Two Thousand Students,One Librarian: Balancing Depth and Breadth of Library Instruction for Online Graduate Students

Many librarians struggle with how to balance scalable instructional offerings with more personalized instruction for online students—scale tends to come at the cost of personalization and vice versa. This paper will discuss three methods for connecting with online students that range from one-to-one personalization to widely scalable instruction: individual consultations, scaffolded instructional webinars, and asynchronous video tutorials. The student engagement with each type of instruction will be discussed, with ideas for future directions provided.     

Mixed Reality Lab at Mississippi State University Libraries

Virtual and Augmented Realities are advancing technologies that are becoming more popular in gaming and programming communities. However, virtual reality has been in development for decades. As libraries are often at the forefront of offering new and advancing technologies to their communities, virtual and augmented reality programs have become new additions to library services. While gaming is the prominent use of these technologies, virtual and augmented reality affords many educational opportunities. Mississippi State University Libraries have recently added a virtual/augmented reality lab as part of its library program.     

Writer identification approach based on bag of words with OBI features

Handwriter identification aims to simplify the task of forensic experts by providing them with semi-automated tools in order to enable them to narrow down the search to determine the final identification of an unknown handwritten sample. An identification algorithm aims to produce a list of predicted writers of the unknown handwritten sample ranked in terms of confidence measure metrics for use by the forensic expert will make the final decision.Most existing handwriter identification systems use either statistical or model-based approaches. To further improve the performances this paper proposes to deploy a combination of both approaches using Oriented Basic Image features and the concept of graphemes codebook. To reduce the resulting high dimensionality of the feature vector a Kernel Principal Component Analysis has been used. To gauge the effectiveness of the proposed method a performance analysis, using IAM dataset for English handwriting and ICFHR 2012 dataset for Arabic handwriting, has been carried out. The results obtained achieved an accuracy of 96% thus demonstrating its superiority when compared against similar techniques.     

Virtual Microscopy as a Learning Tool in Brazilian Medical Education

Virtual microscopy (VM) is a widely used teaching method in Medical Education in many developed countries. In Brazil, however, this is not the case for most medical schools, considering Brazilian social inequality and uneven access to technology. Recently, the Covid-19 pandemic has also challenged Universities to seek and make a transition toward more effective methods of full-time online education. Thus, the main goal of this work was to verify student's perception and academic performance, assessed upon VM implementation in a Brazilian Medical School. Ribeirao Preto Medical School students answered a 26-question survey with regards to optical microscopy (OM) and VM. Academic performance was compared between participants that were (year of 2019) or were not (year of 2015) exposed to VM. Taken the results together, subjective impressions such as handling, suitability, learning effectiveness, and pleasure using the tools, have shown a higher score for virtual microscopy (median = 29), when compared to optical microscopy (median = 24) with a P-value < 0.001 by Wilcoxon rank test, upon measurement using an ordinal scale. Regarding academic performance, no statistically significant differences were found between groups (P-value = 0.38, Cohen's d = 0.19). Therefore, VM proved to be adequate to the Brazilian medical education in light of Brazilian social contexts and Covid-19 pandemic.     

济慈的诗歌——现实主义和浪漫主义的完美结合

众所周知，作为英国学史上第二代浪漫主义诗人的杰出代表之一的济慈，其诗歌不论在形式上还是在内容上都给人留下了美的享受。然而在他的相当一部分的作品里。诗人同时采用浪漫主义和现实主义的表现手法进行创作，既艺术地描写美好的理想生活。又真实地再现当时的社会生活。本将结合诗人的某些诗篇。重点分析诗歌中的现实主义特点。     

中国古代文学中雁意象的文化内蕴

雁 ,是中国古代文学中常见的意象之一。在文学作品中 ,古人常以雁自喻 ,抒写内心的思乡怀旧、羁旅孤苦之情 ,以及相思哀怨的感伤 ,成为道德伦常的载体。雁意象丰富的文化内蕴 ,相沿承袭 ,给传统抒情文学和民族审美心理产生不可忽视的影响     

意象——诗歌表达的另一种语言

中国古典诗歌具有隐约幽微、意在言外的特点，是因为它运用词句营造出第二层次的符号系统．这一系统以意象为主。意象具有独立的表迭功能，但其所指更不确定，这就使诗歌更加隐晦。古典诗歌还借助文学传统和文化背景表情迭意，这更丰富了诗歌内涵，也使诗歌理解起来更为见仁见智。     

远程开放教育支持服务系统的建设与应用

远程教育服务系统的建设与应用主要包括三个方面内容：1、开放教育的物质条件(校园网络的规划、多媒体平台的建设)；2、教师与网上教学资源的建设；3、学生学习态度与观念的转变。     

从诗话角度看中西诗歌意象

诗歌中一个重要的创作手段是通过意象来表达诗人的情怀。中英文诗歌在意象的作用、营造手法、选择意象之物等方面具有共同点,但由于各民族不同的自然环境、社会背景和风俗习惯,表述时所选择的意象之物又不尽相同。从诗话角度出发,通过对中英文诗歌中的意象进行对比研究,我们发现它们之间的差异与中西美学的不同呈现出同一态势。     

科技期刊论文图片的鉴定

对科技期刊论文中图片的抄袭和篡改问题进行研究,从图片属性分析、源码分析和利用JPEGsnoop软件鉴定等方面,提出图片篡改的识别方法,为科技期刊在论文收录时,能准确判断图片是否被刻意篡改或抄袭,以打击学术不端行为.