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Developing An Assessment Program: From Zero To Sixty, Valrie I. Minson, Laura Spears

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2016, the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries created a new position and hired an Assessment Librarian. Five years later, the program is highly agile and supports a larger culture of assessment. This talk will outline the steps, and missteps, as well as the scope of a program that includes an Assessment Advisory Team and multiple sub-teams. The program supports grant applications, IRB submissions, assessment resource recommendations, user engagement, usability and user-experience studies, public service assessment, dashboard development, and continues to expand. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the key steps for implementing a successful program, …

Out Of The Darkness: How Can Librarians' Skills Help Us To Change Our Organization?, Frederic G.A. Brodkom

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2020-2021, the libraries of the Catholic University of Louvain have been confronted with major challenges: new objectives for providing support to research (RDM, …), the development of new learning centers, the announced retirement of our Chief Librarian, the installation of a new ILS platform, and the pandemic which has involved new services for faculties (loan of co-modal teaching material, click & collect, …). Too many challenges together and it soon became clear that the structure of our organization, which had remained unchanged since 2001, was not adapted to meet these challenges. For our librarians, facing the changes was like …

Anatomy Of A Renovation, Michael Crumpton

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The seeds of innovation are changing how libraries use their space and plan for future remodels, renovations or expansions, especially post-COVID. Examples of this range from converting space from materials storage to user space needs along with technology enhancements. Technology driven initiatives that impact space usually start as small ideas or seeds of innovative initiatives, such as makerspaces, but are growing into digital media centers, video and imaging rooms, gaming labs and augmented reality spaces.

This presentation shares a case study approach to a master space planning project but goes beyond the typical consultant led project into developing a boarder …

Current And Emerging Space Priorities In University Libraries Across The Globe: An Interactive, Participatory Session With The Special Interest Group (Sig) On Library Space, Kelly E. Miller

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Essays On Conflict Mediation, Ali Kamranzadeh

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

An important barrier to conflict resolution is asymmetric information. That is adversaries have private information about their objectives, resources, and strengths during the conflict and have incentives to misrepresent this information during the negotiations. Third-party institutions, like mediators, can help adversaries to reach an agreement by making a peace proposal. In this thesis, I explore the implication of asymmetric information of players to the design of an optimal peace proposal by a mediator.

Chapter 2, co-authored with Charles Zheng, studies a problem of conflict mediation where a mediator proposes a split of a good between two ex-ante identical contestants thereby …

Evaluating The Potential Of Genotype And Feeding Strategy On Reducing Age At Slaughter In Dairy Beef Systems, Jamie O'Driscoll

ORBioM (Open Research BioSciences Meeting)

Background

Agriculture is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland with enteric fermentation from ruminants accounting for 58% of Ireland’s methane emissions. Research has shown that beef cattle excrete on average, approximately 230g of methane per day, if the national slaughter age reduced by one month, methane output would reduce by over 12,000 tonnes of methane annually. Therefore, a reduction in age at slaughter will lessen the contribution of Irish agriculture to global emissions and enhance its social acceptance and competitiveness.

Aims

The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of reducing age at slaughter through …

Information Needs And Seeking Behaviour Of Post Graduate Students Of Kohat University Of Science And Technology Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Saeed Ullah Jan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour, hurdles to information seeking of Post Graduate students of Kohat University of Science and Technology, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It focused on the information requirements of the Post Graduate students of the university, the pattern they use for seeking information, the difficulties they faced during seeking information.

Design/Methodology/approach: This study used a quantitative approach, adapting a survey questionnaire method for data collection. The population of this study was composed of M.Phil. and PhD students of 2019 and 2020 in the faculties of Physical and Numerical Sciences, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biological Sciences …

Understanding The Impact Of Covid-19 On The Mental Health Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder And Their Families, Carly B. Sugar

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

In March 2020, the world entered a state of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The isolation caused by the pandemic had an unprecedented effect on the lives and general wellbeing of individuals worldwide. The present study engaged 15 children with diagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and their parents in virtual interviews in order to explore the unique ways that the COVID-19 pandemic affected their mental health and the specific barriers they faced to maintaining optimal mental health. A thematic analysis revealed that the most frequently identified mental health effects were increased child anxiety and disconnectedness, as well as …

Evaluating The Impact Of A Safe Exercise Training Workshop On Knowledge And Self-Efficacy To Manage Dysfunctional Exercise Among Eating Disorders Clinicians At Alsana Eating Disorders Center, Danika A. Quesnel

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Engaging in dysfunctional exercise (DEX) is detrimental to eating disorders (EDs) prognosis, although common amongst clients. Though nutritionally supported exercise can improve ED treatment outcomes, without negatively impacting weight restoration, clinicians remain hesitant to address DEX, perhaps due to a lack of information and training. The current study examined the effects of a Safe Exercise at Every Stage (SEES) training on clinician knowledge and self-efficacy in managing DEX in ED treatment. Eating disorders clinicians completed measures before (n = 96) and after (n = 44) SEES training to assess their knowledge and self-efficacy around treating DEX, with a …

Doctoral Students’ Research Data Management Competencies Based On The Quality Of Their Data Management Plans, Jukka Rantasaari

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Many international, national, and institutional principles and policies as well as a growing number of funders and publishers recommend or mandate researchers to write data management plans (DMPs) or share the underlying research data upon which the research articles are based. At the core of these alignments is to enhance research transparency, reproducibility and reliability, and the reuse of research data by bringing the data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). To help researchers fulfill this task, they need education in research data management (RDM).

The goal of this preliminary paper is to find out the quality of the DMPs …

Advancing Open Science At Florida State University Libraries, Renaine Julian, Nicholas Ruhs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Role And Opportunity Of Library In The Context Of Open Science, Jitka Dobbersteinova, Jozef Dzivak

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The role of libraries on Open Science has been recognised and discussed at multiple fora and have been accepted publicly by international organisations and stakeholders. It is natural, as academic libraries are already supporting a knowledge sharing and build a common good. In Slovakia, the National Research Library plays a key role in open science movement as we work as the national body strategically coordinating open science issues accross Slovakia. We participated very actively in the bottom-up project, which is Slovak National strategy for Open Science adopted by the Slovak Government in 2021. The Strategy for years 2021 – 2028 …

Integral Conversion: A Catholic Pedagogical Framework For Teaching Environmental Sustainability And Ecological Citizenship From Japan, Michael R. Polito

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

As Vatican efforts expand to move awareness of environmental sustainability from the peripheries to the center of public consciousness, Catholic schools face the challenge of instilling in the next generation of graduates a distinctly Catholic sense of ecological citizenship. To this end, Catholic educators are faced with the challenge of presenting complex environmental problems in a manner that honors both the data of science and the transcendental worldview the Church proclaims. This paper offers a framework for examining environmental sustainability issues in the classroom from the perspective of Catholic social teaching. The author’s professional context of teaching Catholic social ethics …

العلاقة بين معدل التضخم ومعدل البطالة في مناطق السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية دراسة قياسية للفترة (1997- 2019م), Jalal Sheikhalid

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

This study discusses the problems of both unemployment and inflation in the areas of the Palestinian National Authority, compare with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip separately, during the period (1997-2019). This study aims to show the strength of connection between unemployment and inflation in whole Palestinian economy, and the economy of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, separately, highlighting the results of the most important statistical tests (F, T, DW, ARCH, LM, Godfrey Breusch-Pagan, White) between unemployment and inflation in the Palestinian economy as one unit, compared to the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip …

العوامل الاقتصادية والتنظيمية المؤثرة في تولي المرأة الموظفة للمواقع القيادية في وزارة التربية والتعليم الفلسطينية, Asem Obied, Israa Qateere, Thanaa Zaidan, Lana Ghazi, Marah Mansour

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

This study aimed to identify Economic and organizational factors affecting the occupying of womenemployees to leadership positions in the Palestinian Ministry of Education, and to identify the effect of the variables of job classification, qualification, and experiences. The study population consisted of (278) women employees at the Palestinian Ministry of Education and the sample was (79) employees, and they were selected in a simple random method. A questionnaire was designed consisting of (26) paragraphs distributed on both the scale of economic and organizational factors and use the descriptive approach. The results showed that the degree of economic and organizational factors …

اتجاهات معلمي الرياضيات نحو استخدام التعليم الإلكتروني في المدارس الثانوية في محافظة طولكرم, Husam Tawfiq Herzallah, Basem Shalash

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

This study aimed to identify the attitudes of math teachers towards the use of electronic education in the secondary schools in Tulkarm Governorate, the study also identified the impact of the study variables (gender, educational qualification, experience, and the ability to use the computer) on the attitudes of teachers. The researchers used the descriptive analytical method, the study sample consisted of (83) male and female teachers (36) of them are female teachers and the remaining others (47) are male teachers, the researchers used a questionnaire which consists of (35) items, which were applied in the second semester of the academic …

الدور الوظيفي لوسائل الإعلام في ظل جائحة كورونا دراسة ميدانية على عينة من الجمهور الفلسطيني في محافظة الخليل, Sameer Suleiman Aljamal, Basem Dawuod

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The study aimed to identify the functional role of the media in light of the Corona pandemic from the point of view of a sample of Palestinian community members in Hebron, and to uncover the existence of differences between members of the sample according to variables: (gender, age, educational qualification, place of residence). The study followed the Media survey method. The sample of the study consisted of (140) citizens from Hebron, and the questionnaire was used to collect data. The results of the study indicated an average functional role for the media in the light of the Corona pandemic. The …

توقع نمو خميرة Debaryomyces Hansenii المسببة لفساد الأغذية وذلك باستخدام التحليل الإحصائي المتعدد العوامل, Nawaf Abukhalaf, Wafa Masoud, Ali Al-Qaisi

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The main aim of the present study was to predict the growth of the food spoilage yeast Debaryomyces hansenii by multivariate data analysis (MVDA) using temperature, pH and NaCl concentration as growth parameters. Growth of five strains of D. hansenii (DHI,DHII, DHIII, DHIV and DHV) was measured as optical density at 620 nm (OD620) at different values of temperature, pH and NaCl concentrations. It was found that salt was the most important factor, which affects yeast growth followed by temperature. The growth of all yeast strains was reduced by increasing salt concentration and decreasing temperature. On the other hand, pH …

تحليل أداء الأنظمة الشمسية الكهروضوئية: دراسة حالة لمحطة الطاقة الشمسية الكهروضوئية في جامعة فلسطين التقنية, Mahmoud Ismail

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

Performance ratio is one of the indicators used to describe the effectiveness of the PV systems. The sustainability of the PV system year after year as well as its reliability can be checked by measuring the performance ratio each year. This indicator will also enable us to carry out a comparison between the performances of different PV systems. In this paper, the performance ratios for five PV systems installed on the roof tops of some of PTUK university buildings have been calculated on monthly and yearly basis. The analysis has been carried out using the available data (energy production and …

تقييم مستويات الاشعاع الكهرومغناطيسي في المناطق الخارجية الصادرة عن أنظمة الارسال اللاسلكية في شمال الضفة الغربية – فلسطين, Mutamed Khatib

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

Exposure to electromagnetic fields is a major public concern due to the possible hazardous effects on health caused by exposure to these radiations. The aims of this study were to measure radiofrequency radiation levels from different wireless systems and to compare the results with the recommended limits by the World Health Organization (WHO) which should be less that 450 μw/cm2. The study was a cross-sectional study that was conducted in different cities and villages from the northern governorates in the West Bank; Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas and Sal fit. To measure the radiation levels ranging from 80 MHz to …

تأثير متغيرات معالجة Rra الحرارية على الخواص الميكانيكية لسبيكة الألمنيوم عالية المقاومة 7075, Mohammad Nefawy, Fouad Dhahya

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

Retrogression and Re-Aging Heat Treatment improves tensile and wear resistance of aluminum alloys, to study the effect of Retrogression temperature and Retrogression time on the tensile strength, Toughness Impact and Hardness of 7075 aluminum alloy, we have applied in this research Retrogression treatments at different temperatures are 150°C, 180°C, 240°C and 370°C for 15 min, 30 min and 90 min. When the retrogression temperature was 180°C for 30 min, the alloy has reached its highest tensile strength and hardness it was respectively 586 Mpa and 165 HB, While the alloy has reached its highest impact toughness it was 32.7 J\Cm2, …

الوعي باستخدام طلبة المرحلة الأساسية العليا لمواقع التواصل الاجتماعي على الانترنت في محافظة طولكرم, Hisham Abd-Alrahman Shanaa

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

This study aimed to identify Awareness of the high elementary school student' use of the social networking sites on the Internet, the study was applied on the students of Tulkarem-Palestine schools (11759) Students. The re-searcher used the analytical descriptive method because of its suitability for the purposes of the study. The sample of the study was chosen in the cluster method from 27 schools with 879 students. The researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of (30) verifiable items. Statistical packages (SPSS) were used for data processing through the use of the following statistical processors: Percentages and arithmetic averages, single-variance analysis, alpha-Cronbach …

تقويم واقع استخدام نظام التعليم الإلكتروني (Moodle) في برنامج التعليم الجامعي في ظل جائحة كوفيد 19 من وجهة نظر طلبة التربية الرياضية في جامعات الضفة الغربية-فلسطين, Hameed Salameeh, Ali Qadoume, Motasem Abualia, Mohamed Qadoumi

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The study aimed to identify the degree of benefit and difficulty in using e-learning system (Moodle) in university learning Under the pandemic of Covid 19 among PES at West Bank universities-Palestine, in addition to determining the differences according to variables of gender, study level & university. The researchers used descriptive& analytic approach. The study was conducted on a random sample of (103) students Which represents a percentage of (17.13) from PTUK &An-Najah National University. In order to collect data, the researchers prepared two scales are They are (degree of benefit, degree of difficulty) from students' use of the educational Moodle …

درجة تضمين منهاج التربية الوطنية الحياتية للصفين الأول والثاني الأساسيين للمهارات الحياتية من وجهة نظر المعلمين في المدارس الحكومية في مديرية قباطية, Faisal Sabaeneh, Rajaa Swedan

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The study aimed to identify the degree to which national and life education curriculum for the first and second basic grades includes the life skills from the point of view of teachers in government schools in Qabatia. Furthermore, to determine the differences according to gender and specialization variables. To achieve that, the study conducted on (72) male and female teachers, and (42) items questionnaire was applied for collecting data.The results of the study indicated that the degree to which National and life Education curriculum for the first and second basic grades includes the life skills from the point of view …

أنماط التعلم المفضلة لدى طلبة جامعة فلسطين التقنية خضوري وأثر بعض المتغيرات عليها, Murad Awadallah, Raed Frehat

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

This research aimed at investigating about the preferred learning styles and the effect of some variables such as the university branch, gender, education program, academic year, specialization, and cumulative average. To achieve that, the two researchers used the Index of learning styles (ILS) developed by Felder and Solomon (Lit zingeret al., 2005) consisting of 44 items to evaluate learning preferences, and which was applied on purpose cluster sample of (345) students. After using the SPSS statistical analysis program, the results of the study show that the preferred learning style in descending order is (active-reflective, visual verbal, sequential-global, and sensing-intuitive). The …

تأثير متغيرات التعتيق الاصطناعي على مقاومة الشد والبنية المجهرية لسبيكة الألمنيوم 7075, Mohammad Nefawy, Mahmoud Al Asad

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

In this research, we studied the effect of change in artificial aging time and temperature on tensile strength and Microstructure for 7075 aluminum alloy, where samples of aluminum alloy 7075 were treated with artificial aging at different temperatures are 120 ° C, 160 ° C and 200 ° C for 0.5, 1.5, 3, 18, 48 hours. When the 7075-aluminum alloy was artificially aged in of 120 ° C and 160 ° C, the values of ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of the alloy were higher than when it was aged in 200 ° C. By increasing of artificial aging time, the …

أثر الشمول المالي على أداء المصارف التقليدية المدرجة ببورصة فلسطين باستخدام نموذج Camels, Mahmoud Haj Yousef

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

This study aimed at identifying the impact of the financial inclusion on the performance of conventional banks according to an analytical study using the American Banking Evaluation System (CAMELS) model during the period (2011-2014-2017). The study population included the conventional banks listed in Palestine stock exchange, and it was a comprehensive survey of all the study population. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher followed a descriptive analytical approach using the financial analysis and the multiple linear regression analysis. Moreover, the study concluded a number of findings, the most important are: The conventional banks provide a performance ranges …

مدى توافر مكونات الحمض النّووي التنظيمي Dna وأثرها في تحقيق الأداء العالي لدى العاملين في قطاع التعليم التقني الفلسطيني, Amal Elhela, Samer Arqawi, Waseem Al-Habil

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The research aims to uncover the relationship and impact between the availability of the organizational gene components and the level of achieving high performance of the technical education employees. The researchers used the descriptive analytical method and the sample consisted of all employees of the Palestinian technical education sector who are working in the Technical University of khadori (419 employees), and Palestine Technical College –Deir El-Balah (190 employees). The random simple sample participants consisted of (236), and (194) questionnaires were received, with a response rate of (82.2). The results showed a relationship and impact between the components of the organizational …

الاستراتيجيات المقترحة للحلقة المفقودة بين مخرجات التعليم العالي ومتطلبات سوق العمل, Rawan Damaira, Jehan Damaira

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The study aimed to know the proposed strategies for the lost loop between higher education outputs and labor market requirements from the perspective of Palestinian university graduates. The study sample consisted of 200 respondents, a constructed questionnaire was distributed to four Palestinian university graduates' students in north West Bank namely: (Al-Quds Open University, Anajah University, -Al-Khudouri University, and The Arab American University). The descriptive analytical method was used in this study, as the study used several statistical tools, such as frequency distribution, percentage, mean and mean average, T-test, and the one-wayanalysis of variance, and the equation for calculating Cronbach's alpha …

تحليل واقع التعليم الإلكتروني في الجامعات الفلسطينية: دراسة حالة جامعة فلسطين التقنية – خضوري/طولكرم, Hiba Khalil Almbayed

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

The study aimed to analyze the reality of e-learning at Palestine Technical University-Khudouri/Tulkarem, and to identify the most important challenges facing students when using the education system, as well as to analyze the extent to which university students interact with the e-learning system, and to show the differences between the average opinions of the study sample on e-learning according to the study variables due to the nature of the study, the descriptive analytical approach was used, in order to reach practical results, and to achieve and analyze the reality of e-learning a questionnaire consisting of (34) paragraphs was designed, where …