Browsing by Author "Briganti, Jonathan"

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    DESIGN THINKING for Visualizing Acid-Base Chemistry - Documenting a user-centered approach for designing and developing an ADA compliant online tool for visualizing acid-base chemistry
    Stamper, Michael J.; Briganti, Jonathan; Brown, Anne M.; Dietrich, Andrea M.; Godrej, Adil N.; Schreiber, Madeline E.; Walz, Anita R. (2019-07-17)
    This project created an online tool, that we call “The pkAnalyzer”. It enables the exploration of acid-conjugate base distributions in an easy to use Web interface. This project is also an example of the disciplines of Arts and Design into the STEM sciences, i.e. STEM to STEAM, and University Libraries commitment to faculty, students, and staff throughout the Virginia Tech system, in the areas of data visualization and design services to aid in the research process and communication of results. Beyond the functionality of the tool, this project involved the planning and designing a custom, modifiable, and attractive user interface (UI) and visualization that are "user-friendly", and incorporate the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and falls with the Federal Governement’s Section 508 guidelines pertaining to creating and maintaining information and communications technology (ICT) that is accessible to people with disabilities relating to vision. Using a "Design Thinking" approach, all aspects of the design of this tool – User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Interaction Design (IxD), Graphic – were taken into account, and developed to enhance the user's experience using the tool, and undertanding of a complex chemical concept that is widely used in the basic and applied sciences and engineering.
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    Finding What Is Inaccessible: Antimicrobial Resistance Language Use among the One Health Domains
    Wind, Lauren L.; Briganti, Jonathan; Brown, Anne M.; Neher, Timothy P.; Davis, Meghan F.; Durso, Lisa M.; Spicer, Tanner; Lansing, Stephanie (MDPI, 2021-04-03)
    The success of a One Health approach to combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) requires effective data sharing across the three One Health domains (human, animal, and environment). To investigate if there are differences in language use across the One Health domains, we examined the peer-reviewed literature using a combination of text data mining and natural language processing techniques on 20,000 open-access articles related to AMR and One Health. Evaluating AMR key term frequency from the European PubMed Collection published between 1990 and 2019 showed distinct AMR language usage within each domain and incongruent language usage across domains, with significant differences in key term usage frequencies when articles were grouped by the One Health sub-specialties (2-way ANOVA; p < 0.001). Over the 29-year period, “antibiotic resistance” and “AR” were used 18 times more than “antimicrobial resistance” and “AMR”. The discord of language use across One Health potentially weakens the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research by creating accessibility issues for researchers using search engines. This research was the first to quantify this disparate language use within One Health, which inhibits collaboration and crosstalk between domains. We suggest the following for authors publishing AMR-related research within the One Health context: (1) increase title/abstract searchability by including both antimicrobial and antibiotic resistance related search terms; (2) include “One Health” in the title/abstract; and (3) prioritize open-access publication.
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    Open Access Forum 2020: Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Educational Resources, and Open Data
    Briganti, Jonathan; DePauw, Karen P.; McNabb, Kayla B.; Miles, Rachel A.; Mueller, Derek; Roy, Siddhartha; Sridhar, Venkataramana (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2020-10-19)
    Join faculty presenters from around the university, University Libraries faculty, and the Preparing the Future Professoriate graduate class in a robust discussion about nuances, similarities and differences in the "opens." This event begins with brief discussions of open access (OA), open educational resources (OER), and open data before situating this conversation within open access trends in the U.S., Europe, and at Virginia Tech. Presenters and panelists include Jonathan Briganti (University Libraries), Karen DePauw, (Graduate School), Kayla McNabb (University Libraries), Rachel Miles (University Libraries), Derek Mueller (English), Siddartha Roy (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Venkat "Sri" Sridhar (Biological Systems Engineering).
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    Virginia Tech Libraries Diversity and Inclusion Subgroup Report for the Library’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025
    Briganti, Jonathan; Dodson, Brittany; Haugen, Inga; McMillan, Gail; Mecham, Ronald; Phillips, Shannon; Ogier, Andrea; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony (Virginia Tech Libraries, 2019-11)
    The Virginia Tech Libraries strategic planning process included a group specifically responsible for exploring how the library could contribute to the equity-, diversity-, and inclusion-related goals as presented in VT’s strategic plan and build upon the library’s previous and on-going equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. This report documents the work of the Diversity and Inclusion group’s work to propel the library forward.
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    Visualizing Acid-Base Chemistry for Environmental Scientists and Engineers
    Dietrich, Andrea M.; Briganti, Jonathan; Brown, Anne M.; Godrej, Adil N.; Gallagher, Conor; Kelly, Conor; Peterson, Bryanne; Schreiber, Madeline E.; Stamper, Michael J.; Walz, Anita R. (2020-02-14)
    Our interdisciplinary team of educators from the sciences and engineering joined forces to create a novel and original technology-enhanced software tool for acid-base chemistry. Acid-base chemistry is an underlying principle throughout life and the universe, from controlling the pH of human blood to influencing global warming, virus attachment, and life on other planets. Our interactive pKAnalyzer, available on line through GitHub, empowers students and professionals to visualize acid-base species while performing calculations. Student (n=27) response is terrific for the pKAnalyzer tool. The tool scored nearly all 7’s (strongly agree) for ease of use, aesthetics, and format of output, using the 7-point likert scale. pKAnalyzer: Link to App: https://databridgevt.github.io/pka-analyzer Copy and paste into Firefox or Chrome. Make sure JAVA is installed.