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At present, developing and managing a collection of e-resources is an essential responsibility of any university library in Sri Lanka, especially in order to go in parallel with their counterparts in developed world. However, these electronic resources are expensive and inevitable at the same time. This paper sheds light on the importance and utilization of e-resources, and discusses about the current...
Building digital library applications is often a search for an applicable and adequate data or document model as well as for software tools which meets the requirements. Especially in digital archives, there are several data and document models to be considered. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all document model or system. For each application, the requirements and properties of a project...
Plagiarism — using someone else's ideas, writings or results, and presenting them as one's own without giving proper credit to the actual author. In today's competitive world plagiarism is spreading at a tenacious rate. Scientific writing requires good expertise for it demands both features: vividness and terseness, which are generally hard to accomplish together. Any scientific work should be characterized...
In the present digital era, e-journals have become preferred source of information among the scientists/ researchers/ academics worldwide because of various reasons. To provide e-journals service to the users, most of the libraries have either formed libraries consortia or joined some e-journals consortia. In many foreign countries like USA, UK the e-journals services are very common. Now, many libraries...
Since its establishment six years ago as a leading research University in the Middle East, Khalifa University has transformed 90% of its library collection from print to electronic, with nearly 75% of its annual library budget going to pay for e-resources. Managing this transition from paper to a vast digital collection in such a short time has proven to be a challenging evolutionary experience. This...
Electronic information resources such as e-journals, standards, reports, patents, trade reports are available on the web which are widely used by students and researchers. This paper analyze the use of such electronic resources by the medical college students and researchers of Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu which is one of the premier Medical Universities in India. The study was...
Despite efforts of the past three decades, participation of under represented minority groups is still an issue in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In this context, a program between the Community College of Philadelphia and Drexel University to provide research experience to minority students was implemented based on the hypothesis that learning about science and...
Human Gait Recognition is typically alluded to imply the human ID by the style/way individuals stroll in picture sequences. Our point is to execute the customary gait recognition calculation and to demonstrate the variety in recognition when subject is watched parallel to camera under three conditions-walking slow, at typical speed and walking quickly. For this situation, the work devises a novel...
Common image features have too poor information for identification of forensic images of fingerprints, where only a small area of the finger is imaged and hence a small amount of key points are available. Noise, nonlinear deformation, and unknown rotation are additional issues that complicate identification of forensic fingerprints. We propose a feature extraction method which describes image information...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) as a decision support tool for evaluating the environmental load of products has been widely used in many fields. However, applying LCA in the building industry is expensive and time consuming. This is due to the complexity of building structure along with a large amount of high-dimensional heterogeneous building data. So far building environmental impact assessment (BEIA)...
Model Driven Engineering (MDE) gives new insights into software engineering and software development. This approach is quite new and it still is the subject of discussion concerning its efficiency and usefulness. However, MDE approach becomes more and more popular among researchers and developers. That is why it is being introduced into curricula by many universities. MDE proposes a new way of software...
The Great East Japan Earthquake caused catastrophic damage to Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, and Fukushima Prefecture. A lot of relief supplies were sent to these stricken areas from all over the country in case of the Great East Japan Earthquake. However, since the relief supplies accumulation hub got confused by management and sorting work of relief supplies, "the relief supplies shortage...
Some authenticated data structures (ADS) can reduce authentication cost with using signature aggregation method, such as authenticated skip list, merkle hash tree etc. But these ADS cannot solve the complicated authenticated problems, such as relational query authentication. Pang et al present signature chain scheme aims at various types of relational query but has high cost. Therefore an improved...
This paper describes a study that examines the effect of cohesion-based feedback on a team members' behaviors in a global software development project. Chat messages and forum posts were collected from a software development project involving students living in the US and Mexico. Half of the teams in the project received feedback in the form of a graphical representation that displayed the group's...
Data drives all aspects of our society, from everyday life, to business, to medicine, and science. It is well known that query personalization can be an effective technique in dealing with the data scalability challenge, primarily from the human point of view. In order to customize their query results, users need to express their preferences in a simple and user-friendly manner. There are two types...
Biometric identification verifies user identity by comparing an encoded value with a stored value of the concerned biometric characteristic. Multimodal person authentication system is more effective and more challenging. The fusion of multiple biometric traits helps to minimize the system error rate. The benefit of energy compaction of transforms in higher coefficients is taken here to reduce the...
Large online music collections often frustrate users and have increased the importance of recommender systems. This has led to interesting problem of automated playlist generation. Most of the existing playlist's compare a pair songs based on low-level/mid-level features and calculate the similarity. These systems lack user perception of music. This work supplements such existing systems by providing...
In this paper we have described the methodologies that we have used in data collection and recording for our Hindi Text to Speech system. Design of the speech corpus plays a very important role in overall quality of the text-to-speech system. A huge text corpus of one million words was created for existing text-to-speech system. We have crawled text from many domains like financial, government, current...
This paper proposes the taboo words similarity browsing system which is able to assist the naming process. The proposed system in this paper analyzes new texts - new words or sentences - into phonemes, compares their similarities of pronunciations between new words and taboo words from various language cultural areas. The system supports the effective visualization interfaces in order to visualize...
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