bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Improving Customer Satisfaction: Changes as a Result of Customer Value Discovery
Authors: McKnight Susan , Berrington Mike 
Published: February 2016

Objective: To identify how interventions, as a result of Customer Value Discovery research, increased student satisfaction in an academic library. The process created a positive environment for ongoing innovation amongst staff to deliver added value to customers.
Methods: “Customer Discovery Workshops” were undertaken with academic staff and undergraduate on-campus students to provide managers and library staff with information on what services and resources were of value to customers, and what irritated them about existing services and resources. The impact of interventions was assessed two years after the research by using a university student satisfaction survey and an independent national student satisfaction survey.
Results: The findings resulted in significant changes to the way forward-facing customer services were delivered. A number of value adding services were introduced for the customer. Overall customer satisfaction was improved.
Conclusions: The customer value discovery research has created a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. The Balanced Scorecard framework was introduced to help track activity and performance against the objectives identified in the customer value research.
Graduate Students May Need Information Literacy Instruction as Much as Undergraduates
Authors: Miller Robin Elizabeth 
Published: February 2016

A Review of:
Conway, Kate. (2011). How prepared are students for postgraduate study? A comparison of the information literacy skills of commencing undergraduate and postgraduate studies students at Curtin University. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 42(2), 121-135.

Abstract

Objective – To determine whether there is a difference in the information literacy skills of postgraduate and undergraduate students beginning an information studies program, and to examine the influence of demographic characteristics on information literacy skills.

Design – Online, multiple choice questionnaire to test basic information literacy skills.

Setting – Information studies program at a large university in Western Australia.

Subjects – 64 information studies students who responded to an email invitation to participate in an online questionnaire, a 44% response rate. Of those responding, 23 were undergraduates and 41 were postgraduates.

Methods – Over the course of two semesters, an online survey was administered. In order to measure student performance against established standards, 25 test questions were aligned with the Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework (ANZIIL) (Bundy, 2004), an adapted version of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2000). In the first semester that the survey was administered, 9 demographic questions were asked and 11 in the second semester. Participants were invited to respond voluntarily to the questionnaire via email. Results were presented as descriptive statistics, comparing undergraduate and postgraduate student performance. The results were not tested for statistical significance and the author did not control for confounding variables.

Main Results – Postgraduate respondents scored an average of 77% on the test questionnaire, while undergraduates scored an average of 69%. The 25% of respondents who had previous work experience in a library achieved average scores of 79%, in contrast to 69% among those who had not worked in a library. Average scores for undergraduates in the 20-30 age group were 81%, while those in the 30-40 age group averaged 65%. Among both undergraduate and postgraduate students, scores may indicate deficiencies in information literacy skills in several areas, including parsing citations, strategies for locating specific content, and defining an information need.

Conclusion – The study concludes that postgraduate students’ information literacy skills may be marginally better than the skills of undergraduates. Age was found to be associated with higher performance among undergraduate students, and a variety of “basic” information literacy skills may elude many respondents. These findings might prompt librarians and instructors to look closely at gaps in information literacy knowledge among students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Free E-Books May Increase Print Sales: A Study With Mixed Results
Authors: Williams Heather R 
Published: February 2016

A Review of:
Hilton, J. III, & Wiley, D. (2010). The short-term influence of free digital versions of books on print sales. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 13(1).

Objective – To determine whether the availability of free digital versions of books impacts print sales.

Design – Quantitative data comparison.

Setting – University Instructional Psychology Department.

Subjects – A total of 41 books, each with a free digital version and a traditional print version.

Methods – This study used Nielson BookScan data to track print book sales during a 16-week period, 8 weeks before a free digital version of the book became available and 8 weeks after the availability of the free digital version. The authors tracked 41 books and organized them into four categories. The first included 7 nonfiction books, the second consisted of 5 science fiction/fantasy books, the third included 5 science fiction/fantasy books released together by Random House, and the fourth group consisted of 24 science fiction/fantasy books released by Tor Books. The books released by Tor Books, unlike the other books in the study, were available by free download only if a person registered for Tor’s newsletter and the downloads were only available for one week. When a free digital book from any of the other three groups was released, it remained available for several weeks, and more often, indefinitely.

Main Results – Combined print sales of the nonfiction titles in the first group increased 5% after the release of a free digital copy. The majority of the science fiction/fantasy books in the second group also had an increase in post-free release sales, with a combined increase of 26%. The combined sales of the Random House titles increased by 9% after the release of the free digital versions. However, in stark contrast to the results of the first three groups, the fourth group of Tor books had a combined decrease in print sales of 18%. While the authors were not able to explain this difference with certainty, they point out that the Tor model for releasing the free digital books (making the free books available for only one week and requiring registration in order to download the books) was substantially different from the models used by the other publishers.

Conclusion – The study suggests a positive relationship may exist between free digital books and short-term print sales. However, the availability of free digital books did not always lead to increased print sales. The authors acknowledge a number of factors not fully accounted for, including the timing of the free digital release, the promotion it received, and the differences in the size of the audiences for the various books studied. Ultimately, however, the authors believe the data indicates that when free digital books are offered for a period of time longer than a week, without requiring registration, print sales will increase.
Study Describes Research Scientists’ Information Seeking Behaviour, but Methodological Issues Make Usefulness as Evidence Debatable
Authors: Marsalis Scott 
Published: February 2016

A Review of:
Hemminger, B.M., Lu, D., Vaughan, K.T.L., & Adams, S. J. (2007). Information seeking behavior of academic scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(14), 2205-2225.

Abstract

Objective – To quantify the transition to electronic communication in information-seeking behaviour of academic scientists.

Design – Census survey.

Setting – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a large public research university.

Subjects – Nine hundred two faculty, research staff, and graduate students involved in research in basic or medical science departments. Participants self-selected (26%) from 3523 recruited. The sample reflected the larger population in terms of gender, age, university position, and department.

Methods – The authors developed a web-based survey and delivered it via PHP Survey Tool. They developed the questions to parallel similar earlier studies to allow for comparative analysis. The survey included 28 main questions with some questions including further follow-up questions depending on the initial answer. The instrument included three initial questions designed to reveal the participant’s place and role in the university, and further coding classified participants’ department as either basic or medical science. The questions included categorical, continuous, and open-ended types. While most questions focused on the scientists’ information seeking behaviour, the three final open-ended questions asked about their opinions of the library and ideal searching environment. Answers were transferred into a MySQL database, then imported into SAS to generate simple descriptive statistics.

Main Results – Participants reported easy access to online resources, and a strong preference for conducting research online, even when access to a physical library is convenient. Infrequent visits to the library predominantly took place to utilize materials not available online, although the third most common answer for visiting was to take advantage of the library building as a quiet reading space (14%). Additional questions revealed both type and specifics of most popular sources for research, preferred journals, current awareness tools, reasons for choice of journal for publication, and use of bibliographic management tools.

Conclusion – Scientists prefer online tools for conducting library research, although specific contexts influence the preference, and online articles may be printed out for reading or annotation. The participants are taking advantage of the developing online arena, utilizing databases for research, as well as literature searching, access to journals and conference proceedings, and to keep abreast of current research.
Print Books are Cheaper than E-Books for Academic Libraries
Authors: Newton Miller Laura 
Published: February 2016

A Review of:
Bailey, T. P., Scott, A. L., & Best, R. D. (2015). Cost differentials between e-books and print in academic libraries. College & Research Libraries, 76(1), 6-18. doi: 10.5860/crl.76.1.2

Abstract

Objective – To determine the difference in cost (if any) between print and e-book titles for an academic library.

Design – Case study.

Setting – Library system of a small, regional university in the southern United States of America.

Subjects – 264 titles requested by faculty (out of 462 total requests) that were available in both print and electronic format.

Method – Using Baker & Taylor’s Title Source 3 (now Title Source 360), the researchers compared pricing between the print version (paperback preferred) and electronic version (single user only) of titles requested by faculty during the Fall 2012 semester.

Main Results – As a whole, print titles had a mean price of $53.50 and electronic equivalent titles had a mean price of $73.50 (a $19.17 difference). Only 44 of the 264 e-book titles were less expensive than their print equivalents. When broken down by LC classification, e-books were generally more expensive than print across all subjects except for religion and philosophy (BJ-BY) and the social sciences (H-HV). Average prices for both print and electronic were cheaper for university press publications versus non-university press publications. (This was true for both arithmetic and weighted means.) Humanities books were the least expensive (mean cost/print title), but the average e-book cost was slightly higher than the social sciences. Science books were most expensive (average) both in print and electronic.

Conclusion – On average, print books are cheaper than e-books for academic libraries.
The Cost Of Fast Cash For Students: Payday Loans Versus Credit Card Cash Advances
Authors: Corcoran Charles P. 
Published: February 2016

When asked if they, a friend or a family member has borrowed cash quickly, spur-of-the-moment, with little or no credit checking or collateral, many respond affirmatively. Twenty-one of eighty- two students (25.6%) from my Spring, 2007, Personal Finance course have first-hand knowledge of a credit card cash advance, while seven of eighty-two students (8.5%) have first-hand knowledge of a payday loan transaction. Two of eighty-two students (2.4%) claim to know of instances of both methods of obtaining cash quickly. While both methods of borrowing should be avoided, should an emergency loan be necessary, the cost of a credit card cash advance is significantly lower than the cost of a payday loan.
MULTI-COLOR OPTICAL MONITORING OF MRK 501 FROM 2010 TO 2015
Authors: Xiong Dingrong , Zhang Haojing , Zhang Xiong , Yi Tingfeng , Bai Jinming , Wang Fang , Liu Hongtao , Zheng Yonggang 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACT
We have monitored the BL Lac object Mrk 501 in the optical V, R, and I bands from 2010 to 2015. For Mrk 501, the presence of a strong host galaxy component can affect the results of photometry. After subtracting the host galaxy contributions, the source shows intraday and long-term variabilities for optical flux and color indices. The average variability amplitudes of the V, R, and I bands are

, respectively, and the value of the duty cycle is 14.87%. A minimal variability timescale of 106 minutes is detected. No significant time lag between the V and I bands is found on one night. The bluer-when-brighter (BWB) trend is dominant for Mrk 501 on intermediate, short, and intraday timescales, which supports the shock-in-jet model. For the long timescale, Mrk 501, in different states, can have different BWB trends. The corresponding results for non-correcting host galaxy contributions are also presented.
The Relation between Learning Orientation and Variables of Firm Performance with Strategic Human Resources Management Applications in the Islamic Banks in Turkey
Authors: Zehir Cemal , Basar Dogan 
Published: February 2016

<p>This study is aimed to research the relation between learning orientation and variables of firm performance with Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Applications in the participation banks in Turkey. Labor force planning, education-development, assessing performance, reward system, and withholding employee are used as SHRM Applications. Firm performance is selected as only variable. It has been surveyed on participation banks in Turkey. Results inside the Strategic Human Resources Applications; it was detected that labor force planning is meaningfully impacting on labor force productivity and sales. On the other hand, labor force planning has no correlation with employee turnover rate which is one of the variable of organizational performance. Indeed, employee turnover rate is inversely correlated with sales of the company is detected.</p><p>This study is aimed to explore the impact of Strategic Human Resource Management Applications (SHRMA) on learning orientation and firm performance under the conditions of intensive competitive business world where we live today. The variables of the study are Strategic Human Resource Applications, learning orientation, and firm performance. In the analysis, high constative relations of these variables were discussed with a reductant approach. When all the factors are fixed except the variables learn orientation, SHRMA and firm performance, the results of the correlation analyses gives us that the learning orientation, has a significant one to one effect on SHRMA and Firm Performance factors. Moreover, the results of the analyses that SHRMA has a complete mediator variable effect on the relation between Learning Orientation and Firm Performance. This results state a high arity between the variables that we procured via the corresponding structure equation model.</p><p> </p>
Transition Systems, Event Structures and Unfoldings
Authors: Nielsen Mogens , Rozenberg Grzegorz , Thiagarajan P. S. 
Published: February 2016

<p>Elementary transition systems were introduced by the authors in DAIMI PB-310. They were proved to be, in a strong categorical sense, the transition system version of elementray net systems. The question arises whether the notion of a region and the axioms (mostly based on regions) imposed on ordinary transition systems to obtain elementray net systems. Stated differently, one colud ask whether elementray transition systems could also play a role in characterizing other models of concurrency.</p><p> </p><p>We show here that by smoothly stengthening the axioms of elementary transition systems one obtains a subclass called occurrence transitions systems which turn out to be categorically equivalent to the well-known model of concurrency called prime event structures.</p><p> </p><p>Next we show that occurrence transition systems are to elementry transition systems what occurrence nets are to elementary nets systems. We define an ''unfold'' operation on elementry transition systems which yields occurrence transistion systems. We then prove that this operation uniquely extends to a functor which is the right adjoint to the inclusion functor from (the full subcategory of) occurrence transition systems to (the category of) elementary transition systems. Thus the results of this paper also show that the semantic theory of elementray net systems has a nice counterpart in the more abstract world of transition systems.</p>
Simulation Techniques
Authors: Gammelgaard Anders 
Published: February 2016

<p>In the papers surveyed in this thesis a number of simulation techniques are presented together with their applications to several examples. The papers improve upon existing techniques and introduce new techniques.</p><p> </p><p>The improvement of existing techniques is motivated in programming methodology: It is demonstrated that existing techniques often introduce a double proof burden whereas the improved techniques alleviate such a burden. One application is to ensure delay insensitivity in a class of self-timed circuits.</p><p> </p><p>A major part of the thesis is concerned with the deduction and use of two simulation techniques to prove the correctness of translations from subsets of <strong>occam-2</strong> to transputer code.</p>
Growth and characterization of indium-doped Zn3P2 bulk crystals
Authors: Katsube Ryoji , Hayashi Hiroyuki , Nagaoka Akira , Yoshino Kenji , Nose Yoshitaro , Shirai Yasuharu 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
In this paper, we report the crystal growth of indium-doped zinc phosphide bulk crystals to obtain n-type conduction. The crystal growth experiments were carried out by unidirectional solidification from In–Zn–P ternary solution, and n-type Zn3P2 bulk crystals were successfully obtained. It was also revealed that the electrical properties of indium-doped Zn3P2 crystals could be controlled by heat treatment under controlled partial pressure of phosphorus or zinc. The relationship between the electron concentration and the partial pressure of zinc or phosphorus even in indium-doped Zn3P2 can be understood on the basis of defect equilibria, as in the case of undoped Zn3P2. However, the controllable range of the electron concentration was 1010–1013 cm−3, which was too low in terms of the concentration of doped indium. This is due to the low formation energy of the intrinsic acceptor, interstitial phosphorus, and carrier compensation should be discussed. According to recent reports on ab initio calculation, a weakly n-type Zn3P2 is expected to be formed under extremely Zn-rich growth conditions. The results obtained in this study coincide with the prediction based on calculations, and provide useful knowledge for the formation of the p–n junction of Zn3P2.
Low-dark-current waveguide InGaAs metal–semiconductor–metal photodetector monolithically integrated with InP grating coupler on III–V CMOS photonics platform
Authors: Cheng Yongpeng , Ikku Yuki , Takenaka Mitsuru , Takagi Shinichi 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The fabrication of waveguide InGaAs metal–semiconductor–metal (MSM) photodetector (PD) monolithically integrated with an InP grating coupler has been demonstrated using the III–V CMOS photonics platform. The grating coupler shows approximately 28% coupling efficiency, which allows wafer-scale testing with better coupling and alignment tolerance than edge-fire coupling. The InGaAs PD with an InP/InAlAs Schottky barrier enhancement (SBE) layer exhibits a low dark current of 0.75 nA at 1 V bias. When the bias is 4 V, a responsivity of approximately 0.19 A/W with 3 nA dark current is achieved. The fabricated PD on a III–V-on-insulator wafer can be used for the fabrication of low-power receiver chips for optical interconnects.
Formation of Ge oxide film by neutral beam postoxidation using Al metal film
Authors: Ohno Takeo , Nakayama Daiki , Okada Takeru , Samukawa Seiji 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
A low-temperature neutral beam postoxidation process using an aluminum (Al) metal film was used to obtain a high-quality germanium (Ge) oxide film. After the deposition of a 1-nm-thick Al film on a Ge substrate, the simultaneous oxidation of Al and Ge was carried out at 300 °C, and a Ge oxide film with 28.5% Ge dioxide (GeO2) content was realized by controlling the acceleration bias power of the neutral oxygen beam. We also confirmed that the fabricated Au/AlO
x
/GeO
x
/Ge/Al MOS gate structure shows an equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) of 2.8 nm. This result demonstrates the great potential of neutral beam postoxidation for fabricating high-performance Ge MOS transistors.
Tandem photovoltaic–photoelectrochemical GaAs/InGaAsP–WO3/BiVO4 device for solar hydrogen generation
Authors: Kosar Sonya , Pihosh Yuriy , Turkevych Ivan , Mawatari Kazuma , Uemura Jin , Kazoe Yutaka , Makita Kikuo , Sugaya Takeyoshi , Matsui Takuya , Fujita Daisuke , Tosa Masahiro , Struk Yaroslav M. , Kondo Michio , Kitamori Takehiko 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
We demonstrated highly efficient solar hydrogen generation via water splitting by photovoltaic–photoelectrochemical (PV–PEC) tandem device based on GaAs/InGaAsP (PV cell) and WO3/BiVO4 core/shell nanorods (PEC cell). We utilized extremely thin absorber (ETA) concept to design the WO3/BiVO4 core/shell heterojunction nanorods and obtained the highest efficiencies of generation, separation and transfer of the photo-induced charge carriers that are possible for the WO3/BiVO4 material combination. The PV–PEC tandem shows stable water splitting photocurrent of 6.56 mA·cm−2 under standard AM1.5G solar light that corresponds to the record solar-to-hydrogen (STH) conversion efficiency of 8.1%.