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Formation of Nocturnal Offshore Rainfall near the West Coast of Sumatra: Land Breeze or Gravity Wave?
(American Meteorological Society, 2021-03)
Afternoon deep convection over the Maritime Continent islands propagates offshore in the evening to early morning hours, leading to a nocturnal rainfall maximum over the nearby ocean. This work investigates the formation ...
Considerations of Providing Patent and Trademark Assistance Services at One’s Library
(2021)
Purpose – The authors’ goal in writing this article was to provide background information and detailed considerations to assist those wishing to provide patent and trademark assistance at their libraries. The major ...
Understanding student populations key to tailoring library instruction and outreach
(Elsevier Connect, 2021-05-24)
Librarians commonly work with students who are grouped in a variety of ways, such as by course and by major. Another typical way that universities, and libraries, distinguish student groups is by class year. Increasingly, ...
Find It on the Web Using the Search Concepts You Already Know
(2021-12-22)
The author discusses the applicability and effectiveness of phrase searching, the use of natural language, Boolean logic, nesting, proximity, truncation, and wildcards to web search engines.
Beyond PubMed: Expand Your Online Search
(Texas Veterinary Medical Association, 2021-06)
Endowment for a rainy day? An empirical analysis of endowment spending by operating public charities
(Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2021)
There has been growing public attention to the accumulation and spending of endowments in recent years. Scholars have offered different theories on the objective of endowments that have different implications for endowment ...
Amazonian Mesoscale Convective Systems: Life Cycle and Propagation Characteristics
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2021-02-12)
Convective system tracking was performed using 30‐min GOES‐13 infrared imagery over the Amazon region during 2014 and 2015. A total of 116,701 convective systems were identified and statistics on the probability of occurrence ...
Fostering higher level cultural learning among tourism students through virtual interaction
(Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 2021-02-03)
This research presents a joint project between Texas A&M University and CBS International Business School, designed to bring awareness to students’ understandings of other people, cultures, feelings and behaviors. While ...
Media Literacy, Social Connectedness, and Digital Citizenship in India: Mapping Stakeholders on How Parents and Young People Navigate a Social World
(Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021-03-30)
The ubiquity of digital and social media has led to considerable academic debate regarding their role in the lives of children and adolescents. The Global North, especially United States and Europe, has largely led this ...
Media Use During COVID-19: An Investigation of Negative Effects on the Mental Health of Asian Versus White Americans
(Frontiers in Communication, 2021-04-28)
The role of media use on mental health distress is particularly concerning during the
COVID-19 global pandemic. The vulnerabilities to and experiences of the COVID-19
pandemic in the United States are greatly influenced ...