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Victor Vodicka Collection
No full text<p><span class="TextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">The archive relates to the career of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">goldsmith and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">educator</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">Victor </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">Vodicka</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> (19</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">21</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">-19</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">92</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> who built one of the most successful gold and silversmithing courses in post war Australia. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">It is predominately a record of his </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">teaching life at the Royal Melbourne </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">Technical College (now RMIT University). </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">The archive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> includes </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">slides of student work, sketches</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">, typescripts</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">, press clippings, exhibition catalogues</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">, medals, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">documents concerning the syllabus</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> and proposed courses</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">student and staff lists, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">research </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">and reports </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">about contemporaneous </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">art </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">educational </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">ideas,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> and the craft industries</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">records relating to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> the history of goldsmithing and silversmithing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> more generally.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> There are also records relating to various student awards given by local </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW240754365 BCX0">jewellery</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0"> retail</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW240754365 BCX0">ers and manufacturers. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW240754365 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Vaclav Victor Vodicka (1921-1922) was a Czech goldsmith who migrated to Australia in 1950 after the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. He joined the Royal Melbourne Technical College (RMTC) in 1955, and over the succeeding years transformed Gold and Silversmithing into the leading course of its kind in Australia. Vodicka was born in Modray, a suburb of Prague, in the Czech Republic. He graduated in 1941 from Prague Technical College of Applied Arts and Crafts, where he specialised in gold and silver design and manufacture. Then in 1943 he completed a Diploma of Art at the renowned Turnov State School of Jewellery, and by the age of 24, </span><span data-contrast="auto">at the time of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948, he was the Managing Director of the Robert Scholtz Company, a jewellery company. Vodicka fled communist controlled Czechslovakia via Berlin, Germany in late 1949 and then migrated to Australia as a displaced person</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">arriving in April 1950. </span><span data-contrast="auto">After a short stay at Bonegilla migrant camp Vodicka came to Melbourne to work as a silversmith with firms such as Stokes, Phoenix and Albion. </span><span data-contrast="none">In 1955 he was appointed to the position of lecturer in Gold and Silversmithing at RMTC</span><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-contrast="none">by Victor Greenhalgh, the new head of Art and Applied Art</span><span data-contrast="none">. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Vodicka </span><span data-contrast="none">built the most successful and influential gold and silversmith course in post-war Australia. While he had trained as a goldsmith and a jeweller and taught both in his early years at the College he was instrumental in the appointment of expert German jeweller Wolf Wennrich to oversee the development of the jewellery</span><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-contrast="none">stream</span><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-contrast="none">which soon became the most popular part of the gold and silversmithing programme. Throughout the 1960s Vodicka expanded the courses, introducing more specialised subjects: design in 1963 and history of gold and silversmithing in 1964. At the same time, he undertook additional training himself and obtained a Tertiary Technical Teachers Certificate in 1963. In 1967 he was awarded</span><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-contrast="none">Fellowship Diploma in Art - Industrial Design - Gold and Silversmithing. Always interested in the pedagogical implications of his work in 1972 Vodicka published a report into craft industries in Australia and in 1973 was admitted as a member of the Australian College of Education. He retired from RMIT in 1983 and in 1987 was awarded an AM for services to the craft of gold and silversmithing. Victor Vodicka</span><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-contrast="none">died in Melbourne in 1992.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"> </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Collection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> organized </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">into 15 boxes</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">:</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Box</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">es</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> 1 </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">to 7 </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">holds slides </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">and photographs of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">student work,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> and students;</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Box 3 contains photographs of W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">olfram </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW18364278 BCX0">Wennich’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> work</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Bo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">xes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> 9 and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> 10 holds files relating to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">art education</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> and the development of the course at </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">MTC</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">, </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Box 11 holds information regarding the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">broader </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">history of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">oldsmithing</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Box 13 holds records relating to student prizes, and special awards, exhibitions, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">and course brochures; </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0"> Box 15 holds objects made by Victor </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">Vodicka</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW18364278 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18364278 BCX0">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW18364278 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p>
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Assessment of biotransformation of the arene moiety of styrene in volunteers and occupationally exposed workers
No full textStyrene is a chemical widely used in the plastic industry. The main pathway of styrene metabolism in humans occurs via the oxidation to styrene-7,8-oxide (7,8-SO). The aim of this study was the investigation of a minor metabolic route, involving the oxidation of the arene moiety of styrene, by means of the characterization of the conjugated urinary metabolites of 4-vinylphenol (4-VP). 4-vinylphenol-glucuronide (4-VP-G) and -sulfate (4-VP-S), were measured by liquid chromatography electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) from 174 workers belonging to three cohorts recruited in European countries and from 26 volunteers exposed to 50 mg/m(3) (11.8 ppm) of styrene for 8 h. The 4-VP conjugates represented about 0.5-1% of the total excretion of styrene metabolites. Both 4-VP-G and 4-VP-S are eliminated with a monophasic kinetic, the glucuronide being excreted faster (half-time, 2.2 +/- 0.2 h) than the sulfate (half-time 9.7 +/- 1.7 h). The urinary 4-VP was found to be significantly correlated both with airborne styrene (r = 0.607, p < 0.001) and the sum of MA and PGA (r = 0.903, p < 0.001 in "end-of-shift" samples). Apart from 7,8-SO, 4-VP is the only styrene metabolite not shared with ethylbenzene and therefore thought to be a highly specific marker of styrene exposure. However, a measurable background excretion of 4-VP was also found in all urine samples from controls not occupationally exposed to styrene. This background appears to be highly correlated to smoking (p < 0.001) and possibly also to the dietary intake of styrene or 4-VP. Consequently, the use of 4-VP as a biomarker of styrene exposure is recommended for exposures exceeding 1 ppm
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
DNA and chromosomal damage in medical workers exposed to anaesthetic gases assessed by the lymphocyte cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) assay. A critical review
No full textThe lymphocyte cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) assay has been applied in hundreds of in vivo biomonitoring studies of humans exposed either environmentally or occupationally to genotoxic chemicals. However, there is an emerging need to re-evaluate the use of MN and other biomarkers within the lymphocyte CBMN cytome assay as quantitative indicators of exposure to main classes of chemical genotoxins. The main aim of the present report is to systematically review published studies investigating the use of the lymphocyte CBMN assay to determine DNA damage in subjects exposed to anaesthetic gases. We also compared performance of the CBMN assay with other DNA damage assays employed and identified strengths and weaknesses of the published studies. We have retrieved 11 studies, published between 1996 and 2013, reporting MN associated with occupational exposures (operating room personnel). The individual job categories were often described (anaesthesiologists, technicians, radiologists) among cases, as well as duration of exposure. All studies reported the compounds present at the workplace and, in some instances, the exposure levels were measured. Controls were usually recruited among personnel at the hospital not exposed to anaesthetics or they were healthy unexposed subjects from general population. The number of investigated subjects, due to the character of the occupation, was relatively smaller than those investigated in other occupational monitoring settings. Overall, the majority of the studies were age- and gender- matched (or investigated only males or females) while less attention was given to lifestyle confounders. Appropriate measurement of exposure, available in approximately half of the studies only, was compromised by the lack of the personal dosimetry-based determinations. In all studies, higher MN frequencies were observed in exposed individuals. The meta-analysis of mean MN frequency of combined studies confirmed this tendency (log mean ratio = 0.56 [0.34-0.77]; P = 3.51 × 10−7). Similar differences between the exposed and controls were also observed for other biomarkers
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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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