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Patz, Gerd-Peter. "10 Jahre Graphotek in der Stadtbibliothek Bremen." Art Libraries Journal 11, no. 3 (1986): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200004788.
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Although the idea of lending works of art originated in Germany in 1885, the first library to actually do so was that of Newark, U.S.A., through the initiative of John Cotton Dana in 1903-4. Other countries followed suit - Britain before the end of the Second World War, Scandinavia by the late 1950s, and France, where in recent years over 30 picture libraries have been established with state support under Mitterand’s Minister for Culture, Jack Lang.While in East Germany there are over 100 picture libraries lending mainly reproductions, in West Germany there are 61, lending exclusively original works. The Graphotek in Bremen Public Library is the third largest of these, and all citizens over 16 can borrow from its collection of over 2,200 works for eight weeks at a time, choosing either directly or, at any of the six branch libraries, from colour slides and catalogues.The Bremen Graphotek has set out to build up a representative collection of German and international art from all periods, with special emphasis on contemporary art; prints make up the greater part of the collection, and reproductions are excluded. 720 artists are represented; 50% of funding is reserved for Bremen artists. Over 33,000 loans have been made in the Graphotek’s first ten years, with 75%-80% of the collection being out on loan at any given time. There has been a gradual trend towards more borrowing by schools, hospitals, etc.The Graphotek has promoted 88 exhibitions. The last of these, on the occasion of the Graphotek’s 10th anniversary, displayed work by 70 artists illustrative of new directions in art since 1970.The Graphotek also functions as a centre for information on art, artists, art galleries, etc., with reference books and art journals available for consultation.
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Odi Rezky Saputra, Ida Bagus, and Ni Made Dwi Ratnadi. "Kinerja Keuangan Sebelum dan Sesudah Penerapan Good Corporate Governance pada PT. Bank Pembangunan Daerah Bali." E-Jurnal Akuntansi 30, no. 7 (July 10, 2020): 1750. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/eja.2020.v30.i07.p11.
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This research is in the form of observations on PT Bank Pembangunan Bali which has implemented Good Corporate Governance. The data collection method uses documentation study data and literature study. This is intended to obtain a clearer picture in order to solve the problem under study. Analysis of the data used includes an analysis of financial performance based on liquidity ratios, profitability and solvency. The results of this study indicate an increase in financial performance after the implementation of Good Corporate Governance when viewed using Return on Assets, Operating Expenses / Operating Income, Capital Adequacy Ratio, Non-Performing Loans. Meanwhile, if viewed through the ratio of Loan to Deposit and Return on Equity the study found a decrease in performance after the implementation of Good Corporate Governance.
Keywords: Good Corporate Governance; Financial Performance; Bank.
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Chulkina, Nina L. "“Trivial Nonsense” of the Poor Heroes of Dostoevsky (Materials for “Dostoevsky’s Language Dictionary: Idioglossary”)." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 12, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 390–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2021-12-2-390-416.
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The paper represents lingvo-cultural and semiotic description of the vocabulary, which introduces the everyday life of the poor characters of the F. Dostoevskys novels. In this case the procedure of the construction of text associative fields and the concept of idiogloss are used. Associative text fields are built, from one side, around the base concepts of daily activity - HOUSE/DWELLING; CLOTHING; FOOD; MONEY, DEBTS, LOAN; DISEASE, DEATH; WORK, BUSINESS; and idioglosses POVERTY; SHAME; FEAR; PRIDE, THE PINCHED PRIDE; GENTLENESS - on the other hand. These two measurements - semantic and pragmatic - make it possible to reconstruct on the texts of Dostoevsky the everyday world of poor characters, to reveal those specific idiosenses, which are concluded in the lexical items being investigated. Besides, the author hopes that such description can become additional material for the creation of the corresponding articles of the Dostoevskys Language Dictionary, which is making now in the V.V. Vinigradov Russian Language University (Russian Science Academy). At the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language University University of Russian Science Academy in the sector of experimental lexicography under the guidance of Corresponding Member of the Russian Science Academy, Professor Y.N. Karaulov, work on creation of the F.M. Dostoevskys Language Dictionary has been conducted for many years. At the same time, collections of articles are published - The Word of Dostoevsky, viewed as a kind of extension of Dostoevskys Language Dictionary. The authors of the collection should implement the overall thrust of the research results as a guide - the solution of interpretational, hermeneutic tasks. Meanwhile it is also important to identify and describe the vocabulary that is significant for interpretation of Dostoevskys texts and idioglosses in particular, i.e. such lexical units that are important for understanding, for deciphering and interpreting of the meaning of his literary works, for characterizing his authors style (idiostyle), for recreating his picture of the world, his universal and national ideals .
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Huruta, Bernard Edheney, and Yulius Pratomo. "Cultural value as the basis for the microfinance development of the Farmer’s Group Association." Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik 32, no. 4 (October 31, 2019): 346. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mkp.v32i42019.346-353.
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This study aims to describe the form of local wisdom (cultural value) in rural microfinance — this study conducted from October until December 2018 in Wangga Village, East Sumba. A qualitative method was used to picture the phenomenon of local wisdom-based microfinance development in communities. The authors used in-depth interviews with eight informants from the Rinjung Pahamu Farmer’s Group Association. The eight informants were determined purposively. Also, the data collection was carried out through a focus group discussion with the Rinjung Pahamu Farmer’s Group Association. The results of the study show that the local wisdom experienced by the members of the Rinjung Pahamu Farmer’s Group Association was used to overcome the limited access to formal financial services. The forms of microfinance developed on the Island of Sumba could not be separated from the appreciation of the noble values (Marapu) adopted by the community, such as the philosophy of Pawandang, Hillu Kandutuku, and Rotu Padang. Furthermore, savings and loan activities carried out in the management of the Farmer’s Group Association always consider the aspects of justice and survival. Based on the successful experience of the Rinjung Pahamu Farmer’s Group Association, in the future, the cultural value as the basis for the microfinance development can be applied to other groups as a means to improve financial access among the poor, especially for those living in rural areas. Marapu’s belief that was adopted by the people in Wangga Village still used as the basis for carrying out various activities in people’s lives. Marapu’s view is the belief that the government acknowledges pride, and it strengthens the community to maintain survival and balance. It practised through the Pawandang, Hillu Kandutuku, and Rotu Padang activities.
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Borges, Robert. "Rapid Automatized Picture Naming as a Proficiency Assessment for Endangered Language Contexts: Results from Wilamowice." Journal of Communication and Cultural Trends 1, no. 1 (June 2019): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/jcct.11.01.
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This paper discusses the use of rapid automatized picture naming (RAN) in the assessment of proficiency among new speakers of endangered languages. Despite the fact that measuring proficiency among new speakers is crucial vis-à-vis the development of didactic materials and understanding language change, there are often a number of practical issues that reduce the practicality of traditional language evaluation methods. This paper investigates the potential of RAN assessments to provide a suitable indication of language proficiency by means of accuracy (ability to name pictures), speed (how quickly a verbal response is produced), and cognitive control (how well the speaker mediates cognitive load while performing the task). Results from RAN assessments administered among new speakers of Wymysorys, in concert with other data collection procedures, indicate that this type of task provides accurate insight into speakers’ proficiency. Latencies in the bilingual picture naming allow accurate insight into speakers’ proficiency as a function of the relative degrees of language entrenchment. However, increasing cognitive load during the assessment via speed of cue stimulus and frequently switching trial language showed no effect relative to the proficiency rank order established by naming accuracy and speed.
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Madden, Frances, Jan Ashton, and Jez Cope. "Building the Picture Behind a Dataset." International Journal of Digital Curation 15, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.702.
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As part of the European Commission funded FREYA project The British Library wanted to explore the possibility of developing provenance information in datasets derived from the British Library’s collections, the data.bl.uk collection. Provenance information is defined in this context as ‘information relating to the origin, source and curation of the datasets’. Provenance information is also identified within the FAIR principles as an important aspect of being able to reuse and understand research datasets. According to the FAIR principles, the aim is to understand how to cite and acknowledge the dataset as well as understanding how the dataset was created and has been processed. There is also reference to the importance of this metadata being machine readable. By enhancing the metadata of these datasets with additional persistent identifiers and metadata a fuller picture of the datasets and their content could be understood. This also adds to the veracity and understanding the dataset by end users of data.bl.uk.
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Farrell, Cassandra Britt. "More than Just a Pretty Picture: The Map Collection at the Library of Virginia." Cartographic Perspectives, no. 65 (March 1, 2010): 59–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/cp65.133.
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The Library of Virginia’s map collection has grown significantly since the Library opened in 1823. Seven maps and four atlases are listed in the 1828 catalog and today approximately 65,000 maps are housed at the Library of Virginia. Rare manuscript collections, valuable “mother” maps of the state, and thousands of maps produced for commercial and federal publications are available for patron use. They are more than just pretty pictures, as this article attempts to show. In fact, this article is based on a presentation I gave in August 2008 at the Library of Virginia during the exhibition “From Williamsburg to Wills’s Creek: the Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia.”
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Dane, William J. "John Cotton Dana: a contemporary appraisal of his contributions and lasting influence on the library and museum worlds 60 years after his death." Art Libraries Journal 15, no. 2 (1990): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200006684.
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John Cotton Dana, who died in 1929, had been Librarian of the Newark Public Library since 1902. Among many other achievements, he was responsible for the development of remarkable art collections in the Library, including a collection of prints, and of a Picture Collection of visual images; the programme of art exhibitions he organised in the Library led to the founding of the Newark Museum. The collections Dana initiated continued to grow after his death, guided by his inspiration: they are of regional and even national importance and, via library networking, serve the whole state of New Jersey; the scope of the print collection has been extended to include several categories of printed ephemera, including shopping bags.
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Kitonga, Peter. "DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE DEBT COLLECTION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KENYA." International Journal of Finance and Accounting 2, no. 4 (February 14, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijfa.325.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the determinants of effective debt collection practices in Kenyan commercial banks.Methodology:The research was carried out through descriptive survey design. The total population of the study was 1118credit managers/supervisors or branch managersof the 37 commercial banks. A sample size of 118 respondents was selected through random sampling technique, which represents a 10% of the population. The study used both secondary and primary data specifically the study used a questionnaire as the preferred data collection tool. The questionnaire had close ended questions only. Secondary data on the level of Nonperforming loans/Gross loans was also collected. This study used the quantitative method of data analysis. Quantitative methods of data analysis included inferential and descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics included frequencies and measures of tendency mainly mean. Inferential statistics include correlation and regression analysis. The tool for data analysis was Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 program. The results were presented using tables and pie charts to give a clear picture of the research findings.Results:Results indicated that staff competence was highly emphasized in the banks. Results also revealed that the banks had invested in management information systems which were easy to use and compatible with other bank systems in place. Correlation results led to conclusion that that the relationship between staff competency and non-performing loans is negative and significant. It was concluded that the bank also had invested heavily intechnological resources to ensure smooth work flow of employees. Correlation results led to the conclusion that the relationship between financial resources and non-performing loans is negative and significant. The study further concludes that that the relationship between information technology management and non-performing loans is negative and significant. The findings imply that information technology has significant negative effect on non-performing loans.Policy recommendation:The study also recommends that investment in Information technology be emphasized in the banks as it has an effect on the overall achievement of competitive advantage. Therefore the organization is urged to invest in management information systems which are easy to use and which facilitate minimization of administration and operational costs.
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Kitonga, Peter. "EFFECT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DEBT COLLECTION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS." International Journal of Finance and Accounting 2, no. 4 (February 14, 2017): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijfa.327.
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Purpose: The study aimed to examine the effect of financial resources on the effectiveness of debt collection in commercial banks.Methodology: The research was carried out through descriptive survey design. The total population of the study was 1118credit managers/supervisors or branch managersof the 37 commercial banks. A sample size of 118 respondents was selected through random sampling technique, which represents a 10% of the population. The study used both secondary and primary data specifically the study used a questionnaire as the preferred data collection tool. The questionnaire had close ended questions only. Secondary data on the level of Nonperforming loans/Gross loans was also collected. This study used the quantitative method of data analysis. Quantitative methods of data analysis included inferential and descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics included frequencies and measures of tendency mainly mean. Inferential statistics include correlation and regression analysis. The tool for data analysis was Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 program. The results were presented using tables and pie charts to give a clear picture of the research findings.Results:Correlation results led to the conclusion that the relationship between financial resources and non-performing loans is negative and significant. This implies that an increase in the financial resources led to a decrease in non-performing loans. This further implies that financial resources influenced or affected non-performing loans negatively.Policy recommendation:it is recommended that staff competence be emphasized in the banks as it has an effect on the overall achievement of effective debt collection practices. Therefore the management is urged to encourage sharingofpotentially sensitive information on costs, quality, and productivity on financial performance with other employees.
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Rubel, Dejah Thoris. "Picture Perfect: Using Photographic Previews to Enhance Realia Collections for Library Patrons and Staff." Information Technology and Libraries 36, no. 2 (June 28, 2017): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ital.v36i2.9474.
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Like many academic libraries, the Ferris Library for Information, Technology, and Education (FLITE) acquires a range of materials, including learning objects, to best suit our students’ needs. Some of these objects, such as the educational manipulatives and anatomical models, are common to academic libraries but others, such as the tabletop games, are not. After our liaison to the School of Education, Kristy Motz, discovered some accessibility issues with Innovative Interfaces' Media Manager module, we decided to examine all three of our realia collections to determine what our goals in providing catalog records and visual representations would be. Once we concluded that we needed photographic previews to both enhance discovery and speed circulation service, choosing processing methods for each collection became much easier. This article will discuss how we created enhanced records for all three realia collections including custom metadata, links to additional materials, and photographic previews.
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Gibbons, Patti. "Freda Matassa. Museum Collections Management: A Handbook. London: Facet Publishing, 2011. 258p. ISBN 978-1-85604-701-2. $110." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 66–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.13.1.371.
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Writing from the United Kingdom, Freda Matassa prepared her textbook Museum Collections Management: A Handbook as a text for museum professionals and students in British classrooms, yet the clearly laid out information is equally relevant to a range of different types of cultural heritage institutions outside England. In the first part of her book, Matassa covers big-picture issues and defines the scope of collection management, before introducing day-to-day collection management activities in the second part of the text. Her treatment covers the full scope of collection management including registrarial responsibilities as well as physical collection care duties.As a central . . .
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Lewis, Ron M., and Marie R. Kennedy. "The Big Picture: A Holistic View of E-book Acquisitions." Library Resources & Technical Services 63, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.63n2.160.
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The merging of two departments into the Acquisitions and Collection Development Department afforded Loyola Marymount University an opportunity to rethink existing workflows, with the acquisition of electronic books (e-books) being identified as a critical task to review. Process mapping was used to show the complexity of different tasks being performed in the department and to provide a visualization mechanism for staff to see how their work fit into a sequence of actions as part of a larger workflow. The authors listed the types of acquisition models used at their library for e-books and constructed process maps for the following six major types: 1. Firm order e-books; 2. Firm order e-book collections; 3. Approval order e-books; 4. Demand-driven e-books; 5. Standing order e-books, and; 6. Subscription e-book database. The authors merged the individual process maps into a single visualization to view the entirety of the acquisition process as a whole and to show how the different e-book acquisition models relate and diverge from one another.
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Kitonga, Peter. "EXTENT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF DEBT COLLECTION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS." International Journal of Finance and Accounting 2, no. 4 (February 14, 2017): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijfa.328.
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Purpose: The study aimed to examine the extent of information management on effectiveness of debt collection in commercial banks.Methodology: The research was carried out through descriptive survey design. The total population of the study was 1118credit managers/supervisors or branch managers of the 37 commercial banks. A sample size of 118 respondents was selected through random sampling technique, which represents a 10% of the population. The study used both secondary and primary data specifically the study used a questionnaire as the preferred data collection tool. The questionnaire had close ended questions only. Secondary data on the level of Nonperforming loans/Gross loans was also collected. This study used the quantitative method of data analysis. Quantitative methods of data analysis included inferential and descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics included frequencies and measures of tendency mainly mean. Inferential statistics include correlation and regression analysis. The tool for data analysis was Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 program. The results were presented using tables and pie charts to give a clear picture of the research findings.Results: Results also led to the conclusion that management information system of the bank has been crucial in assisting employees to enhance their performance and productivity. It was possible to conclude that that the relationship between information technology management and non-performing loans is negative and significant. The findings imply that information technology has significant negative effect on non-performing loans.Policy recommendation: it is recommended that staff competence be emphasized in the banks as it has an effect on the overall achievement of effective debt collection practices. Therefore the management is urged to encourage sharing of potentially sensitive information on costs, quality, and productivity on financial performance with other employees.
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Kitonga, Peter. "DETERMINANTS OF STAFF COMPETENCY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DEBT COLLECTION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS." International Journal of Finance and Accounting 2, no. 4 (February 14, 2017): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijfa.326.
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Purpose: The study aimed to examine the determinants of determinants of staff competency on the effectiveness of debt collection in commercial banks.Methodology:The research was carried out through descriptive survey design. The total population of the study was 1118credit managers/supervisors or branch managersof the 37 commercial banks. A sample size of 118 respondents was selected through random sampling technique, which represents a 10% of the population. The study used both secondary and primary data specifically the study used a questionnaire as the preferred data collection tool. The questionnaire had close ended questions only. Secondary data on the level of Nonperforming loans/Gross loans was also collected. This study used the quantitative method of data analysis. Quantitative methods of data analysis included inferential and descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics included frequencies and measures of tendency mainly mean. Inferential statistics include correlation and regression analysis. The tool for data analysis was Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 program. The results were presented using tables and pie charts to give a clear picture of the research findings.Results: It was possible to conclude that staff competence was highly emphasized in the banks. Results led to a conclusion that all employees received induction training and all the learning was incorporated on the job training. Results revealed that on the job training was important and effective in improving employee performance; training had improved the employees’ knowledge gap about the bank, which helped them to adjust comfortably to the work environment. It was also possible to conclude that the bank encouraged staff exchange programs with other employees who improve work knowledge and productivity and the bank offers short training in form of seminars to improve staff competency.Correlation results led to conclusion that that the relationship between staff competency and non-performing loans is negative and significant. The findings imply that staff competency has a significant effect on non-performing loans in the banks.Policy recommendation:it is recommended that staff competence be emphasized in the banks as it has an effect on the overall achievement of effective debt collection practices. Therefore the management is urged to encourage sharingofpotentially sensitive information on costs, quality, and productivity on financial performance with other employees.
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Sinitsyna, Olga. "Paid services at the Library for Foreign Literature: New Objectives, Experience, Perspectives." Art Libraries Journal 22, no. 1 (1997): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200010300.
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Confronted by enormous financial problems in the late 1980s, many Russian libraries were obliged to find ways of earning money in order to survive and to maintain their collections. The State Library for Foreign Literature was one of the first to break out of the stranglehold imposed by Lenin’s ideal, ‘Libraries - free of charge for everyone’. The Arts Department led the way to the introduction of paid services, over and above basic library services which remain free. Paid services include picture research, special loans, and photocopying, but also classes for children in foreign languages and art to supplement education in school, and courses for trainee teachers. Fees are reduced or even waived to ensure that services are accessible to those on low incomes.
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Mehr, Linda Harris. "Oscar’s very special library: the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." Art Libraries Journal 34, no. 3 (2009): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200015996.
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‘Oscar’ is the best-known symbol of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But there is more to the Academy than the golden statuette. The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, which has been in existence for 80 years, is widely regarded as the pre-eminent research and reference facility for the study of all aspects of motion pictures, as an art form and an industry. The non-circulating research and reference collection, located in Beverly Hills, California, is open to the public, free of charge, and is heavily used by students, scholars, industry personnel, journalists, filmmakers and the general public. Its holdings document the multiple facets of the film industry and its personnel, past and present, and include books, periodicals, clipping files and screenplays, as well as special collections of photographs, manuscripts, posters, graphic art materials, music and recorded sound, and oral histories.
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Rockliffe, Nigel, Marcus Wigan, and Howard Quinlan. "Developing Database of Nationwide Freight Flows for Australia." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1625, no. 1 (January 1998): 147–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1625-19.
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Data on freight vehicle and commodity flows in Australia are poorly covered by official statistics, yet for many strategic purposes the analyst requires a nationwide picture of commodity flows. FreightInfo satisfies this requirement. FreightInfo is a database based on a combination of assembly techniques: the expert development of secondary data from existing national data collections, the systematic identification of major flow sources and sinks, and a rolling program of field data collection from freight consignors, consignees, and carriers. These are integrated into a coherent and consistent database covering the whole of Australia by all modes. A description of FreightInfo is presented, its creation is described, and some aggregate results relating to Australia are presented.
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Ramić, Ibnel. "SONGS ABOUT A DISGUISED GIRL IN BOSNIAK ORAL TRADITION." Zbornik radova 17, no. 17 (December 15, 2019): 433–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.51728/issn.2637-1480.2019.17.433.
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We encounter songs about a disguised girl in our oral tradition throughout the history of its recording – from Erlangen Manuscript, over Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's collection, to the collections made in the second half of the twentieth century. In those songs a girl disguises as a man in most cases to replace her aged father in a battle. She fights and lives a life of a warrior side by side with men, but manages to keep her female identity hidden from male comrades, going wisely and skillfully through all ordeals by which they try to uncover her. In the end she reveals her identity in order to mock them and escape as a winner. The paper presents such songs included in the collection by Alija Nametak Od bešike do motike. Narodne lirske i pripovijedne pjesme bosansko-hercegovačkih Muslimana published in 1970. In addition to comparing them with songs from other collections we will discuss a literary-theoretical determination of these songs. We will also point to the picture of male-female relationships in them, which differs from the well-known stereotypes present in our oral literature and our folk tradition in general.
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Gray, Kristen Mahle, Tebitha Kajese, Erin Crandell-Alden, Bridget J. Anderson, Debbie Wendell, Allison Crutchfield, Terry Jackson, and H. Irene Hall. "Enhanced Collection of Laboratory Data in HIV Surveillance Among 5 States with Confidential Name-based HIV Infection Reporting, 2005-2006." Open AIDS Journal 6, no. 1 (September 7, 2012): 90–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874613601206010090.
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Laboratory data reported through HIV surveillance can provide information about disease severity and linkage to care; however these measures are only as accurate as the quality and completeness of data reported. Using data from five states that implemented enhanced collection of laboratory data in HIV surveillance from 2005-2006, we determined completeness of reporting, stage of disease at diagnosis, the most common opportunistic illnesses (OI) at diagnosis, and linkage to medical care. Methods to enhance laboratory reporting included increasing active surveillance efforts, identifying laboratories not reporting to HIV surveillance, increasing electronic reporting, and using laboratory results from auxiliary databases. Of 3,065 persons ≥13 years of age diagnosed with HIV, 35.5% were diagnosed with stage 3 (AIDS) and 37.7% progressed to stage 3 within 12-months after diagnosis. Overall, 78.5% were linked to care within 3 months; however, a higher proportion of persons with ≥1 CD4 or viral load test was found among whites compared with blacks/African Americans (82.1% vs 73.6%, p<0.001). Few (12.3%) had an OI within 3 months of diagnosis. The completeness of laboratory data collected through surveillance was improved with enhanced reporting and provided a more accurate picture of stage of disease and gaps in linkage to care. Additional interventions are needed to meet the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy on linkage to care and the reduction of HIV-related disparities.
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Demner-Fushman, Dina, Marc D. Kohli, Marc B. Rosenman, Sonya E. Shooshan, Laritza Rodriguez, Sameer Antani, George R. Thoma, and Clement J. McDonald. "Preparing a collection of radiology examinations for distribution and retrieval." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 23, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 304–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv080.
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Abstract Objective Clinical documents made available for secondary use play an increasingly important role in discovery of clinical knowledge, development of research methods, and education. An important step in facilitating secondary use of clinical document collections is easy access to descriptions and samples that represent the content of the collections. This paper presents an approach to developing a collection of radiology examinations, including both the images and radiologist narrative reports, and making them publicly available in a searchable database. Materials and Methods The authors collected 3996 radiology reports from the Indiana Network for Patient Care and 8121 associated images from the hospitals’ picture archiving systems. The images and reports were de-identified automatically and then the automatic de-identification was manually verified. The authors coded the key findings of the reports and empirically assessed the benefits of manual coding on retrieval. Results The automatic de-identification of the narrative was aggressive and achieved 100% precision at the cost of rendering a few findings uninterpretable. Automatic de-identification of images was not quite as perfect. Images for two of 3996 patients (0.05%) showed protected health information. Manual encoding of findings improved retrieval precision. Conclusion Stringent de-identification methods can remove all identifiers from text radiology reports. DICOM de-identification of images does not remove all identifying information and needs special attention to images scanned from film. Adding manual coding to the radiologist narrative reports significantly improved relevancy of the retrieved clinical documents. The de-identified Indiana chest X-ray collection is available for searching and downloading from the National Library of Medicine ( http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/ ).
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Biskowski, Martin, and Karen D. Watson. "CHANGING APPROACHES TO MAIZE PREPARATION AT CERRO PORTEZUELO." Ancient Mesoamerica 24, no. 1 (2013): 213–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536113000126.
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AbstractAnalyses of grinding tools at Cerro Portezuelo provide an unusual opportunity to study changing subsistence priorities. Evidence in the Teotihuacan and Mezquital Valley indicates that established patterns of dependence on maize may have been interrupted during the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic periods. Grinding tool collections in both locations contain unusually high frequencies of closed-surface grinding tools (trough metates and mortars), which are less efficient for intensive maize grinding than the open-surface tools commonly used during both the Classic and Late Postclassic periods. While analyzing the Cerro Portezuelo grinding tool collection presents many problems because of imprecise chronology, this collection also contains an unusually high frequency of closed-surface tools that can be attributed to its Epiclassic and Early Postclassic inhabitants. Thus, Cerro Portezuelo contributes to a growing picture of subsistence after the collapse of Teotihuacan in which maize was deemphasized and may have been replaced by amaranth and other foods.
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Zhitin, Ruslan M., Aleksey G. Topilsky, and Lyudmila N. Patrina. "Books of the 18th century in the collection of the Tambov regional universal scientific library named after A.S. Pushkin." Neophilology, no. 21 (2020): 153–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2020-6-21-153-163.
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We analyze the qualitative and quantitative composition of the book collection of the civil press of the 18th century, which are in the collection of the Tambov regional universal library named after A.S. Pushkin (hereinafter TRUL). The relevance of the work is connected with the need to restore an objective picture of the creation and functioning of manor libraries of the late 18th century as an element of the cultural environment. The implementation of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research project allowed showing the world of the Tambov book of the 18th century in all its diversity. The novelty of the work lies in a system approach to the study of the array of books in Russian and foreign languages of pre-revolutionary libraries of the Russian province. We consider Tambov collections of foreign books of the 18th century, system information of which is currently absent in historiography and appears only as separate mentions in the works of local historians. The work with the existing repertoire of the library showed the key importance of Derzhavin library for the formation of modern Tambov collections of rare books of the 18th century. It is shown that the main array of the identified publications reflects the products of the Capital printing houses of the 18th century. The variety of thematic composition of the revealed collections is demonstrated. Among these collections of TRUL books there are publications on history, literature, philosophy, religion and natural sciences. The research proves that the study of the composition of the book collections of civil press of the 18th century gives important information for the study of book culture of the Tambov province, allows to analyze the appearance of the book works in the region and to find out the degree of attention to foreign and Russian media. Also it allows to detect the role of the book in the structure of cultural environment.
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DeMott, Paul J., Ottmar Möhler, Daniel J. Cziczo, Naruki Hiranuma, Markus D. Petters, Sarah S. Petters, Franco Belosi, et al. "The Fifth International Workshop on Ice Nucleation phase 2 (FIN-02): laboratory intercomparison of ice nucleation measurements." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11, no. 11 (November 19, 2018): 6231–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6231-2018.
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Abstract. The second phase of the Fifth International Ice Nucleation Workshop (FIN-02) involved the gathering of a large number of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Aerosol Interactions and Dynamics of the Atmosphere (AIDA) facility to promote characterization and understanding of ice nucleation measurements made by a variety of methods used worldwide. Compared to the previous workshop in 2007, participation was doubled, reflecting a vibrant research area. Experimental methods involved sampling of aerosol particles by direct processing ice nucleation measuring systems from the same volume of air in separate experiments using different ice nucleating particle (INP) types, and collections of aerosol particle samples onto filters or into liquid for sharing amongst measurement techniques that post-process these samples. In this manner, any errors introduced by differences in generation methods when samples are shared across laboratories were mitigated. Furthermore, as much as possible, aerosol particle size distribution was controlled so that the size limitations of different methods were minimized. The results presented here use data from the workshop to assess the comparability of immersion freezing measurement methods activating INPs in bulk suspensions, methods that activate INPs in condensation and/or immersion freezing modes as single particles on a substrate, continuous flow diffusion chambers (CFDCs) directly sampling and processing particles well above water saturation to maximize immersion and subsequent freezing of aerosol particles, and expansion cloud chamber simulations in which liquid cloud droplets were first activated on aerosol particles prior to freezing. The AIDA expansion chamber measurements are expected to be the closest representation to INP activation in atmospheric cloud parcels in these comparisons, due to exposing particles freely to adiabatic cooling. The different particle types used as INPs included the minerals illite NX and potassium feldspar (K-feldspar), two natural soil dusts representative of arable sandy loam (Argentina) and highly erodible sandy dryland (Tunisia) soils, respectively, and a bacterial INP (Snomax®). Considered together, the agreement among post-processed immersion freezing measurements of the numbers and fractions of particles active at different temperatures following bulk collection of particles into liquid was excellent, with possible temperature uncertainties inferred to be a key factor in determining INP uncertainties. Collection onto filters for rinsing versus directly into liquid in impingers made little difference. For methods that activated collected single particles on a substrate at a controlled humidity at or above water saturation, agreement with immersion freezing methods was good in most cases, but was biased low in a few others for reasons that have not been resolved, but could relate to water vapor competition effects. Amongst CFDC-style instruments, various factors requiring (variable) higher supersaturations to achieve equivalent immersion freezing activation dominate the uncertainty between these measurements, and for comparison with bulk immersion freezing methods. When operated above water saturation to include assessment of immersion freezing, CFDC measurements often measured at or above the upper bound of immersion freezing device measurements, but often underestimated INP concentration in comparison to an immersion freezing method that first activates all particles into liquid droplets prior to cooling (the PIMCA-PINC device, or Portable Immersion Mode Cooling chAmber–Portable Ice Nucleation Chamber), and typically slightly underestimated INP number concentrations in comparison to cloud parcel expansions in the AIDA chamber; this can be largely mitigated when it is possible to raise the relative humidity to sufficiently high values in the CFDCs, although this is not always possible operationally. Correspondence of measurements of INPs among direct sampling and post-processing systems varied depending on the INP type. Agreement was best for Snomax® particles in the temperature regime colder than −10 ∘C, where their ice nucleation activity is nearly maximized and changes very little with temperature. At temperatures warmer than −10 ∘C, Snomax® INP measurements (all via freezing of suspensions) demonstrated discrepancies consistent with previous reports of the instability of its protein aggregates that appear to make it less suitable as a calibration INP at these temperatures. For Argentinian soil dust particles, there was excellent agreement across all measurement methods; measures ranged within 1 order of magnitude for INP number concentrations, active fractions and calculated active site densities over a 25 to 30 ∘C range and 5 to 8 orders of corresponding magnitude change in number concentrations. This was also the case for all temperatures warmer than −25 ∘C in Tunisian dust experiments. In contrast, discrepancies in measurements of INP concentrations or active site densities that exceeded 2 orders of magnitude across a broad range of temperature measurements found at temperatures warmer than −25 ∘C in a previous study were replicated for illite NX. Discrepancies also exceeded 2 orders of magnitude at temperatures of −20 to −25 ∘C for potassium feldspar (K-feldspar), but these coincided with the range of temperatures at which INP concentrations increase rapidly at approximately an order of magnitude per 2 ∘C cooling for K-feldspar. These few discrepancies did not outweigh the overall positive outcomes of the workshop activity, nor the future utility of this data set or future similar efforts for resolving remaining measurement issues. Measurements of the same materials were repeatable over the time of the workshop and demonstrated strong consistency with prior studies, as reflected by agreement of data broadly with parameterizations of different specific or general (e.g., soil dust) aerosol types. The divergent measurements of the INP activity of illite NX by direct versus post-processing methods were not repeated for other particle types, and the Snomax® data demonstrated that, at least for a biological INP type, there is no expected measurement bias between bulk collection and direct immediately processed freezing methods to as warm as −10 ∘C. Since particle size ranges were limited for this workshop, it can be expected that for atmospheric populations of INPs, measurement discrepancies will appear due to the different capabilities of methods for sampling the full aerosol size distribution, or due to limitations on achieving sufficient water supersaturations to fully capture immersion freezing in direct processing instruments. Overall, this workshop presents an improved picture of present capabilities for measuring INPs than in past workshops, and provides direction toward addressing remaining measurement issues.
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Mrutu, Lukio, and Pendo Mganga. "Outsourcing or Giving all Out? Experience from Tanzania Local Government Revenue Collection." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 6, no. 3 (September 8, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v6i3.8695.
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Outsourcing revenue collection in Local Government Authorities has been adopted as a mechanism to solve the previous problems of revenue collection which resulted into loss and missmanagement of the whole process. One of the expectations was to increase revenue collection which will provide a room for fiscal autonomy. However, experience from few local government authorities which have outsourced their revenue collection shows that, the whole process of outsourcing has not yielded the expected outcome especially on enabling local authorities to have fiscal autonomy instead it has turned to benefit the private agent who collect Tax. By using secondary data this paper attempts to show how the process of outsourcing is benefiting the private agent and therefore it is like giving everything out. It concludes that, though outsourcing seems to benefit local authorities by reducing some tasks especially on tax collection, outsorcing benefits much a private agent and therefore quick meausures should be adopted including building the capacity of Local Authorities in identifying the sources of revenue and in estimating the actual collections so as to have clear picture of how much will be generated by the agent and what should be the appropriate amount to be submitted to the Local authority.
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Moltrup, Megan. "Herstory of Graphic Design: Elaine Lustig Cohen." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 15, no. 2-3 (June 2019): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190619866179.
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The Cary Graphic Arts Collection in Rochester, New York, manages the Graphic Design Archive of the Rochester Institute of Technology which features more than 35 collections documenting the work of many 20th-century Modernist graphic designers. Among these is the work of Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927–2016), a relatively unknown designer from New York City. Upon her marriage to the well-known designer Alvin Lustig, Elaine unknowingly started out on her path as a designer. She seamlessly transitioned from office manager to artist, but it took decades for her to receive recognition for her work. In an attempt to situate Elaine Lustig Cohen and her body of work within graphic design history and to give her body of work greater attention, I researched, handled, and disseminated knowledge of her work and her collection. Specifically, I examined and organized her collection at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and went on to co-curate an exhibition chronicling her career as part of my capstone of my undergraduate degree in museum studies. I wanted to look at this collection in relation to the bigger picture of women in design and to the relationship between the representation of women in the history of graphic design textbooks and the availability of their work in archives.
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Vishnyakova, Yulia I. "Children’s Books of the Great Patriotic War Period Stored in the Book Museum of the Russian State Library." Observatory of Culture 18, no. 1 (May 24, 2021): 94–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2021-18-1-94-108.
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The article endeavors to reconstruct and present a collection of children’s books published during the Great Patriotic War, stored in the Rare Books Department (Book Museum) of the Russian State Library. The term “collection” in this case is conditional, since children’s books of that period were not acquired specifically and are not stored as a separate independent collection. They belong to the three collections — Illustrated Children’s Books, Serial Publications, and A.K. Tarasenkov’s Collection. Such storage of books of the same subject in different collections has its own specifics.The conducted research considered books published strictly in 1941—1945. Both edge years — 1941 and 1945 — are presented in full, since the war, its premonition, beginning, end, and the features of life in the post-war months, had left their mark on the themes and design of both pre-war and post-war books.On the occasion of the 70th and 75th anniversary of the Victory, in May 2015 and June 2020, the Book Museum of the Russian State Library held two mini-exhibitions dedicated to children’s books of the Great Patriotic War period. The exhibitions introduced visitors to the publications of 1941—1945, as well as to literary works that had been published in the post-war period but written during the war, hot on the traces of the heroic events. Still, the books presented at the mini-exhibitions do not exhaust the entire volume of publications of that period stored in the Book Museum.The Rare Books Department has identified 204 items that can be combined in a thematic collection called “Children’s Books of the Great Patriotic War Period”. Due to some peculiarities inherent in this collection, we cannot draw any conclusions about the repertoire of children’s books of the war period in general, but we can picture the repertoire, geography and circulation in relation to fiction for children.
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Ewen, Heidi H., and Jennifer Kinney. "Application of the Model of Allostasis to Older Women’s Relocation to Senior Housing." Biological Research For Nursing 16, no. 2 (January 30, 2013): 197–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1099800412474682.
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Objectives:Adjustment to senior housing entails significant lifestyle changes and is a stressful process. The adaptation process is dynamic and has yet to be studied using the conceptual model of allostasis. This article presents exemplars of women whose profiles represent three allostatic states: successful adaptation (homeostasis), ongoing adaptation (allostasis), and maladaptation (allostatic load).Method:Older women who had relocated to senior housing participated in three interviews and monthly saliva sample collection over a 6-month period. Saliva was assayed for diurnal cortisol secretion. Triangulation of mixed methods was used to analyze data, and psychosocial data were mapped onto the cortisol graphs to illustrate changes in stress reactivity and well-being.Results:Coping abilities, perceptions of stressors, and cortisol measures provide a detailed picture of the interplay among events and perceptions and the effects of both on well-being.Discussion:The case exemplars provide detailed information on the complexity of psychosocial and physiological components of the model of allostasis. This study also fills a gap in knowledge on negative relocation outcomes using the allostatic model.
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Syrwid, Danuta. "From Bory Tucholskie to Warmia. Documents and photographs of Bronisław Chabowski (1892–1942) from the collection of the House of “Gazeta Olsztyńska”." Masuro-Warmian Bulletin 305, no. 3 (November 25, 2019): 516–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.51974/kmw-134820.
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The article was prepared in connection with the 90th anniversary of Polish education in Warmia and Mas�uria. It shows the collections of the Museum of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn, related to the professional and social activity of Bronisław Chabowski (1892–1942), who in 1929–1934 worked in Polish schools in Warmia. De�scriptions of documents and photographs are a pretext to present applicable legal provisions, which in the interwar period regulated the functioning of education in the Polish state as well as the education of the German minority, enabling these to be presented in a broader historical context. At the same time, they enable the fate, professional career, educational and cultural and social activities of Polish teachers to be reconstructed through the prism of individual life events. The analysis of B. Chabowski’s team also gives a picture of the typical personality of a Polish teacher who decided to work in schools founded in Warmia from 1929. In the vast majority of cases they were people with pedagogical and organisational skills, who had artistic and social passion.
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Klar, M. O. "And We cast upon his throne a mere body: A Historiographical Reading of Q. 38:34." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 6, no. 1 (April 2004): 103–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2004.6.1.103.
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This paper focuses on Q. 38:34 from the perspective of early and medieval works of Islamic historiography and collections of tales of the prophets: the early tenth century works of cUmāra b. Wathīma and Ṭabarī, the eleventh century Tales of the Prophets by Thaclabī, the twelfth century folkloric collection of Kisāↄī, along with Ibn cAsākir's History ofDamascus, the thirteenth century world history by Ibn al-Athīr, and the fourteenth century historiographical work by Ibn Kathīr. These various works are viewed not as any particular stage in the development of a genre, but as variations on a (Qur'anic) theme, and the avenue of medieval historiographers and storytellers is utilised as a bridge to explore various possible interpretations of the Qur'anic passage. Historiographers and storytellers provide us with an illustration of how lessons of admonition implied in the Qur'anic text were perceived in medieval Islamic society. They also, as will become clear, provide a picture of Solomon that is consistent with the Qur'anic figure as a whole.
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Pietrzkiewicz, Iwona. "„Index Librorum in Bibliotheca Ecclesiae Cathedralis Vilnensis” of 1598." Bibliotheca Lituana 2 (October 25, 2012): 279–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/bibllita.2012.2.15590.
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In Lithuania the earliest collections of books were centered in churches and monasteries. One of them was the library in the Cathedral of Vilnius. „Index librorum, in Bibliotheca Eccles[iae] Cathedralis Vilnensis” was written in 1598 as a part of the inventory of the church. Publication of the inventory is supplemented with comments and an attempt to identify all titles of books. The framework of the collection of books was influenced by internal orders and dispositions of the church authorities as well as the wills of bishops and canons. The writings collected in the Cathedral library were fairly typical for such kind of institutions: the texts of the Church Fathers, theological and philosophical authorities of that time as well as juridical documents. It’s a very interesting historical source, whoch analysis helps us to reconstruct the picture of the intellectual output of priesthood in the diocese of Vilnius at the end of the 16th century.
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Tanner, Martha. "Religions of America." Charleston Advisor 21, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.21.2.28.
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Religions of America makes available many valuable primary sources that one could not otherwise study without traveling to several archives in person. Multiple advanced search options make it possible to zero in on specific documents and publications that are relevant for one’s research, something that wouldn’t be as easy when browsing the original documents within archives.Despite the fairly general name, the resource is very specialized. Materials in the collection only relate to a few denominations in America, many of them small, and several at the extreme end of the spectrum (e.g., Branch Davidians, People’s Temple). While the resource would be invaluable to researchers interested in these specific groups and topics, the collections are not as useful for more general audiences seeking a broader picture. Some of the advanced search options and digital tools (e.g., search publications by date, Topic Finder visualization) are clunky to use or don’t add that much research value.
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Thiele, Jan. "The Jewish and Muslim Reception of ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Kitāb al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd: A Survey of Relevant Sources." Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 2, no. 1-2 (2014): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212943x-00201008.
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The Muʿtazila was not an exclusively Muslim phenomenon, since their teachings were also adopted by medieval Jewish savants. In recent years, a number of Muʿtazilī works were rediscovered or substantially completed by adopting a comparative methodology, which was based on both Muslim and Jewish sources. This article deals with a lost work composed by qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār, entitled al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd. I will give an overview of the sources in Zaydī and Karaite collections that provide us with a more detailed picture of the dissemination of the text. On the basis of quotations by later theologians, I will propose a hypothesis on the content of al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd. I will then discuss a possible relationship between ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s text and a manuscript from the Firkovitch collection in the National Library of Russia, which has recently been identified as a work entitled Taʿlīq al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd.
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Broos, Ben. "The wanderings of Rembrandt's Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh." Oud Holland - Quarterly for Dutch Art History 123, no. 2 (2010): 89–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/003067212x13397495480745.
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AbstractFor more than a century the only eyewitness account of Rembrandt's Portrait of an old woman (fig. 1) was a description made by Wilhelm Bode in 1883. At the time, he was unable to decipher the date, 1632; nor did he know anything about Aeltje Uylenburgh or the history of the panel. However, the painting's provenance has since been revealed, and it can be traced back in an almost unbroken line to its commission, a rare occurrence in Rembrandt's oeuvre. A pendant portrait, now lost, featured the preacher Johannes Sylvius, who is also the subject of an etching by Rembrandt dating from 1633 (fig. 2). Rembrandt had a close relationship with the Sylvius couple and he married their cousin Saskia Uylenburgh in 1634. After Aeltje's death in 1644, the couple's son Cornelis Sylvius inherited the portraits. We know that Cornelis moved to Haarlem in 1647, and that in 1681 he made a will bequeathing the pendants to his son Johannes Sylvius Junior. For the most part of a century they remained in the family. We lose track of the portrait of Johannes Sylvius when, in 1721, Cornelis II Sylvius refurbishes a house on the Kruisstraat in Haarlem. However, thanks to a handful of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copies, it has been possible to reconstruct the trail followed by Aeltje. In 1778, a copy from Dessau turned up at auction in Frankfurt. It was bought under the name of Johann Heinrich Roos by Henriette Amalie von Anhalt-Dessau. There is a copy of this copy in the museum of Marseilles, attributed Ferdinand Bol (fig. 3). In 2000 an article in the Tribune de Genève revealed that the original had belonged to the Burlamacchi Collection in the eighteenth century, and was then thought to be a portrait of Rembrandt's mother. Jean-Jacques Burlamacchi (1694-1748), a prominent Geneva collector, acquired major works of art, including probably the Rembrandt portrait, while travelling in Holland and Britain around 1720. It was the heirs of Burlamacchi, the Misses de Chapeaurouge, who opened the famous collection to the public. In 1790 or thereabouts, the Swiss portrait painter Marc-Louis Arlaud produced a copy, now in the museum at Lausanne (fig. 4), which for many years was thought to be an autograph work by Rembrandt. The painter Georges Chaix also made a copy, which he exhibited in Geneva in 1823. This work still belongs to the artist's family; unfortunately it has not been possible to obtain an image. After the Burlamacchi Collection was sold in about 1825, the painting was referred to somewhat nostalgically as 'Un Rembrandt "genevois"'. It was bought for 18,000 francs by the Paris art dealer Dubois, who sold it to the London banker William Coesvelt. In 1828, Coesvelt in turn sold the portrait through the London dealer John Smith, who described it as 'the painter's mother, at the age of 62'. We know that the picture was subsequently acquired from Albertus Brondgeest by the banker James de Rothschild (1792-1868) for his country house at Boulogne, as this is mentioned in the 1864 description of Rothschild's collection by Charles Blanc. Baron James's widow, Betty de Rothschild, inherited the portrait in 1868 and it was in Paris that the Berlin museum director Wilhelm Bode (fig. 5) first saw the painting. In his description of 1883 he states that the woman was not, in his opinion, Rembrandt's mother. In 1886 the portrait fell to Betty's son, Baron Alphonse (1827-1905). Bode published a heliogravure of the work in 1897, which remained for many years the only available reproduction (fig. 6). Rembrandt's portrait of a woman was a showpiece in Baron Alphonse's Paris smoking room (fig. 7). Few art historians came to the Rothschild residence and neither Valentiner nor Bredius, who published catalogues of Rembrandt in 1909 and 1935, respectively, had seen the painting. Alphonse's heir was Baron Edouard de Rothschild, who in 1940 fled to America with his daughter Bethsabée. The Germans looted the painting, but immediately after the war it was exhibited, undamaged, in a frame carrying the (deliberately?) misleading name 'Romney' (fig. 8). In 1949, Bethsabée de Rothschild became the rightful owner of the portrait. She took it with her when she moved to Israel in 1962, where under the name of Bathsheva de Rothschild she became a well-known patron of modern dance. In 1978, J. Bruyn en S. Levie of the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) travelled to Tel Aviv to examine the painting. Although the surface was covered with a thick nicotine film, they were impressed by its condition. Bruyn and Levie were doubtful, however, that the panel's oval format was original, as emerges from the 'Rembrandt-Corpus' report of 1986. Not having seen the copies mentioned earlier, they were unaware that one nineteenth-century replica was also oval (fig. 9). Their important discovery that the woman's age was 62 was not further investigated at the time. Baroness Bathsheva de Rothschild died childless in 1999. On 13 December 2000 the painting was sold by Christie's, London, after a surprising new identity for the elderly sitter had been put forward. It had long been known that Rembrandt painted portraits of Aeltje Uylenburgh and her husband, the minister Cornelis Sylvius. Aeltje, who was a first cousin of Rembrandt's wife, Saskia Uylenburgh, would have been about 60 years old at the time. Given that the age of the woman in the portrait was now known to be 62, it was suggested that she could be Aeltje. The portrait was acquired for more than 28 million US dollars by the art dealer Robert Noortman, who put it on the market as 'Aeltje' with a question mark. In 2005, Noortman sold the portrait for 36.5 million to the American-Dutch collectors Mr and Mrs De Mol van Otterloo. At the time, the Mauritshuis in The Hague felt that trying to buy the portrait would be too extravagant, while the Rijksmuseum was more interested in acquiring a female portrait from Rembrandt's later period. Aeltje was thus destined to leave the Netherlands for good. A chronicle of the Sylvius family published in 2006 shows that Aeltje Uylenburgh would have been born in 1570 (fig. 10), demonstrating that she could indeed be the 62-year-old woman depicted by Rembrandt in 1632. We know that Aeltje was godmother to Rembrandt's children and that Saskia was godmother to Aeltje's granddaughter. Further evidence of the close ties between the two families is provided by Rembrandt's etching of Aeltje's son Petrus, produced in 1637. It is now generally accepted that the woman in the portrait is Aeltje. She was last shown in the Netherlands at the 'Dutch Portraits' exhibition in The Hague. In February 2008 the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston announced that it had received on long-term loan one the finest Rembrandts still in private ownership.
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BROWN, CHRISTOPHER. "The Renaissance of Museums in Britain." European Review 13, no. 4 (October 2005): 617–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798705000840.
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In this paper – given as a lecture at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 2003 – I survey the remarkable renaissance of museums – national and regional, public and private – in Britain in recent years, largely made possible with the financial support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. I look in detail at four non-national museum projects of particular interest: the Horniman Museum in South London, a remarkable and idiosyncratic collection of anthropological, natural history and musical material which has recently been re-housed and redisplayed; secondly, the nearby Dulwich Picture Gallery, famous for its 17th- and 18th-century Old Master paintings, a masterpiece of 19th-century architecture by Sir John Soane, which has been restored, and modern museum services provided. The third is the New Art Gallery, Walsall, where the Garman Ryan collection of early 20th-century painting and sculpture form the centrepiece of a new building with fine galleries and the forum is the Manchester Art Gallery, where the former City Art Gallery and the Athenaeum have been combined in a single building in which to display the city's rich art collections. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, of which I am Director, is the most important museum of art and archaeology in England outside London and the greatest University Museum in the world. Its astonishingly rich collections are introduced and the transformational plan for the museum is described. In July 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund announced a grant of £15 million and the renovation of the Museum is now underway.
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Pendse, Liladhar R. "Building virtual collection and Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines." Collection and Curation 39, no. 3 (January 16, 2020): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cc-07-2019-0020.
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Purpose The access to the rare originals of the early Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines remains problematic. The reference librarians often are restricted to directing the students and scholars to the secondary resources that are available both in print and as a part of the digital assets within the North American academic libraries. This paper aims to focus on the select primary source editions including select Spanish language colonial imprints that are available electronically on the Web along the Open Access. These Web-based resources serve as the reference tools for the early history of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. As many of these publications are rare and extremely expensive for most libraries, the Open Access resources serve as an aid to building a virtual collection of these items. Design/methodology/approach The author had to create a data set of the early imprints of the Spanish Philippines using several bibliographic resources. The data set will be submitted as an Appendix for this research paper. The author did both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data set along with the voyant-based digital humanities approach for topic modeling. Findings The goals of this paper were to not only survey the early Spanish printing of the Philippines but also provide the reader with a somewhat complete picture of how the printing began in the Spanish Philippines, what kind of the first books were printed and how one can access them given their rarity and fragility. The collection building paradigms are undergoing significant shifts, and the focus of many academic libraries is shifting toward providing access to these items. As these items high-value low-use items continue to be part of the Special Collections, the access to these is problematic. The virtual collections thus serve as a viable alternative that enables further research and access. While the creators of these works are long gone, the legacy of the Spanish colonial domination, printing and the religious orders in the Philippines remain alive through these works. Research limitations/implications As this is an introductory paper, the author focused on the critical editions rather than providing a comprehensive bibliographic landscape of the presses that produced these editions. He also did not take into consideration many pamphlets that were published in the same period. He also did not consider the Chinese language publications of the Islands. The Chinese had been block printing since medieval times (Little, 1996). In the context of the Spanish Philippines, the Chinese migration and trade have been studied in detail by Chia (2006), Bjork (1998) and Gebhardt (2017). The scope of this paper also was centered toward building a virtual collection of these rare books. Practical implications Rare books are often expensive and out-of-reach for many libraries; the virtual collection of the same along the Open Access model represents an alternative to collect and curate these collections. The stewardship of these collections also acquires a new meaning in the digital milieu. Social implications This research paper will allow scholars to see past the analog editions and help them focus on curating a virtual collection. The questions of electronic access are often ignored when it comes to visiting and using them in a controlled environment of the reading room in the Special Collections. The author argues that one way to enable access to these rare and expensive books is to provide access to their digital counterparts. These digital/virtual surrogates of the originals will facilitate further research. Originality/value The author could not find similar research on the publications of the early Spanish colony of the Philippines.
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Apanasevich, Vladimir I., P. F. Kiku, A. G. Faizinger, O. M. Zagrudinova, A. A. Sedykh, S. V. Yudin, V. G. Moreva, and A. V. Sukhova. "THE SOCIAL FINANCIAL LOAD OF OPPORTUNISTIC SCREENING OF BREAST CANCER." Health Care of the Russian Federation 62, no. 3 (May 24, 2019): 116–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18821/0044-197x-2018-62-3-116-120.
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The study was carried out concerning complex evaluation of financial load of opportunistic screening of breast cancer. The data of established cases of breast cancer and stages of disease are taken from collections "The state of oncologic care in Russia" 2014, 2015 and 2016. The financial expenses for implementation of analog mammography, sonography and physician's examination are taken from "The territorial tariff agreement 2014". The evaluation of X-ray finds was implemented using categories BI-RADS (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System) proposed by the American College of Radiology. During 2014, in the Primorskiy Krai 40,825 of diagnostic and 50,824 cases of preventive mammography were implemented. In 2015 43,196 diagnostic and 58,567 preventive examinations and in 2016 47,359 diagnostic and 53 973 preventive examinations were implemented correspondingly. According the Foundation of mandatory medical insurance, the price of analog mammography made up to 292 rubles. The social financial load of diagnostic of a single case of breast cancer at stage T1 made up to 96,367 rubles in 2014, 90,966 rubles in 2015 and 73,303 rubles in 2016 correspondingly. The analysis of detection of breast cancer at early stage T1 and financial costs of early diagnostic demonstrated a distinct trend of decreasing of financial load at diagnostic of a single case of breast cancer of T1 during 2014-2016 at the expense of amelioration of quality of description of picture and training of radiologists. The model was proposed to form groups of higher risk with subsequent detailed examination and implementation of opportunistic screening in the group of common level of risk of development of breast cancer as a most perspective and less unprofitable one.
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YATSIUK, IRYNA, IRJA SAAR, KUULO KALAMEES, SHAXOB SULAYMONOV, YUSUFJON GAFFOROV, and KERRY O’DONNELL. "Epitypification of Morchella steppicola (Morchellaceae, Pezizales), a morphologically, phylogenetically and biogeographically distinct member of the Esculenta Clade from central Eurasia." Phytotaxa 284, no. 1 (November 9, 2016): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.284.1.3.
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The steppe morel, Morchella steppicola, is one of the more iconic species of true morels (Morchellaceae, Pezizales) based on its: 1) distinctive cerebriform pileus with densely packed labyrinthine irregular ridges, 2) genealogically exclusive position as the earliest diverging species lineage within the Esculenta clade, and 3) geographic distribution within temperate grassland steppes in central Eurasia. Given the uniqueness of this species, and conservation efforts in some Eurasian countries to protect it, we sought to study the holotype in the Mycological Herbarium of the M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany (KW), Kyiv, Ukraine. However, because the type specimen appears to have been lost, but a picture was provided with the description, we have designated it the lectotype and epitypified this important species based on a collection made in 2014 from Lugansk province, Ukraine. Herein, we provide a detailed morphological description, provide a preliminary assessment of intraspecific diversity via phylogenetic analysis of ITS rDNA sequences from 13 M. steppicola collections spanning six Eurasian countries, and map its geographic distribution across the terrestrial ecoregions of central Eurasia.
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Zadnikov, S. A. "OBJECTS FROM ALEXANDROPOL KURGAN IN THE COLLECTION OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF KHARKIV KARAZIN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY." Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine 33, no. 4 (December 25, 2019): 285–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2019.04.21.
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As known the collection of finds from Alexandropol Kurgan was stored in the Commission for the Study of Antiquities (St. Petersburg) which was reorganized in the Imperial Archaeological Commission in 1859, and at the same time collection was given to the Hermitage. In 1932 by decision of the Parity Commission items from this barrow were transferred to the Ukrainian History Museum (now the M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum). The small part of collection was left in the Hermitage for electroplating. During World War II, the Kharkiv’s part of collection became almost negligible, so from more than 4000 finds more than 100 items were survived. After the war part of the collection (about 400 items) kept in the collections of the Archeological Museum of Kharkiv University. All past documentation was lost during the war. In the new inventory books, compiled after the war, the items were marked as numbers 74—88 under the year of receipt 1945. Any notes on the possible reasons for transferring things to university storage are absent.
The collection of Alexandropol kurgan stored in the
Archeological Museum of Kharkiv Karazin national university consists of the 165 round six-petal plaques, 120 seven-petal plaques, 19 round plaques with four holes along the edge, one (and one fragment) round plaque with six holes, 9 bronze crescent pendants, 12 bronze fragments of the ends of crescent and 19 small fragments from them, 64 tubular pierces (intact and in fragments), 7 silver plaques depicting the griffin and the fragment of silver typeset belt.
Full publication of Alexandropol artifacts from the Kharkiv collection would make this complex appropriate to recreate the complete picture of the burial of Scythian chieftain and increase the further development of Scythian studies.
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Lebedev, E. B., and I. R. Levenets. "FAUNA AND DISTRIBUTION OF GASTROPOD AND BIVALVE MOLLUSKS (MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA, BIVALVIA) IN THE LITTORAL ZONE OF THE FAR EAST MARINE BIOSPHERE RESERVE (PETER THE GREAT BAY, SEA OF JAPAN)." South of Russia: ecology, development 14, no. 1 (April 4, 2019): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18470/1992-1098-2019-1-26-41.
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Aim. The littoral fauna of the Far East Marine Reserve was studied at the end of the last century; however, the monitoring studies of the malacofauna are relevant because of the increased recreational load and the threat of new species introduction. The aim of the work is to update the data on species composition and distribution of gastropods and bivalves on the littoral zone of the reserve.Methods. The material was collected during the monitoring studies in 2012-2014. The compilation of the collections and identification of the species were carried out according to standard methods. For the definition, conventional determinants and atlases were used.Results. As a result of the research, 49 species and taxa of mollusks were found, including 33 gastropods and 15 species and 1 hybrid of bivalves. New for the littoral fauna of the reserve were 13 species of Gastropoda, 3 species and 1 hybrid Bivalvia. It was established that the introduction of Atlantic mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis into benthic communities occurs through its hybridization with native species.Conclusion. The data obtained allows us to present a more complete picture of the biodiversity and distribution of the littoral malacofauna of the reserve, an integral part of Peter the Great Bay.
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Sun, B., N. Singh, and S. Wroe. "P59 Acute varicella zoster encephalitis? Don’t forget the treatment!" Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 90, no. 3 (February 14, 2019): e39.1-e39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2019-abn.124.
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ObjectivesEducate physicians on the need for monitoring of Aciclivir levels in renal failure.DesignRetrospective case report.Subjects59 year old woman presented with acute psychosis following recent herpes zoster treated with oral Aciclovir.MethodsData collection from; original casenotes, electronic laboratory records, electronic picture archiving and communication system (PACS).ResultsLumbar puncture showed raised protein (0.92 g/L), CSF:serum glucose ratio(0.9), 36 WBCs/cmm(72% polymorphs) and detection of VZV DNA. MRI brain only revealed intracranial-hypotension secondary to lumbar puncture. Despite absence of VZV DNA on surveillance lumbar puncture, she remained minimally responsive. Aciclovir levels were significantly elevated post-dose at 32.7 mg/L (cutoff 10.8 mg/L) and a sedation hold revealed temporal correlation of pre-dose levels (6.4 mg/L) with improvement of GCS, strongly implicating Aciclovir as causative agent. Rapid resolution of encephalopathy occurred upon cessation with no residual neurological compromise.ConclusionsAciclovir neurotoxicity mimics zoster-related encephalitis and VZV DNA is commonly detected in cerebrospinal fluid of patient’s with herpes zoster (Rudzek et al. 2007). Our case highlights the need for vigilance of Aciclovir-neurotoxicity in renal failure patients.ReferenceRudzek D, Piskunova N, Zampachova E. High variability in viral load in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with herpes simplex and varicella-zoster infections of the central nervous system. Clinical Microbiology and Infection2007;13(12):1217–1219.
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Fokin, Pavel E. "The Last Newspaper Fyodor Dostoevsky Read (Based on the Collections of Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature)." Dostoevsky and world culture. Philological journal, no. 4 (2020): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2020-4-197-218.
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Throughout Dostoevsky's life, reading newspapers was one of the most important sources of his inspiration. Reading newspapers, Dostoevsky drew on real factual material that reflected both the characteristic phenomens of the postreform Russian reality and the most incredible “adventures” of lost human souls and hearts. Daily acquaintance with the latest news from Russian and world life was an essential necessity for Dostoevsky. Even while abroad, he regularly visited libraries to read the most recent Russian newspapers. Journalism was inherent in his type of thinking and personality. He began his literary career as a newspaper feuilletonist; in 1873–1874, he edited the Grazhdanin (The Citizen) weekly; in1876–1877, his monojournal A Writer's Diary was focused on Russian and European periodicals. In 1881, having completed his novel The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky decided to resume the publication of A Writer's Diary. He prepared only one issue which came out on the day of his funeral. The manuscript collection of the Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature contains Anna Dostoevskaya’s collection that includes a memorial copy of the last newspaper read by Dostoevsky on the eve of his fatal illness, the Novoe Vremya (The New Time) newspaper, No. 1764 dated January 25 (February 6) 1881. This item is a valuable biographical material and allows one to put additional touches on the picture of Dostoevsky's intellectual life of his last days. The article provides an overview of the newspaper’s contents contextualized within Dostoevsky's spiritual, political, and aesthetic interests and particularly within the articles included in the first issue of The Diary of a Writer for 1881 and the preparatory materials for it.
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Hagen, Lorrie EM, Tal Schechter, Adam Gassas, and John J. Doyle. "High Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Clearance Predicts Severity of Gut Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) In Children." Blood 116, no. 21 (November 19, 2010): 1242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v116.21.1242.1242.
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Abstract Abstract 1242 The clinical evaluation and management of gut GVHD is a significant challenge in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). It is often difficult to obtain pathological evidence to confirm the GVHD diagnosis and/or determine response to treatment. The severity of the disease itself may not just be related to the associated classic symptoms. Our objective herein was to prospectively study the effect of gut GVHD on protein losing enteropathy (PLE) as measured by alpha-1 antitrypsin clearance (AATC) in stools. Thirteen patients who were diagnosed with gut GVHD by clinical criteria were recruited; 5 patients were excluded as 4 had gut GVHD ruled out by biopsy and 1 was unable to complete study due to stool collection issues. Therefore, 8 patients; 6 males and 2 females, were studied. The median age was 9.5 years (range 6–17). Diagnoses included ALL (4), AML (2), Lymphoma (1) and Adrenoleukodystrophy (1). Donor types were; 7 unrelated (BM n=4 and cord n=3) one matched related BM donor. All patients received cyclosporine for GVHD prophylaxis, in addition 4 patients also received methotrexate and 3 others received prednisone as the second agent. All patients had negative stool EM for viruses and cultures for C.difficile on their first collection. Two 24 hour stool collections were taken from each patient at a mean of 8.5d (range 7–13d) apart. Patients’ gut GVHD staging is summarized in Table 1.Table 1:Summary of Stage gut GVHD and PLEPatientsAATC Median(range)normal = <22Stool outputml/kg/d Median(range)Stage of gutGVHD (n=)# with PLECollection #1831 (3-339)28 (10-109)Stg 1 (2) 4/8Stg 2 (3)Stg 3 (1)Stg 4 (2)Collection #2856 (8-561)19 (0-85) Stg 1 (0) 5/8Stg 2 (0)Stg 3 (3)Stg 4 (1) At the time of 1st collection, 6 patients had ≥ stage II gut GVHD and at 2nd collection 4 patients had ≥stage II gut GVHD and 4 collections were of non-diarrheal stool. A total of 7 stool collections were taken at a diagnosis of ≥stage III gut GVHD. Mean alpha-1 antitrypsin clearance (AATC) from all 16 collections was 143 mls/day (range 3–561), levels >22 mls/day indicate the diagnosis of protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). Nine of the collections (56%) showed PLE with a mean AATC of 247mls/day (range 31–561). Six out of the 7 samples from patients with ≥stage III gut GVHD were positive for PLE. Five collections with stool volumes >30 ml/kg/day were positive for PLE. Stool volumes were significantly higher on second collection (Wilcoxon signed ranks test, p = 0.003) consistent with the second stool collections being significantly more likely to have an elevated AATC, therefore more severe PLE over time (p<0.001). We conclude that a highly significant positive correlation exists between the severity of PLE and the stage of gut GVHD, particularly obvious in patients with stage 3–4 GVHD (ANOVA, p=0.015). See Table 2.Table 2:Stage of gut GVHD and AATCStage ofGVHDNumber ofcollectionsMeanAATCStd.Deviation0426.0020.801217.0019.802384.67136.2934171.50176.2143406.33134.32 When patients were grouped as stage 0–2 GVHD vs. stage 3–4 GVHD, those with stage 3–4 GVHD had significantly higher AATC values (p =0.02). Despite the small number of patients recruited, this study emphasizes the need to consider PLE as a useful aspect of the clinical picture. We suggest that in order to see a response to therapy and therefore a decrease in AATC, clinicians should not repeat stool collections before 2 weeks from the initiation of therapy. In light of the significant morbidity and mortality associated with grade 3 and 4 gut GVHD, and as an important therapeutic decision for these patients, one may consider escalating GVHD therapy if a patient's AATC is rising. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Griffin, R. Elizabeth. "Are Historical Observations “Ancient” or “Modern”?" Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 11, A29A (August 2015): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316002593.
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AbstractThe demarcation between “old”, “historic” and “heritage” is fuzzy. To a large degree it depends upon purpose and usefulness, and it will always be subjective. At what point does the intrinsic value of an historic item outpace the mystique associated just with its age? When, for instance, does an “old” car become a “vintage” car? When do archived astronomical records contribute something of quantitative value to science? When can they be extricated from the realms of the museum and placed in the context of modern research?Celestial objects vary. Some do so explosively, often irreversibly; many vary periodically over time-scales from a hour or less to a century or more. Furthermore, all celestial objects change as they evolve, mostly so slowly as to be practically imperceptible, but while the general time-scale of that evolution is millions of years there are a few stages (such as the collapse from AGB towards planetary nebula and white dwarf) which happen rather suddenly, and invaluable examples of “before--after” can be found in some plate stores. Astrophysics has a comprehensive need to investigate the nature and time-scales of all types of change, especially ones which only access to its “heritage” data can describe. Surely in this day and age we have enough tools, capacity and technologies to fulfil such a basic requirement?The frustrating answer is that we do have some of the necessary tools, and most of the technologies, but as a community we lack “capacity” if that means manpower and funds. The problem is a technical one of accessing the older data in useable formats; it was generated by the universal change in detector technology from photography to electronic device, an exciting development in efficiency and scope that heralded a new era of research capability and data management, archiving and sharing, but it left pre-digital photographic data right out of the picture. Developments of that nature should have made research more inclusive, instead of the seriously exclusive picture that is currently seen. The longer the situation prevails, the greater the inertia and scepticism to be overcome. Fortunately, some of the challenges are being tackled successfully, the most productive to date being the dasch project (dasch.rc.fas.harvard.edu) at Harvard College Observatory to digitize and share all the images and objective-prism spectra from its collection (the world's biggest) of over 0.5M large plates. The DAO has commenced a programme to digitize its collection of > 16,000 high-dispersion spectra (~70% are good enough to scan and convert), and to scan plates from its larger but older Cassegrain collection of > 90,000 spectra upon request. The instrument for this Herculean task is its own PDS, now suitably upgraded to meet the demands of speed and accuracy; the DAO has also acquired and upgraded a second PDS, with which it plans to share the load. Some smaller observatories in Europe are trying with less sophisticated equipment, but the rest have not the resources to give such data transformation any priority. Despite the unquestionable advantages, it is still necessary to convince colleagues that the medium is not the message, and that the scientific need comes before technological expedience.
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Dupont, Christian, and Elizabeth Yakel. "“What’s So Special about Special Collections?” Or, Assessing the Value Special Collections Bring to Academic Libraries." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8, no. 2 (June 11, 2013): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8690q.
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Objective – The objective of this study was to examine and call attention to the current deficiency in standardized performance measures and usage metrics suited to assessing the value and impact of special collections and archives and their contributions to the mission of academic research libraries and to suggest possible approaches to overcoming the deficiency.
Methods – The authors reviewed attempts over the past dozen years by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to highlight the unique types of value that special collections and archival resources contribute to academic research libraries. They also examined the results of a large survey of special collections and archives conducted by OCLC Research in 2010. In addition, they investigated efforts by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) dating back to the 1940s to define standardized metrics for gathering and comparing data about archival operations. Finding that the library and archival communities have thus far failed to develop and adopt common metrics and methods for gathering data about the activities of special collections and archives, the authors explored the potential benefits of borrowing concepts for developing user-centered value propositions and metrics from the business community.
Results – This study found that there has been a lack of consensus and precision concerning the definition of “special collections” and the value propositions they offer, and that most attempts have been limited in their usefulness because they were collections-centric. The study likewise reaffirmed a lack of consensus regarding how to define and measure basic operations performed by special collections and archives, such as circulating materials to users in supervised reading rooms. The review of concepts and metrics for assessing value in the business community, however, suggested new approaches to defining metrics that may be more successful.
Conclusion – The authors recommend shifting from collection-centric to user-centric approaches and identifying appropriately precise metrics that can be consistently and widely applied to facilitate cross-institutional comparisons. Adopting a user-centric perspective, they argue, will provide a broader picture of how scholars interact with special collections at different points in the research process, both inside and outside of supervised reading rooms, as well as how undergraduate students change their thinking about evidence through interaction with primary sources. They authors outline the potential benefits of substituting the commonly used “reader-day” metric for tabulating reading room visits with a “reader-hour” metric and correlating it with item usage data in order to gauge the intensity of reading room use. They also discuss the potential benefits of assessing impact of instructional outreach in special collections and archives through measures of student confidence in pursuing research projects that involve primary sources.
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TSIBRANSKA-KOSTOVA, MARIYANA. "СВЕТЪТ НА МОНАХИНИТЕ ПО ЛЕКСИКАЛНИ ДАННИ / THE WORLD OF NUNS ACCORDING TO LEXICAL DATA." Journal of Bulgarian Language 68, no. 01 (March 31, 2021): 46–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.47810/bl.68.21.01.05.
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The article aims at comparing the data on female monasticism in two types of sources – hagiographic works and canon law – in order to bring forward monastic everyday life as an object of cultural conceptology and study of the diachronic linguistic picture of the world. Examples are taken from the Life of St. Eupraxia in the 1359–1360 copy of the Bdin Collection and selected rules from penitential collections. Everyday life in the monastery can be presented by means of distinct thematic areas defined by specific ranges of concepts (mental constructs) and the respective linguistic nominations. The lexical data addressed in the article refer to: food, clothing, education, labour, customs and regulations in the monastery, relations between nuns. The data on female monasticism in the Middle Ages are more limited than those available for monks. This corresponds with scarce information from other types of sources, such as iconographic and archaeological sources. The nuns’ habits and some positions in the monastery are denoted predominantly by masculine gender lexemes due to commonalities in the way of life and the moral norms. The comparison of lexical data from texts of different genres remains a promising task towards the reconstruction of the medieval way of life in the monastery.
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Kirillova, E. О. "Themes of Music and Love in Works of S. Alymov as a Representation of Spiritual and Value Orientations of Far Eastern Poetry of Silver Age." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 5 (May 28, 2021): 202–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-5-202-224.
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The material of S. Ya. Alymov’s poetry collection “Kiosk of Tenderness” (Harbin, 1920) and various detached poems of the author, preserved only on the pages of the press of the Far East (Vladivostok and Harbin) in the early 1920s is analyzed in the article. It is noted that access to the currently unknown works of S. Alymov is possible only in regional archives. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the writer’s texts are used, which are stored in the materials of the collections of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East and the State Archives of the Primorsky Territory. It is shown that S. Alymov is perceived by the author as one of the original representatives of the Silver Age poetry. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the creative strategy of S. Alymov, based on the desire to be a follower of famous contemporary poets, was deliberately based on various kinds of imitations and stylizations. It is argued that this is not about epigone copying — individual assimilation of the new was conditioned by the picture of the world and the culture of the writer, which were formed in the richest traditions of the Silver Age (literary, musical, dance, theatrical, pictorial).
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Nosova, Ekaterina I. "Using Network Analysis to Study the History of Archival Collections Formation: A Case-Study of the Collection of N.P. Likhachev from the Scientific Historical Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History." Herald of an archivist, no. 1 (2020): 277–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2020-1-277-292.
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Interest in the history of book collections is not a recent phenomenon. However, rapid development of computers and the Internet over the past twenty years has provided researchers with new tools for network analysis, such as UCI6 и NetDraw 2.160. Continuing to identify the provenance of the documents kept in the Western European Section of the Scientific Historical Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author had to face the fact that abundance of information and complexity of the links between various sources make it difficult to make out the complete picture. The Western European section of the Scientific Historical Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is mostly based on the collection of the academician N P. Likhachev (1862—1936). N.P. Likhachev contacted hundreds of antiquarian firms around the world, and thus his collection fits into the complex and interwoven system of the European antiquarian market of the late 19th–early 20th century. To overcome the problem of branching data, the author decided to call on the experience of sociologists and to use computer programs for network analysis that enable to reflect and comprehend the links between objects. The article is to present the process and results of this work, as well as to underscore problems and specificity of the programs in relation to the archival material. The main source is data from the personal provenance archive of the academician N. P. Likhachev, collection of documents on the history of the Western European Section, and artifacts from the Likhachev collection. The second layer of sources is antiquarian catalogs. The program can visualize these two layers of information in different ways by using different colors and lines. Overlaying of the schemes allows completing of missing elements in the chain of provenance. It should be noted that due to the richness of the sources, the network, originally compiled for the collection of N.P. Likhachev, grows into a pan-European system of “collector-antiquarian” relationships. It opens wide perspectives for research.
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Reddy, Sheshalatha. "THE COSMOPOLITAN NATIONALISM OF SAROJINI NAIDU, NIGHTINGALE OF INDIA." Victorian Literature and Culture 38, no. 2 (May 6, 2010): 571–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000173.
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Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949), the English-language Indian poetess and politician, appears before the viewer in the frontispieces to her first two collections of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905) and The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring (1912). She presents herself in print, as in her oratory, as both a figure of nineteenth-century verse culture and a cosmopolitan nationalist. The Golden Threshold includes a now well-known introduction by Arthur Symons and a sketch of a young Naidu by J. B. Yeats (father of W. B. Yeats). [See Figure 1.] Arrayed in a voluminous and ruffled white dress, distinctly “Western” in style, with hands clasped together, Naidu's youthful yet grave face stares directly at the viewer. She appears here as a precocious, prepubescent Victorian poetess captured within a private setting. Yet when this volume was published in 1905, the picture, drawn during Naidu's sojourn in England in the mid-1890s when much of the poetry included in the collection was composed, must have been almost a decade old. The only sign of racial difference in the sketch is her lightly shaded skin and dark hair. The blurred sketch echoes Naidu's own ambiguous position at this time: she is neither wholly Indian nor wholly English, and she navigates uneasily between the roles of naïve student of poetry and accomplished poetess.
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Kusekwa, Lovemore, and Aston Mushowani. "The open access landscape in Zimbabwe: the case of university libraries in ZULC." Library Hi Tech 32, no. 1 (March 11, 2014): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lht-07-2013-0083.
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Purpose – The paper aims to focus on the current state of open access (OA) initiatives in Zimbabwean universities. The paper specifically reports the initiatives at Zimbabwean universities regarding institutional repositories that promote OA and other digital OA collections. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research methodology was adopted. Questionnaires were used as the primary data collection method for this research. The research sought to address the following specific areas: the state of institutional repositories and open access in Zimbabwe, the discoverability of content, open access policies and mandates, the benefits of open access in Zimbabwe, and future plans for institutional OA. A total of eight out of 12 universities responded to the questionnaire. The data provided by the universities involved in the research were summarised to give a general picture of the open access landscape in Zimbabwe. Findings – The current initiatives in the universities involved in this survey indicate that most universities in Zimbabwe are going to have institutional repositories that promote open access to information. Most institutions in Zimbabwe are already working on putting open access policies in place in a bid to promote open access. Originality/value – The research will shed more light on the status quo of open access initiatives in Zimbabwe, particularly with regards to institutional repositories, open access policies and open access mandates.