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Beyond Circulation Statistics: Patterns Of Book Use By Undergraduate Students In An Academic Library, Jamshid Beheshti
Beyond Circulation Statistics: Patterns Of Book Use By Undergraduate Students In An Academic Library, Jamshid Beheshti
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Librarians have used 'use' and 'user' studies as management techniques for improving and ensuring effective provision of information to the users. Many of these studies equate circulation statistics with the use of documents. The book-charge data are merely a representative of finding something of interest in the documents, and may not constitute 'use'. The primary focus of this research study is to investigate and measure the use of the documents by a specific group of users. Users are defined as the undergraduate students in two academic institutions and documents are the books that are borrowed by the students from the …
Total Electron Content During Auroral Conditions, Richard John Niciejewski
Total Electron Content During Auroral Conditions, Richard John Niciejewski
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Coordinated spectrophotometric and ionospheric electron content measurements were conducted during a variety of auroral conditions at Churchill, Manitoba for a total of 14 clear nights in November and December, 1984. Ground based narrow angle filter photometers measured the temporal history of 4278 and 6300 A emissions for a {dollar}2\sp\circ{dollar} wide, {dollar}100\sp\circ{dollar} long are containing the line of sight path to the polar orbiting HILAT satellite. Optical observations were begun 45 minutes prior to the satellite transit, at one half degree resolution along the long axis of the arc, with an average temporal resolution of seven seconds for each half degree …
The Underreporting Of Suicide In Canada, 1950--1982: An Exploration Of The Adequacy Of Official Statistics For Epidemiologic Purposes, Mark Robert Speechley
The Underreporting Of Suicide In Canada, 1950--1982: An Exploration Of The Adequacy Of Official Statistics For Epidemiologic Purposes, Mark Robert Speechley
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This study addresses the issue of the underreporting of suicide in Canadian vital statistics, and specifically asks whether the degree of underreporting can be assumed to be even across levels of commonly studied sociodemographic variables, across time, and among the ten provinces.;The analysis involves a series of comparisons between cause-specific accident and suicide rates and the same rates with deaths of undetermined origin added, over time. Data pertaining to these latter deaths have been collected in Canada since 1969; research in other jurisdictions has demonstrated that most of these deaths could be considered misclassified suicides for research purposes in psychiatric …
A Study Of Oseen Flow Using Integral Conditions, Serpil Kocabiyik
A Study Of Oseen Flow Using Integral Conditions, Serpil Kocabiyik
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The primary objective of this work is to analyze the steady two-dimensional flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past a conformally-mappable cylinder in an unbounded field. The main concern is the correct satisfaction of the boundary conditions at large distances from the cylinder. It is shown that the steady-state asymmetrical flow problem needs careful examination, particularly with regard to the satisfaction of these conditions. A general method is developed to solve this class of problem, under the assumption that flow is governed by the Oseen linearized equations of motion. The method is based on satisfaction of the proper conditioning for …
Some Studies Of Interactions At Biological Surfaces, Donald John Mciver
Some Studies Of Interactions At Biological Surfaces, Donald John Mciver
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Interactions between biological surfaces are central events in a wide variety of biological processes, including ligand-receptor binding, adsorption of molecules from suspension onto interfaces, and adhesive interactions between whole cells or subcellular particles. Despite the chemical diversity of these reactions--for example, the wide range of ligand structures and binding behaviour--it is believed that the underlying physicochemical forces do not differ between all of these surface phenomena.;In this study, an approach based on classical equilibrium capillarity has been adapted to estimate the magnitude of the macroscopically observable resultant of these surface forces (the surface affinity or work of adhesion) between several …
An Evaluation Of A Community Based Mental Health Course In Indonesia, Makmuri Muchlas
An Evaluation Of A Community Based Mental Health Course In Indonesia, Makmuri Muchlas
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The present study was an evaluation of the impact of a community-based mental health course offered by the Perwitasari Mental Health Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A positive impact could not be assumed, in part because course participants are predominantly married women, and mental health education, with its Western orientation, can to some extent be in conflict with the traditional role of women in Javanese society.;A modified cross-over design was adopted for the evaluation. Three hundred married women recruited for the study were allocated at random to comparison groups of equal size. One group took the course of nine weekly two and …
Surviving Childhood Cancer: The Psychosocial Impact On Parents, Kathy Nixon Speechley
Surviving Childhood Cancer: The Psychosocial Impact On Parents, Kathy Nixon Speechley
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Childhood cancer is no longer viewed as inevitably fatal but rather as a chronic life-threatening illness. Child cancer patients and their families are now faced with longer phases of treatment and an inability to predict the future. Beyond a general recognition of the potential hardships they must endure, we know very little about the psychosocial consequences for the families of children who are surviving cancer.;The present study was designed to assess whether the presence of chronic strain, as experienced by families of child cancer survivors, is associated with (a) increased psychological distress, as measured by levels of depression and anxiety …
The Effects Of Problem Drinking On The Utilization Of Physicians In Canadian Family Practice, Brian Robert Rush
The Effects Of Problem Drinking On The Utilization Of Physicians In Canadian Family Practice, Brian Robert Rush
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This study was concerned with the extent to which the abuse of alcoholic beverages is associated with the frequency of use of physicians in Canadian family practice and the type of morbidity presented to the doctor. The study group was composed of 108 problem drinkers identified in two family medical practices in London, Ontario. The utilization of their family physician was compared to a matched control group over a two-year period. Utilization by the spouses and children living with the problem drinkers was also examined. Data were obtained retrospectively from a problem oriented, patient classification system and other aspects of …
The Intrinsic Resistance Of V79 Multicell Spheroids To Mitoxantrone, Adriamycin And Menogaril, Tewfik Jermyn Bichay
The Intrinsic Resistance Of V79 Multicell Spheroids To Mitoxantrone, Adriamycin And Menogaril, Tewfik Jermyn Bichay
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Cancer chemotherapy usually fails to completely cure solid tumors due to surviving cells often repopulating the tumor or metastasizing to other sites. It is not clear whether tumor cells are apparently resistant due to a restricted drug penetration into the tumor mass, or whether the resistance is intrinsic being due to the tumor microenvironment.;We have used an in vitro model of tumor nodules, the multicell spheroid, to determine the apparent and intrinsic resistances of cells growing in contact in a tumor-like environment to two anthracyclines: adriamycin, and menogaril, and the anthracenedione mitoxantrone. A combination of HPLC, radiolabel, and flow cytometric …
The British Homogeneity Thesis And Nationalism In Scotland And Wales, John Francis Mcgarry
The British Homogeneity Thesis And Nationalism In Scotland And Wales, John Francis Mcgarry
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In the mid-1960s, British political scientists claimed that their society was free of significant regional division. Their analysis was based on the theory of political and social diffusion originally put forward by Marx. However, electoral success for nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales in the late 1960s cast doubt on this theory. In response, two theories were put forward ascribing this nationalist phenomenon to economic causes. Michael Hechter argued that nationalism in Scotland and Wales was due to resentment caused by the existence of economic disparities between both countries and England. Tom Nairn, however, claimed that Scottish nationalism was a …
The Lotka Hypothesis And Bibliometric Methodology, Paul Travis Nicholls
The Lotka Hypothesis And Bibliometric Methodology, Paul Travis Nicholls
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This study is an empirical examination of Lotka's law and the bibliometric methodology associated with it. A number of previous investigators have contributed to the empirical validation and generalization of Lotka's hypothesis; however, these studies are largely incomparable and inconclusive, owing to substantial differences in sampling, measurement, parameter estimation, testing, and even basic interpretation of the model. These data are subjected to a consistent secondary analysis here; newly collected data are also analysed, to expand the database of previous results. There are two main objectives in this study: First, to thoroughly and critically review the literature bearing on the statistical …
A Bibliometric Analysis Of Terminological And Conceptual Change In Sociology And Economics: With Application To The Design Of Dynamic Thesaural Systems (Volumes I And Ii), Lorna Katherine Rees-Potter
A Bibliometric Analysis Of Terminological And Conceptual Change In Sociology And Economics: With Application To The Design Of Dynamic Thesaural Systems (Volumes I And Ii), Lorna Katherine Rees-Potter
Digitized Theses
Thesauri have been used in the library and information science field to provide a standard descriptor Language for indexers or searchers to use in an information storage and retrieval system. One difficulty has been the maintenance and updating of thesauri considering that terms used to describe concepts in books and papers change over time and vary between users. This study investigated a mechanism by which thesauri can be updated and maintained using citation, co-citation analysis and citation context analysis. It has been demonstrated that citation analysis reflects concepts in a specialty, and reflects term use in a specialty, following the …
Characterization Of Anti-Dna Autoantibody Responses From Lymphoid Cells Of Normal Human Origin, Ewa Cairns
Characterization Of Anti-Dna Autoantibody Responses From Lymphoid Cells Of Normal Human Origin, Ewa Cairns
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Spontaneous and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) induced anti-nucleic acid antibodies were assayed in cultures of tonsillar and peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) of healthy donors as well as in PBLs from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. IgM antibodies (Abs) to single stranded DNA (ssDNA) were detected frequently in PWM cultures of both SLE PBLs (88%) and normal tonsillar lymphocytes (78%). IgM and IgG anti-double stranded DNA Abs were found at high frequencies of 73% and 59% respectively with PWM stimulated SLE PBLs.;Spontaneous production of IgM Abs to ssDNA was identical (44%) in normal tonsillar lymphocytes and PBLs of SLE patients. Human:human hybridomas …