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International librarianship. An electronic resources pathfinder. A term paper for the References Services course at the Master in Library Science Program, Department of Library and Information Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (USA)
No full textThis library guide or pathfinder is made as a term paper for the References Services course at the Master in Library Science Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; Associate Professor of the course Dr. Lorna Peterson, April 23, 2001. It lists sources in electronic format to introduce undergraduate and graduate students of the State University of New York at Buffalo to the research and study of Library and Information Science with an international scope. Consult with a reference librarian at the Undergraduate Library (UGL) for additional assistance
The social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach: a paramount concept for research in library and information science (LIS)
No full textThis paper analyses the social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach to be used by theorists and practitioners of library and information science (LIS). This concept emerged as part of the theoretical framework employed by the author in his doctoral thesis (Muela-Meza, 2010): An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK. This concept is complemented from philosophy (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1976a), and the natural sciences (Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992), and it served the author to understand better the bigger dimensions of the underlying issues behind social classes and human conflicts. It also served to understand better the contradictions between people (e.g. LIS users with contradictory and mutually exclusive information needs to be provided by libraries and other institutions of information recorded in documents), and how these intensify when these are interrelated with the social class they belong to (Muela-Meza, 2007). This paper also criticises some competing views whose proponents by pretending fallaciously and deceitfully to deny the presence of social class divides in society, such as those rhetorical ploys of post-modernism that propose capitalist-class-driven ideologues of “community cohesion” based on “social capital” (Putnam, 1999). It shows evidence of how those followers (e.g. Pateman, 2006; Contreras Contreras, 2004; Bryson, Usherwood and Proctor, 2003) of capitalist-class ideologues, by doing so they aligned their discourse to that of dominance hierarchies and hegemony against working class people, in LIS and other sciences, and the humanities. It also criticises the postmodern pseudoscience because it pretends to undermine the logical rationality fundamental in LIS and all other sciences. It recommends that LIS theorists and practitioners employ the social class struggles concept as configured here in order to understand better contradictions, conflicts, and struggles within LIS theory and practice, and also to search for broader epistemological aims such as justice and wisdom (Fleissner and Hofkirchner, 1998), concealed by the capitalist or bourgeois and middle classes for their benefit against working class
Boletín Información Documental Vol.1 No. 2 del Centro de Investigaciones en Información Documental (CINFODOC) de los profesores Zapopan Martín Muela Meza y José Antonio Torres Reyes, adscritos a la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico)
No full textSecond number of the first volume of the Documental Information Bulletin of the Center of Research of Information Recorded in Documents of assistant professors Zapopan Martin Muela Meza and Jose Antonio Torres Reyes who teach librarianship at college level at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Nuevo Leon Autonomous University, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Meza Hemming 1939
No full textMeza Hemming, 1939 Hemming (1939) established this genus, with Hesperia meza Hewitson, 1877 as its type species, because Gastrochaeta Holland, 1896 which had been extensively used for this and similar skippers (Evans 1937) was an unavailable homonym. This genus was discussed in Cock & Congdon (2013), as most of its members are dicotyledon feeders. Only the type species has been recorded to feed on Poaceae and this, together with differences in the genitalia and markings, indicated the genus will need to be divided, and only the type species, Meza meza will be left in the genus (Larsen 2005, T.B. Larsen pers. comm. 2012, Larsen in prep.). Meza meza (Figure 21) is found through West Africa, east to Uganda and south to Angola (Evans 1937, Larsen 2005). Vuattoux (1999) notes that the caterpillar of this species eats Paspalum conjugatum (La chenille de cette espèce consomme la Graminée Paspalum conjugatum). Vuattoux is not explicit about the number of records, but MJWC identified just one specimen (Vuattoux ref. 10 86). We have no other information on the biology of this species.Published as part of Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, T. Colin E., 2014, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders, pp. 301-354 in Zootaxa 3872 (4) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25186
Productivity in economies with financial frictions: facts and a theory
No full textWe document and account for two facts regarding the relation between international interest rates and total factor productivity (TFP) in a sample of developing countries. First, there is a negative correlation between both variables at quarterly frequency. Second, the share of agricultural labor and interest rates are positively correlated, whereas the share of agricultural labor and TFP are negatively correlated. Manufacturing labor shows opposite correlations. These relationships are particularly strong in the aftermath of financial crises. We then construct a model in which the presence of costly intermediation can produce such relationships. We show that, after increases in interest rates, a requirement to intermediate factors of production in high productivity sectors, like manufacturing, causes resources to leave these sectors. Resources end up in low productivity sectors, like agriculture, where intermediation is cheaper. This lowers aggregate productivity. We show that the channel we identify is quantitatively important in the case of Korea after the 1997 financial crisis.<br/
Total factor productivity and labor reallocation: the case of the 1997 Korea crisis
No full textDetrended Total Factor Productivity (TFP), net of changes in capital utilization, fell by 3.3% after the Korean 1997 financial crisis. Detrended real GDP per working age person fell by 11.9%. We construct a two-sector small open economy model that can account for 30.0% of the fall in TFP in response to a sudden stop of capital inflows and an increase in international interest rates. Empirically, the fall in TFP follows a reallocation of labor from the more productive manufacturing sector to the less productive agriculture and public sectors. The model has a consumption sector and an investment sector. The reallocation of labor in the data corresponds to a movement from the investment sector to the consumption sector in the model. In the model, a sudden stop raises the costs of imports, which are used more heavily as an input in the investment sector. Also investment falls sharply in response to the increase in international interest rates. We show further that a fall in export demand and working capital requirements can both amplify the effects of the sudden stop. The model accounts for 41.0% of the fall in GDP.<br/
Meza Hemming 1939
No full text<i>Meza</i> Hemming, 1939 <p> This genus is paraphyletic, and probably only the type species will be left in <i>Meza</i> once the species that do not belong have been removed (Larsen, pers. comm. 2012). Vuattoux (1999) has reared <i>M. meza</i> from <i>Paspalum conjugatum</i> once. Larsen (2005) questioned this, as the other members of the genus as then defined are dicotyledon feeders. However, the reported disparate food plants together with differences in genitalia and wing pattern support the break up of the genus (Larsen, pers. comm. 2012). Vuattoux’s food plant record should be accepted until further information suggests otherwise.</p> <p> Vuattoux (1999) has reared three other species of <i>Meza</i> in Côte d’Ivoire: <i>M. mabea</i> (Holland) from <i>Dalbergia heudelotii</i>, <i>D. oblongifolia</i> and <i>Baphia pubescens</i> (Fabaceae), <i>M. indusiata</i> (Mabille) five times from <i>Hugonia platysepala</i> (Linaceae), and <i>M. cybeutes volta</i> (Miller) from <i>Dichapetalum madagascariense</i> (= <i>D. guineense</i>) (Dichapetalaceae). Larsen (2005) repeats these records, but points out that the first is referable to <i>M. leucophaea</i> (Holland), based on a voucher specimen.</p>Published as part of <i>Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, Colin E., 2013, Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 3724 (1)</i> on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3724.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5267833">http://zenodo.org/record/5267833</a>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
GOMEZ MEZA, José
No full textLetter from Plutarco Elías Calles to Prefect of Arizpe, Sonora Ignacio E. Elías, requesting the dismissal of the local Judge Gómez Meza, due to arbitrary actions, injustice and abuses he has committed. (Documents donated by Ana Silvia Laborín Abascal, Director of the Historical Archive of the State of Sonora). / Carta de PEC al Prefecto de Arizpe, Son., Ignacio E. Elías, solicitando la remoción del Juez local Gómez Meza, por las arbitrariedades, injusticias y abusos que ha cometido. (Donado por Ana Silvia Laborín Abascal, Directora del Archivo Histórico del Estado de Sonora)
Researchers who have cited or commented the publications of Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza, Dr. in Information Studies by the University of Sheffield, 2010. A bibliography. Version 0002 (53 citations as of today)
No full textThis bibliography has the purpose to track the author’s real impact of his academic work among his colleagues worldwide with the ancient ideal of simply communicate, make communion, make linguistic expressions in common to all other human beings, rather of and beyond of the capitalistic, bourgeois and pay-per-everything establishment’s “impact factor” which only covers pay-per-access journals such as, for example, those only indexed at ISI, or Scopus, and the like. If you have cited me or commented my work, even if it is printed on paper and not electronically, please contact me (zapopanmuela[at]gmail [dot] com) to add your work on my bibliography, I really want to read your work and value your efforts. Cheers
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