The rapid evolution of information and communication technology (ICT) has revolutionized the delivery of library services, establishing digital reference services (DRS) as an essential component of academic libraries. This study conducts a comparative analysis of DRS utilization in two university libraries: the Kashim Ibrahim Library (KIL) at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Nigeria, and the Dar al-Hikmah Library (DHL) at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The research evaluates...

Information retrieval 

Philippine government entities are struggling to improve services to catch up with the demands of the contemporary times which is to embed technology. One case is the potential work output of a cloud-powered productivity platform that is beneficial for State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) to advance the process of their government services. This study analyzed the feasibility and applicability of a central repository system (CRS) using a platform, Microsoft 365, of the Mariano Marcos ...

Cooperative Communications  Distributed computing  Information Management  Applications of Communication Systems  Computer Vision  Information retrieval  Technology  High Performance Computing  Information and Communication: Security, Privacy, and Trust 

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) remain a leading cause of death in the United States. These diseases, including coronary heart disease, heart attack, and stroke, pose significant health risks. Accurate prediction of CVD probability can aid in prevention and management. To address this challenge, we analyzed data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) spanning 1995-2017. We developed innovative methods to handle missing data and normalize values. Deep learning models were empl...

Information retrieval  Machine Learning  Bioinformatics 

Improved clinical processes remains a main challenge for healthcare institutions, as there are numerous inefficient processes that consume high process cost and contributes very little to business profit. The study adopted the Disco process mining framework to mine the clinical processes within the Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Department, so as to give hospital management a true picture of the actual processes that occurred in their environment, rather than the ideal picture that they assume to h...

Information Management  Information retrieval 

Most search engines in use today present the user with a single-ordered list of documents matching the search query leading to lexical ambiguity. An alternative to a single-ordered list is to cluster the search results and present a list of clusters to the user. This study implements the suffix tree clustering algorithm to optimize search. The user selects which cluster appears most relevant and the search results in that cluster are then displayed in a list under the assumption that similar doc...

Information retrieval 

Objective: Our objective is to evaluate the level of knowledge and competencies in the use of ICT tools and the need for training in medical staff in the faculty of medicine and pharmacy of Fez. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey from May 2021, in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez in various doctor’s classes: professors, medical residents, interns, and students. The questionnaire was mainly organized into two sections about the level of 1) knowledge and competencies in the ...

Information Management  Information retrieval  Information and Communication: Security, Privacy, and Trust 

The study is aimed at investigating the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use on library service delivery in two universities namely, University of Ghana library (Ghana) and Jiangsu university library (China). The paper adopted quantitative method and used a structured questionnaire to gather the research data. A sample size of 62 staff from Jiangsu University Library and 80 staff from the University of Ghana Library were selected. In all, a sample size of 142 respondents ...

Information Management  Information Science  Information retrieval  Technology  Library, Intelligence and Philology  Information and communication theory and algorithms 

Nowadays, the applications developed in the imaging area have focused on image measurement and compression, facial recognition, blurring, or image enhancement, to name a few. Among these activities, shape descriptors play an important role in describing the topology of an object and determining its general and local characteristics. Despite the large number of studies carried out, the idea of a robust shape descriptor remains a difficult problem, the challenges that hinder shape recognition are ...

Computer Vision  Information retrieval  Image Processing 

Eco-translatology is an interdisciplinary study of ecology and translation. With the help of CiteSpace developed by Professor Chen Chaomei and other statistical tools, this paper draws a knowledge graph of journal papers in the CNKI database of eco-translatology from 2008 to 2021, aiming to vividly and intuitively show the general situation. These hot spots and evolving trends in eco-transla- tology studies are under widespread scrutiny and investigation by Chinese authors. By dissecting the dis...

Information retrieval 

India is a demographic democratic country having a population of nearing 140 crores and with different people of various religions, communicating numerous languages, wearing different varieties of clothes. India is also a cacophony of languages, with more than 1500 films being produced every year in its 20 languages. Recommender systems give personalized outputs in the form of the information being processed. But unfortunately, there is very little personalization done or the data available for...

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