2,508 research outputs found
Letter from M.C. Morton, M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, to Whom It May Concern, July 24, 1958
No full textThis letter, issued by Morton, M.C., M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, explains that Tsugitada Kanamori has requested a certificate of ill health for the purpose of establishing dependency upon arrival to the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. The letter describes his history of asthmatic attacks and the treatment for his cardiac asthma.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
Letter from M.C. Morton, M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, to Whom It May Concern, July 22, 1958
No full textThis letter, issued by Morton, M.C., M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, explains that Tsugitada Kanamori has requested a certificate of ill health for the purpose of establishing dependency upon arrival to the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. His illness had not been not identified.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
2000 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Ace Atkins and M.C. Beaton
No full textThe Sub-Librarians planned and advertised a program with renowned science fiction and fantasy author Philip Jose Farmer. George Scheetz was instrumental in making that introduction. However, due to ill health, Farmer was unable to travel and had to cancel close to the program date.
However, on very short notice, Ace Atkins agreed to come to Chicago and speak to the group. Atkins had spoken to a very appreciative group of Sub-Librarians the previous year in New Orleans, and he gave another stellar performance in Chicago. He talked about his new book, Leaving\u27 Trunk Blues, which is another Nick Travers mystery, this one set in Chicago, from St. Martin\u27s Press.
St. Martin\u27s also stepped up and offered to have author M.C. Beaton join Ace as a speaker. M.C. Beaton is a pseudonym of Marion Chesney, who may be best known as the author of romance novels set during the English Regency. Her first detective story as M.C. Beaton came out for St. Martin\u27s in 1985. She has two series-one set in Scotland with Hamish Macbeth and one set in the Cotswolds with Agatha Raisin.
St. Martin\u27s generously provided copies of both authors\u27 books for signing after the program.
Marsha Pollak chaired the program, welcomed the audience, explained the change in speakers, called for toasts and introduced the authors
Drag it together with Groupie: making RDF data authoring easy and fun for anyone
No full textOne of the foremost challenges towards realizing a “Read-write Web of Data” [3] is making it possible for everyday computer users to easily find, manipulate, create, and publish data back to the Web so that it can be made available for others to use. However, many aspects of Linked Data make authoring and manipulation difficult for “normal” (ie non-coder) end-users. First, data can be high-dimensional, having arbitrary many properties per “instance”, and interlinked to arbitrary many other instances in a many different ways. Second, collections of Linked Data tend to be vastly more heterogeneous than in typical structured databases, where instances are kept in uniform collections (e.g., database tables). Third, while highly flexible, the problem of having all structures reduced as a graph is verbosity: even simple structures can appear complex. Finally, many of the concepts involved in linked data authoring - for example, terms used to define ontologies are highly abstract and foreign to regular citizen-users.To counter this complexity we have devised a drag-and-drop direct manipulation interface that makes authoring Linked Data easy, fun, and accessible to a wide audience. Groupie allows users to author data simply by dragging blobs representing entities into other entities to compose relationships, establishing one relational link at a time. Since the underlying representation is RDF, Groupie facilitates the inclusion of references to entities and properties defined elsewhere on the Web through integration with popular Linked Data indexing services. Finally, to make it easy for new users to build upon others’ work, Groupie provides a communal space where all data sets created by users can be shared, cloned and modified, allowing individual users to help each other model complex domains thereby leveraging collective intelligence
Inclusione fragile. Migrazioni nei centri minori del Lazio
No full textL’immigrazione è probabilmente uno dei temi più rilevanti all’interno del dibattito odierno sulle città italiane. Il fenomeno è cresciuto di intensità negli ultimi vent’anni, diventando una realtà consistente che ha un impatto importante dal punto di vista sociale, economico e anche territoriale. Questo è particolarmente vero per una regione come il Lazio, nel 2016 seconda in Italia (dopo la Lombardia) per numero di residenti stranieri, pari a 645.159 persone. Gli studi urbani e la ricerca urbanistica si occupano ormai da alcuni anni in maniera crescente del tema “immigrazione e città”. Quello che forse è meno noto, sia nel dibattito pubblico che in quello specialistico, è che più della metà del fenomeno migratorio in Italia riguarda i centri urbani minori. Questo volume monografico de “I Quaderni di Urbanistica Tre” raccoglie il lavoro di ricerca fatto dall’Unità di Ricerca dell’Università Roma Tre nell’ambito del PRIN “Piccoli Comuni e Coesione Sociale. Politiche e pratiche urbane per l’inclusione sociale e spaziale dei migranti”, e rappresenta un tentativo inedito di raccontare il fenomeno migratorio nella regione Lazio attraverso le pratiche e politiche di inclusione degli immigrati nei piccoli centri urbani. La ricerca PRIN si è svolta tra il 2013 e il 2016, e ha coinvolto sei unità di ricerca con prospettive disciplinari diverse (pianificazione e politiche urbane, sociologia, antropologia e demografia) per indagare in maniera integrata il fenomeno migratorio nei piccoli comuni in diverse aree territoriali del paese. L’obiettivo generale della ricerca era quello di fornire elementi conoscitivi e strumenti operativi per una gestione innovativa delle “società delle diversità” nei comuni di piccola dimensione che devono far fronte a una significativa e crescente presenza di residenti stranieri, rafforzandone le capacità di consolidare la coesione sociale e spaziale (per una discussione dei risultati della ricerca nazionale vedi Balbo 2015).L’indagine condotta dall’Unità di Ricerca Roma Tre si è focalizzata sull’area romano-laziale, esplorando innanzi tutto il contesto politico e amministrativo regionale, individuando le principali leggi, politiche e gli attori che costituiscono il sistema di governance dell’immigrazione (vedi Fioretti et al, 2014; Cremaschi & Fioretti 2015).Inoltre si è ricostruita la strutturazione territoriale del fenomeno, nel tentativo di capire le principali geografie dell’immigrazione (idem) e individuare alcuni comuni che ne rappresentassero la varietà. Questi sono stati oggetto di studio approfondito tramite un approccio misto, ma prevalentemente qualitativo, con un importante lavoro di campo che ha permesso tramite lo strumento dell’intervista e dell’osservazione partecipante di esplorare il tessuto sociale e far emergere i sistemi di incorporazione locale dei migranti.Il presente numero de iQuaderni di UrbanisticaTre dà conto precisamente di questo lavoro di approfondimento fatto su otto comuni del Lazio, più o meno piccoli, restituendo una ricerca che è prima di tutto empirica ed esplorativa. Questo taglio ha una sua precisa ragione d’essere, per riempire il vuoto dato dal fatto che il fenomeno migratorio nei centri minori del Lazio è oggi assolutamente poco studiato. Uno sforzo in questo senso è stato fatto in anni recenti dall’unico importante osservatorio sul fenomeno: il rapporto annuale curato dal Centro Studi e Ricerche Idos, promosso da istituzioni laiche e religiose locali. Le edizioni più recenti dell’Osservatorio Romano sulle Migrazioni hanno infatti lasciato sempre più spazio alle indagini nei territori della ex Provincia di Roma e, in maniera ancora timida, in alcune realtà della regione (cfr. ad esempio Centro Sudi e Ricerche IDOS, 2016). Oltre a questo contributo sistematico, si trovano rari casi di pubblicazioni su immigrazione e centri minori, e spesso si tratta di ricerche con tagli molto specifici (ad esempio Ricci 2012 sul riuso dei centri storici, Omizzolo 2010 sui lavoratori agricoli indiani di Latina, Weber 2004 e Cingolani e Piperno 2005 sui romeni in Provincia di Roma)
Diversity and interculturalism, a critique and a defence. Going through multiethnic neighbourhoods in Rome
No full textExtract: Marco Cremaschi Carlotta Fioretti The starting hypothesis of this chapter is that the two different concepts of the diverse city and the intercultural city can be applied interchangeably to describe and govern multi-ethnic urban settings, the difference being more a matter of scale than of nature. Diversity and interculturalism share, in fact, the same duplicity: a normative content combined with an analytic orientation. The former, however, addresses mainly the ordinary configuration of places while the latter allows the discussion of rights and political principles. Are the diverse city and the intercultural city the same, then? The answer is affirmative, but conditional upon clearing both concepts of ideological deposits. Interculturalism, in particular, describes the attitude of governments towards integration intended as a process of exchange and interaction between the host and the immigrant population. At the same time, it suggests a normative model for balancing and accepting these exchanges. Interculturalism has..
Diversity and interculturalism, a critique and a defence. Going through multiethnic neighbourhoods in Rome
No full textExtract: Marco Cremaschi Carlotta Fioretti The starting hypothesis of this chapter is that the two different concepts of the diverse city and the intercultural city can be applied interchangeably to describe and govern multi-ethnic urban settings, the difference being more a matter of scale than of nature. Diversity and interculturalism share, in fact, the same duplicity: a normative content combined with an analytic orientation. The former, however, addresses mainly the ordinary configuration of places while the latter allows the discussion of rights and political principles. Are the diverse city and the intercultural city the same, then? The answer is affirmative, but conditional upon clearing both concepts of ideological deposits. Interculturalism, in particular, describes the attitude of governments towards integration intended as a process of exchange and interaction between the host and the immigrant population. At the same time, it suggests a normative model for balancing and accepting these exchanges. Interculturalism has..
Psychological Support in Breast Cancer Patients: A Personalized Approach
No full textThe discovery of an insidious disease such as breast cancer most of the time is experienced like a life interruption creating a large gap between the life before and after the diagnosis. The main goal in women’s life, together with fighting the disease, is therefore that of re-establishing the natural life balance or, in other words, repairing the biographic rift. This process of reconstruction is not exempt from psychological and emotional suffering. Women’s quality of life could be damaged, and scientific evidence has stressed that adopting an interdisciplinary approach is the best way to re-establish it again. In this perspective, a biopsychosocial model appears to be the best option for caring, where the patient is considered as a complex system characterized by physical, psychological and social aspects and where constant changes and adaptation to the physical, relational and cultural environment are required. Adhering to this model means to empower patients in the disease management, actively involving them and their family when needed, in treatment decision-making, in order to promote decisions that are consistent with their values, preferences and daily life management. This personalized approach, by means of an increase in patients’ autonomy and self-determination, results to positively affect clinical outcomes
A Validated Framework for Measuring Interface Support for Interactive Information Seeking
No full textIn this paper we present the validation of an evaluation framework that models the support provided by search systems for different types of user and their expected types of seeking behavior. Factors determining the types of users include previous knowledge and goals. After an overview is presented, the framework is validated in two ways. First, the novel integration of the two existing information-seeking models used in the framework is validated by the correlation of multiple expert and novice analysis. Second, the framework is validated against the results produced by two separated user studies. Further, the refinements made by the first validation technique are shown to increase the accuracy of the framework through the second technique. The successful validation process has shown that the framework can identify both strong and weak areas of search interface design in only a few hours. The results produced can be used to either revise and strengthen designs or inform the structure of a user study
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