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Cyberspace or Face-to-Face: The Teachable Moment and Changing Reference Mediums. [PDF]

, 2007
This article considers the teaching role of reference librarians by studying the teachable moment in reference transactions, and users’ response to that instruction.
Desai, Christina M., Graves, Stephanie J.   +1 more
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Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales, Jessica Ingrid Marquez Cazorla, Renzo Marianito Marquez Cazorla, Aline Martins dos Santos, Jonatas Lobato Duarte, Letícia Oliveira Catarin Nunes, Túlio Custódio Reis, Lara Cerazi Salvador, Norival Alves Santos‐Filho, Rafael Miguel Sábio, Hélder A. Santos, Fernando Rogério Pavan   +11 more
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Canadian Collaborations: Library Communications and Advocacy in the time of COVID-19

Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic forced libraries to unexpectedly and suddenly close their physical locations, necessitating a remote working environment and a greater reliance on digital and virtual services.
Christina Winter, Mark Swartz, Victoria Owen, Ann Ludbrook , Brianne Selman, Robert Tiessen   +5 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of learning environments on the Information Systems of educational institutions [PDF]

, 2018
Since the early years where they started to enter the market, Learning Management Systems (LMS) have reached a very high level of maturity, providing professional solutions to mostly any educational need referring to distance learning.
Paolo Maresca
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C16 Phase High Entropy Borides With High Magnetic Anisotropy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Rare‐earth‐free C16‐phase high entropy boride thin films exhibit enhanced magnetic anisotropy with coercivities surpassing their binary and ternary counterparts. Combinatorial synthesis of (Fe‐Co‐Ni‐Mn)2B films combined with density functional theory enables mapping of the magnetic properties across the composition space, revealing high entropy ...
Willie B. Beeson, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Dinesh Bista, Bradley J. Fugetta, Gen Yin, Kai Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Provision of digital reference services in academic libraries in Kenya: a review

Regional Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 2017
Rationale of the study - The popularity of internet as an avenue of communication and source of information has led to decreasing numbers of in-person reference transaction in academic libraries.
James M. Tutu
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Roll‐to‐Roll Manufacturing of Flexible Thermoelectric Semiconductors Using Low‐Level Direct‐Current Sputtering

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Roll‐to‐roll direct‐current sputtering enables room‐temperature manufacture of flexible bismuth telluride thermoelectric films. By identifying a low‐power deposition window that suppresses charge‐induced arcing, this work links sputtering conditions to film structure, charge transport, and thermoelectric performance, achieving a room‐temperature figure
Xudong Tao, John O'Sullivan, Kening Wan, Emiliano Bilotti, Ruy Sebastian Bonilla, Hazel E. Assender   +5 more
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The Majority of Library Clients Still Use Person-to-Person Interaction When Asking Reference Questions. A review of: De Groote, Sandra L. “Questions Asked at the Virtual and Physical Health Sciences Reference Desk: How Do They Compare and What Do They Tell Us?” Medical Reference Services Quarterly 24.2 (Summer 2005): 11-23.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2006
Objective - To identify similarities and difference in the questions asked at the virtual and physical refernece desks of a helath scienmces library, in order to better undertand user needs and highlight areas for service improvement.
Suzanne Pamela Lewis
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Developing inclusive models of reference and instruction to create information literate communities. [PDF]

, 2010
Reference service and information literacy are both central to the professional practice of librarianship. The role of instruction in reference work is widely recognised but not always properly acknowledged.
Corrall, Sheila
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