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A System-of-Systems Framework for Exploratory Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Civil Infrastructure Resilience
(2018-01-01)
Climate change has various chronic and acute impacts on civil infrastructure systems (CIS). A long-term assessment of resilience in CIS requires understanding the transformation of CIS caused by climate change stressors ...
Addressing the needs of children with disabilities experiencing disaster or terrorism
(2017)
Purpose of review: This paper reviews the empirical literature on psychosocial factors relating to children with disabilities in the context of disaster or terrorism.
Recent findings: Research indicates individuals with ...
Biking to Academic Success: A Study on a Bike Desk Implementation at an Academic Library
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-04)
Sedentary behavior has increased over the last several decades, and this has led to major life-threatening health issues. Texas A&M University Libraries has introduced an innovative idea in three of their buildings. This ...
Changes in the social relationships of individuals with disabilities displaced by disaster
(2017-09)
The role of social relationships, social networks, and social support in disaster contexts has been investigated extensively. However, few studies have examined how social relationships, networks, and support change for ...
New Support for the Research Process: Desktop Delivery of Microform Content
(2019-10-14)
While trying to access microform content, patrons at the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources at Valparaiso University were often hampered by unfamiliar equipment, temperamental software, and a puzzling ...
Peer Review of Teaching: Best Practices for a Non-Programmatic Approach
(2019-10-14)
Many academic librarians who provide library instruction have never received formal training in educational theory and methods. In an effort to bridge this gap and improve the teaching skills of instruction librarians, ...
Rumors with personality: A differential and agent-based model of information spread through networks
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Research Online, 2016)
We constructed the “ISTK” model to approximate the spread of viral information—a rumor—
through a given (social) network. Initially, we used a set of ordinary differential equations to assess
the spread of a rumor in ...
Embracing the spiral: An action research assessment of a library-honors first year collaboration
(Elsevier, 2019-09)
Librarians often use assessment methodologies to evaluate the efficacy and impact of their information literacy instruction sessions and programs. In this article, researchers use an action research methodology to explore ...
Practices of Metadata Use in Research Information Management Systems
(Wiley, 2017)
This poster reports on a study that examines the practices of metadata use in a research information management (RIM) system ResearchGate. Understanding these practices can help institutional repositories to better align ...
Dangerous Demagogues and Weaponized Communication
(Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2019-06-11)
This essay argues that we can usefully separate “heroic demagogues” from “dangerous demagogues” by whether or not the demagogue allows themselves to be held accountable for their words and actions. “Dangerous demagoguery” ...