memiliki rasa ingin tahu yang tinggi, dan mampu mencapai cita-citanya. Misalnya, salah satu di antara mereka dapat melanjutkan studi lanjut ke Inggris. Hal ini dapat menjadi salah satu acuan untuk menghalau stigma tersebut. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan saling pemahaman antara pasien gangguan mental dengan masyarakat luas.

C. Burton, L. Williams, T. Bucknall et al.

Background Health-care systems across the globe are facing increased pressures to balance the efficient use of resources and at the same time provide high-quality care. There is greater requirement for services to be evidence based, but practices that are of limited clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness still occur. Objectives Our objectives included completing a concept analysis of de-implementation, surfacing decision-making processes associated with de-implementing through stakeholder engagement, and generating an evidence-based realist programme theory of ‘what works’ in de-implementation. Design A realist synthesis was conducted using an iterative stakeholder-driven four-stage approach. Phase 1 involved scoping the literature and conducting stakeholder interviews to develop the concept analysis and an initial programme theory. In Phase 2, systematic searches of the evidence were conducted to test and develop this theory, expressed in the form of contingent relationships. These are expressed as context–mechanism–outcomes to show how particular contexts or conditions trigger mechanisms to generate outcomes. Phase 3 consisted of validation and refinement of programme theories through stakeholder interviews. The final phase (i.e. Phase 4) formulated actionable recommendations for service leaders. Participants In total, 31 stakeholders (i.e. user/patient representatives, clinical managers, commissioners) took part in focus groups and telephone interviews. Data sources Using keywords identified during the scoping work and concept analysis, searches of bibliographic databases were conducted in May 2018. The databases searched were the Cochrane Library, Campbell Collaboration, MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost), the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (via EBSCOhost), the National Institute for Health Research Journals Library and the following databases via the ProQuest platform: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Social Sciences Database and Sociological Abstracts. Alerts were set up for the MEDLINE database from May 2018 to December 2018. Online sources were searched for grey literature and snowballing techniques were used to identify clusters of evidence. Results The concept analysis showed that de-implementation is associated with five main components in context and over time: (1) what is being de-implemented, (2) the issues driving de-implementation, (3) the action characterising de-implementation, (4) the extent that de-implementation is planned or opportunistic and (5) the consequences of de-implementation. Forty-two papers were synthesised to identify six context–mechanism–outcome configurations, which focused on issues ranging from individual behaviours to organisational procedures. Current systems can perpetuate habitual decision-making practices that include low-value treatments. Electronic health records can be designed to hide or remove low-value treatments from choice options, foregrounding best evidence. Professionals can be made aware of their decision-making strategies through increasing their attention to low-value practice behaviours. Uncertainty about diagnosis or patients’ expectations for certain treatments provide opportunities for ‘watchful waiting’ as an active strategy to reduce inappropriate investigations and prescribing. The emotional component of clinician–patient relationships can limit opportunities for de-implementation, requiring professional support through multimodal educational interventions. Sufficient alignment between policy, public and professional perspectives is required for de-implementation success. Limitations Some specific clinical issues (e.g. de-prescribing) dominate the de-implementation evidence base, which may limit the transferability of the synthesis findings. Any realist inquiry generates findings that are essentially cumulative and should be developed through further investigation that extends the range of sources into, for example, clinical research and further empirical studies. Conclusions This review contributes to our understanding of how de-implementation of low-value procedures and services can be improved within health-care services, through interventions that make professional decision-making more accountable and the prominence of a whole-system approach to de-implementation. Given the whole-system context of de-implementation, a range of different dissemination strategies will be required to engage with different stakeholders, in different ways, to change practice and policy in a timely manner. Study registration This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42017081030. Funding This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services and Delivery Research programme and will be published in full in Health Services and Delivery Research; Vol. 9, No. 2. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.

Ludwig Bothmann, Sven Strickroth, Giuseppe Casalicchio et al.

Education should not be a privilege but a common good. It should be openly accessible to everyone, with as few barriers as possible; even more so for key technologies such as Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science (DS). Open Educational Resources (OER) are a crucial factor for greater educational equity. In this paper, we describe the specific requirements for OER in ML and DS and argue that it is especially important for these fields to make source files publicly available, leading to Open Source Educational Resources (OSER). We present our view on the collaborative development of OSER, the challenges this poses, and first steps towards their solutions. We outline how OSER can be used for blended learning scenarios and share our experiences in university education. Finally, we discuss additional challenges such as credit assignment or granting certificates.

Gregory Cherlin

We give a bibliography of works relating to homogeneous structures in the sense of Fraïssé, and related topics, mainly through 2016, with some narrow updating through 2021. We first give a list arranged by topics, with references to the main bibliogrphay, which follows.

Ritam Dutt, Moumita Basu, Kripabandhu Ghosh et al.

During a disaster event, two types of information that are especially useful for coordinating relief operations are needs and availabilities of resources (e.g., food, water, medicines) in the affected region. Information posted on microblogging sites is increasingly being used for assisting post-disaster relief operations. In this context, two practical challenges are (i)~to identify tweets that inform about resource needs and availabilities (termed as need-tweets and availability-tweets respectively), and (ii)~to automatically match needs with appropriate availabilities. While several works have addressed the first problem, there has been little work on automatically matching needs with availabilities. The few prior works that attempted matching only considered the resources, and no attempt has been made to understand other aspects of needs/availabilities that are essential for matching in practice. In this work, we develop a methodology for understanding five important aspects of need-tweets and availability-tweets, including what resource and what quantity is needed/available, the geographical location of the need/availability, and who needs / is providing the resource. Understanding these aspects helps us to address the need-availability matching problem considering not only the resources, but also other factors such as the geographical proximity between the need and the availability. To our knowledge, this study is the first attempt to develop methods for understanding the semantics of need-tweets and availability-tweets. We also develop a novel methodology for matching need-tweets with availability-tweets, considering both resource similarity and geographical proximity. Experiments on two datasets corresponding to two disaster events, demonstrate that our proposed methods perform substantially better matching than those in prior works.

Maya Ortega, Yolanda

Libraries provide a stage for learning, creating and sharing experience; and both library services and the information professionals in charge of them are changing with the times, just as our educational systems are, offering us new ways to acquire knowledge. The library at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, has evolved into Biblio TEC: a physical building that is at once an information reference service and a series of spaces designed to facilitate learning and interaction in study-related activities of different kinds. With a surface area of some 17,000 sq. m., the building is divided into six levels of flexible spaces that can be adapted to the needs of individuals, teams and large groups of library users and that maximise the possibilities of private or group study and of learning in general. On this new stage, the librarian's role has also changed and librarians are no longer the keepers of services who decide what is to be used and how; instead, they have become information curators whose mission in this day and age is to facilitate the process by which patrons learn to acquire and use increasing amounts of information.

Bruno Vilhena Adorno, Murilo Marques Marinho

Dual quaternion algebra and its application to robotics have gained considerable interest in the last two decades. Dual quaternions have great geometric appeal and easily capture physical phenomena inside an algebraic framework that is useful for both robot modeling and control. Mathematical objects, such as points, lines, planes, infinite cylinders, spheres, coordinate systems, twists, and wrenches are all well defined as dual quaternions. Therefore, simple operators are used to represent those objects in different frames and operations such as inner products and cross products are used to extract useful geometric relationships between them. Nonetheless, the dual quaternion algebra is not widespread as it could be, mostly because efficient and easy-to-use computational tools are not abundant and usually are restricted to the particular algebra of quaternions. To bridge this gap between theory and implementation, this paper introduces DQ Robotics, a library for robot modeling and control using dual quaternion algebra that is easy to use and intuitive enough to be used for self-study and education while being computationally efficient for deployment on real applications.

Matteo Manica, Christoph Auer, Valery Weber et al.

Information extraction and data mining in biochemical literature is a daunting task that demands resource-intensive computation and appropriate means to scale knowledge ingestion. Being able to leverage this immense source of technical information helps to drastically reduce costs and time to solution in multiple application fields from food safety to pharmaceutics. We present a scalable document ingestion system that integrates data from databases and publications (in PDF format) in a biochemistry knowledge graph (BCKG). The BCKG is a comprehensive source of knowledge that can be queried to retrieve known biochemical facts and to generate novel insights. After describing the knowledge ingestion framework, we showcase an application of our system in the field of carbohydrate enzymes. The BCKG represents a way to scale knowledge ingestion and automatically exploit prior knowledge to accelerate discovery in biochemical sciences.

E. Ivanova

24—25 April 2018 the Russian State Library (RSL) held the International Scientific-Practical Conference “Rumyantsev Readings — 2018. Libraries and Museums as Cultural and Scientific Centers: Historical Retrospective and Look into the Future. To the 190th anniversary of the RumyantsevMuseum”. Three hundred eighty five specialists fromRussia, Azerbaijan Belarus,Kazakhstan,LithuaniaandUkraineattended the conference. During online broadcasting of Plenary Session and one of the Sections there were registered 692 connections. In addition to the main topic stated in the title, the Conference traditionally deals with a wide range of issues on theory and practice of library and information science, bibliography science, bibliology, history of public holdings and private collections, and current activities of modern libraries. The following sections worked at the “Rumyantsev Readings” Conference: “Libraries and Publishers: Ways of Cooperation”, “Library Classification Systems”, “Specialized Documents (Maps, Printed Music, Sound Recordings, Newspapers, Dissertations, etc.) in Library Collections”, “Archaeographic and Historiographic Aspects in Study of Manuscripts”, “Manuscript Sources in Library Collections”, “Rare and Valuable Books, Book Monuments and Collections”, “Collectors, Researchers and Custodians. Libraries and Museums in the Context of History”, “Effective Management in Library: Problems and Solutions (Pre-Session Meeting of the 32nd Section of the Russian Library Association on Library Management and Marketing)”, “Electronic Information Resources”, “Theory and Practice of Librarianship Development at the Present Stage”, “Bibliography and Information — Bibliographic Services”. The following Round tables took place at the Conference: “Public Centers of Legal Information of Libraries as Centers of Formation of Information and Legal Culture of Citizens: the 20th Anniversary of the Formation of Public Centers of Legal Information in Russia”, “Library in Preservation and Development of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the CIS Countries”, “Standardi- zation in the Field of Library — Information Services: Discussion of Draft Standard”, as well as the Seminar “Science in Library: Content, Organization and Presentation of Results”, from the series “The Role of  Science in the Development of Libraries: Theoretical and Practical Aspects”. Traditional annual conference of the Russian State Library is one of the largest scientific-practical events of the library life in our country and can rightfully claim the international status. The number of participants from year to year demonstrates interest of researchers from various scientific and cultural insti- tutions and practical experts of librarianship to the issues raised at the Conference and the need for such events. “Rumyantsev Readings —2018”helped to draw attention to the problems of operation of libraries at the present historical stage, to the search for innovative development ways, expansion of cooperation between institutions of culture, education, science and intercultural interaction, preservation and study of the world cultural heritage and national values, intensification of scientific research on a wide range of issues of bibliology and library and information science.

Juan Antonio Pastor, Tomás Saorín

La progresiva constatación de la aparición de una sociedad documental, en la que se generan, comunican y buscan documentos en entornos digitales, es motivo de reflexión sobre las posibilidades de una escritura hipermedia, que potencie las funcionalidades presentes y dispersas entre aplicaciones ofimáticas diversas y entornos de trabajo. Se plantea un entorno de escritura integrador, conforme a la línea de análisis presentada en el trabajo.

Magda El-Sherbini

RDA (Resource Description and Access) has been adopted and is widely used as the standard for descriptive cataloging by libraries and related institutions. Since its implementation, RDA continues to evolve and grow to meet the end user needs. These developments brought into focus some of the shortcomings of MARC 21 as a description tool. Recognizing the need to create a more effective vehicle for bibliographic description, the Library of Congress developed BIBFRAME, a linked data alternative to MARC 21. In my article, I will discuss the evolution of RDA and the challenges of implementing the system, highlight the issues with MARC 21 in its relation to RDA and the role that BIBFRAME can play in the newly emerging information model.

Григорий Львович Левин

H. Ceylan, Nurdan Güngören, Fatih Küçükdurmaz

Online resources provide access to large amounts of information which is expanding every day. Using search engines for reaching the relevant, updated and complete literature that is indexed in various bibliographical databases has already become part of the medical professionals’ everyday life. However, most researchers often fail to conduct a efficient literature search on the internet. The right techniques in literature search save time and improve the quality of the retrieved data. Efficient literature search is not a talent but a learnable skill, which should be a formal part of medical education. This review briefly outlines the commonly used bibliographic databases, namely Pubmed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus, EMBASE, CINAHL and Google Scholar. Also the definition of grey literature and its features are summarised. Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2017;2. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.2.160066. Originally published online at www.efortopenreviews.org

Agenor de Oliveira Ikeda, Daniele Cristina Ianni Rocha, Diego Antônio Fernandes Aguiar et al.

O presente trabalho apresenta um relato sobre a Política de Gerenciamento, Acesso e Uso do Repositório Institucional do Instituto de Logística da Aeronáutica (RILA). Iniciando-se na fase de desenvolvimento da proposta e o estudo da implantação do projeto. A partir da Política do RILA, pretende-se estabelecer uma rotina de atividades e procedimentos a fim de, assegurar o recebimento, o tratamento, a preservação, o acesso e o uso dos documentos e/ou informações contidos no RILA. O RILA tem por finalidade organizar e preservar a documentação de caráter de ensino, técnico-científico, técnico-administrativo e de memória produzidas no âmbito do Instituto de Logística da Aeronáutica (ILA), visando a qualidade no gerenciamento da informação e da documentação institucional. Objetiva-se prover visibilidade e acesso pontual às produções bibliográficas e documentais produzidas no Instituto, em atendimento ao que preveem as legislações vigentes de acesso à informaçãoO presente trabalho apresenta um relato sobre a Política de Gerenciamento, Acesso e Uso do Repositório Institucional do Instituto de Logística da Aeronáutica (RILA). Iniciando-se na fase de desenvolvimento da proposta e o estudo da implantação do projeto. A partir da Política do RILA, pretende-se estabelecer uma rotina de atividades e procedimentos a fim de, assegurar o recebimento, o tratamento, a preservação, o acesso e o uso dos documentos e/ou informações contidos no RILA. O RILA tem por finalidade organizar e preservar a documentação de caráter de ensino, técnico-científico, técnico-administrativo e de memória produzidas no âmbito do Instituto de Logística da Aeronáutica (ILA), visando a qualidade no gerenciamento da informação e da documentação institucional. Objetiva-se prover visibilidade e acesso pontual às produções bibliográficas e documentais produzidas no Instituto, em atendimento ao que preveem as legislações vigentes de acesso à informação

Miguel Duarte Barrionuevo

New political, economic, and technological developments, as well as the growth of information markets, in Spain have created a foundation for the creation of library consortia. The author describes the process by which different regions in Spain have organized university library consortia.