Academic literacies of international higher degree students in library environments

This study finds that international participants are eager to learn new literacy skills that would help them to succeed in academia. The responses from library staff participants in this study reveal that they appear to be aware of the needs of international students and are determined to accommodate them in many ways. The findings of this research study have implications for academic library staff supporting international higher degree students to improve their academic literacy. This in turn may inform the development of timely interventions by university planners, library and information professionals, educators, student associations and any other groups interested in facilitating the holistic adjustment of international students to their academic lives in host countries. Awareness of possible differences between international and domestic students may assist academic library providers to design specific services so that international higher degree students can meaningfully retrieve and use authentic information for their academic success

MATLAB suite for removing the capacitive leakage effect from EBI Spectroscopic data

Electrical Bioimpedance (EBI) is the opposition offered by the biological material to theflow of electric current. Nowadays EBI technology is widely used for total body compositionand body fluid distribution.In this project a software suite is developed by using the GUI tool of Matlab, thissoftware is meant to help to remove artefacts from the EBI measurement and to visualize theEBIS measurements and the processing performed on them.Hook effect is one of the major artefacts found in EBI measurements, which createsproblems in any analysis. To eliminate the Hook effect some methods are followed. The data’sare processed using these methods and they are visualized. For the better understanding, bothraw data and the corrected data are plotted in impedance and admittance plots. The correcteddata is stored for further use and analysis