Digital repository managers rely on usage metrics such as the number of downloads to demonstrate research visibility and impacts of the repositories. Increasingly, they find that current tools such as spreadsheets and charts are ineffective for revealing important elements of usage, including reader locations, and for attracting the targeted audiences....
Most of the forces in academia work to develop highly specialized individuals. Training comes primarily from a single person, the dissertation advisor. Detailed field study of various forest types or physiographic provinces is often limited to where we trained and where we work (sometime both are in the same location...
The Oregon Library Association has produced its peer-reviewed journal, the OLA Quarterly (OLAQ), since 1995, and OLAQ was published in Digital Commons beginning in 2014. When the host institution undertook to move away from Bepress, their new repository solution was no longer a good match for OLAQ. Oregon State University...
These 20 minute presentations were given during the second day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006 at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Users interested in customizing their Primo installation are required to configure specific settings, files, and code during the View setup process. A consequence of this is that unique customizations are not easily sharable between institutions. With the release of the new Primo User Interface, Ex Libris has enabled institutions to...
The lightning talks were fast paced 5 minute talks on topics of the speaker's choosing.
Titles of the 5 minute talks:
1. Total Eclipse Of My Brain (Ed Summers)
2. [Link PURLs|http://purl.org/net/linkpurl] and Firefox (Devon Smith)
3. Call to Action: Deprecate OAI Sets! (Rob Sanderson)
4. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Eric...
The purpose of land use planning, as conducted by the Forest Service, is to allocate land uses. The techniques employed in the current planning process fail to take location of the land allocations into account in any systematic manner. The resulting solutions may be inconsistent with planning goals; the land...
Balance is the ability to establish an equilibrium between the body and its environment. Balance is a key component which is associated with a variety of movements and postural control. Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have difficulties with movement and postural control due to physical and neurological limitations. The purpose...
The purpose of this study was to determine if a 5-month
progressive-resistance exercise program would affect measures
of activities of daily living (ADLs) and functional stability
in elderly women. All subjects were ambulatory women, 80 to
93 years old, who lived in assisted-care facilities. Eight
exercise and 7 control subjects...
The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of eight
anthropometric regression equations with hydrostatic weighing for
predicting the percent body fat of adult males with Down Syndrome
(DS). Body fat percentages were predicted for 18 adult males with DS.
Skinfold, circumference, and bioelectric impedance analysis data were...