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Automated Serials Handling: The Perfect Future? The Swets Concept For Serials Control At An Affordable Price, Arnoud De Kemp

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In this paper some fundamental aspects of automated serials handling will be covered. Comments are based on a decade of in-house experience of an international periodicals subscription agency.

Can an agent actively contribute to library automation? Our answer is: yes.

Similarities and differences between books (monographs) and serials from the automation point of view: acquisition, cataloguing, inquiry, circulation, administration and management.

What can be automated and what is worthwhile economically?

Can the break-even point be clearly defined?

Should serials be part of an integrated library system or are they better off in an independent system?

Serials Handling In Essen University Library, A. H. Helal

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

It is so much published about serials automation that it is very difficult for librarians to give an up-to-date information and to cover the immense amount of information about the mysteries of serials automation. However, the routines in a manual series department have proved to be similar in all libraries and are equal to all new developments. Only on this base and with deep knowledge of serials procedures it is possible to develop new techniques, i.e. automated procedures that could be feasible and considered. Serials automation is no more a puzzle as documented by this IATUL meeting. A very wide …

A Survey Of Iatul For Serials Automation - Future Prospects, Dennis Shaw, Niel Sly

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Developments in serials automation since the first batch-produced catalogues are briefly surveyed. The reason for early failures are identified and it is shown how the elimination of the problems encountered has been possible through inter-library cooperation together with enhancements in computer systems reliability. It is apparent that many university libraries in North America now have successful serials automation systems in operation.

In order to assess the situation in Europe and the rest of the world a questionnaire was sent to all IATUL members in February 1983 and it elicited a 53% response. The results are tabulated to show the range …

The University Library Hannover And Technische Informationsbibliothek As A Library Of Last Resort - Or As A Library Of First Resort. Some Aspects Of The Operation Of The Largest Technical Library In The Federal Republic Of Germany, H. Drubba

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB) is one of the four central subject libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany. TIB was founded in 1959 and established in Hannover because here a fairly large and comprehensive technical library existed, the present University Library Hannover (UB Hannover).

Both libraries receive among themselves currently about 19.000 serials (among this number many of the Soviet 'Trudy' or 'Sbornik' type series). Not only the literature of technology is collected but also of the basic sciences (mathematics, physics, and chemistry). The serials are collected comprehensively, regardless of language, country of origin, or 'scientific' level, in fact a …

Software Maintenance And Comprehension: Some Empirical Results, C. D. Burch, Tze-Jie Yu, Herbert E. Dunsmore

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Field Evaluation Of An Impact Testing Device For Measuring Base Course Strength, Norman W. Garrick

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

This publication documents the factors that affect the use of the Clegg Impact Tester, for measuring in-situ, the load-carrying capacity of unpaved low-volume roads and to assess the suitability of this device for that purpose and to initiate the development of guidelines for its use.

Engineering For The Alcoholic Driver, James L. Foley Jr.

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Critical Concerns Of Low-Volume Road Agencies In The 1980s, Lynne H. Irwin

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Indiana's Highway Program In The 1980s, Gene K. Hallock

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Billings, Audits, And Payments Of Federally Funded Local Agency Projects, Rick Whitney

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Idoh Research Committee Report, Kaly Trazos

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Future Role Of Federal Government In Highway Development, L. P. Lamm

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Computer Analysis Of X-Band Radar Data, D. J. Knowlton, R. M. Hoffer

LARS Technical Reports

Dual polarized X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data were obtained for a test site in South Carolina containing a variety of forest and agricultural cover types, as well as water and urban areas. The optically correlated images were digitized with a scanning microdensitometer using a 40 µm aperture. Digital registration of the two polarizations was more difficult than anticipated due to geometric variations in the imagery. However, a successful registration was obtained, and a "degraded" 30 m resolution data set was generated in addition to the original 15 m resolution data set.

Computer analysis indicated a statistically significant look-angle effect …

An Investigation Of Recycling Bituminous Pavements, Mang Tia, Franco Luis Castedo, Leonard E. Wood, Akio Iida

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Use Of Peats As Embankment Foundations : Interim Report, Harold Allen Gruen, C. W. Lovell

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Contract Claims For Indiana Highway Construction Projects, Karen Denise Berg

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Priority Setting Of Highway Improvement Projects, Mark Douglas Harness, Kumares C. Sinha

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Design Of Compacted Clay Embankments For Improved Stability And Settlement Performance : Interim Report, Martin J. Goodman, Jean-Lou Chameau, C. W. Lovell

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Indiana State Highway Reciprocity Study, Kumares C. Sinha, Graham S. Toft, Virgil L. Anderson, Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf, Kang Hu

JTRP Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Feature Selection Methodologies Using Simulated Thematic Mapper Data, M. E. Dean, R. M. Hoffer

LARS Technical Reports

This study investigated computer classification performances for forest and other cover types using Thematic Mapper Simulator (TMS) data collected by NASA's NSOOl scanner. Specifically, results based on the use of a common feature selection measure -- transformed divergence (TD) -- were compared to those based on a principal component transformation for the purpose of evaluating the capabilities of each technique to define: (1) the optimum dimensionality for data sets of this type, and (2) the relative significance of the various wavelength bands with respect to their ability to discriminate among the various cover classes. Expected classification performances as indicated by …

A Training Guide For Pavement Maintenance Personnel, Herpicc

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

These Guidelines have been prepared as a reference for highway maintenance personnel responsible for patching pavements and are intended as a reference for the patching crew. The Guidelines are not intended to be a detailed reference describing the successes and failures of techniques and materials used by various agencies to construct pavement patches. The patching techniques and materials presented in these Guidelines are those which have been developed by research and successfully used by various agencies to patch highway pavements under various climatic or weather conditions.

Effects Of Myocardial Infarction On Catheter Defibrillation Threshold, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Because the automatic implantable defibrillator may be used in patients having ischemic heart disease, it is important to know whether myocardial ischemia changes the threshold for ventricular defibrillation under experimental conditions simulating automatic internal defibrillation. We determined changes in ventricular defibrillation threshold following coronary occlusion, using an electrode catheter designed for use with an automatic implantable defibrillator. Acute myocardial ischemia was produced without thoracotomy in 10 dogs (experimental group) by embolization with a plastic bead injected via a catheter into the left coronary artery. A control group of 4 dogs had only saline injected into the artery. Defibrillation threshold was …

Improved Oxygen Delivery During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation With Interposed Abdominal Compressions, William D. Voorhees, Mark J. Niebauer, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

The ability of a new modification of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to deliver oxygen to tissues was evaluated. The method utilizes standard CPR techniques with the addition of manual abdominal compressions (100 mm Hg) interposed between chest compressions, and is termed interposed abdominal compression-CPR (IAC-CPR). Oxygen delivery was measured by a spirometer in a closed circuit designed to permit positive-pressure ventilation synchronized with mechanical chest compression. Ventricular fibrillation was induced electrically in 10 anesthetized dogs. In each dog, trials of IAC-CPR and standard CPR were alternated every five minutes during a 30-minute period. Arterial and central venous blood pressures, oxygen consumption, …

Interface Issues In A Software Parts Technology, John R. Rice, Herbert D. Schwetman

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Dynamic Computational Geometry, Mikhail J. Atallah

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The String-To-String Correction Problem With Block Moves, Walter F. Tichy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Transparent Integrated Local And Distributed Environment (Tilde) Project Overview, Douglas E. Comer

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The Calibration Of Landsat Mss Data As An Analysis Tool, L. A. Bartolucci, S. M. Davis

LARS Technical Reports

The primary aim of an analysis of Landsat data is to obtain as much useful and reliable information as possible about the various earth-surface materials present in a scene. To assist the analyst in accomplishing this objective, quantitative data analysis techniques have been developed and successfully applied in computer-aided mapping, inventorying, and monitoring of earth resources. To increase the effectiveness of these techniques, the analyst must have a thorough understanding of the spectral behavior of earth-surface features, the radiometric characteristics of the digital Landsat MSS data, and the fundamental concepts supporting each numerical analysis function used.

The purpose of this …

A Matching Problem In The Plane, Mikhail J. Atallah

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

A Linear Time Algorithm For The Hausdorff Distance Between Convex Polygons, Mikhail J. Atallah

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.