The case for metadata harvesting

Metadata harvesting is an increasingly popular model of interaction between the mutually autonomous parties of medium, medium-large federations of digital library services. With a harvesting protocol, in particular, resource descriptions locally available at each party can be served to remote applications for the implementation of federated services, such as resource discovery. This article offers a systematic explanation of the success of the model and its standard implementations in the context of current initiatives for national and international federations

The Effect of an Online Journal Club on Fieldwork Educators’ Perspectives on Student Professionalism

This study examined the effect of an online journal club on fieldwork educators’ perspectives on student professionalism. Fieldwork educators participated in a five-week journal club on the topic of professionalism. Thirty-nine fieldwork educators completed the experience, which entailed a pre-posttest survey, reading one article, and participating in a weekly, asynchronous discussion. Ratings of confidence in supervising students who exhibit unprofessional behaviors increased at a statistically significant level from pretest to posttest. Qualitative themes are presented for pre-posttest questions, in addition to the weekly discussion responses. An online journal club for fieldwork educators increased self-ratings of confidence in supervising students who exhibit unprofessional behaviors, cultivated discussion on how to best convey their expectations of professionalism to their students, and facilitated enrichment of their concept of professionalism within the field of occupational therapy

Genesis of an Expert System For UMR Degree Auditing

This paper describes the features, design, and development of an expert system for degree auditing at the University of Missouri--Rolla. It summarizes artificial intelligence as it is known today while specifically addressing expert systems. It describes selected expert systems currently in existence. The present audit procedure utilized at the University of Missouri--Rolla is discussed. A description is given of the design and development of an expert system, written in LISP, to conduct a degree audit. Finally there are concluding remarks which include an analysis of the system and a discussion of possible system enhancement

A "Crise" do Café e a Ideologia Desenvolvimentista no Espirito Santo

Este trabalho investiga o processo de construção e de circulação da idéia de crise do café no Espírito Santo na década de 1960 e busca compreender como essa idéia ganhou força e legitimidade, sendo reproduzida até os dias de hoje. Parte-se do entendimento de que a idéia da crise é elemento de uma construção ideológica maior, que buscou inserir as idéias desenvolvimentistas no Espírito Santo. Assim, procurou-se, num primeiro momento, identificar e analisar as articulações políticas, os instrumentos formulados e os documentos e estudos produzidos na década de 1960 que buscaram inserir a ideologia desenvolvimentista no Espírito Santo. Viu-se que ao lado das articulações políticas e dos instrumentos formulados várias idéias foram produzidas nesse período, como estratégia para inserir a ideologia desenvolvimentista no Espírito Santo. A mais forte dessas idéias foi a de que o Espírito Santo estava em crise, e a base agrária de pequena propriedade familiar era a causa dessa crise. A agricultura familiar também foi identificada como a causa do atraso do estado e o Espírito Santo foi localizado na periferia do desenvolvimento nacional. A diversificação da estrutura produtiva foi apontada como a solução da crise. Em seguida, foram analisados trabalhos acadêmicos produzidos na época e em períodos posteriores, buscando compreender como a idéia da crise se inseriu no debate acadêmico. Constatou-se que os autores utilizaram como fontes principais para suas pesquisas os documentos e estudos produzidos na época. Assim, ao fazerem uma leitura pelo ângulo do discurso oficial acabaram reforçando esse discurso, expandindo-o do debate político para o debate acadêmico. Ao se inserir no debate acadêmico, através de teses e dissertações defendidas em importantes Universidades do Brasil, a idéia da crise ganhou legitimidade, sendo ainda reproduzida em muitas interpretações sobre o Espírito Santo. Por último, fez-se um apanhado histórico sobre o espaço agrário capixaba, contrapondo-o com as idéias contidas nos documentos e trabalhos analisados. Buscou-se trazer a tona evidências que mostram se houve ou não crise na estrutura cafeeira do Espírito Santo na década de 1960. A partir daí, apresentou-se uma interpretação da idéia da crise, apontando os elementos que levaram a sua construção

Nutritional narratives: cultural and communications perspectives on plant-based diets

This paper responds to a range of popular materials circulating in the public sphere asserting a plant-based (PB) diet is of benefit to humans and a protection against many chronic diseases. Although directed at a lay audience, books such as The China Study (Campbell & Campbell) are based upon extensive academic research, and highlight multiple health, environmental and social advantages of PB diets over traditional western diets. Arguments advocating PB nutrition, however, generally struggle to achieve traction in the public sphere. Narratives around PB food choices, and difficulties in shifting mainstream eating patterns, reflect the cultural symbolism attached to food, and the significance of food as an economic commodity. Moreover, the ‘expert’ status of the medical establishment privileges medical interventions over preventative PB approaches. This paper applies Cultural Studies and Health Communications perspectives to investigate bottlenecks preventing the adoption of a PD diet by a wider cross-section of the population

Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Matematika melalui Media Realita di Sekolah Dasar

The benefit matematic reality media to study result of fifth grader student in SDN 06 Dapan, Ledo subdistrict, Bengkayang regency . The purpose of this research is to know the benefit reality media to study result of fifth grader student in SDN 06 Dapan, Ledo subdistrict, Bengkayang regency. The research method used Classroom Research with two cycle to comprise planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. encode for processing research of source its if the student learning product to achieve even 75.The implementation encode for processing research learning is student in abbrevation find and establish long square at I cycle average 73,33 at the II cycle be advance 96,66. from the research can have as a conclusion the benefit matematic reality can study result increase student

Sustaining online communities in the charitable health sector: how to keep a good thing going

What happens when an online community part-funded by a competitive grant process in partnership with a relevant charitable organisation reaches its use-by date? What reasons might an organisation have for continuing (or not) to support the community and its future development? How is ‘ownership’ transferred from the research institution to the not-forprofit organisation, along with any possible risks? These are all good questions: not least because it seems that most communities in this position are not ‘adopted’ by their not-forprofit sponsors, but languish on the sidelines waiting for a benefactor to pick up the potential costs and risks. This paper explores the Australian experience of forming online communities to support notfor- profit organisations’ user populations, and then finding the sponsoring organisation hesitating to adopt the project after the research has successfully demonstrated need and demand. It identifies drivers and inhibitors affecting the decision to support, neglect or abandon online communities

TESTING FOR MULTIPLE UPPER OUTLIERS IN DISTRIBUTION SAMPLES: A STUDY OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE DATA

In this study, the existences of k-upper outliers are investigated in distribution samples of gamma, Normal and exponential by carrying out a simulation of ten thousand at different values of n using algorithm introduced by Tietjen-Moore, test statistics, and critical values were equally estimated from the algorithm. A Normal Q-Q plot was made which aims at distinguishing a data set that follows a normal distribution and one that deviates from normality. The algorithm was applied to Nigeria-US dollars foreign exchange rate, both on raw and logarithmic transformed data. The simulation study reveals the existence of upper outliers more in Gamma and exponential samples than the Normal sample. Empirical analysis shows that there are upper outliers in the raw data set but no upper outliers are found in the transformed data. The result in this paper would help the researcher in business and economics to take time to explore data before use and properly transform accordingly to avoid error in estimation

KEEPING UP WITH GLOBAL TRENDS: ASSESSING PRIVATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS' TRAINING AND RETRAINING PROCESSES IN NIGERIA

This study examines the lifelong learning processes of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. One of the most unique attributes of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is the ability to simplify processes and aid efficiency. Institutions are not run the way they used to some decades back. This is attributed to the evolution of ICT. Since new technologies evolve at astonishing speed, it should be expected that tertiary institutions should not only learn of them, but also adopt them in their administrative processes. This brings to the fore the role of staff members in ensuring the success of this process. This study, therefore, examines the processes adopted by selected tertiary institutions to train and retrain their staff to be able to keep up with ICT trends using multinomial logistic model approach