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{"title":"Biological Pollution in Libraries: A Case Study of the King Abdulaziz Public Libray, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia","authors":"N. Algoblan, Nehal Fouad Ismael, S. Al-Mijalli","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20210502.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20210502.14","url":null,"abstract":"Biological pollution is a main problem that threatens the environment because of its great risks that negatively affect human health. Such risk is more increased in closed spaces than open ones. Being closed and insufficiently ventilated environment, libraries are highly liable to biological pollution and they may become fertile environments for the causes of pollution. The present study aims at measuring how extent the biological pollution level is in the King Abdulaziz public library in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and how suitable and safe it is as a workplace to librarians and reading place for visitors. It also reveals the librarians' awareness and understanding of biological pollution and its risks. The study uses case study approach and the experimental method to achieve the objectives and answer the questions it raised. It concludes that King Abdelaziz Public library suffers from high air pollution and books may form the most concentrated colonies of bacteria. It finally recommends that environmental factors that help the growth and reproduction of microbes in the internal library environment must be under control, library pollution level must be measured periodically, laws and regulations that maintain a healthy environment for librarians should be enacted and regulated and must be Implemented an environmental management system that contributes effectively to eliminate pollution","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87654098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inhibitors to the Electronic Teaching and Learning of Library Science in the Nigerian Universities of the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era and the Way Forward","authors":"T. Akinde","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20210502.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20210502.13","url":null,"abstract":"This is a review of the extant literature on inhibitors to the electronic teaching and learning of Library and Information Science (LIS) in Nigerian universities. The university-wide inhibitors as identified by the study are non-provision or inadequacy of: funding, administrative and infrastructural supports, functional ICT laboratories/tools, ICT-compliant teaching staff and standby and responsive technical support for both teachers and students. Library schools’ inhibitors include poor maintenance culture, lack of Internet presence, dedicated bandwidth and active websites while the teaching and learning inhibitors highlighted by the study are (older) teachers’ poor attitude, concerns on how to retain the copyright of their lecture contents, plagiarism and the quality of students’ work; fear of additional workload which may result in stress and burnt-out; lack of freedom or teaching autonomy (as teaching may now take the collaborations of colleagues, computer experts and instructional/graphic designers); teachers’/students’ poor expertise and technology background and nature of course, among others. The author made suggestions on the way forward for an increased and a sustainable integration of ICTs in teaching and learning, especially in this Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era where physical contact and interactions may need to be reduced to the barest minimum to contain contagious communication and consequent health hazards. This review has implications for library educators, students and educational managers in the universities of other developing countries.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90058423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some Characterization of the Function Space Type of Lebesgue−Morrey","authors":"Rena Eldar Kizi Kerbalayeva","doi":"10.11648/J.AJIST.20210502.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.AJIST.20210502.12","url":null,"abstract":"As in many areas of Mathematics, we need precise definition and some characterization of function space in order to be absolutely clear. This paper seeks to do that and introduces new definitions and notations to aid our study. I also look at reversible processes of proofs and a new type of function spaces. In this scientific paper we have studied new sub of functions, sub of space of these functions. The new function spaces were investigated in this paper. In the present scientific work we have studied the differentiability functions, some differentiability properties of this type function and in particular, characterization of the differentiability spaces for the functions many groups of variables. At the start of this paper, you will see list of markings that are covered in the paper. Then I gave definition of new normed funksion spase. Following you can see several caharacterization of these spaces and proofs of these caracterization too. Finally, there is connection, known as the Fundamental Analysis, between functions and derivatives of these functions which makes the characterization of functions spaces as a practical tool for science and engineering. The function space is also use to solve many interesting problems some scientific branches like economics, finance, informatics and probability.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76024663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Use of Internet for Seeking Health Information Among Narh-Bita College Students: A Cross-sectional Study","authors":"Z. Abukari","doi":"10.11648/J.AJIST.20210502.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.AJIST.20210502.11","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet provides information on a variety of subjects including health-related information. Access to Internet health information could potentially promote healthy adolescents' lifestyles. Consequently, this may reduce the number of common illness among the youth and thereby reducing the overall cases at health centers. This study was carried out to examine the use of Internet for seeking health information among Narh-Bita College students, Tema, Ghana. The study was a quantitative cross-sectional survey with a convenience sampling method. The study covered one hundred and sixty-one (161) students. The results revealed that the students were active users of the Internet and majority of them were using the Internet for seeking health information. The findings of the study also showed that the surveyed students considered obtained Internet health information useful. In addition, the participants confirmed that obtaining Internet health information had improved the way they took care of themselves. The results further revealed that health information obtained from the Internet was having influence on the students with regards to their interactions with health care providers and their medical decision-making. The study therefore concludes that students of higher education of learning are active Internet users as well as high consumers of Internet health information despite the fact that advanced searching skills among the sampled students seemed problematic. Hence, the study recommends that electronic searching training sessions should be organized on regular basis for the students in addiction to making e-health information easily accessible to all.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89405234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Observance of COVID 19 Protocols and Effective Use of Library Resources and Services in the State Universities in North Central, Nigeria","authors":"Nathaniel Agbo Oche","doi":"10.11648/J.AJIST.20210501.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.AJIST.20210501.12","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of COVID 19 has led to total or partial lockdown around the world, thereby restricting movements as well as physical contacts. COVID 19 could be contracted through touching infected book shelves, books, catalogue cabinet, reading carrels and tables, among others. At the same time, adequate information is required to prevent and manage the virus from spreading. The study examined the observance of COVID-19 protocols and effective use of library resources and services in State Universities in North Central, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study is 163 library staff. This comprised of the entire library staff in the six state owned universities in North Central, Nigeria. Online survey was conducted using Google form between 15th and 14th of December, 2020. The link to the Google form was shared via individual and group social media platforms of the staff so as to increase the response rate. Data collected was analyzed using frequency distribution table, chart, percentage and mean with the aid of SPSS version 23. The findings revealed among other things that; library services are poorly provided by university libraries during COVID-19 lockdown in state owned university libraries in North Central, Nigeria. Majority of the respondents agreed that their library posted updates about COVID-19 on library blog, websites, portals etc. and use of social media for library services delivery during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Other services like; Ask Librarian virtual reference service, electronic delivery service, providing access to e-books, providing access to e-journals, providing OPAC as tool for browsing and searching the library collection, providing access to students' electronic thesis and dissertation, electronic Newspaper Clipping Depository and so on were poorly provided. Also, it was revealed that the observance of COVID-19 protocols affected effective use of library resources and services. It was also revealed that; erratic power supply, lack of adequate electronic resources in the library, lack of funds to fumigate library environment, lack of internet access in the library, nonchalant attitude of staff towards observing COVID-19 protocols, lack of adequate accommodation in the library to observe social distancing, and inadequate digital skills to adopt online services and so on, as major challenges. The study however, recommended among other things that; the library management should provide adequate digital skills training to their staff so as to adopt online services in this COVID-19 period. Adequate infrastructural facilities should be made available and accessible.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"302 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89043246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantum Codes Do Not Fix Qubit Independent Errors","authors":"Jesús García López de Lacalle, Luis Miguel Pozo Coronado, André L. Fonseca de Oliveira, Rafael Mart´ın-Cuevas","doi":"10.11648/J.AJIST.20210503.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.AJIST.20210503.12","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this work is to analyse the performance of quantum error correction codes in regard to fixing independent errors in several qubits. We say that a quantum code does not fix a quantum computing error if its application does not reduce the variance of the error. We restrict our study to the classical 5−qubit quantum error correcting code (proposed by Laflamme and some collaborators), which is able to correct arbitrary errors in a single qubit and is also fault-tolerant. We show that this code does not fix qubit independent errors, even assuming that the correction circuit does not introduce new errors. We also prove, for qubit independent errors, that if the correction circuit of the 5−qubit quantum code detects an error, then the corrected state has central symmetry and, as a consequence, its variance is maximal. We have been able to obtain these results thanks to the high symmetry of the 5−qubit quantum code. Although the calculations needed to extend our proofs to less symmetric codes seem to be extremely complicated, we nevertheless think that the results obtained for the 5−qubit quantum code reveal a general behavior pattern of quantum error correcting codes against qubit independent errors.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84137963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Importance of Library and Information Communication Technology Standards in the Digital Era: An Analytical Study","authors":"Umesha Naik","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20210504.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20210504.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82652277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Application of Laboratory Data Decision Management System","authors":"S. Zhimin, Wang Zhengjia, Zhou Zhijun","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20210504.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20210504.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74976144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Reality of the Application of Intellectual Property Legislation on Digital Information Resources at the Libraries of Public Universities in Jordan (Dissertation)","authors":"Afaf Abu Sirhan","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20210503.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20210503.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90570088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intellectual Impact of Mobile Educational Games on Secondary School Education in Nigeria: Case Study of Government Girls' College Makurdi","authors":"Yugh Sandra Mlumun, Deborah Uzoamaka Ebem, Onyianta John Chiedozie, Musa Ibrahim Umar, Arinze Uchechukwu Christian","doi":"10.11648/j.ajist.20210503.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajist.20210503.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89279421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}