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Davidsohn Family Collection 1904-1990s
No full textThis collection contains vital records, photographs, restitution documents, and other materials pertaining to the Rothenstein and Davidsohn families, who seemed to have been related through marriage.Friedrich (Fritz) Rothenstein (1895-1973) was the son of Heinrich Rothenstein (d. 1911) and Agnes née Mossne. In 1927 he married Marie Cecilie née Landecker ("Cis") (1899-2000), whose parents were Benno Landecker and Bertha née Grünzweig. Their seven-year-old son, Heinrich Peter Benjamin Rothenstein, died in 1936, in Switzerland. Marie and Fritz immigrated to New York from Berlin in the 1930s. Fritz continued working in the import-export business, while Marie went to library school at Columbia University for library school and worked at the New York Public Library, primarily at the Bloomingdale branch.John Davidsohn (1904-1985) was born to Sally Davidsohn (? - 1938) and Toni Davidsohn née Goldschmidt (1877-1941?) in Osterholz-Scharmbeck bei Bremen. In 1936, Davidsohn emigrated to England, and later went to New York. His cousins Edwin Davidson and James M. Davidson (sons of Herman Davidsohn, Sally's brother), were already long-time American citizens and signed an affidavit to help him immigrate. Other cousins include Ernst Davidsohn (d. 1945?) and Johanna Rosendahl, the children of John's uncle Eduard Davidsohn (married to Otillie née Leeser (d. 1939)). In 1942, he married Else née Eichwald (1906-2001).The connection between the two families appears to be that Cecilie Rothenstein's sister, Wilma Goldschmidt, married a younger brother or nephew of Toni Davidsohn's.The materials in this collection have been transferred to the Leo Baeck Institute from the estate law firm of Raymond V.J. Schrag, Esq.Mr. & Mrs. Friedrich Rothenstein (Marie Caecilie "Cis" Landecker) ; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hagen; John and Else (nee Eichwald) Davidsohn ; Brasch & Rothenstein ; Vilma Goldschmidt (sister of Cis Rothenstein).Processeddigitize
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
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Lessons from a challenging system: accurate adsorption free energies at the amino acid/ZnO interface
No full textWe undertake steps to overcome four challenges that have hindered the understanding of ZnO/biomolecule interfaces at the atomic scale; parametrization of a classical force field, ZnO surface termination and amino acid protonation state in methanol, and convergence of enhanced- sampling molecular dynamics simulations. We predict adsorption free energies for histidine, serine, cysteine and tryptophan in remarkable agreement with experimental measurements obtained via a novel indicator-displacement assay. Adsorption is driven by direct surface/amino-acid interactions mediated by terminal hydroxyl groups and stabilized by strongly-structured methanol solvation shells
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
Text-fig. 2. Metatarsal II of different species of Prosantorhinus. a, b. Prosantorhinus douvillei, Montréal-du-Gers, left MT II, a. proximal view, b. lateral view; c, d. Prosantorhinus germanicus, Sandelzhausen, left MT II, c. proximal view, d. lateral view; e, f. Prosantorhinus laubei, Ahníkov, left MT II, e. proximal view, f. lateral view; g. Prosantorhinus aurelianensis, Rothenstein 16, juvenile, right MT II, proximal view. in Revision Of The European Species Of Prosantorhinus Heissig, 1974 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae)
No full textText-fig. 2. Metatarsal II of different species of Prosantorhinus. a, b. Prosantorhinus douvillei, Montréal-du-Gers, left MT II, a. proximal view, b. lateral view; c, d. Prosantorhinus germanicus, Sandelzhausen, left MT II, c. proximal view, d. lateral view; e, f. Prosantorhinus laubei, Ahníkov, left MT II, e. proximal view, f. lateral view; g. Prosantorhinus aurelianensis, Rothenstein 16, juvenile, right MT II, proximal view.Published as part of Heissig, Kurt, 2017, Revision Of The European Species Of Prosantorhinus Heissig, 1974 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae), pp. 236-274 in Fossil Imprint 73 (3-4) on page 241, DOI: 10.2478/iF-2017-0014, http://zenodo.org/record/458633
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