88 research outputs found
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments
No full textThis paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by HTTP proxy, cache, gateway and web service concepts, a design for a scalable and reliable infrastructure that aims at satisfying these requirements is presented. Moreover it is shown how various applications can exploit the services included in the proposed infrastructure. The paper concludes by discussing the current status of several prototype implementations
A bacterium-based contact assay for evaluating the quality of solid samples - Results from an international ring-test
No full textAbstract not availableCatarina R. Marques, Najoi El-Azhari, Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Pascal Pandard, Camille Meline, Alice L. Petre, Suzanne Eckert, Jürgen Zipperle, Martin Váňa, Stanislav Maly, Lucie Šindelářová, Anna Slavíková, Amemorih, Jakub Hofman, Anu Kumari, Hai Doan, Mike McLaughlin, Elizabeth Richter, Jörg Römbk
Fallout and Environmental Radionuclides for Estimation of Recent Environmental Changes in Maly Azau Glacier Area (Central Caucasus)
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of the abstract published by the Organization. © Author(s) 2019. CC Attribution 4.0 license.Over the last decades, glaciers of Central Caucasus are undergoing intensive retreat in response to recent climate
change. Fallout radionuclides (FRN’s) and environmental radionuclides (ERN’s) both are useful instruments in
studies of soils and sediments on glacial landforms that can help to define the direction of the sedimentation
process and relative age of moraines as well as the lithological difference between different landforms.
The study area is situated on the South-Western slope of the Elbrus mountain - between the tongues of Maly Azau
and Bolshoy Azau glaciers near Maly Azau proglacial lake.Peer reviewe
Complete mitochondrial genome of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russia) and its phylogenetic assessment
No full textWe present a complete sequence and an annotation of the mitochondrial genome of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) found in 2012 on Maly Lyakhovsky Island (North-Eastern Siberia, Russia). The genome was 16,851 bp long and contained 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, and 2 rRNA genes. It was AT reach (61.3%) with A = 32.9%, T = 28.4%, C = 25.3%, and G = 13.4%. © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
The Peculiarities of the Dramatization of “The Queen of Spades” by A.S. Pushkin in a Stage Production of Maly Theatre in 2014.
No full textViktorija Zorina A.Puškina «Pīķa dāmas» inscenējuma iezīmes Mazā teātra 2014. gada iestudējumā: bakalaura darbs. – Rīga, 2018. – 50. lpp Bakalaura darbs ir veltīts prozas teksta inscenējuma dramaturģijā īpatnību atklāšanai, ņemot par piemēru A. Puškina «pīķa dāmas» 2014. gada Mazā teātra iestudējumu (režisors A. Žitinkins) Balstoties uz A.Puškina daiļdarbu pētnieku rakstītajiem pētījumiem literatūrzinātnē, darba autors veic tēlu sastatāmo analīzi starp A.Puškina stāstu un tā inscenējumu, kā arī atklāj neverbālo līdzekļu nozīmi izrādes jēgas formējumā. Darba autors nonāk pie secinājuma, ka režisora modifikācijas sekmē pilnāku atainojumu katra no inscenējuma tēliem. Pētījums var ieinteresēt filologus, kuri nodarbojās ar prozas teksta inscenējuma un A.Puškina prozas problēmām.The Peculiarities of the Dramatization of “The Queen of Spades” by A.S. Pushkin in a Stage Production of Maly Theatre in 2014: BA paper. – Riga, 2018 - 50 pages The BA paper is devoted to the revealing of peculiarities of the dramatization of the prosaic text into dramatic on the example of “The Queen of Spades” by A.S. Pushkin in a stage production of Maly Theatre in 2014 (stage director A. Zhitinkin). Relying on the literary works of the scholars researching works of Pushkin, the author of the paper conducts a comparative analysis of the characters of Pushkin’s novel and its dramatization, as well as detects the importance of non-verbal means of the performance in the formation of its meaning. The author of the paper concludes that directing modifications promote the more complete disclosure of every character of the stage production. The research might be interesing for philologists and humanists who deal with the problems of the dramatization of Puskin’s prosaic texts and prose
Production Nozzle-Less Electrospinning Nanofiber Technology
No full textAbstractThe theoretical background and technical capabilities of the free liquid surface (nozzle-less) electrospinnig process is described. The process is the basis of both laboratory and industrial production machines known as NanospiderTM and developed by Elmarco s.r.o. Technical capabilities of the machines (productivity, nanofiber layer metrics, and quality) are described in detail.
Comparison with competing/complementary technologies is given, e.g. nozzle electrospinning, nano-meltblown, and islets-in-the sea. Application fields for nanofiber materials produced by various methods are discussed. Consistency of the technology performance and production capabilities are demonstrated using an example of polyamide nanofiber air filter media.</jats:p
Dance, Play, Fight or Run for a Faith. Sport Language as the Old Testament biblical Metaphor
No full textPočevši s predstavljanjem osobitosti ljudskog izražavanja riječima, odnosno jezikom, autor pokušava naglasiti funkciju metafore u jeziku općenito, a zatim to isto primjenjuje na jezik Starog zavjeta. Nakon što je izložio neke osobitosti semitskog načina razmišljanja i posebnosti povijesno-spasenjskoga značenja starozavjetnog jezika, autor se osvrće na kulturološku pozadinu Starog zavjeta kao konteksta u kojemu se stvaraju metafore. Jedan od posebnih, često zanemarenih konteksta Starog zavjeta je onaj igre i sporta. Biblijski čovjek dok pleše i igra se slavi Gospodina, ali također i trči i bori se za vjeru i s vjerom na životnom borilištu da bi se opravdao i postojano hodio u Zakonu Gospodnjem te izrazio vlastitu vjeru. Uz pomoć biblijskih navoda o navedenim temama, autor pokušava objasniti kako su ples i igra, ali i oskudan sportski jezik, u Starom zavjetu korišteni ne samo kao autentičan način izražavanja odnosa s Gospodinom, već i metafora koju biblijski autor razborito usvaja da bi opisao svoju vjeru.Every page of the Scripture is amazing and surprising. Sometimes one can understand what the sacred author intended, sometimes not. This principle is easier to apply within the pages of the New Testament, something that does not happen with texts from the Old Testament. A main reason seems to be a large distance from the culture, grammar and concepts of the OT. In other words, the language of the OT is more difficult than the language of the NT. In this article, author tries to illuminate some particularities of the Old Testament language, presenting in first instance few elements of the common language. Later, the author underlines functions of the language, particularly one of its important element, a metaphor. According to the author, a metaphor is something that fills the missing gaps in the language and it has to be contextualized in social and religious ambient. Since a Semitic way of thought and salvifichistorical nuances of the Old Testament language are particular, the author turns his research toward the cultural background of the OT as the context in which the metaphors are shaped. Among various contexts in the Old Testament, the one reserves special attention, and is that one of the game and sport, mostly overlooked. While dances and plays, a biblical man celebrates the Lord, but he also runs and fights for/with faith in the arena of his life just to affirm that he firmly walks in Lords Law and thus expresses his faith. Supporting his research with biblical citations, the author tries to explain how the Old Testament writers (and believers) used sport language not only as an authentic way of faith expression but also as a metaphor to explain their faith
Bishops and Presbyters and Their Ministries in the Holy Scripture
No full textSvoje razmišljanje o biskupskoj i prezbiterskoj službi u Svetom pismu autor započinje razlaganjem o terminološkoj distinkciji pojmova prezbitera, biskupa i svećenika. Prema svetopisamskim tekstovima one su pojmovno udaljenije od onoga što suvremeni čovjek misli kada govori o tim službama ili, bolje rečeno, osobama. Iz detaljne terminološke analize proizlazi kako u Svetom pismu postoji razlika između riječi prezbiter i svećenik. Na temelju dobivenih rezultata, prva bi označavala osobu koja se brine za profano, dok bi se druga odnosila na osobu koja se brine za svete stvari. Biskup je, s druge strane, osoba koja nadgleda zajednicu. Na temelju biblijskih tekstova autor u drugome dijelu rada iznosi svjedočanstva o utemeljenju i razvoju svećeničke, prezbiterske i biskupske službe pokušavajući obrazložiti prethodno utemeljenu terminološku razliku, kao i uočljivu promjenu situacije u novozavjetno vrijeme. Činjenica koja je stalna jest da su službe svećenika, prezbitera i biskupa funkcionalno i pojmovno, barem prema onomu što donose tekstovi Svetoga pisma, postavile temelje za daljnja razmišljanja i teološka utemeljenja tih službi.It is quite difficult to speak about bishops and presbyters and their ministries in the Holy Scripture since biblical terminology explains their functions quite differently than they are known today. According to this, the author primarily emphasizes the terminology and some scriptural evidences of ministries in question. The author explains words such as presbyter, bishop (episkopos) and priest, showing first how the biblical word for presbyter (=elder) diverges from the biblical word priest (kōhēn; hiereus). Similarly, the biblical word episkopos (bishop) does not have the same modern meaning as it has today, where it means the third order of ordained minister, while in the Bible it means a supervisor or a protector of the community. It is possible to say, the author concludes, that the offices of bishop (episkopos) and presbyter (=elder) should be considered in the sense of duty, while the priest (kōhēn; hiereus) deals with sacred things. Furthermore, basing the evidence on biblical texts, the author gives some clarification about the development of the offices of priests, presbyters, and bishops, both in the Old and in the New Testament. The scriptural data reveals that these offices have emerged and evolved in response to a variety of needs and leadership in the community. In conclusion, the author asserts that it is quite difficult to establish a clear terminological and functional link between biblical terms and duties of priests-presbyters-bishops and their actual offices. At least, according to the Scripture, it could be said that a priest, priest-presbyter, or a bishop-presbyter should be considered as offices that tend more to sacred and spiritual things rather than temporal things. Their ministries (as known today) are mostly linked with successive theological reflections, when they became more ordered, uniformed, and regulated
RoMEO Studies 5: IPR issues for OAI Data and Service Providers
No full textThis paper is the fifth in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It reports the results of two surveys of OAI Data Providers (DPs) and Service Providers (SPs) with regards to the rights issues they face. It finds that very few DPs have rights agreements with depositing authors and that there is no standard approach to the creation of rights metadata. The paper considers the rights protection afforded individual and collections of metadata records under UK Law and contrasts this with DP and SP’s views on the rights status of metadata and how they wish to protect it. The majority of DP and SPs believe that a standard way of describing both the rights status of documents and of metadata would be usefu
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