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A survey of collection development for United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) preparation material
(Journal of the Medical Library Association;Volume 96, Issue 3, 2008-07)Objective: The research sought to ascertain medical and dental libraries' collection development policies, evaluation methods, purchase decisions, and issues that relate to print and electronic United States Medical ... -
An analysis of bibliometric indicators, National Institutes of Health funding, and faculty size at Association of American Medical Colleges medical schools, 1997–2007
(Journal of the Medical Library Association;Volume 96, Issue 4, 2008-10)Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze bibliometric data from ISI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funding data, and faculty size information for Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) member ... -
Use of Facebook in academic health sciences libraries
(Journal of the Medical Library Association;Volume 97, Issue 1, 2009-01) -
Institutional self-citation rates: A three year study of universities in the United States
(Scientometrics;Vol 81, Issue 2, 2009-04-16)Using Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) data, this paper calculated institutional self citations rates (ISCRs) for 96 of the top research universities in the United States from 2005-2007. Exhibiting similar temporal ... -
Relationships between Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Bibliometric Indicators: A Principal Components Analysis
(College & Research Libraries;Vol 71, No 1, 2010-01)This study analyzed 2005–2006 Web of Science bibliometric data from institutions belonging to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and corresponding ARL statistics to find any associations between indicators from ... -
Incorporating Research in the Studio: A Case Study of Faculty/Librarian Collaboration
(2012-03)This poster presents a pedagogical case study involving the collaboration of an art faculty member and a librarian subject specialist to incorporate research in a studio art class in order to accomplish specific information ... -
The Adelante Oral History Project: A Site of Decolonial Potential in Transforming School Curriculum
(Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal;Volume 1, Issue 1, 2014)This paper analyzes the decolonial potential of an oral history project based out of a predominantly Latina/o and low-income elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. Considering the history of colonizing school curriculums, ... -
Meta-analysis of Single-Case Research on Teaching Functional Living Skills to Individuals with ASD
(Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders;Volume 2, 2015-01-14)A meta-analysis of 52 studies teaching functional living skills to individuals with autism spectrum disorder was conducted. Using the Tau effect size with the Dunn and the Kruskal–Wallis post-hoc analyses, the following ... -
Libraries and Institutional Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities
(The Journal of Academic Librarianship;Volume 41, Issue 5, 2015-09)Libraries are well positioned to lead, facilitate, manage, or play a major partnership role in institutional data analytics programs. The degree to which an institution can create a successful data analytics program, and ... -
The Effect of Political Outcomes across the United States on Income Equality
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between a specific measure of inequality and political outcomes across the United States. To test this relationship, I run regressions with the Gini coefficient of the ... -
The Effects of Accent Familiarity and Language Attitudes on Perceived English Proficiency and Accentedness
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)If accents are a permanent indicator of difference, to what degree do our accents determine how we are perceived by others? The goal of this project was to examine the relationship between raters� accent familiarity, ... -
Writing Towards Wellness: The Power of Personal Narratives for Survivors of Domestic Violence
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)According to works by Jenifer Lunden (2013), James W. Pennebaker (2007), and other researchers, narrative writing has proven to be beneficial in helping people recover from traumatic events. Therefore, the use of the ... -
Effect of water on nanomechanics of bone is different between tension and compression
(Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials;57, 2016-04)Water, an important constituent in bone, resides in different compartments in bone matrix and may impose significant effects on its bulk mechanical properties. However, a clear understanding of the mechanistic role of water ... -
Signaling Meaning through Punctuation in Writing: Children Transitioning from Oral to Written Argumentation
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-04-21)Researchers interested in the development of writing have looked to speech as central to writing development. However, there are differing opinions about how speech relates to or enters into writing. Bloomfield (1933) ... -
Lexical-Semantic Transfer and Strategies for Teaching and Learning Putonghua Vocabulary for Cantonese-speaking Learners
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-04-26)Language transfer refers to the language that learners apply to the knowledge of one language to the language that they are learning. According to Bransford (2000), �all new learning involves transfer based on previous ... -
Design and Advantage of a Bioretention Area as a Best Management Practice for Low Impact Development on The University of Texas at San Antonio
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-05-02)Rainfall on urban areas causes polluted runoff water to contaminate the ground. A bioretention basin can minimize this problem. In this project a bioretention basin was designed for future precipitation changes regarding ... -
Interprofessional Education: Opportunities for Librarian Involvement
(2016-10)Purpose:This poster describes two librarians’ participation in the UNT Health Science Center’s (UNTHSC) Interprofessional Education/Practice (IPE/P) curriculum during the Spring 2016 semester. Setting/Participants/Resources: ... -
Efficacy of Establishing a Speaking Center at UTSA: A Feasibility Study
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-12)This research project investigates the feasibility of establishing a speaking center at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The purpose of the study is to determine if there is a need on campus to provide this ... -
Puestos Aparte: Inequity through Migration and Legal Segregation in San Antonio, 1900 to 1930s
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The Design, Analysis, Build and Test of a Vaccine Management and Preservation System (VacMAPS) to Reduce Vaccine Waste in Healthcare Facilities
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 2, 2017)Vaccine expiration due to poor inventory management has cost health clinics in the United States over $100 million dollars in 2015 alone. While costly hi-end inventory systems exist, these are typically only affordable for ...