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Examining the Practice of Digital Scholarship Services at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City

  • Ngo, Thi Huyen;Nguyen, Hong Sinh;Ninh, Thi Kim Thoa
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2022
  • The article reports the results of an investigation on the practice of providing digital scholarship services at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This study is part of an ongoing research project entitled Developing a digital scholarship service framework for universities at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. It employed a qualitative research approach through in-depth interviews with 31 individuals who are university managers, library managers, lecturers, and postgraduate and undergraduate students from six member universities and Central Library of Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. Research results show that some digital scholarship services have been provided at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. However, they have not been yet systematically implemented and have not met users' needs. Lack of needed resources such as space, technology infrastructure, human resources, finance, and stakeholder support are among major challenges in developing digital scholarship services. The management of existing digital scholarship services is fragmented without a clear policy for developing digital scholarship and supporting services. The study contributes to the existing knowledge by adding substantially to current understanding of the practice of providing digital scholarship services in Vietnam's universities in the transition period, from state control to autonomy, which has not been much addressed in previous research. Furthermore, this study can be a useful reference for higher education institutions in developing countries regarding implementation of digital scholarship services.

Change and Continuity in Traditional Timugon Rice Cultivation Beliefs and Practices

  • On, Low Kok;Pugh-Kitingan, Jacqueline;Ibrahim, Ismail
    • SUVANNABHUMI
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.91-122
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    • 2017
  • Before the start of the North Borneo Company administration in North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) in 1882, the Timugon Murut of today's interior Tenom District lived in longhouses, and practiced head-hunting during wars with other Murutic ethnic groups. Their economy revolved around swidden agriculture of hill rice, sago, and cassava. Wet rice cultivation and water buffaloes were introduced just before 1885. Wet rice was planted on the alluvial plains around the Pegalan and Padas Rivers, while dry rice was planted on hillside swiddens that had been cleared by slash-and-burn methods. Today, wet rice cultivation and cash-cropping on the plains are the main Timugon socioeconomic activities, while some families also plant dry rice on the hills as a back-up. The Timugon believe that the physical world is surrounded by the spiritual world, and everything was made by the creator Aki Kapuuno'. The focus of this field research paper is on the beliefs and ritual practices of the Timugon connected to their traditional rice agriculture. This study found that for generations, the Timugon believed that since animals were created by Aki Kapuuno' for the wellbeing of humans, various types of animals and birds convey omens to guide people. Thus, the older Timugon rice cultivation is strongly influenced by good and bad omens and taboos, and also involves symbolic practices and ritual offerings to guardian spirits of the rice. After the 1930s and especially since the 1960s, most Timugon became Roman Catholic Christians. Hence, this paper also examines changes in the traditional Timugon rice cultivation related beliefs and practices due to religious conversion and other factors.

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Solvothermal synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles

  • Guptha, K. Venkateswara;Nesaraj, A. Samson
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.147-155
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    • 2014
  • Among the various nanoparticles reported for commercial applications, considerable interest has been generated by the use of silver nanoparticles. Owning to extremely small size, silver nanoparticles exhibit enhanced properties when compared with the bulk material. In this research work, silver nanoparticles were prepared by the reduction of silver salt with a reducing agent by a solvothermal method using different solvent mediums such as ethanol, hexane, toluene and acetone with water. The prepared silver nanoparticles were characterized systematically by X-ray diffraction (XRD), particle size analysis and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results revealed the formation of pure silver phase and nano-sized particles. Among the different solvent mediums used, the silver nanoparticles prepared by hexane and water as solvent mixture resulted in very low particle size.

Comparison Of Term Between Literature And Medical Records (문헌과 진료기록부에 기록된 용어의 비교)

  • Lee, Byung-Wook;Baek, Jin-Ung;Kim, Sang-Kyun
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2011
  • Background : Much Opinions of inefficiency to put the standard term of oriental medicine in and around literature into medical records. Purpose : Suggest an alternative according to analysis of differences between 'Term System' from in and around literature and term of medical records. Method : Research on the difference according to analysis of difference between producing term from in and around literature using DB Program and term from medical records. Result : The best System is that reflecting 'Korean Expression' of term of oriental medicine and part of term of western medicine and general.

The Meaning, Method and Tool to Build the Ewha Music Database (EMDB)

  • Kim, Eun-Ha;Chae, Hyun Kyung
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.239-245
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    • 2020
  • The Ewha Music Database (EMDB) is an online database comprised of primary source materials related to music education from East Asia during the modern era (1880 to 1945) when Korea, Japan, and China were geopolitically and culturally intertwined. We developed the incipit search in EMDB as an embedded tool. This is the first attempt in Korea to implement a unique search function of musical data using alphabets of musical notes. Unlike in traditional search system that uses general literature information search conditions, such as author, title, publisher, year, number of pages, etc., it offers a new way of searching a musical piece/work and sheet music. This study confirms that digital information technology is an important methodology for research of music culture as a field of humanities.

A Study on Pedagogy of Computer Programming using Programming Essay (프로그래밍 에세이를 활용한 프로그래밍 교수법 연구)

  • Choi, Changbeom
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.46-51
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    • 2015
  • Recently, Information Communication Technology(ICT) is one of the most important technology that supports the modern society. As the ICT rises, the needs of the nurturing talents, who can develop a service or hardware on the basis of the humanities increases. As a result, teaching programming skills to students studying humanities and social science are essential. Also, it is important to train students studying science and engineering to write their thoughts logically. In order to serve these students, we introduce a pedagogy for computer programming using programming essay. Since a program is a sequence of the operations based on the programmer's logical thinking, programming can be considered as describing programmer's logic in the proper order using programming syntax. In this research, we train students to describe their logic using natural language. Students write down their essays for a given programming problems. Also, we introduce a pedagogy guideline using programming essay.

Inventory Management in Distribution Channels

  • Bae, Kyung Mi;Kim, Youn Sung
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.683-691
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this paper is to determine the actual strategies used in Inventory Management in the field of Distribution phenomenon. In the first part of the research, theoretical backgrounds will be reviewed in order to provide better understanding the importance of Inventory Management in Distribution Management. The qualitative data were gathered by face to face interviews and a phone interview from four selected intermediaries. The study finds intermediaries practicing JIT in the sales and distribution and maximizing the sales activities and minimizing the inventory cost by giving up on an opportunity cost.

MOSAICFUSION: MERGING MODALITIES WITH PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION AND DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMATION

  • GARGI TRIVEDI;RAJESH SANGHAVI
    • Journal of Applied and Pure Mathematics
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    • v.5 no.5_6
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    • pp.389-406
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    • 2023
  • In the pursuit of enhancing image fusion techniques, this research presents a novel approach for fusing multimodal images, specifically infrared (IR) and visible (VIS) images, utilizing a combination of partial differential equations (PDE) and discrete cosine transformation (DCT). The proposed method seeks to leverage the thermal and structural information provided by IR imaging and the fine-grained details offered by VIS imaging create composite images that are superior in quality and informativeness. Through a meticulous fusion process, which involves PDE-guided fusion, DCT component selection, and weighted combination, the methodology aims to strike a balance that optimally preserves essential features and minimizes artifacts. Rigorous evaluations, both objective and subjective, are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the approach. This research contributes to the ongoing advancement of multimodal image fusion, addressing applications in fields like medical imaging, surveillance, and remote sensing, where the marriage of IR and VIS data is of paramount importance.

A POWER SERIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS WITH THE UNIT ARGUMENT WHICH ARE INVOLVED IN BELL POLYNOMIALS

  • Choi, Junesang;Qureshi, Mohd Idris;Majid, Javid;Ara, Jahan
    • Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.169-187
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    • 2022
  • There have been provided a surprisingly large number of summation formulae for generalized hypergeometric functions and series incorporating a variety of elementary and special functions in their various combinations. In this paper, we aim to consider certain generalized hypergeometric function 3F2 with particular arguments, through which a number of summation formulas for p+1Fp(1) are provided. We then establish a power series whose coefficients are involved in generalized hypergeometric functions with unit argument. Also, we demonstrate that the generalized hypergeometric functions with unit argument mentioned before may be expressed in terms of Bell polynomials. Further, we explore several special instances of our primary identities, among numerous others, and raise a problem that naturally emerges throughout the course of this investigation.

Impacts of surface irregularity on vibration analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes based on Donnell thin shell theory

  • Selim, Mahmoud M.;Althobaiti, Saad;Yahia, I.S.;Mohammed, Ibtisam M.O.;Hussin, Amira M.;Mohamed, Abdel-Baset A.
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.483-488
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    • 2022
  • The present work is an attempt to study the vibration analysis of the single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under the effect of the surface irregularity using Donnell's model. The surface irregularity represented by the parabolic form. According to Donnell's model and three-dimensional elasticity theory, a novel governing equations and its solution are derived and matched with the case of no irregularity effects. To understand the reaction of the nanotube to the irregularity effects in terms of natural frequency, the numerical calculations are done. The results obtained could provide a better representation of the vibration behavior of an irregular single-walled carbon nanotube, where the aspect ratio (L/d) and surface irregularity all have a significant impact on the natural frequency of vibrating SWCNTs. Furthermore, the findings of surface irregularity effects on vibration SWCNT can be utilized to forecast and prevent the phenomena of resonance of single-walled carbon nanotubes.