Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to encompass the assessment of the effectiveness of the digital library and the value of multidisciplinary databases in terms of user preferences and use frequency by academic ranking. Design/methodology/approach – This paper compares the results of two survey questionnaires carried out in 2002 and 2005. It examines the level of awareness by academic staff...

There are noted disparities by ethnicity, race, age, gender, and socioeconomic status in the reported use of and access to cancer information. Missing from this list of variables that predict these disparities are specific geographic locales, such as Appalachia, a region recognized as a medically underserved, “special population”. Through a secondary analysis of NCI’s 2003 HINTS dataset, we are...

In visual surveillance face detection can be an important cue for initializing tracking algorithms. Recent work in psychophics hints at the importance of the local context of a face for robust detection, such as head contours and torso. This paper describes a detector that actively utilizes the idea of local context. The promise is to gain robustness that goes beyond the capabilities of traditi...

disability weight ð1Þ YLL 1⁄4 Number of deaths life expectancy at the age of death ð2Þ DALY 1⁄4 YLD þ YLL ð3Þ The philosophical and methodological aspects of the DALY calculation have been described (and debated) in great detail (Murray 1994; Murray and Acharya 1997; for critiques, see, amongst others, Anand and Hanson 1997), and are summarized in the accompanying Hints and Kinks paper (Devlees...

The collaboration of faculty and library in Problem Based Learning (PBL) has led to an abundance of studies in the medical and health sciences. This article reports on the emerging roles of librarians in studies on PBL implementation during the past 10 years. The initial analysis revealed studies which focussed on the effects of PBL on library usage. However the trend has since evolved to studi...

salmonella is one of the most important zoonotic pathogens with many virulence factors playing a major role in its pathogenesis. the aims of this study were to detect spva, int2 and invc virulence genes of different salmonella serotypes isolated from various clinical animal and human sources, and to investigate antibiotic resistance patterns among these serotypes. using a pcr assay, a total of ...

Human exposures to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are associated with a wide range of health problems. Due to these adverse effects of VOCs on the human health, determination of trace levels of VOCs is very important for accurate assessment of indoor and outdoor exposure. Solid phase microextraction (SPME), needle trap device (NTD) and hollow fiber- liquid phase microextraction (HF-LPME) are...

The Variations and Variations2 digital music library projects at Indiana University provide a valuable test-bed for user studies. We have used user satisfaction questionnaires, session logging, and contextual inquiry to study digital music library usage by music students. This paper describes our approach with each method and offers a comparison of cost, advantages, and disadvantages of each me...

Emerging evidence suggests that individuals spontaneously self-affirm, by reflecting on values and strengths, in response to daily threats. We examined the prevalence and demographic and well-being correlates of spontaneous self-affirmation in the general population. Participants ( n = 3185) completed the cross-sectional, nationally representative 2013 Health Information National Trends Survey ...

Video transcoding is a mechanism to convert video bit−streams from one coding format to other formats. In this operation, the computational complexity and picture quality are the two most important concerns. MPEG−7 standard defines media Transcoding Hints (THs) in order to both reduce the complexity and improve the visual quality during transcoding process. The basic assumption is that THs are ...