12,677 research outputs found
In the Age of Steel: Oral Histories from Bethlehem Pennsylvania -- Victor Henning
No full textVictor Henning (b. ca. January, 1899) was born in Effort, Pennsylvania. After working a short time at Cutter silk mill Henning joined Bethlehem Steel in either 1914 or 1915. Henning was an active union organizer who was dismissed from the company around 1941 for smoking a cigarette in an unauthorized area and claims he was blackballed by the company. In this interview he discusses work procedures, organizing activities, his claim his father was cheated out of a pension by the company, slowing production of other workers while on piece rate, the 1941 strike, community support and opposition to the union, and his views on the union. This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted by Lehigh University students and faculty from 1974 through 1977 focusing on retired Bethlehem Steel workers, business people, and the heirs of industrial magnates. The project was co-sponsored by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, who provided contact information for retired steel workers. An oral history interview is an act of memory and hence both highly selective and highly subjective. While it accurately reflects what a narrator remembers (or chooses to tell) of his or her experience and viewpoints, it may not accurately represent what actually transpired or what another person may have experienced. As such users should subject interviews to the same degree of critical scrutiny they would any other historical source
Neues von (Pa-)Rahotep. Die Funde aus dem Grab des Wesirs im Oriental Institute Museum Chicago
No full textIm Winter 1920/21 gruben die britischen Archäologen William M. F. Petrie und Guy Brunton auf den Friedhöfen des mittelägyptischen Sedment. Innerhalb von etwa vier Monaten entdeckten sie über 2000 Gräber. Unter diesen Gräbern befand sich auch das ramessidische Grab des Wesirs (Pa-)Rahotep. Dabei handelt es sich um einen von nur ganz wenigen nicht in den thebanischen oder memphitischen Nekropolen bestatteten Angehörigen der allerhöchsten Beamtenelite des Neuen Reiches.
Im Rahmen meiner Dissertation habe ich im Jahr 2010 im Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago fast 100 bislang weitgehend unpublizierte Objekte aufgenommen. Diese bieten auf der einen Seite einen guten Einblick in die Qualität einer solch hochrangigen Bestattung. Unter den Stücken befindet sich etwa das Fragment eines großformatigen Bes-Gefäßes aus Kalzit-Alabaster, das in dieser Form keine Parallele besitzt
Characteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.
No full textCharacteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.</p
South African responses to Open Access publishing: a survey of the research community
No full textOpen access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access
journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed
custerca/PA-Stream-Fish-CRF: CRF modeling script for stream fish communities
No full textR scripts associated with analysis of stream fish analysis which utilized conditional random fields models (CRFs). This repository only contains the scripts associated with modeling and analysis but not the necessary data to run the code. This information can be requested from the agencies responsible for the data: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
Custer, C. A., Fischer, D. P., Smith, G., Henning, A., Kepler Schall, M., Shank, M. K., Wertz, T. A., and Wagner, T. Quantifying the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors structuring stream fish communities. Manuscript submitted for publication
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-difference sets in p-subgroups of SL(n,K)
No full textAbstractIn this note, we study relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-relative difference sets in certain p-subgroups of SL(n,K), K=Fq, where q is a prime power
Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
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