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No full textNew Roads for Patron-Driven E-books:Collection Development and Technical Services Implications of a Patron-Driven Acquisitions Pilot at Rutgers
No full textCollection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, while some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional technical services workflows are required, and selectors must modify the selection process to give more choice to the user. Rutgers University librarians have adopted an innovative new technical services workflow and collection-development model to manage a successful, patron-driven acquisitions project for e-books in the fields of math and computer science.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship on 13/12/2011, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1941126X.2011.627043
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
Get PDFThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
Evaluating Satellite Precipitation Error Propagation in Runoff Simulations of Mountainous Basins
No full textThis study investigates the error characteristics of six quasi-global satellite precipitation products and their
error propagation in flow simulations for a range of mountainous basin scales (255–6967 km2) and two different
periods (May–August and September–November) in northeast Italy. Statistics describing the systematic
and random error, the temporal similarity, and error ratios between precipitation and runoff are presented. Overall, strong over-/underestimation associated with the near-real-time 3B42/Climate Prediction Center morphing technique (CMORPH) products is shown. Results suggest positive correlation between the systematic error and basin elevation. Performance evaluation of flow simulations yields a higher degree of consistency for the moderate to large basin scales and the May–August period. Gauge adjustment for the different satellite products is shown to moderate their error magnitude and increase their correlation with
reference precipitation and streamflow simulations. Moreover, ratios of precipitation to streamflow simulation error metrics show dependencies in terms of magnitude and variability. Random error and temporal dissimilarity are shown to reduce from basin-average rainfall to the streamflow simulations, while the systematic error exhibits no clear pattern in the rainfall–runoff transformation
Intensity–duration–frequency curves from remote sensing rainfall estimates: comparing satellite and weather radar over the eastern Mediterranean
Get PDFIntensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves are widely used to quantify the
probability of occurrence of rainfall extremes. The usual rain gauge-based
approach provides accurate curves for a specific location, but uncertainties
arise when ungauged regions are examined or catchment-scale information is
required. Remote sensing rainfall records, e.g. from weather radars and
satellites, are recently becoming available, providing high-resolution
estimates at regional or even global scales; their uncertainty and
implications on water resources applications urge to be investigated. This
study compares IDF curves from radar and satellite (CMORPH) estimates over
the eastern Mediterranean (covering Mediterranean, semiarid, and arid
climates) and quantifies the uncertainty related to their limited record on
varying climates. We show that radar identifies thicker-tailed distributions
than satellite, in particular for short durations, and that the tail of the
distributions depends on the spatial and temporal aggregation scales. The
spatial correlation between radar IDF and satellite IDF is as high as 0.7 for
2–5-year return period and decreases with longer return periods, especially
for short durations. The uncertainty related to the use of short records is
important when the record length is comparable to the return period
( ∼ 50, ∼ 100, and ∼ 150 % for Mediterranean, semiarid,
and arid climates, respectively). The agreement between IDF curves derived
from different sensors on Mediterranean and, to a good extent, semiarid
climates, demonstrates the potential of remote sensing datasets and instils
confidence on their quantitative use for ungauged areas of the Earth
A Design Study of Visualizing Historical Book Movement
No full textVisualization of data pertaining to the distribution and use of incunabula collected in the international collaborative database Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI), to answer specific historical querie
Review of Mayer, R.; Knothe, F.; Shuo, H. (2022) Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection
No full textIn this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong (September 2021-January 2022), the authors give us a profound insight into the phenomenon of reverse painting on glass and mirror paintings, with a particular focus on those from the Mei Lin Collection assembled by the Sinologist, author, and translator Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Haitang Mayer-Liem. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, this is one of the world's most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Modern and Contemporary Studie
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