Introduction to Library Trends 30 (4) Spring 1982: Mental Health: Information, Libraries and Services to the Patient

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Recent Developments in Cultural Heritage Image Databases: Directions for User-Centered Design

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Toward an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities.

Social interactions among conspecifics are a fundamental and adaptively significant component of the biology of numerous species. Such interactions give rise to group living as well as many of the complex forms of cooperation and conflict that occur within animal groups. Although previous conceptual models have focused on the ecological causes and fitness consequences of variation in social interactions, recent developments in endocrinology, neuroscience, and molecular genetics offer exciting opportunities to develop more integrated research programs that will facilitate new insights into the physiological causes and consequences of social variation. Here, we propose an integrative framework of social behavior that emphasizes relationships between ultimate-level function and proximate-level mechanism, thereby providing a foundation for exploring the full diversity of factors that underlie variation in social interactions, and ultimately sociality. In addition to identifying new model systems for the study of human psychopathologies, this framework provides a mechanistic basis for predicting how social behavior will change in response to environmental variation. We argue that the study of non-model organisms is essential for implementing this integrative model of social behavior because such species can be studied simultaneously in the lab and field, thereby allowing integration of rigorously controlled experimental manipulations with detailed observations of the ecological contexts in which interactions among conspecifics occur

Index to Library Trends Volume 33

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Constructing a concept of number

Numbers are concepts whose content, structure, and organization are influenced by the material forms used to represent and manipulate them. Indeed, as argued here, it is the inclusion of multiple forms (distributed objects, fingers, single- and two-dimensional forms like pebbles and abaci, and written notations) that is the mechanism of numerical elaboration. Further, variety in employed forms explains at least part of the synchronic and diachronic variability that exists between and within cultural number systems. Material forms also impart characteristics like linearity that may persist in the form of knowledge and behaviors, ultimately yielding numerical concepts that are irreducible to and functionally independent of any particular form. Material devices used to represent and manipulate numbers also interact with language in ways that reinforce or contrast different aspects of numerical cognition. Not only does this interaction potentially explain some of the unique aspects of numerical language, it suggests that the two are complementary but ultimately distinct means of accessing numerical intuitions and insights. The potential inclusion of materiality in contemporary research in numerical cognition is advocated, both for its explanatory power, as well as its influence on psychological, behavioral, and linguistic aspects of numerical cognition

Special Libraries, Winter 1986

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Training of Data Services Professionals: Past, Present, And Future

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Barriers to Work Place Advancement: the Experience of the White Female Work Force

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The delayed development of early brazilian financial historiography, 1890-1930

La Historia Económica en Latinoamérica. Edición a cargo de Pablo Martín Aceña, Adolfo Meisel, Carlos Newland.Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEste trabajo presenta un visión panorámica de la evolución de la historiografía económica de la Primera República, para determinar las causas de la demora del desarrollo de las investigaciones sobre la historia financiera interna. Se argumenta que la atención en los mercados internacionales, prevaleciente en el enfoque de la teoría de la dependencia, tuvo como consecuencia el descuido de la estructura de las finanzas internas. En tiempos recientes, los investigadores han dedicado mayor atención a los enfoques que subrayan el equilibrio entre los factores económicos internos e internacionales, incluyendo el análisis de las redes de distribución y las estructuras institucionales financieras. Esta perspectiva sugiere que, dentro del sector privado, una estabilidad financiera emergió durante la Primera República y que el campo de las finanzas contribuyó positivamente al crecimiento económico, a pesar de las vicisitudes de las finanzas públicas. Estas conclusiones tentativas ofirecen una perspectiva muy diferente sobre la naturaleza del desarrollo económico del Brasil y sugieren nuevas y desafiantes preguntas.This article ofiers an overview of the evolution of economic historiography of the First Republic in order to consider why it has taken so long for domestic financial history to gain importance on the research agendas of Brazilian economic historians. It contends that the focus of dependency theory on internatíonal tnarkets resulted in neglecting the structure of domestic fínance. Recently, scholars have turned their attention to approaches that emphasize a balance between domestic and International economic factors, includúig looking at the distribution networks and institutional frameworks of domestic fínance. Evidence from this perspective suggests that within prívate sectors, fínancial stability emerged during the First Republic and fínance made positive contributions to growth, despite the vicissitudes of public fínance. This tentative fínding offers a very different perspective on the nature of Brazilian economic development and raises challenging new questions.Publicad