The Nuclear Science References (NSR) Database and Web Retrieval System

The Nuclear Science References (NSR) database together with its associated Web interface, is the world's only comprehensive source of easily accessible low- and intermediate-energy nuclear physics bibliographic information for more than 200,000 articles since the beginning of nuclear science. The weekly-updated NSR database provides essential support for nuclear data evaluation, compilation and research activities. The principles of the database and Web application development and maintenance are described. Examples of nuclear structure, reaction and decay applications are specifically included. The complete NSR database is freely available at the websites of the National Nuclear Data Center http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nsr and the International Atomic Energy Agency http://www-nds.iaea.org/nsr.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure

The New Role of Academia in Drug Development

Recommends ways for government, nonprofits, and academic institutions to work with the private sector to develop drugs and bring them to market more efficiently, including establishing models for intellectual property and technology transfer processes

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2007

Table of Contents: From the Director: Strategic Planning (Robin Wagner, Kerri Odess-Harnish); Book Cart Drill Team Wins Silver; Save the Date (Stephen Herr ’89, Stewart W. Herman Jr. ‘30); Fortenbaugh Intern (Dave Hadley ’09); Nicaraguan Pottery Exhibit; Music at Musselman Library; Composer Libby Larsen Donates Archive (Lisa Terjesen ’06, Tim Sestrick); Hidden Talents: Robocalifragilistic (Sharon Birch); Library exhibits (Raj Ramanathapillai); First Impressions (Natalie Hinton, Susan Pinkey); Report of Gifts 2006-2007; Focus on Philanthropy (Dr. Paul Muchinsky, George Hay Kain 1897); Call for Alumni Collectors; Database “Scopus” (Hubert Luther McSherry ’15, Jaimie N. Schock ’09); Musselman Library Trivia; The Advisor is In (Daniel R. Gilbert Jr., Anukul Gurung ’09, Lara Grieco ’07, Maggie O’Reilly ’09); Alumni Authors (Ellen Shaw Bakalian ’82, J. Michael Bishop ’57, Dave Brown ’82, Jennifer Bryant ’82, Deborah V.R. Harper ’82, Leslie Mass ’62, Janet Morgan Riggs ’77, George H. Sweet Jr. ‘42, David Tohn ’87, Michael Birkner ‘72); Holley Intern (Tara Wink ’07); When It Comes to Movies, She’s the Star (Nancy Johnson); A Tree Grows in Musselman Library (Penny Sites, Nancy Costella, Sheman Hendrix

Glu: An Online Type 1 Diabetes Information Community

This research paper examines the online health community Glu (MyGlu.org), a type 1 diabetes social media site. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic medical condition that requires constant and specialized medical attention. Online health communities like Glu, are an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle for many of its members. This study discusses the composition of this information community, the motivations of its members, and the benefits members gain through their participation. It describes the major characteristics of the community and focuses on the information needs of type 1 diabetics. It concludes with reflections on how libraries and LIS professionals can better serve the information needs of health communities like Glu and accommodate their needs in the physical space of the library

Intersections 2000: What's New in Hadron Physics

Hadron physics is that part of QCD dealing with hadron structure and vacuum structure, almost all of which is nonperturbative in nature. Some of the open problems in this field are outlined. We argue that hadron physics is a distinct subfield, no longer within particle physics, and not at all the same as classical nuclear physics. We believe that it needs to be better organized, and that a first step in doing so might be to establish hadron physics as a new division within the American Physical Society.Comment: Invited Talk at 7th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, May 22-28, 200

Exploring the Morphology of RAVE Stellar Spectra

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a medium resolution R~7500 spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way which already obtained over half a million stellar spectra. They present a randomly selected magnitude-limited sample, so it is important to use a reliable and automated classification scheme which identifies normal single stars and discovers different types of peculiar stars. To this end we present a morphological classification of 350,000 RAVE survey stellar spectra using locally linear embedding, a dimensionality reduction method which enables representing the complex spectral morphology in a low dimensional projected space while still preserving the properties of the local neighborhoods of spectra. We find that the majority of all spectra in the database ~90-95% belong to normal single stars, but there is also a significant population of several types of peculiars. Among them the most populated groups are those of various types of spectroscopic binary and chromospherically active stars. Both of them include several thousands of spectra. Particularly the latter group offers significant further investigation opportunities since activity of stars is a known proxy of stellar ages. Applying the same classification procedure to the sample of normal single stars alone shows that the shape of the projected manifold in two dimensional space correlates with stellar temperature, surface gravity and metallicity.Comment: 28 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Importance of Global Co-innovation Networks: A TCS Case Study

Today all kinds of innovations and research work is done by partnerships of competent entities each having some specialized skills. Like the development of the global economy, global innovation partnerships have grown considerably and form the basis of most of the sophisticated innovations today. To further streamline and simplify such cooperation, several innovation networks have been formed, both at local and global levels. This paper discusses the different types of innovations and how cooperation can benefit innovation in terms of pooling of resources and sharing of risks. One example of an open global co-innovation network promoted by Tata Consultancy Services, the TCS COIN is taken as a case. It enables venture capitalists, consultants, research agencies, companies and universities form nodes of the network so that each entity can play a meaningful role in the innovation network. Further, two innovation projects implemented using the COIN are discussed. Innovation Networks like these could form the basis of a unique global innovation network, which is not owned by any company and is used by innovation partners globally to collaborate and conduct research and development.innovation partnerships; co-innovation network

IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 5, Issue 1, Winter 2016

Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and assessment of interdisciplinary education. Impact is produced by the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at the College of General Studies, Boston University (www.bu.edu/cgs/citl)