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Student and Librarian Attitudes toward Academic Libraries and Information Retrieval: An Ethnographic Study.
A study done at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of students and librarians that incorporates ethnographic methods and utilizes HCI theory in order to examine the following questions: Where students go when they have ... -
Student Health and Wellness and the Library
The COVID-19 pandemic made clear that student health and wellness is a priority for every area of campus, including the library. As students continued to struggle with stress, anxiety, and other mental health concerns after ... -
Student Perceptions as a Method to Improve Information Literacy
Purpose When considering the information literacy skills of students, faculty (and librarians) often make assumptions as to what students know, understand, or why they act as they do. To help alleviate these misunderstandings, ... -
Student Perceptions of an Introductory Laboratory Course
We surveyed students taking an introductory university physics laboratory course over the summer. These students are science majors, but not physics majors. Eighteen students were interviewed, asked what they thought the ... -
Student Understanding and Navigation Patterns of Miami University Sexual Violence Webpages
I noticed through conversations within my own peer group that students were not that well versed in sexual violence policies and resources. And, because of that, they did not know the resources that they could refer friends ... -
A Study of Adult Guardianship in Ohio: Preliminary Results
This research brief is a description of findings from interviews with key informants from the first phase of a study entitled: “Adult Guardianship in Ohio: Promising Practices.” These findings led to the development of a ... -
A study of home care and nursing home use patterns in Ohio
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Substance Use Disorder: A Criminalized Illness
Fifty years after the onset of the “War on Drugs”, evidence shows these policies are epic failures. Overdose deaths are at an all time high, 85% of people who go through rehabilitation relapse, and 80% of people who are ... -
Success on the Small-Scale: Non-Traditional Tours Targeting Students in Transition
A Student Success Librarian outlines an unconventional approach to an academic library tour. In this newly adopted student-focused model, small-scale tours serve as a setting to share study tips for every style and space, ... -
Superintendent Job-Seeking Behaviors: Types of Positions Sought and Reasons for Seeking
SUMMARY: The proportion of superintendents seeking out new positions is greater than the national average superintendent attrition rate. While the majority of job-seeking superintendents are looking for other superintendent ... -
Superintendents Experiencing Threats and Contention
SUMMARY: As school board meetings have become contentious and amid an increasing trend of superintendents being fired without cause, a substantial number of superintendents or school board members have been threatened, ... -
Supplemental Material for Emerging Trends in Collaborative Modelling: A Survey
This entry contains the supplemental material and data for our paper Emerging Trends in Collaborative Modelling: A Survey. Paper abstract: Just as in other engineering disciplines, software engineering is well suited ... -
Supplemental Material for study on using multiple monitors in introduction level programming courses
This entry contains our supplemental material, including Data and its analysis, for our study investigating multiple monitors as an intervention in early programming educational laboratories. -
Supporting Creative Writers in the Writing Center
This project describes the HWC's efforts to reach out to and provide support for creative writers on Miami's campus. This presentation was delivered at the 2016 meeting of the National Conference on Peer Tutors of Writing ... -
A Survey of Baseball Machine Learning: A Technical Report
Statistical analysis of baseball has long been popular, albeit only in limited capacity until relatively recently. The recent proliferation of computers has added tremendous power and opportunity to this field. Even an ... -
A Survey of Traditional and Practical Concurrency Control in Relational Database Management Systems
(1994-12-01)Traditionally, database theory has focused on concepts such as atomicity and serializability, asserting that concurrent transaction management must enable correctness above all else. Textbooks and academic journals detail ... -
Survival and physiological responses of hatchling Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) to submergence in normoxic and hypoxic water under simulated winter conditions.
Abstract Overwintering habits of hatchling Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) are unknown. To determine whether these turtles are able to survive winter in aquatic habitats, we submerged hatchlings in normoxic (155 ... -
Surviving the big chill: overwintering strategies of aquatic and terrestrial insects.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the cold-hardiness of aquatic insects and to use the literature to compare physiological and behavioral strategies that aquatic and terrestrial insects use to cope with minimum ...