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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
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
Folsomides cariocus Mendonça & Neves 2020, sp. nov.
No full textFolsomides cariocus sp. nov. Figs 2 ̅13 Type material. Holotype: Female: mounted on slide Nº 334 CM / MNRJ, Southeast Brazil, City of Rio de Janeiro, 30.V.2019, M.C. de Mendonça, G. Queiroz, T. Silveira, and A.C. Neves coll. Paratypes 1 specimen on slides Nº 225 CM / MNRJ, 18.II.2019; 1 specimen on slide Nº 228a CM / MNRJ, 18.II.2019; 5 specimens on slide Nº 228b CM / MNRJ, 18. II.2019, M.C. de Mendonça, G. Queiroz, T. Silveira, and A.C. Neves coll., at the same locality. All specimens were deposited in the Museu Nacional / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Type locality: Bed with compacted clay soil covered by undergrowth and no litter, where bee Epicharis analis Lepeletier, 1841 (Apidae) make roles for reproduction at Botanical Garden, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Fig. 1). Coordinates: 21°42’37.20’’S; 43°53’46.36’’O. Description. Total holotype body length: 0,84 mm. Paratypes body length: 0,62mm– 0,82 mm. Habitus slender and cylindrical, typical of the genus. Color of body white. Cuticle smooth, with primary granulation. Tergites of thorax and abdomen with 3,3/2,2,2,2,4 S-chaetae and 1,1/0,0,1 S-microchaetae formula. Eyes missing. PAO long and narrow (22 µm) with slight constriction in the anterior middle part and three chaetae on the posterior region. Close to the postantennal organ, one semicircular area without convexity on external part, without pigment and with a finer texture than the surrounding area (Figs. 2) Cephalic chaetae subequal, the anterior and posterior are a little longer (Fig. 3) Antennae slightly shorter than the head. Ratio antennae: head: = 1:1,4. Ant. IV with one subapical small organite on dorsal side, protected by curved chaeta and about eight sensilla (Fig. 4). Ant III with about 18 ordinary chaetae, two S-chaetae S3 and S4 (3µm); two guard S-chaetae S2 and S5 (7 µm) and with one short dorso-lateral sensillum S1 (3µm). Ant. II with about 16 ordinary chaetae, one ventro-external sensillum (5 µm) distally and 2 basal microchaetae, 1 dorsal and 1 ventral (Fig. 5). Ant. I with 11 ordinary chaetae, two subequal sensilla, one thicker (7µm) and one thinner (5 µm) on ventral side and two basal microchaetae, one dorsal and one ventral (Fig. 6). Ratio antennal segments: I: II: III: IV = 1: 1,5: 1,6: 2,7. Labral chaetae formula 2/5,5,4, anterior row inserted on papillae. Maxillary outer lobe with bifurcated palp and three sublobal hairs (Fig. 7). Labium with 3 proximal, 4 basomedial and 5 basolateral chaetae. Labial palps complete. Ventral head with 3+3 post-labial chaetae. Body chaetae smooth and subequal; some longer laterally. Th II with 5+5 axial mesochaetae, 1+1 lateral macrochaetae (32 µm); 2+2 lateral largest sensilla, (11 µm), 1+1 smaller (5 µm) and 1+1 dorsal sensilla (12 µm); Th. III with 3+3 axial mesochaetae, 1+1 lateral macrochaetae (30 µm), 2+2 lateral sensilla (11 µm) and 1+1 dorsal sensilla (12 µm) Thorax without ventral chaetae. Abd. I with 3+3 axial mesochaetae, 1+1 lateral macrochaetae (30 µm) little longer than dorsal chaetae (29 µm), 1+1 lateral sensilla and 1+1 dorsal sensilla (12 µm) (Fig. 8). Abd. II with 3+3 axial mesochaetae, 1+1 lateral macrochaetae (32 µm), 1+1 lateral sensilla situated almost on ventral side (11 µm) and 1+1 dorsal sensilla (12 µm). Abd. III with 3+3 axial mesochaetae, 1+1 lateral macrochaetae (30 µm), 1+1 dorsal sensilla (12 µm), 1+1 lateral sensilla (12 µm) and 1+1 lateral microsensilla (5 µm) both situated on latero-ventral side. Abd. IV with 4+4 axial mesochaetae, 1+1 lateral macrochaetae (31µm) and 1+1 dorsal macrochaetae (29 µm), 1+1 dorsal sensilla (15 µm) and 1+1 lateral sensilla situated on latero-ventral side (12 µm). Dorsal sensilla on Abd I̅IV situated in mid-tergal position and dorsal sensilla on Abd. IV situated behind to the dorsal macrochaeta. Abd. V with 2+2 axial mesochaetae and one unpaired axial mesochaeta, 1+1 lateral macrochaeta (34 µm) and 1+1 dorsal macrochaeta (34 µm), 3+3 dorsal sensilla (20 µm) and 1+1 ventral (18 µm). Abd. VI some macrochaetae (35–40 µm) distributed among few mesochaetae, three unpaired chaetae (a0: 30 µm: m0: 38 µm: p0: 20 µm) (Fig. 9). Appendages. Claws simple, without teeth (18 µm). Unguiculi reduced (4 µm) with a basal lamella and a short apical filament. Tita I, II, III with 20, 20, 21–22 chaetae, Femora I, II, III with 11, 11, 13 chaetae. Trochanter I, II, III with 8, 8, 6 chaetae. Tita I and II with unpaired chaetae B 4/5. Tita III with 7 chaetae in distal whorl with undifferentiated tenent chaetae (Fig. 10, 11). Ventral tube with 3+3 laterodistal and two posterior chaetae. Tenaculum with 3+3 teeth and no chaetae on corpus. Anterior furcal subcoxae with 5 chaetae, one longer than others and posterior subcoxae with 3 chaetae, one longer than others (Fig. 12). Manubrium (60µm) with 7+7 chaetae on posterior side and no chaeta on anterior side. Dens (30µm) with 3+3 anterior chaetae and no chaetae on posterior side. Mucro (10µm) bidentate, separated from dens (Fig.13). Ratio manubrium:dens:mucro as 1:3:6. Females genital plates with 1+1 microchaetae on anterior region. Etymology. The name of the new species cariocus derives from the word ‘’carioca’’ originated from the Tupi indigenous language that means house of white man and actually refers to people born in the city of Rio de Janeiro.Published as part of Mendonça, Maria Cleide De & Neves, Ana Carolina Da Rocha, 2020, New Brazilian species of Folsomides Stach (Collembola: Isotomidae), pp. 443-450 in Zootaxa 4896 (3) on pages 444-445, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/438401
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Adaptive Presentation Supporting Focus and Context
No full textThis paper focuses on how content adaptation is provided in adaptive and adaptable hypermedia systems. Questions that we investigate are: How focus and context can be supported by content-adaptation techniques? Are there any techniques that can be easily generalized to adapt the content of generic Web pages without requiring much effort from the author of the pages? How different adaptation techniques should be compared? We propose a new technique of adaptive presentation of Web content, which derives from fisheye views. This technique applies adaptation by modifying the scale of the visual elements in Web pages. We present an adaptable Web application that applies the technique to a set of real-world pages. We also identify existing adaptation techniques that relate to the proposed technique and examine their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we present and discuss the results of a pilot study which compared our fisheye technique against stretchtext adaptation. The results indicate that our technique is promising while they give valuable feedback about future work
Liveable lelystad, creating a senior friendly urban environment
No full textArchitecture and The Built EnvironmentUrbanismDesign of the Urban Fabric
La representación de Andalucía en la guía Routard-Trotamundos
No full textA travel guide author bases their writing on the notions they have developed of the would-be traveller and therefore chooses appropriate subject matter which will encourage the traveller to a have a new experience. In order to reach their goal, the author selects the linguistic and discourse strategies that will best help to persuade the reader to visit a place. The Routard/Trotamundos guide, which is the object of this present study, aims to reject the linguistic and discourse stereotypes underlying the conventions of the genre. It therefore proposes a fresh and more realistic vision of a destination. Moreover, the study of the Spanish and Italian versions allows us to reflect on the way a place is perceived, both from the viewpoint of the culture which is making the observations, and also from the culture which is being observed (Amossy 1994: 75). Both cultures can use the same words but with different meanings
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