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El-Ahraf, Amer, J. V. Tacal, Mohamed Sobih, Magda Amin, W. Lawrence und B. W. Wilcke. „Prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in dogs and human beings in San Bernardino County, California“. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 198, Nr. 4 (15.02.1991): 631–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2460/javma.1991.198.04.631.
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Summary Fecal specimens from 200 stray dogs impounded at the San Bernardino City and County animal shelters were screened for Cryptosporidium sp oocysts, using the auramine-rhodamine fluorescent staining procedure. The University of California, Los Angeles acid-fast stain was used for confirmation. Only 4 (2%) dogs were passing cryptosporidial oocysts. Likewise, stool specimens from 664 people were submitted to the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health Laboratory for routine parasitologic examination and were screened for Cryptosporidium sp. Cryptosporidial oocysts were detected in 20 human fecal specimens (3.01%). On the basis of these findings, it appears that the human and canine populations of San Bernardino County are at low risk for development of cryptosporidiosis at this time.
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Srivastava, Lorie, Michael Hand, John Kim, José J. Sánchez, Frank Lupi, Cloé Garnache, Raymond J. Drapek und James F. Quinn. „How Will Climate Change Affect the Provision and Value of Water from Public Lands in Southern California Through the 21st Century?“ Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 49, Nr. 1 (April 2020): 117–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.3.
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AbstractWe estimate the ecosystem service value of water supplied by the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California under climate change projections through the 21st century. We couple water flow projections from a dynamic vegetation model with an economic demand model for residential water originating from the San Bernardino National Forest. Application of the method demonstrates how estimates of consumer welfare changes due to variation in water supply from public lands in Southern California can inform policy and land management decisions. Results suggest variations in welfare changes over time due to alterations in the projected water supply surpluses, shifting demand limited by water supply shortages or surpluses, and price increases. Results are sensitive to future climate projections—in some cases large decreases in welfare due to supply shortages—and to assumptions about the demand model.
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Dabbour, Katherine Strober. „Applying Active Learning Methods to the Design of Library Instruction for a Freshman Seminar“. College & Research Libraries 58, Nr. 4 (01.07.1997): 299–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.58.4.299.
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Active learning methods were employed in designing library instruction for an experimental freshman seminar at California State University-San Bernardino. Rather than rely on the traditional lecture/demonstration format, the centerpiece of the ninety-minute “one-shot” sessions was a small-group, self-guided exercise focusing on the library’s online system. As a prelude to the hands-on exercise, students participated in class discussions on the importance of information literacy. Opportunities for individual instruction also were provided. Student, librarian, and faculty evaluations of the sessions were favorable.
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Blumenberg, Evelyn, Miriam Pinski, Lilly A. Nhan und May C. Wang. „Regional differences in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food sufficiency in California, April–July 2020: implications for food programmes and policies“. Public Health Nutrition 24, Nr. 11 (30.04.2021): 3442–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980021001889.
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AbstractObjective:To evaluate regional differences in factors associated with food insufficiency during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic among three major metropolitan regions in California, a state with historically low participation rates in the Supplementation Nutrition Assistance Program, the nation’s largest food assistance programme.Design:Analysis of cross-sectional data from phase 1 (23 April–21 July 2020) of the US Census Household Pulse Survey, a weekly national online survey.Setting:California, and three Californian metropolitan statistical areas (MSA), including San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim and Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario MSA.Participants:Adults aged 18 years and older living in households.Results:Among the three metropolitan areas, food insufficiency rates were lowest in the San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley MSA. Measures of disadvantage (e.g., having low-income, being unemployed, recent loss of employment income and pre-pandemic food insufficiency) were widely associated with household food insufficiency. However, disadvantaged households in the San Francisco Bay Area, the area with the lowest poverty and unemployment rates, were more likely to be food insufficient compared with those in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim and Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario MSA.Conclusions:Food insufficiency risk among disadvantaged households differed by region. To be effective, governmental response to food insufficiency must address the varied local circumstances that contribute to these disparities.
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Agustín Lacruz, Carmen, und Manuel Clavero Galofré. „Bernardino Pardo y su señora Dolores Gil, fotógrafos“. Revista General de Información y Documentación 29, Nr. 2 (12.12.2019): 467–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rgid.66978.
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Hasta hace poco tiempo, los nombres y apellidos de las fotógrafas eran ignorados o desconocidos en los textos de historia de la fotografía en España. No obstante, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, una parte significativa de las mujeres que se dedicaron a la actividad fotográfica formaban pareja profesional con sus maridos, también fotógrafos. Los matrimonios más conocidos fueron los de Mr. Fernando y Anaïs Napoleón; Ludovisi y Señora; Poujade y señora; José Villalba y Señora; F. Prosperi y Señora y en menor medida, la pareja formada por Dolores Gil y Bernardino Pardo, que recorrieron el noreste de España, como fotógrafos ambulantes desde mediados de la década de 1860, hasta que se asentaron y abrieron un estudio en la ciudad de Zaragoza, en 1871 en el populoso barrio de San Pablo. Este artículo analiza la actividad fotográfica de Dolores Gil y de Bernardino Pardo e identifica y describe las características de su obra. El estudio se ha llevado a cabo mediante la revisión sistemática de las fuentes de información bibliográficas localizadas hasta la fecha, así como mediante el análisis de nuevas fuentes hemerográficas y archivísticas. Entre los principales resultados alcanzados destaca la elaboración de su biografía, la contextualización de su trayectoria profesional y el inventariado de su obra.
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Spier, R. A., und J. M. Thompson. „Developing a Database of Pollen Images“. Microscopy and Microanalysis 7, S2 (August 2001): 462–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1431927600028385.
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A database cataloguing SEM micrographs of pollen specimens can be useful for several purposes. The primary reason would be for educational purposes. The images could be used to study pollen structure, as well as the relationship between pollen and pollinator species. Identification of pollen can be of potential use for medical purposes (such as combating allergic reactions to pollen), and for comparison in a forensic investigation. At the Biology Department of California State University, San Bernardino an ongoing project is underway to construct a database of pollen samples, focusing on local species. The micrographs are created at the Electron Microscope and Images Analysis Center located in the School of Natural Sciences at Cal State San Bernardino using a Hitachi S-2700 SEM. The database will be made available to the public and updated periodically via the Biology Department website (http://biology.csusb.edu).All specimens were first fixated by placing the pollen grains in a syringe filter and injecting a 2% formaldehyde/4% glutaraldehyde formula and incubating overnight.
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Batech, Michael, Serena Tonstad, Jayakaran S. Job, Richard Chinnock, Bryan Oshiro, T. Allen Merritt, Gretchen Page und Pramil N. Singh. „Estimating the Impact of Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: The San Bernardino County Experience“. Journal of Community Health 38, Nr. 5 (04.04.2013): 838–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-013-9687-8.
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Park, John C. „A Preliminary Pilot Study Of The College Exodus Health Professions Program In San Bernardino County, CA“. Journal of Scholarly Engagement 5, Nr. 2 (30.11.2022): 56–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.9743/jse.2022.5.2.7.
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The College Exodus Health Professions (CEHP) program is a multidisciplinary health professions (HP) enrichment pipeline program for African American (AA) students in San Bernardino County, California. The main components of the program are the following: academic enrichment and hands-on exploration into the HP, such as nursing, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, allied health, and public health. Participants include 48 predominantly AA students from 7th to 12th grades. Results of the pilot study show promising improvements in the awareness and knowledge of the HP after the participation in the program as well as increased academic motivation, social support, and academic and career goals. Policy implications and further developments are discussed.
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Goldstein, Susan. „The Daniel E. Koshland San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library“. California History 96, Nr. 1 (2019): 49–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.1.49.
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Scrivner, Craig W., und Donald V. Helmberger. „Preliminary work on an early warning and rapid response program for moderate earthquakes“. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 85, Nr. 4 (01.08.1995): 1257–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/bssa0850041257.
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Abstract Warning of imminent ground shaking due to a large earthquake would be useful to a variety of agencies. This kind of ground-motion prediction is possible in southern California for events with magnitude less than 6, where path effects dominate. The 28 June 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake is presented as a test case for this concept. A single-station inversion of the record from the Pasadena station 20 km SW of the epicenter produces reasonable source parameters for the event. With these source parameters and a library of Green's functions calculated for an average southern California crustal model, ground motions can be predicted throughout the region. In particular, since the peak displacement for the Sierra Madre event occurs at Pasadena before ground motion begins at a station near the San Andreas Fault in San Bernardino, ground motions near the San Andreas Fault can be calculated before the seismic energy has propagated into the area. Considering this scenario in the reverse direction, records from a station near an earthquake on the San Andreas Fault could be used to predict ground motions in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Broadband, high-dynamic-range seismic instruments produce high-quality records for events over a wide magnitude range. Thus, the development of a warning system can be approached in stages, starting with small events. With path effects determined by modeling moderate-size events, work can begin on developing distributed fault models to predict ground motions of great earthquakes.
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Boyle, Eileen. „The Wangenheim Room of the San Diego Public Library“. Special Collections 4, Nr. 1 (14.12.1988): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j300v04n01_08.
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Holzhauser, Elizabeth, Patti Herring und Susanne Montgomery. „Integrating Academia with Community-Based Health Practices: The San Bernardino County Community-Based Pediatric Vision Outreach System“. Public Health Reports 117, Nr. 2 (März 2002): 197–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/phr/117.2.197.
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Goldberg, Susan. „Fund Raising, Friend Raising: The San Antonio Public Library Foundation“. Bottom Line 7, Nr. 1 (Januar 1993): 37–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb025405.
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Moore, Thomas L. „Point: The Future of the Book in the Public Library“. North Carolina Libraries 62, Nr. 1 (20.01.2009): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v62i1.148.
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There appear to be two different trends of thought with regard to books in the public library today. One trend says that books in paper will cease to exist; they will become museum pieces in a relatively short time, as electronic format materials will replace them. The other trend is that the traditional book will continue to exist as a viable, and the preferred, format for conveyanceof ideas and information. These opposing viewpoints are often represented as being mutually exclusive and at war with each other. In some instances the combat is real. One need only read one article about the controversy at the San Francisco Public Library (“Nicholson Baker is a Luddite”; “The leaders of the San Francisco public library are book burners”) to understand that not only are the two belief systems at odds, but also that they really don’t like each other and occasionally dip to “ad hominum” arguments to prove their points.
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Arthur, Kristen N., Synnøve F. Knutsen, Rhonda Spencer-Hwang, David Shavlik und Susanne Montgomery. „Health-Predictive Social-Environmental Stressors and Social Buffers Are Place Based: A Multilevel Example From San Bernardino Communities“. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health 10 (Januar 2019): 215013271983562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2150132719835627.
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Significant evidence demonstrates the powerful effects social determinants have on health-related perceptions, behaviors, and health outcomes. However, these factors are often studied out of context, despite the acknowledgement that social determinants of health are place based. This research aimed to demonstrate that health-related perceptions are dependent on where one lives. Via a community-based participatory study, participants were randomly selected from 3 residential regions varying distances from a freight railyard (nearest n = 300, middle n = 338, farthest n = 327), all mostly low-income, predominately Latino areas. Interview-administered surveys with adults were collected by bilingual trained community members (87% response) in English/Spanish. Adjusted-logistic regression models assessed residential region as a predictor of stressors (perceptions of community safety, community noise disturbance, health care access, food insecurity) and buffers (3 neighborhood cohesion variables), after adjusting for household income, race/ethnicity, gender, and age. Each region experienced a unique amalgam of stressors and buffers. In general, the region closest to the railyard experienced more stressors (odds ratio [OR] = 1.58; 95% CI 1.12-2.20) and less buffers (OR = 0.69; 95% CI 0.49-0.96) than the region furthest from the railyard. More than half of participants in each region reported 2 or more stressors and 2 or more buffers. In this seemingly homogenous study population, place remained important in spite of traditionally used socioeconomic factors, such as household income and race/ethnicity. Social determinants of health should be studied with regard to their environmental context, which will require interdisciplinary collaboration to improve multilevel research methods. Including the study of social buffers will also promote sustainable, positive change to reduce health disparities.
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Prasad, Pannaga. „Reference Services to Senior Groups in the San Antonio Public Library“. Reference Librarian 50, Nr. 1 (08.01.2009): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02763870802546456.
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Boydstun, Amber E., Jessica T. Feezell und Rebecca A. Glazier. „In the wake of a terrorist attack, do Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims decline?“ Research & Politics 5, Nr. 4 (Oktober 2018): 205316801880639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053168018806391.
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When a terrorist attack occurs, a natural response may be increased public concern about terrorism. But when a self-described Muslim perpetrates a terrorist attack, do negative attitudes toward Muslims also increase? If so, is this effect conditional on the nature of people’s past personal experiences with Muslims? We present natural experiment data based on a 2015 web-based survey of 2105 non-Muslims in the US, a survey that happened to span the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November and San Bernardino on 2 December. We thus test Americans’ feelings toward Muslims immediately before and after both an international and a domestic terrorist attack. We find that, although the attacks significantly affected Americans’ concerns about radicalism both in the US and abroad, they did not negatively affect Americans’ thermometer feelings toward Muslims in the aggregate—a null finding conditioned only slightly by the nature of past personal experiences with Muslims.
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Sherman, Shawna. „Effie Lee Morris: Advocate for Children, Advocate for Self-Care“. Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 6, Nr. 1 (01.03.2022): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/libraries.6.1.0127.
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ABSTRACT Building on the work of her foremothers, Effie Lee Morris modeled professionalism and human-centered children’s librarianship in a practice concerned with accurate representation in books for children of all cultures and abilities. She put this practice to work at the Cleveland Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), where she eventually resigned, calling the system racist. Her work in San Francisco is analyzed in staff meeting minutes and government documents using a Critical Race Theory lens to show how she pushed against white supremacist culture by advocating for children of color, while also encountering the emotional toll this type of work can cause. Reflecting on her time at SFPL, Morris gives advice for young librarians to practice self-care.
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Nanyonjo, Rebecca D., Susanne B. Montgomery, Naomi Modeste und Edward Fujimoto. „A Secondary Analysis of Race/Ethnicity and other Maternal Factors Affecting Adverse Birth Outcomes in San Bernardino County“. Maternal and Child Health Journal 12, Nr. 4 (10.08.2007): 435–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-007-0260-x.
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Apte, Uday M., und Florence M. Mason. „Analysis and improvement of delivery operations at the San Francisco Public Library“. Journal of Operations Management 24, Nr. 4 (30.09.2005): 325–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2004.10.017.
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Finnemore, Martha, und Duncan B. Hollis. „Constructing Norms for Global Cybersecurity“. American Journal of International Law 110, Nr. 3 (Juli 2016): 425–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002930000016894.
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On February 16, 2016, a U.S. court ordered Apple to circumvent the security features of an iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists who committed the San Bernardino shootings. Apple refused. It argued that breaking encryption for one phone could not be done without undermining the security of encryption more generally. It made a public appeal for “everyone to step back and consider the implications” of having a “back door” key to unlock any phone—which governments (and others) could deploy to track users or access their data. The U.S. government eventually withdrew its suit after the F.B.I. hired an outside party to access the phone. But the incident sparked a wide-ranging debate over the appropriate standards of behavior for companies like Apple and for their customers in constructing and using information and communication technologies (ICTs). That debate, in turn, is part of a much larger conversation. Essential as the Internet is, “rules of the road” for cyberspace are often unclear and have become the focus of serious conflicts.
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Chen, Sally. „Negotiating the Public/Private in Racial and Gender Essentialist Advocacy at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library“. Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research 8 (22.11.2019): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.56421/ujslcbr.v8i0.13.
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Public libraries are a wonder—they are institutions that invite you to linger at no expense. Often, they are built as if to anticipate your needs before they even register. Although not part of their job description, community branch librarians frequently take on the roles of local educators, resource advocates, and cultural navigators. The San Francisco Chinatown Branch librarians embodied this invisible history of labor, particularly through their advocacy to revitalize the physical space of the library in the 1970s-1990s. I deploy methods of close-reading with specific theoretical frameworks on community formation and culture to analyze the librarians’ work in the service of their public branch libraries. I analyze print material and local ephemera: coalition circulations, programming and exhibition flyers, pamphlets and surveys, and newspaper and magazine articles from the San Francisco Public Library archives. I argue that libraries are not only physical community centers, but critical centralized hubs of community knowledge and culture that librarians cultivate, that are vital to combatting and reshaping narratives of who and what Asians and Asian Americans are, against dominant forms ascribed by the nation-state.
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Felde, Kitty, und Pamela Rogers. „Now Playing . . .: Using Podcasts and Kidcasts in the Library“. Children and Libraries 15, Nr. 2 (15.06.2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.15n2.09.
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Podcasts created for kids, and often by kids, are quickly growing in number, scope, and popularity. The list of recommended podcasts on Zooglobble, a kids’ music and audio review site, has grown to include almost eighty. And podcasts for kids, also called “kidcasts,” are not just for earphones and home speakers.Podcasts for kids are taking the stage. Ear Snacks, hosted by professional “kindie” (kid-indie) musicians, recently performed at the San Francisco Public Library and at San Francisco’s Recess Urban Recreation Center. Book Club for Kids tapes live shows at book festivals all across the eastern seaboard. The Secret Diaries of Tara Tremendous, superhero adventure stories produced by Wonkybot Studios, was even turned into a Broadway musical.
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Guillén Armendáriz, Fernando. „Archivo del antiguo convento franciscano de la ciudad de Valladolid, de la extinta Provincia Franciscana observante de La Concepción (1245 – 1835)“. Archivo Ibero-Americano 82, Nr. 295 (Dezember 2022): 533–622. http://dx.doi.org/10.48030/aia.v82i295.260.
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This article presents to the public the archive of the important Franciscan convent located in the city of Valladolid, next to the Plaza Mayor, which was the provincial curia of the now defunct observant Franciscan province of La Concepción. This convent is an expression of the reformed Franciscan life in a purely urban environment such as a big city. The work begins with some materials of provincial concern since they were distributed to all the convents of the province and later passed to the archives of the convents of San Bernardino de Herrera de Pisuerga (province of Palencia) and San Francisco de Cuéllar (province of Segovia). Finally, the convent of Valladolid is addressed with the following epigraphs: general instruments, privileges of the Holy See, royal privileges, heritage and administration, the various lawsuits that the convent sustained with various religious and civil personalities, nuns, and finishes with a miscellaneous set of materials that were in the said archive, but that have little or nothing to do with the life of the convent. The archive confirms the variety in the development of the observant reform in Spain since it does not adhere to a single model (small convents with a hermit character, of great austerity, far from urban centers and great preaching) but rather to those developed in purely urban contexts. Collection no. 5, dedicated to the foundations of masses, will be published in a later issue of this journal due to its length.
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Urada, Lianne A., Melanie J. Nicholls und Stephen R. Faille. „Homelessness at the San Diego Central Library: Assessing the Potential Role of Social Workers“. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, Nr. 14 (11.07.2022): 8449. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148449.
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Nationwide, public libraries are experiencing an increase in “on-premise” opioid overdoses and other issues (e.g., suicide attempts) affecting unstably housed library users. The public library presents a unique opportunity to access an otherwise hidden population. In partnership with the San Diego Central Library, researchers led focus groups, in-depth interviews, and surveys with 63 library patrons experiencing homelessness or housing instability (n = 49) and library staff (n = 14) (January–June 2019). Using a consensus organizing framework and mixed methods approach, the researchers conducted in-depth interviews exploring the library’s strengths and opportunities for patrons experiencing homelessness, the barriers to meeting their aspirations, and whether having a social worker at the library or other policy changes in government or the library could help. Specifically, participants answered inquiries about the opportunities for the library to address substance use and human trafficking. In brief surveys, library patrons and staff provided views on the patrons’ educational needs, library staff’s training needs, and changes needed in government or library policies. Results revealed the desire of the library patrons (69%) and staff (93%) to have a library social worker who could link patrons to housing services, substance use harm reduction or treatment, and address food-insecure youth/families and human trafficking/sexual exploitation. Participants also valued peer advocates with lived homelessness experiences. Over 70% of the unstably housed patrons said they would like library patrons to participate in peer leadership training. Other significant themes were the need for crisis prevention and intervention, connecting patrons to resources and each other, and creating consistent assistance. Libraries urgently need more on-premise support to address patrons’ pressing housing, health, and mental health needs.
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Cowart, Caitlin. „Amplify Your Impact: Marketing Libraries Is a Team Effort“. Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, Nr. 4 (21.06.2017): 240. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56.4.240.
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While some libraries struggle with the whole idea of embracing marketing, and others do it piecemeal off the side of their desks, San Antonio Public Library has dedicated an entire team to their marketing and communications. Read on to see how this unique arrangement works, and for some of the innovative ideas these non-librarians have brought to the library world.—Editors
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Clark, Sarah. „Book Review: Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities“. Reference & User Services Quarterly 55, Nr. 3 (24.03.2016): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n3.245.
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Dr. Steve Albrecht is a renowned security consultant with experience working with and consulting for libraries that are implementing or improving security plans and procedures. He is also a retired San Diego Police reserve sergeant. Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities is a practical book dealing with security and customer service in an era in which workplace violence, mental illness, child neglect, and homelessness are realities for all libraries, regardless of their size or location. Filled with engaging anecdotes and forthright advice, this volume is both readable and useful. Although Albrecht emphasizes issues that are especially common in public libraries, this book provides information beneficial to those working in any kind of library, archive, or information setting that is open to the public.
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Su, Tianyun, Patrick Mullens, Jennifer Thieme, Alfonso Melgoza, Robert Real und Michelle Q. Brown. „Deployment and Fact Analysis of the In2Care® Mosquito Trap, A Novel Tool for Controlling Invasive Aedes Species“. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 36, Nr. 3 (01.09.2020): 167–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2987/20-6929.1.
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ABSTRACT During April–October 2019, the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District (Ontario, CA) deployed large numbers of In2Care® mosquito traps in a preliminary study to evaluate the trap's potential effectiveness at controlling invasive Aedes aegypti (L.) and Ae. albopictus (Skuse) in 6 cities of San Bernardino County, CA. The trap was used to attract ovipositing females, expose them to the juvenile hormone mimic pyriproxyfen and the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana, and autodisseminate pyriproxyfen to other water sources prior to their death from fungal infection. The trap attracted Ae. aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus, with the latter species predominating at much higher larval densities in the trap reservoirs. Field-collected larvae and pupae from the trap reservoirs showed complete adult emergence inhibition. Furthermore, the trap reservoirs retained high levels of residual larvicidal, pupicidal, and emergence inhibition activity after they were retrieved from the field, as indicated by laboratory bioassays against laboratory colony of Cx. quinquefasciatus. Results of this study support more detailed quantitative local evaluations on trap efficacy to measure the impact of the In2Care mosquito trap on wild invasive Aedes and Culex populations in future mosquito control efforts.
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Allie, Terry-Fritsch. „Florentine Convent as Practiced Place: Cosimo de’Medici, Fra Angelico, and the Public Library of San Marco“. Medieval Encounters 18, Nr. 2-3 (2012): 230–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12342109.
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Abstract By approaching the Observant Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence as a “practiced place,” this article considers the secular users of the convent’s library as mobile spectators that necessarily navigated the cloister and dormitory and, in so doing, recovers, for the first time, their embodied experience of the architectural pathway and the frescoed decoration along the way. To begin this process, the article rediscovers the original “public” for the library at San Marco and reconstructs the pathway through the convent that this secular audience once used. By considering the practice of the place, this article considers Fra Angelico’s extensive fresco decoration along this path as part of an integrated “humanist itinerary.” In this way, Angelico’s frescoes may be understood not only as the result of the social relationship between the mendicant artist and his merchant patron, but also, for the first time in art historical scholarship, as a direct means of visual communication with the convent’s previously unrecognized public audience and an indicator of their political and intellectual practices within the Florentine convent.
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Nehmad, Alberto Loza. „THE SALA DE INVESTIGACIONES —FONDO RESERVADO OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARCOS CENTRAL LIBRARY, LIMA, PERU“. RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 6, Nr. 2 (01.09.2005): 108–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.6.2.248.
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The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) was founded in 1551 in Lima, Peru, and for centuries has remained the major university in the country. But during the past several decades, a number of other universities, both public and private, have been created in Lima, and San Marcos now shares with them a space that, until the mid-twentieth century, was almost exclusively its own. Today, the rare book and manuscript collections within the library system are among the most important in the country. A recent development has been the creation of the Sala de Investigaciones Bibliográficas-Fondo Reservado,1 which contains . . .
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Mcclure, D., H. Engelke und S. Mackintosh. „(P1-48) Rethinking the “Disaster Club” as a Student Interest Group on a Health Professions Campus“. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26, S1 (Mai 2011): s114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11003803.
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Disaster preparedness and response requires an integrated response by all aspects of the health professions. The most successful outcome can occur when interprofessional cooperation exists between community, first responders, and the many facets of health professions. At Western University Health Sciences we have replaced our interprofessional disaster club with a disaster focused element in several other health professional interest clubs. The primary coordination is centered in the Public Health Club which is composed of students from many of our medical colleges. The public health club mirrors our community disaster response in that preventive medicine and preparedness lies in our public health program. Public health interest such as rabies prevention and education on world rabies they are centered in our public health club with support from our faculty expertise in public health. Educational components such as wilderness medicine fit well into the human emergency and critical care student group. Both human and veterinary emergency and critical care student group's natural interest lies in triage and first response. Student interest groups or clubs that focus on community outreach in medicine, nursing, dentistry and veterinary shelter medicine have a take the lead in emergency sheltering for vulnerable populations. Using the model presented here, disaster preparedness is promoted as routine extensions of daily professional endeavors. By building upon student interest groups we can build a culture of connectivity across the professions. Extending student club supported training endeavors to the community surrounding can allow the disaster responder community to meet on neutral ground. Western University Health Sciences is uniquely situated in Los Angeles County and our faculty and students reside in neighboring Orange Riverside and San Bernardino counties. At a private health professions university, our focus is to provide educational opportunities in a real-world setting which is integrated with community.
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Ramal, Edelweiss, Andrea Champlin und Khaled Bahjri. „Impact of a Plant-Based Diet and Support on Mitigating Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Latinos Living in Medically Underserved Areas“. American Journal of Health Promotion 32, Nr. 3 (14.05.2017): 753–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0890117117706793.
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Purpose: To determine the impact that a high-fiber, low-fat diet, derived from mostly plant-based sources, when coupled with support has upon self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Latinos from medically underserved areas (MUAs). Design: Experimental randomized controlled community pilot study. Setting: Three community clinics in MUAs located within San Bernardino County, California. Participants: Thirty-two randomly assigned Latinos with A1C greater than 6.4: 15 control and 17 experimental. Intervention: Participants completed a 5-week education program. Researchers provided follow-up support for 17 randomly assigned experimental group participants through focus groups held at participating clinics—1, 3, and 6 months posteducation. Measures: Changes in fat and fiber consumption were measured using a modified Dietary Screener for Mexican Americans. Self-management was measured through the Self-Efficacy for Exercise Scale and Diabetes Quality of Life Measure. Analysis: Baseline characteristics for both groups were analyzed using independent t tests and χ2 tests. A 2-way repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to analyze biometric data between baseline and 6 months for both groups. Results: Mean A1C levels decreased from baseline to 6 months for both groups: control, μ1 = 9.57, μ2 = 9.49; experimental, μ1 = 8.53, μ2 = 7.31. Conclusion: The experimental group demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in mean A1C levels ( P = .002) when compared to the control group.
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Deardoff, Ariel, und Dylan Romero. „From Python to Raspberry Pi: Celebrating Pi Day with data science“. College & Research Libraries News 79, Nr. 11 (05.12.2018): 613. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.11.613.
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The University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) Library is a graduate-only health science university with four professional schools (medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and dentistry), a graduate division, and an academic medical center. For several years UCSF has been the number one public recipient of NIH funding, reflecting the school’s dedication to biomedical research. Around 2015, the UCSF Library began investigating new ways to serve the university’s research population. Seeing a need for more computational and entrepreneurship training the library piloted two new programs: the Data Science Initiative (DSI) and the Makers Lab.
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Shaw, Tamara. „Doing Their Part: The Services of the San Diego Public Library during World War II“. Library Trends 55, Nr. 3 (2007): 570–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2007.0023.
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Durand, Casey P., Genevieve F. Dunton, Donna Spruijt-Metz und Mary Ann Pentz. „Does Community Type Moderate the Relationship between Parent Perceptions of the Neighborhood and Physical Activity in Children?“ American Journal of Health Promotion 26, Nr. 6 (Juli 2012): 371–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.100827-quan-290.
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Purpose. To examine whether residing in a community designed to promote physical activity moderates the relationship between parent perceptions of the neighborhood and general physical activity or active commuting to school in their children. Design. Cross-sectional. Setting. San Bernardino County, California. Subjects. Three hundred sixty-five families (one parent and one child in grades four through eight). Eighty-five reside in a smart growth community designed to be more conducive to physical activity. Measures. Parent perceptions assessed using the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS). General child physical activity was measured using accelerometers, and active commuting was self-reported by children. Analysis. Two sets of regressions were performed: one for general physical activity, and one for active commuting. Separate models were run in the two sets for each of the 14 NEWS factors, while controlling for demographics. Results. For general physical activity, walking infrastructure, lack of cul-de-sacs, and social interaction had significant main effect associations (p ≤ .05). No factors were moderated by community. The relationships between active commuting to school and perceived crime, traffic hazards, hilliness, physical barriers, cul-de-sac connectivity, aesthetics, and walking infrastructure were significant for those in the smart growth community only (p ≤ .05). Conclusions. Living in an activity-friendly environment is associated with positive relationships between parent perceptions and active commuting behaviors in children. Future interventions should account for both the perceived neighborhood environment and available physical activity infrastructure.
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Condren, Chelsea. „Far from a Drag: How One Library Embraced Drag Queen Story Hour“. Children and Libraries 16, Nr. 1 (15.03.2018): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.16.1.21.
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Children’s librarians and drag queens have more in common than our shared love of glitter.When Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) approached the Early Literacy Department at the New York Public Library (NYPL) to ask us about facilitating their programs in our branches, we were eager to get started. Conceived of by Michelle Tea and Radar Productions in San Francisco, DQSH now operates out of Los Angeles, New York, and New Jersey, inspires events around the world, and can be found at DragQueenStoryHour.org.
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Khisamutdinov, Amir A. „The Russian Libraries in Beijing and Tianjin“. Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], Nr. 3 (20.06.2013): 92–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2013-0-3-92-97.
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The article is devoted to the history of libraries in Beijing and Tianjin, closely connected with the history of the Russian emigration in China. For the first time there are analyzed the activities of the various libraries: religious, public and private. Special attention is paid to the individuals who build the library funds. The source for this article was formed by the collections of the Hamilton Library of the University of Hawaii (Honolulu, USA) and the Museum of the Russian Culture in San-Francisco, as well as by the holdings and catalogs of other American libraries, where the books, previously held by the Russian libraries in Beijing and Tianjin, were revealed.
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Turnbull, Katherine F., Jon Obenberger, Antonette Clark und Dawn Helou. „Effects of Changing Occupancy Requirements for High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane: El Monte Busway Case Study, July 23, 2002“. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1856, Nr. 1 (Januar 2003): 143–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1856-15.
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In 1999, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 63, lowering the vehicle-occupancy requirement on the El Monte Busway on the San Bernardino Interstate 10 Freeway from three persons per vehicle (3+) to two persons per vehicle (2+). The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) was directed to implement this change on January 1, 2000, and to monitor and evaluate the effects of the 2+ requirement on the operation of the busway and the freeway. Based on the operational effects of the change, new legislation was approved increasing the vehicle-occupancy requirement back to 3+ during the morning and afternoon peak periods effective July 24, 2000, with a 2+ requirement at other times. Information is presented on the effect of the change in the vehicle-occupancy requirement on operation of the busway and freeway, public transit services, violation rates, accidents, and public response. The assessment is based on information from Caltrans, Foothill Transit, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the California Highway Patrol. Lowering the vehicle-occupancy requirement had a detrimental effect on the busway. At the same time, significant improvements were not realized in the general-purpose freeway lanes. Morning peak-period average travel speeds on the busway were reduced from 65 to 20 mph, while travel speeds in the general-purpose lanes decreased from 25 to 23 mph. Morning peak-period busway vehicle volumes increased from 1,100 to 1,600 with the 2+ designation, but the number of persons carried declined from 5,900 to 5,200. The freeway lane vehicle volumes and passengers per lane per hour remained relatively similar. Peak-period travel times on the busway increased from 20 to 30 minutes. Bus schedule adherence and on-time performance declined significantly and passengers reported delays.
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Hunold, Christian, und Jennifer L. Britton. „'Pooped in my yard and ate my grass last night': Wild burros and tales of belonging in Riverside County, California“. Animal Studies Journal 12, Nr. 1 (2023): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/asj/v12i1.2.
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Riverside County, California is home to several hundred free-roaming burros (donkeys) who frequent the open spaces surrounding and between the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, Loma Linda, and Redlands, as well as the public parks, private properties, residential developments and roadsides in these towns. Tales of more-than-human belonging (and not-belonging) in Riverside County render visible how multispecies places are mediated by infrastructures of consumption and infrastructures of reciprocity. Where infrastructures of consumption generate callousness, infrastructures of reciprocity sustain responsibility. We investigate these dynamics by tracing how two geographically close but infrastructurally distinctive spaces frequented by the area’s wild burros are storied. The semi-rural Reche Canyon Road connects California Highway 60 and the City of Moreno Valley to Riverside and San Bernardino County communities to the north. Burros who inhabit the canyon as their home range must contend with automobiles traveling at highway speeds and are frequently injured or killed there. The road’s design makes neither space nor time for the burros. In this setting, interspecies relationalities are embedded in, and curtailed by, the mundane violence of “roadkill” and its associated narratives of victimhood and tragedy. Infrastructural violence subsides notably in residential neighborhoods of the City of Moreno Valley frequented by the burros. How people and donkeys co-inhabit these neigborhoods is consistent with non-dualist practices of mutual accommodation theorized in multispecies urbanism literature. Here, more reciprocal infrastructures decelerate human and nonhuman animal mobilities, making both space and time for the emergence of more convivial patterns of multispecies cohabitation.
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Banks, Marcus A., und Gail L. Persily. „Campus perspective on the National Institutes of Health public access policy: University of California, San Francisco, library experience“. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 98, Nr. 3 (Juli 2010): 256–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.98.3.015.
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Zimbardo, Tanya, und Antonella Bonfanti. „Serious Business“. Feminist Media Histories 10, Nr. 2-3 (2024): 244–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.2-3.244.
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A filmmaker and trailblazing film distribution entrepreneur, Freude (1942–2009) became a central figure in the San Francisco Bay Area film community in the late 1960s and 1970s. Her Serious Business Company (1972–83) distributed many of the era’s most acclaimed independent and experimental films, but its lasting impact created a platform for discovering lesser-known works. Freude’s contributions to the experimental film and independent filmmaking communities remain largely unsung. This article will excite further investigation and recognition into Freude’s important efforts to support California and national artist-made filmmaking movements as it examines her professional relationships and draws from interviews, correspondence, and ephemera from the Serious Business Company archives at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. It also builds on recent efforts at BAMPFA and San Francisco State University’s the Archive Project where authors Antonella Bonfanti and Tanya Zimbardo have recently been involved with public programs about Freude’s legacy.
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McKinney, Michelle. „RR 2007/32Public Library of Science.org200732Harold E. Varmus and others. RR 2007/32Public Library of Science.org. San Francisco, CA: Public Library of Science Last visited August 2006. Gratis URL: www.plos.org“. Reference Reviews 21, Nr. 1 (23.01.2007): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504120710719653.
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Kent, Robert, und Matthew K. Landon. „Trends in concentrations of nitrate and total dissolved solids in public supply wells of the Bunker Hill, Lytle, Rialto, and Colton groundwater subbasins, San Bernardino County, California: Influence of legacy land use“. Science of The Total Environment 452-453 (Mai 2013): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.042.
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Walter, Virginia A. „A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library. Peter Booth WileyLibrary: The Drama Within. Diane Asseo Griliches , Daniel J. Boorstin“. Library Quarterly 67, Nr. 3 (Juli 1997): 299–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/629957.
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Furlan, Wendy. „Library Users Expect Link Resolvers to Provide Full Text While Librarians Expect Accurate Results“. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 1, Nr. 4 (11.12.2006): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b88c7p.
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Wakimoto, Jina Choi, David S. Walker, and Katherine S. Dabbour. "The Myths and Realities of SFX in Academic Libraries." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32.2 (Mar. 2006): 127-36.
Objective – To determine how successful the link resolver, SFX, is in meeting the expectations of library users and librarians.
Design – Analysis of an online user survey, library staff focus groups, retrospective analysis of system statistics, and test searches.
Setting – Two California State University campus libraries in the United States: Northbridge, with over 31,000 students on campus, and San Marcos, with over 7,300 students on campus.
Subjects – A total of 453 online survey responses were submitted from library users, 421 from Northbridge and 32 from San Marcos. Twenty librarians took part in the focus groups conducted with library staff consisting of 14 of the 23 librarians from Northbridge (2 from technical services and 12 from public services), and 6 of the 10 San Marcos librarians (3 from technical services and 3 from public services). No further information was provided on the characteristics of the subjects.
Methods – An online survey was offered to users of the two campus libraries for a two-week period in May 2004. The survey consisted of 8 questions, 7 fixed response and 1 free text. Survey distribution was enabled via a different mechanism at each campus. The Northbridge library offered the survey to users via a pop-up window each time the SFX service was clicked on, while the San Marcos library presented the survey as a link from the library’s home page. Survey responses from both campuses were combined and analysed together. Focus groups were conducted with librarians from each campus library on April 20th, 21st, and 29th, 2004. Librarians attended focus groups only with others from their own campus. Statistics were gathered from each campus’ local SFX system for the 3-month period from September 14, 2004, to December 14, 2004. Statistics from each campus were combined for analysis. The authors also conducted 224 test searches over the 3-month period from July to September, 2004.
Main results – Analysis of the surveys revealed that 80% of users expected to see a full-text article online when they clicked on the SFX button; 20% expected to rarely or never see one. Responses also gave an almost equal split when users were asked if the SFX service met their expectations with 49.5% saying it did and 50.5% saying it did not. The free text survey question asking for comments on the user’s overall opinion of SFX received 174 responses, 26% of which were positive, 40% negative, and 34% mixed. The primary theme expressed in 49% of all comments received was disappointment in not gaining full-text access. Thirty-three percent of other comments were classed as having a general theme, while the remaining 19% of comments regarding the SFX service were categorised with themes of complexity, technical problems, efficiency, or confusion.
Results from the librarian focus groups differed between the two campuses. Northbridge librarians had 50% to 85% confidence in the accuracy of SFX and were generally impressed with the service. San Marcos librarians had 60% to 100% confidence that SFX would work, however it was also discovered that several participants had suspicions regarding the accuracy of the system.
The SFX usage statistics obtained covered 188,944 individual uses of SFX at both campuses. Statistics showed that 48% of these uses resulted in the user clicking on an option provided, either linking to full-text, catalogue look-up, or inter-library loan form access. Of total occurrences, 39.7% had a link to full-text displayed; this link was accessed 65.2% of the time. Forty-seven percent of SFX uses provided a catalogue link (23.8% of which were accessed) and 37.9% of uses provided an inter-library loan link (8.4% of which were accessed).
The test searches revealed anomalies to take into account when analysing the SFX usage statistics, including that about 15% of SFX requests display multiple full-text links. Of the test searches conducted, 22.2% of full-text availability results ended in either technical or accuracy errors and 8.8% of catalogue look-ups produced errors. In those cases where errors did not result there were also significant percentages of instances where the library did not have access to the desired resource: 35.3% of searches correctly indicated that no full text was available, and 57.6% correctly linked to the catalogue to show that the periodical was not held locally. While these are correctly generated system results they are still likely to be seen as unfavourable outcomes by users.
Conclusion – The results of the study indicated that both library users’ and librarians’ expectations of SFX were slightly higher than their actual experiences. Librarians’ primary concerns related to the need for more accurate results while library users wanted more full text. It was noted that many complaints associated with SFX were likely to actually be problems with systems that SFX links into rather than the software itself. Although imperfect, SFX, and link resolvers in general, are noted to be a vast improvement on the many separate searches required in the past to locate full text and undoubtedly user expectations and demand for 100% seamless accessibility will grow.
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Haendiges, Julie, Karen Jinneman und Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona. „Choice of library preparation affects sequence quality, genome assembly, and precise in silico prediction of virulence genes in shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli“. PLOS ONE 16, Nr. 3 (24.03.2021): e0242294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242294.
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Whole genome sequencing (WGS) provides essential public health information and is used worldwide for pathogen surveillance, epidemiology, and source tracking. Foodborne pathogens are often sequenced using rapid library preparation chemistries based on transposon technology; however, this method may miss random segments of genomes that can be important for accurate downstream analyses. As new technologies become available, it may become possible to achieve better overall coverage. Here we compare the sequence quality obtained using libraries prepared from the Nextera XT and Nextera DNA Prep (Illumina, San Diego, CA) chemistries for 31 Shiga toxin-producingEscherichia coli(STEC) O121:H19 strains, which had been isolated from flour during a 2016 outbreak. The Nextera DNA Prep gave superior performance metrics including sequence quality, assembly quality, uniformity of genome coverage, and virulence gene identification, among other metrics. Comprehensive detection of virulence genes is essential for making educated assessments of STECs virulence potential. The phylogenetic SNP analysis did not show any differences in the variants detected by either library preparation method which allows isolates prepared from either library method to be analysed together. Our comprehensive comparison of these chemistries should assist researchers wishing to improve their sequencing workflow for STECs and other genomic risk assessments.
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Shen, Lisa. „Reference Desk Employees Need Both Research Knowledge and Technical Skills for Successful Reference Transactions“. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 9, Nr. 4 (05.12.2014): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8f617.
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Chan, E. K. (2014). Analyzing recorded transactions to extrapolate the required knowledge, skills, and abilities of reference desk providers at an urban, academic/public library. Journal of Library Administration, 54(1), 23-32. doi:10.1080/01920836.2014.893113
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Objective – To determine the essential knowledge and skills required by reference positions serving academic and public library patrons.
Design – Data analysis of recorded reference transactions using author-created categories.
Setting – The reference desk of a joint academic and public library in downtown San José, California.
Subjects – A total of 9,683 in-person and phone reference transactions recorded between August 20 and December 29, 2012.
Methods – All reference transactions recorded in the tracking software Gimlet during the fall 2012 semester were downloaded and analyzed in Excel using 17 author-created reference service categories. Of the original 13,827 transaction entries, 4,135 were eliminated because the actual reference questions, an optional entry in Gimlet, were not recorded. Thus these transactions could not be properly categorized for analysis.
Main Results – The most frequently occurred type of reference transaction (16.6%, or 1,607 out of 9,683) out of the 17 categories was assistance for printing, copying, scanning, and wireless network assistance. The next most regularly recorded categories were catalog searching for non-known items (15.0%) and general research (10.9%), which included formulating research questions and selecting the appropriate resources for searching.
When clustering the 17 reference question categories into 4 broader thematic groups, “research-oriented assistance,” including question categories for catalog searching and general research, emerged as the most common question type (31.7%). Technical and equipment assistance (30.8%) was the second most popular category group, followed by facility and policy questions (19.2%), and quick search requests (18.3%).
Conclusion – The study findings suggest that successful reference desk transactions would require library employees to master research knowledge as well as technical computer and equipment skills.
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Cummings, Joel. „PLoS One2007334PLoS One. San Francisco, CA: Public Library of Science 2006‐. , ISSN: 1932 6203 Last visited May 2007 URL: www.PLoSone.org/home.action Gratis“. Reference Reviews 21, Nr. 7 (25.09.2007): 41–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504120710821767.
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Pozner, Raúl, Federico Cápula, Guillermina Couso und Graciela Blanco. „El edificio histórico del Instituto de Botánica Darwinion de San Isidro: el mensaje silencioso del legado del Dr. Cristóbal M. Hicken“. Darwiniana, nueva serie 11, Nr. 1 (2023): 180–245. http://dx.doi.org/10.14522/darwiniana.2023.111.1116.
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The Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (CONICET and ANCEFyN) was founded by the end of 1910 in the San Martín district by Cristóbal María Hicken as his private botanical research laboratory. Its name honors Charles Darwin for his brilliant theory of biological evolution. In 1924, Cristóbal M. Hicken made public his desire to bequeath the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion to the National State, a fact that only materialized in 1934. But in the early ‘30s, he decided to move the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion to a new building located in the San Isidro district, built especially to contain the institute and also his retirement home. After 87 years of existence and five building extensions, the historic building of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion of San Isidro maintains its integrity and attracts the attention of both the public and architecture and design professionals. Based on the study of building characteristics and the thought of Cristóbal M. Hicken, the main objective of this work is to evaluate whether the external and internal structure of the historic Darwinion building in San Isidro, together with the ornamentation and distribution of original functions of each room, respond only to an aesthetic and functional design or if, in addition, they have a symbolic meaning, a vision of the world, a silent message for those who want (and know how) to understand. With this central purpose as a guide, we carried out a multidisciplinary investigation to reconstruct Cristóbal M. Hicken’s vision in the design of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion of San Isidro. We started from the analysis of the original building in the San Martín district in search of any possible design background, to then focus the attention entirely on the building in San Isidro. Plans, public documents, correspondence, historical photographs, academic and dissemination articles of the time, pre-Hispanic South American ethnographic information, Argentine historical information between 1860 and 1930, and interviews with relatives and historians were studied. In short, the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion in San Isidro was created as a museum and a laboratory plus a home. The design of the museum agrees with the concept of “temple of Botany” manifested by Cristóbal M. Hicken himself, and whose first sign is observed in the etymology of the name of the institute. Its ornamentation is eclectic, since it combines symbols of Andean pre-Hispanic cultures with symbols of Western civilization, and it is structured according to each room (portal, front rooms, herbarium, library) and orientation (towards the street or towards the inner garden). This ornamentation works like a discourse in symbolic key with multiple messages for the visitor: it reflects an original, foundational, and ancient Argentine identity, which in turn communicates that the Darwinion is a place where a silent and fertile unveiling of the knowledge, of the secrets of evolution, takes place protected from evils and misfortunes by Nature itself. The design plan of the institute, the portal, the access terrace, and the internal garden convey desirable masonic values through the symbolic language, typical and traditional of Freemasonry. Likewise, we show evidence of Dr. Cristóbal M. Hicken’s great interest in Andean pre-Hispanic cultures, of his refined knowledge of Greco-Roman mythology, his belonging to Argentine Freemasonry and consequent ability to symbolic language, and his knowledge of construction, cosmology, and analytic geometry. For these reasons, and considering his participation in the supervision of the building work declared by the newspapers of his time, the probable direct intervention of Cristóbal M. Hicken is proposed both in the design of the building of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion of San Isidro, as well as in the design of its ornamentation. In addition, evidence is provided of the possible intervention of Arturo Prins and Fernando de Estrada in the project of the building.
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Gershon, Richard, Cindy J. Nowinski und Aaron Kaat. „1 The Mobile Toolbox for Monitoring Cognitive Change“. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29, s1 (November 2023): 779–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617723009712.
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Objective:To present the Mobile Toolbox (MTB), comprised of an expandable library of cognitive and other tests, including adapted versions of NIH Toolbox® measures. The MTB provides a complete research platform for app creation, study management, data collection, and data management. We will describe the MTB project and MTB research platform and demonstrate examples of assessments.Participants and Methods:MTB is the product of an NIH-funded, multi-institutional effort involving Northwestern University, Sage Bionetworks, Penn State, University of California San Francisco, University of California San Diego, Emory University, and Washington University. The MTB assessment library is a dynamic repository built upon Sage Bionetworks mobile health platform. All MTB measures are created or adapted for a mobile interface using iOS and Android smartphones. Guided by the principles of open science, many components are open source to allow researchers and developers to integrate externally developed tests, including supplemental scales (e.g., passively collected contextual factors) assessing variables such as mood and fatigue that might influence cognitive test performance.Results:The current MTB library includes eight core cognitive tests based on well-established neuropsychological measures: two language tasks (Spelling and Word Meaning), two executive functioning tasks (Arrow Matching and Shape-Color Sorting), an associative memory task (Faces and Names), an episodic memory task (Arranging Pictures), a working memory task (Sequences) and a processing speed task (Numbers and Symbols). Additional cognitive assessments from other popular test libraries including the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR), Cognitive Neuroscience Test Reliability and Clinical Applications for Schizophrenia (CNTRACS) and Test My Brain are currently being implemented, as are non-cognitive measures from the NIH Toolbox Emotion Battery and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). The MTB library includes measures suitable for use in research studies incorporating point-in-time and burst designs as well as ecological momentary assessment (EMA).Conclusions:The MTB was created to address many of the scientific, practical, and technical challenges to cognitive assessment by capitalizing on advances in technology measurement and cognitive research. Initial psychometric evaluation of measures has been performed, and additional clinical validation is underway in studies with persons at risk for cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease (AD), diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or AD, Parkinson’s disease, and HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders. Calculation of norms and reliable change indicators is in progress. The MTB is currently available to beta testers with public release planned for Summer, 2023. Clinical researchers will be able to use the MTB system to design smartphone-based test batteries, deploy and manage mobile data collection in their research studies, and aggregate and analyze results in the context of large-scale norming data.