Conference papers published externally, written by WVSU faculty members, staff, and students https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/78 2026-04-20T23:47:28Z 2026-04-20T23:47:28Z Yap, Joseph Barátné Hajdu, Ágnes Kiszl, Péter https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/830 2025-06-02T04:00:21Z 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z

Librarians’ civic roles and responsibilities: Issues in information crises and information disorders Yap, Joseph; Barátné Hajdu, Ágnes; Kiszl, Péter Objective: Public libraries can be powerful advocates for civic engagement. They have a responsibility to rekindle civil society and educate and inform the public. Libraries must expand their role beyond physical and virtual space to promote civic practices in fighting fake news. Libraries can use their influence to help students and librarians identify misinformation and caution others against sharing it. This paper aims to introduce how librarians can activate their civic roles and define information disorders. Methods: Public librarians were interviewed using discourse analysis to identify the profession's information challenges and understand their civic roles. Results: Public librarians identified a variety of ways to perform their civic roles, and several constructs emerged in the definition of information disorders. Conclusions: This pilot study offers a glimpse into how public librarians interact with information and filter misinformation circulating on social media. Civic librarianship is evident, but librarians face professional challenges. Although this study focuses on public librarians, the authors believe that many aspects can be accustomed by all types of librarians. Мета: Публічні бібліотеки можуть бути сильними прихильниками громадянської активності. Вони несуть відповідальність за відродження громадянського суспільства, освіту та інформування населення. Бібліотеки повинні розширити свою роль за межі фізичного та віртуального простору, щоб сприяти громадянським практикам у боротьбі з фейковими новинами. Бібліотеки можуть використовувати свій вплив, щоб допомогти студентам і бібліотекарям виявляти дезінформацію та застерігати інших від її поширення. Ця стаття має на меті представити, як бібліотекарі можуть активізувати свою громадянську роль і визначити інформаційні порушення. Методика: Бібліотекарі публічних бібліотек були опитані за допомогою дискурс аналізу, щоб визначити інформаційні виклики професії та зрозуміти їхню громадянську роль. Результати: Бібліотекарі публічних бібліотек визначили різні способи виконання своєї громадянської ролі, а також сформулювали кілька понять у визначенні інформаційних розладів. Висновки: Це пілотне дослідження дає уявлення про те, як бібліотекарі публічних бібліотек взаємодіють з інформацією та фільтрують дезінформацію, що циркулює в соціальних мережах. Суспільна бібліотечна справа очевидна, але бібліотекарі стикаються з професійними викликами. Хоча це дослідження зосереджене на бібліотекарях публічних бібліотек, автори вважають, що багато аспектів можуть застосовуватись до всіх типів бібліотекарів.

2023-10-06T00:00:00Z Balsomo, Alexander J. Nable, Job A. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/166 2024-05-11T01:24:19Z 2021-08-26T00:00:00Z

Lie algebra representation of the 1+1-dimensional affine Poincaré group via deformation quantization Balsomo, Alexander J.; Nable, Job A. In this work, we illustrate an explicit construction of the Lie algebra representations of the 1+1-dimensional affine Poincaré group on the cotangent bundle of cones as its coadjoint orbit. Our main construction tool is the Moyal star-product introduced to the Lie algebra of observables associated to the said group, that is, the left star-product multiplication of these observables with functions on the coadjoint orbit will give rise to a Lie algebra representations of the group. Moreover, the Lie algebra representations of the Poincaré group and the connected component affine group are recovered from the construction.

2021-08-26T00:00:00Z Estrada, Crystal Amiel Usami, Masahide Satake, Naoko Gregorio, Ernesto Jr Leynes, Cynthia Balderrama, Norieta Fernandez de Leon, Japhet Concepcion, Rhodora Andrea Timbalopez, Cecile Tuazon Tsujii, Noa Harada, Ikuhiro Masuya, Jiro Kihara, Hiroaki Kawahara, Kazuhiro Yoshimura, Yuta Hakoshima, Yuuki Kobayashi, Jun https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/588 2024-08-12T09:19:56Z 2020-08-03T00:00:00Z

Current situation and challenges for mental health focused on treatment and care in Japan and the Philippines - Highlights of the training program by the National Center for Global Health and Medicine Estrada, Crystal Amiel; Usami, Masahide; Satake, Naoko; Gregorio, Ernesto Jr; Leynes, Cynthia; Balderrama, Norieta; Fernandez de Leon, Japhet; Concepcion, Rhodora Andrea; Timbalopez, Cecile Tuazon; Tsujii, Noa; Harada, Ikuhiro; Masuya, Jiro; Kihara, Hiroaki; Kawahara, Kazuhiro; Yoshimura, Yuta; Hakoshima, Yuuki; Kobayashi, Jun Background and purpose: Mental health has emerged as an important public health concern in recent years. With a high proportion of children and adolescents affected by mental disorders, it is important to ensure that they are provided with proper care and treatment. With the goal of sharing the activities and good practices on child and adolescent mental health promotion, care, and treatment in Japan and the Philippines, the National Center for Global Health and Medicine conducted a training program on the promotion of mental health focused on treatment and care in Japan and the Philippines in September and November 2019. Key highlights: The training program comprised of a series of lectures, site visits, and round table discussions in Japan and the Philippines. The lectures and site visits focused on the current situation of child and adolescent psychiatry, diagnosis of childhood mental disorders, abuse, health financing for mental disorders, pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and disaster child psychiatry in both countries. Round table discussions provided an opportunity to explore the similarities and differences between the two countries in terms of the themes discussed during the lectures. The training program identified the need to collaborate with other professionals to improve the diagnosis of mental disorders in children and adolescents and to increase the workforce capable of addressing mental health issues among children and adolescents. It also emphasized the importance of cooperation between government efforts during and after disasters to ensure that affected children and their families are provided with the care and support that they need.

2020-08-03T00:00:00Z Gameng, Hazel A. Gerardo, Bobby D. Medina, Ruji P. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14353/609 2024-08-21T01:39:18Z 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z

Modified adaptive synthetic SMOTE to improve classification performance in imbalanced datasets Gameng, Hazel A.; Gerardo, Bobby D.; Medina, Ruji P. The oversampling technique in the data preprocessing has been utilized to mitigate the imbalanced data problem in the real research scenario. This imbalance may reduce the ability of classification algorithms to recognize cases of interest leading to misclassification of positive samples as negative class or the false positive generation. Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) is one of the oversampling techniques existing and the Adaptive Synthetic (Adasyn) SMOTE is one of its many variants. K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) is incorporated in Adasyn. In this study, Manhattan distance is applied in the KNN computations. This modified Adasyn was evaluated in terms of its effectiveness in the performance measure of overall accuracy, precision, recall and F1 measure on the six imbalanced datasets using logistic regression as the classification algorithm. The modified Adasyn dominated over SMOTE and the original Adasyn by 66.67 percent of the total performance metric count. It leads the accuracy and recall count with 4 out of 6, precision count with 3 out of 6, and the F1 measure count with 5 over 6. Thus, proving that the modified Adasyn can provide an efficient solution in decreasing misclassification on imbalanced datasets.

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