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An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experiences of facts, data, and situations. Knowledge management includes techniques and processes to represent, store, search, integrate, and analyze knowledge that is available in digital form. Ontology is a formal explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest and it is a building block of the semantic web and formal description of knowledge. Ontologies capture the structure and knowledge about some domain of inter… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Hussen, Tijani; Beyene, Melkamu & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
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Relationship Between Jobs and Soft Skills in the Technology Sector: a Case Study in the City of Florianópolis

Description: The Soft Skills theme has been presented and discussed by several academic and professional players: researchers, consultants, entrepreneurs and technicians in Human Resources. These are personal skills that go beyond technical competence, absolutely determining the performance of any organization. Understanding what they will be and how to develop these skills has been the challenge of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which periodically publishes reports mapping areas, professions and skills th… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Vedovatto, Andreici Daiani; Vedovatto, Andreici Daiani; Gargioni, Sergio Luiz; Marques, Jamile Sabatini; Rath, Rafael & Karam-Koleski, Adriana
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Role of Social Media in Spreading Fake News During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey among University Students of Bangladesh

Description: Arising in China in December 2019, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) soon spread to other countries worldwide including Bangladesh. Mass media and social media platforms played an important role in providing Coronavirus related information and news as they enable people to share news as well as personal experiences with one another rapidly. Since little is known about COVID-19, various fake news spread across social media that panicked people into making panic decisions. The primary objective of… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atikuzzaman, MD.
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Social Media, Grindr, and PrEP: Sexual Health Literacy for Men Who have Sex with Men in the Internet Age

Description: Despite continued improvements to HIV/AIDS treatment and awareness, HIV transmission rates remain high among men who have sex with men (MSM). Online consumer health information targeting high risk MSM through social media and geosocial networking (GSN) apps have shown to be successful HIV intervention strategies. This review article addresses (1) the efficacy and acceptance of delivering consumer health information about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV prevention through GSN apps, (2) t… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Goodwin, Gavin
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Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia

Description: This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a mo… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Asfaw, Zelalem & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
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Trends of Knowledge Sharing in Communities of Practice (COP) in University Libraries: Library and Information Science Professionals’ Perspectives

Description: This study considers Communities of Practice as a group of library and information science professionals who share their common interests and problems on a topic in order to exchange their expertise and knowledge on that topic. The study sheds lights on the ways of knowledge sharing, and assess the reasons of knowledge sharing of LIS professionals through Communities of Practice in the context of university libraries in Bangladesh.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Roy, Samgeeta; Ali Akanda, A. K. M. Eamin; Hasan, Md Nazmul; Islam, Md. Mahbubul; Haque, Md. Armanul; Roy, Partha Biplob et al.
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Using Operative Data Governance Roadmaps for Business Process Management Success: The Role of Leadership and the Impact of Information Technology Adoption

Description: The unquestionable demand for data generation and consumption in organizations in this century prompt an increasingly notion of data as a valuable asset, provoking the urgency for reliable analysis and reporting of complex data assets towards a critical business decision making process. Computing languages like SQL, Sequential Query Language, Data Mining and Warehouse, and data visualization tools are some examples of how information technology is being applied to the problem solving strategy r… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel & Makani, Joyline
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Wisdom and Veterans: Enhance the Perspective, Experience, and Resilience of the Workforce

Description: Wisdom is defined as “a uniquely human quality demonstrated through an ability to apply self-insight, experience, and sound judgment in conjunction with applicable data, information, and knowledge to create a course of action leading to beneficial and productive decisions for both individuals and society” (Allen et al., 2020, p. 159). Using this definition as a foundation, this research explores how veterans use wisdom to enhance the workforce through perspective, experience, and resilience.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Eaves, Tresia D.; Zimmerman, Tara; Rosellini, Amy; Njeri, Millicent & Khader, Malak
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Wisdom as it Exists in a Professional’s Life

Description: Recent years have seen the development of quite a few measures of wisdom (e.g. Ardelt (2003); Glück (2017); Staudinger and Pasupathi (2003); Sternberg (1998); Webster (2003)). With a focus on information professionals working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector, this study is unique in the way it translated the quantitative measures used in previous study into a qualitative instrument that can allow wisdom aspects to be explored through interviews. Thus the purpose … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Qayyum, M. Asim; Khan, Arif & Redshaw, Sarah
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Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

Description: This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
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Análise da Relação Entre Liderança e Capacidade Absortiva do Conhecimento: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Description: Paper attempts to systematically map scientific productions that address the relationship between leadership and the absorptive capacity of knowledge through a systematic literature review.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: de Oliveira Massad, Daniela; de Oliveira Archanjo de Souza, Daniele Santos; Salgado, Andreia Maria Pedro; Lapolli, Édis Mafra & Marins, Fernando Augusto Silva
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Aplicando Inovações Pedagógicas no Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem Moodle a Partir da Combinação dos Princípios de Gamificação e de Trilhas de Aprendizagem

Description: Paper aims to present a study of techniques and procedures for the applicability of the process of games and learning trails in a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), in the Distance Education Modality (DEM) using the Moodle platform.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: da Silva Vida, Edinilson & Barbosa, Paula Faragó Vieira
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Aprendizagem de Rede – Um Construto em Validação

Description: Paper analyzes the definition of network learning and it's relation to similar concepts through an integrative literature review.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Watanabe Wilbert, Julieta K.; Steil, Andrea V. & Aparecida Dandolini, Gertrudes
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Big Data para a geração de indicadores de turismo: fontes de dados e aplicações

Description: Paper summarizes research on the use of big data for calculating tourism indicators with the goal of enabling tourism knowledge producers and users to envision alternative, more cost-effective methods of generating such indicators.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Caumo, Rafael Bassegio; Biz, Alexandre Augusto & Artur de Souza, João
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