797 research outputs found
Virtual Interviewing and Onboarding
No full textAs a follow-up to recent AALL webinars on virtual interviewing from applicant and employer perspectives, as well as virtual onboarding, this coffee chat will focus on different strategies and approaches that have benefited or hindered law librarians when conducting remote interviews or onboarding. Join us for an informal conversation, co-moderated by Michelle Hook Dewey, Elizabeth Osborne, Allison C. Reeve Davis, and TJ Striepe, on how to best conduct these vital functions of law libraries
Virtual Interviewing and Onboarding
No full textAs a follow-up to recent AALL webinars on virtual interviewing from applicant and employer perspectives, as well as virtual onboarding, this coffee chat will focus on different strategies and approaches that have benefited or hindered law librarians when conducting remote interviews or onboarding. Join us for an informal conversation, co-moderated by Michelle Hook Dewey, Elizabeth Osborne, Allison C. Reeve Davis, and TJ Striepe, on how to best conduct these vital functions of law libraries
Allison Joseph, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAllison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here, as well as Soul Train and In Every Seam. Her honors include the 1992 Women Poets Series Competition Award, the 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry for 1996, and a 1997 Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council. Her interests include contemporary American poetry - especially the work of women and minorities - popular culture, literary magazine publishing, and the teaching of creative writing. Currently she is an associate professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where she serves as editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer creative writing conference for high school students. She is on the Board of Directors of The Associated Writing Programs
A one-year study of the diurnal cycle of meteorology, clouds and radiation in the West African Sahel region
No full textThe diurnal cycles of meteorological and radiation variables are analysed during the wet and dry seasons over the Sahel region of West Africa during 2006 using surface data collected by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) programme’s Mobile Facility, satellite radiation measurements from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument aboard Meteosat 8, and reanalysis products from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The meteorological analysis builds upon past studies of the diurnal cycle in the region by incorporating diurnal cycles of lower tropospheric wind profiles, thermodynamic profiles, integrated water vapour and liquid water measurements, and cloud radar measurements of frequency and location. These meteorological measurements are complemented by 3 h measurements of the diurnal cycles of the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) and surface short-wave (SW) and long-wave (LW) radiative fluxes and cloud radiative effects (CREs), and the atmospheric radiative flux divergence (RFD) and atmospheric CREs. Cirrus cloudiness during the dry season is shown to peak in coverage in the afternoon, while convective clouds during the wet season are shown to peak near dawn and have an afternoon minimum related to the rise of the lifting condensation level into the Saharan Air Layer. The LW and SW RFDs and CREs exhibit diurnal cycles during both seasons, but there is a relatively small difference in the LW cycles during the two seasons (10 − 30Wm−2 depending on the variable and time of day). Small differences in the TOA CREs during the two seasons are overwhelmed by large differences in the surface SW CREs, which exceed 100Wm−2. A significant surface SW CRE during the wet season combined with a negligible TOA SW CRE produces a diurnal cycle in the atmospheric CRE that is modulated primarily by the SW surface CRE, peaks at midday at ∼ 150Wm−2, and varies widely from day to day.Peer reviewe
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Campus Open Access Funds: Experiences of the KU “One University” Open Access Author Fund
No full textINTRODUCTION: In the summer of 2012, librarians from the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses of the University of Kansas (KU) proposed the creation of a KU “One University” Open Access Fund (OA Author Fund) to support open access publishing for its faculty, students, and staff. KU is a major public research and teaching institution of 28,000 students and 2,600 faculty on five campuses (Lawrence, Kansas City, Overland Park, Wichita, and Salina) (http://ku.edu/about), and has been a leader in open access initiatives for many years. A working group of librarians came together to create and implement a pilot project to explore the administration and impact of an open access publishing fund on KU authors, and the fund was launched in October 2012.
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT: This report documents the group’s experience in developing eligibility criteria and administering the OA Fund. Here we provide insight into our efforts implementing the project, funding results, and plans for continuation. We share the results of the first two years of the OA Author Fund pilot and the lessons learned about open access fund administration.
NEXT STEPS: At the close of the pilot in May 2014, the OA fund review team solicited feedback from a faculty advisory group regarding grant recipients, allocation of funds by discipline, and the application process. Based on our findings, we revised eligibility criteria to create a more equitable funding opportunity for the second pilot. The fund was re-launched using these new criteria in Fall of 2014
Responses of young-of-the-year bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, exposed to contaminants from an urban estuary
No full textCertain populations of young-of-the-year (YOY) bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, reside in contaminated estuaries of the mid-Atlantic bight during periods of rapid growth and development. YOY bluefish from the Tuckerton, NJ area of Great Bay (TK) were fed daily in a laboratory with common prey fish, menhaden and mummichog, from two sites: TK (reference) or Hackensack River (HR) (contaminated). Bluefish were also collected from the HR and TK site for analysis. HR-fed and field-caught bluefish and HR prey fish and stomach contents contained significantly elevated concentrations of PCBs, DDTs, and mercury. HR bluefish had reduced growth, feeding, and activity. tPCB and tDDT concentrations in prey in the stomachs of HR bluefish were higher than those in the field-caught specimens. Prey with higher body burdens may become slower and easier to capture. If bluefish are preferentially foraging on such prey, greater amounts of contaminants can be trophically transferred. PCB congeners accumulated at different concentrations creating PCB fingerprints which correlated with feeding ecology of the fish. PCB fingerprints in the HR-fed bluefish were nearly identical to each other and closest to that of the mummichog, their sole prey during the last month of the feeding experiment. PCB fingerprints of field-caught bluefish were similar to menhaden, the dominant prey in HR field bluefish stomachs. In contaminated marine systems PCB fingerprints can be utilized to establish trophic levels and possibly prey preference in individual fish. In addition to altered behavior and growth, the HR-fed and field bluefish had significantly enlarged, irregular thyroid follicles, lined with thickened epithelial cells compared to the TK fish. The mean concentration of dopamine metabolites and the dopaminergic activity levels were significantly lower in HR field fish than in TK field. In contrast the mean concentrations of dopamine and serotonin and their metabolites and norepinephrine were significantly greater in the HR-fed bluefish compared the TK-fed. Overall the exposed fish displayed neurological and hormonal disruptions that may be responsible for their altered behavior and growth. In conclusion, the altered growth, feeding, activity and physiology of YOY bluefish exposed to these contaminated regimes may have detrimental effects on migration fitness and recruitment success.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Allison C. Candelm
The Jewish Setting of the Epistle of James
No full textMany older commentators understood the Epistle of James to address itself to Jews of the diaspora, whether Christian or not. Although few modern scholars have seriously reckoned with this possibility, much is to be said for the thesis. It makes sense for example of important features of the epistle that otherwise would remain unclear, such as its dearth of explicit Christology, its seeming lack of distinctive Christian sentiments, and its thoroughly Jewish orientation. The author was a Jewish Christian still hoping for a Christian place within the Jewish synagogue; he wished for irenic relations with those who did not confess Jesus to be the Messiah. He was thus intentionally quiescent about much for apologetical purposes, a strategy with clear parallels in other ancient Christian literature.
Die Joodse agtergrond van die Jakobusbrief. Die Jakobusbrief is deur baie van die ouer kommentaarskrywers gesien as ’n selfverklarende geskrif aan die Jode van die diaspora – hetsy Christene of nie-Christene. Hoewel van die moderne navorsers heelhartig daarmee saamstem, bestaan daar heelwat twyfel oor hierdie siening. Dit maak egter sin ten opsigte van sekere belangrike beskrywings van die brief wat andersins onverklaarbaar sou wees soos die gebrek aan uitdruklike Christologie, die skynbare gebrek aan kenmerkende Christelike sentimente en die grondige Joodse oriëntering daarvan. Die skrywer was ’n Joodse Christen wat steeds gehoop het vir erkenning binne die Joodse sinagoge en versoenende verhoudings met diegene wat nie vir Jesus as die Messias erken het nie, verlang het. Dus was hy met voorbedagde rade baie stil oor baie dinge om apologetiese redes – ’n strategie wat duidelike parallelle met ander antieke Christelike literatuur toon
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
Beyond Lesson Studies and Design Experiments: Using theoretical tools in practice and finding out how they work
No full textThis paper aims to illustrate how fruitful insights into the link between school teaching practice and student learning outcomes can be theoretically grounded by the variation theory from the field of phenomenography; and from this framework demonstrate how a 'pedagogy of awareness' can be implemented in the classroom. In this study, five teachers and 162 students at Primary Four level of school education in Hong Kong participated and the practice of the 'learning study' was adopted. By comparing the results of pre- and posttests, a significant gain was observed in the students learning outcomes.
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