How Fluffy is the Cloud?: Cloud Intelligence for a Not-for-profit Organisation

Business Intelligence (BI) is becoming more accessible and less expensive with fewer risks through various deployment options available in the Cloud. Cloud computing facilitates the acquisition of custom solutions for not-for-profit (NFP) organisations at affordable and scalable costs on a flexible pay-as-you-go basis. In this paper, we explore the key technical and organisational aspects of BI in the Cloud (Cloud Intelligence) deployment in an Australian NFP whose BI maturity is rising although still low. This organisation aspires to Cloud Intelligence for improved managerial decision making yet the issues surrounding the adoption of Cloud Intelligence are complex, especially where corporate and Cloud governance is concerned. From the findings of the case study, a conceptual framework has been developed and presented which offers a view of how governance could be deployed so that NFPs gain maximum leverage through their adoption of the Cloud

Information Seeking Behavior of Engineers

Research paper for SI 551 Information Seeking Behavior with Dr Soo Young RiehEngineers are largely specialists trained in areas such as mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering, yet they work in a broad range of environments, such as research and development, design, testing, manufacturing, construction, management, consulting and sales. Engineers need to seek highly specialized information when working in the industry and need information to provide a product, system, process or service to their customer. The purpose of this study is to understand how engineers find the information they need to effectively perform their job. What sources do most engineers turn to first and why? Do they depend on their corporate library, do they subscribe to databases? Do they read reports, catalogs, handbooks, and trade journals? How do engineers organize their own information - do they form their own systems for papers, computer files, drawings, etc? Are there any cultural barriers that impede their search for information? By studying practicing engineers, we would like to try to understand how they solve their problems when searching for information at work.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135952/6/Information Seeking Behavior of Engineers.pdf-

Staff Intranet - Focus Group

Intranet usage characteristics, frequently used features and recommendations for changes and additions were identified.Library Web SystemsThe goal of the focus group was to determine staff opinions and problems, get their perspective on navigation and labeling, and see if participants have ideas of new features and content.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106999/1/Focus_Group_Report_final.pd

Staff Intranet - Card Sorting

The Library Staff Intranet is a gateway to various library staff administrative information and tasks. It suffers from usability, findability and accessibility problems.The goal of the Card Sorting was to determine staff opinions and trends about categories and labeling, and see if participants had ideas of new features and content.Library Web Systemshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106797/1/Card_Sort_Report_final.pd

Are health professionals serious about breast self-examination? a study from a medical college and tertiary level hospital of Central India

Background: Breast cancer is increasing in prevalence all over the world and health professionals are having main responsibility to counter this rapid increase by early diagnosis and prompt treatment. Breast self-examination is cheapest, easy and most cost-effective way of screening of breast cancer. If health professionals themselves know, understand and practice BSE, then only they are expected to be oriented towards taking this tool seriously and include in their practice. Therefore, to study breast self-examination (BSE) among Health professionals in tertiary hospital this study was conducted.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at a medical college and tertiary level hospital in Nagpur, from August 2016 to October 2016. All female Interns, female Post-graduate students, all female teaching staff in all clinical, para-clinical and non-clinical departments and nurses were included in the study. Total 400 Health professionals had participated in this study. Data entry and analysis was done using EPI-Info.Results: In this study, 93.75% of participants were having knowledge regarding BSE but only 86.36% practically knew how to do BSE. Moreover only 74.75% were practicing BSE (at least once in a month). Common reasons for not practicing BSE were ‘not having time’, ‘don’t feel it’s necessary’ and ‘feels awkward’.Conclusions: This study revealed that there is strong need of intervention in health professionals in making them aware of BSE, to improve knowledge and making BSE a universal practice them.

Policies Database - Heuristic Evaluation

The goal for these evaluations was to reveal a preliminary set of issues pertaining to the usability, functionality and aesthetics of the Policies Database, and to facilitate prioritizing further benchmarks.Library Web Systemshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107003/1/Policies_DB.pd

Policies Database - Guerilla Testing

Four significant issues were identified related to terminology, iconography and navigation. Recommendations for changes to link labels and placement of global navigation links were made.Library Web Systemshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107004/1/PoliciesDB_Guerilla_final.pd

Staff Intranet - Internet-based Survey Report

The goal of the Internet-based Survey was to determine staff opinions about particular category labels, and see if participants have ideas about new labels and content.
Library Web Systemshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106796/1/Survey_Report_final.pd

Efficient Tree-Traversals: Reconciling Parallelism and Dense Data Representations

Recent work showed that compiling functional programs to use dense, serialized memory representations for recursive algebraic datatypes can yield significant constant-factor speedups for sequential programs. But serializing data in a maximally dense format consequently serializes the processing of that data, yielding a tension between density and parallelism. This paper shows that a disciplined, practical compromise is possible. We present Parallel Gibbon, a compiler that obtains the benefits of dense data formats and parallelism. We formalize the semantics of the parallel location calculus underpinning this novel implementation strategy, and show that it is type-safe. Parallel Gibbon exceeds the parallel performance of existing compilers for purely functional programs that use recursive algebraic datatypes, including, notably, abstract-syntax-tree traversals as in compilers

An Integrated system for study of the local atmospheric currents and electric fields at a high altitude station at Shillong

This program has been initiated to study the atmospheric and meteorological parameters at a high altitude sub Himalayan location (Shillong25.58°N, 91.89°E), Shillong, Meghalaya to understand their interaction and bearing on the local climate. Design and fabrication of the integrated instrumentation for measurement and recording of atmospheric electric potential gradient, point discharge current, solar irradiance and meteorological parameters was implemented. The results obtained indicate satisfactorily the performance of the instrument in fair-weather and disturbed weather conditions