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Cataloging Theory Meets The Real World, Sarah H. Theimer Oct 2012

Cataloging Theory Meets The Real World, Sarah H. Theimer

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Desecrating Scriptures, James W. Watts Jan 2009

Desecrating Scriptures, James W. Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

Desecrations of books of scripture appear regularly in media coverage of religious and political conflicts. Twenty-first century news media have reported scripture desecrations in various Western, Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian countries. Though political tensions also arise from the desecration of sacred sites, objects, and persons, books of scripture have emerged as particularly potent objects of contestation. That is because, as a (very) old form of media themselves, scriptures encapsulate the religious experiences of many people who are used to handling the physical book with veneration. News of such a book’s desecration thus inverts a common religious experience and …


Associative Retrieval Processes In Episodic Memory, Michael J. Kahana, Marc W. Howard, Sean M. Polyn Jan 2008

Associative Retrieval Processes In Episodic Memory, Michael J. Kahana, Marc W. Howard, Sean M. Polyn

Psychology - All Scholarship

Association and context constitute two of the central ideas in the history of episodic memory research. Following a brief discussion of the history of these ideas, we review data that demonstrate the complementary roles of temporal contiguity and semantic relatedness in determining the order in which subjects recall lists of items and the timing of their successive recalls. These analyses reveal that temporal contiguity effects persist over very long time scales, a result that challenges traditional psychological and neuroscientific models of association. The form of the temporal contiguity effect is conserved across all of the major recall tasks and even …


Baznegari Tarikh-E Andishe Dar Dowreh Reza Shah" (A Review Of The Intellectual History Of Reza Shah's, Mehrzad Boroujerdi Feb 2007

Baznegari Tarikh-E Andishe Dar Dowreh Reza Shah" (A Review Of The Intellectual History Of Reza Shah's, Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Political Science - All Scholarship

A Public Lectures by Mehrzad Boroujerdi in Persian, organized by UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. The lecture was held at UCLA's Dodd Hall (121) on Sunday, February 18, 2007.