Cataloguing Songs at the Marx Memorial Library - Creating an identity for items of musical works within a non- music special collection

What do you do if a song appears in a box of library donations for a non-music library? This dissertation explores reasons why non-music libraries are the best place for some music items, but also why they might sink without trace by being ‘other’ to the main collection. It looks at how defining an ‘identity’ for a minority music collection and relating it to its wider collection could benefit a special collection otherwise known for its non-music subject areas. The methodology parallels an ‘evidence based library and information practice’ (EBLIP) ‘practitioner-research’ perspective to resolve questions. The research progresses through stages of ‘discussion, assessment, reflection, decision, action, revision’ towards eventual findings and practical outcomes. Focusing on songs, ‘people’s songs’ are defined, highlighting their many differences to the formally constructed forms of classical ‘art’ songs. The findings examine ‘people’s songs’ from the perspectives of documentation, information search and retrieval, and concepts of identity. Concepts of ‘borrowing’, ‘branding’, ‘currency’, ‘fix-ity’, ‘oral documents’ and ‘use-intentionality’ scrutinise the question of identity of this particular set of ‘people’s songs’ to its eventual conclusion. The work discusses how cataloguing systems and standards treat all types of music as one, using systems derived from the approach to classical ‘art’ music; explaining how the fluid creations that are ‘people’s songs’ defy cataloguing rules. The work suggests that as society increasingly values folk-art and other non-academy arts, library standards are showing signs of updating terminology. Looking to the future, with the development of RDA and cloud-based library management systems, could removing cataloguing rules be the answer to cataloguing music, by allowing cataloguers flexibility of judgement to select metadata elements bespoke to the ‘house’ style and resources of special collections

Tilt-up construction

CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) Thesis documentTilt-up construction is a special form of precast concrete construction. The technique is used for constructing buildings by prefabricating concrete wall sections (panels) in a horizontal position on either the building's floor slab or on a temporary casting slab. Once the wall sections have cured, they are tilted to a vertical position using a mobile crane, they are temporarily braced in their final upright position, and finally, they are tied into the building's roof and floor system to become an integral part of the finished structure. Tilt-up is a fast, simple, and economical technique of construction which, in the past, has been used most commonly on one-story buildings. Today, however, buildings as high as six stories are being cast and tilted into positionhttp://archive.org/details/tiltupconstructi00cromCIVIN

Cataloguing Songs at the Marx Memorial Library Creating an identity for items of musical works within a non- music special collection

What do you do if a song appears in a box of library donations at a non-music library? This dissertation explores reasons why non-music libraries are the best place for some music items, but also why they might sink without trace by being ‘other’ to the main collection. It looks at how defining an ‘identity’ for a minority music collection and relating it to its wider collection could benefit a special collection otherwise known for its non-music subject areas. The methodology parallels an ‘evidence based library and information practice’ (EBLIP) ‘practitioner-research’ perspective to resolve questions. The research progresses through stages of ‘discussion, assessment, reflection, decision, action, revision’ towards eventual findings and practical outcomes. Focusing on songs, ‘people’s songs’ are defined, highlighting their many differences to the formally constructed forms of classical ‘art’ songs. The findings examine ‘people’s songs’ from the perspectives of documentation, information search and retrieval, and concepts of identity. Concepts of ‘borrowing’, ‘branding’, ‘currency’, ‘fix-ity’, ‘oral documents’ and ‘use-intentionality’ scrutinise the question of identity of this particular set of ‘people’s songs’ to its eventual conclusion. The work discusses how cataloguing systems and standards treat all types of music as one, using systems derived from the approach to classical ‘art’ music; explaining how the fluid creations that are ‘people’s songs’ defy cataloguing rules. The work suggests that as society increasingly values folk-art and other non-academy arts, library standards are showing signs of updating terminology. Looking to the future, with the development of RDA and cloud-based library management systems, could removing cataloguing rules be the answer to cataloguing music, by allowing cataloguers flexibility of judgement to select metadata elements bespoke to the ‘house’ style and resources of special collections

Sonic Hedgehog signalling in the regulation of barrier tissue homeostasis and inflammation

Epithelial barrier tissues such as the skin and airway form an essential interface between the mammalian host and its external environment. These physical barriers are crucial to prevent damage and disease from environmental insults and allergens. Failure to maintain barrier function against such risks can lead to severe inflammatory disorders, including atopic dermatitis and asthma. Here, we discuss the role of the morphogen Sonic Hedgehog in postnatal skin and lung and the impact of Shh signalling on repair, inflammation and atopic disease in these tissues

Effect of selected plant species within biodiverse pasture on in vitro fatty acid biohydrogenation and tissue fatty acid composition of lamb

The effect of botanical diversity on supply of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) to ruminants in vitro, and the fatty acid (FA) composition of muscle in lambs was investigated. Six plant species, commonly grown as part of UK herbal ley mixtures (Trifolium pratense, Lotus corniculatus, Achillea millefolium, Centaurea nigra, Plantago lanceolata and Prunella vulgaris), were assessed for FA profile, and in vitro biohydrogenation of constituent PUFA, to estimate intestinal supply of PUFA available for absorption by ruminants. Modelling the in vitro data suggested that L. Corniculatus and P. Vulgaris had the greatest potential to increase 18:3 n-3 supply to ruminants, having the highest amounts escaping in vitro biohydrogenation . Biodiverse pastures were established using the six selected species, under-sown in a perennial ryegrass-based sward. Lambs were grazed (~50 days) on biodiverse or control pastures and the effects on the FA composition of m. longissimus thoracis (lean and subcutaneous fat) and m. semimembranosus (lean) were determined. Biodiverse pasture increased 18:2 n-6 and 18:3 n-3 contents of m. semimembranosus (+14.8 and +7.2 mg/100g tissue respectively) and the subcutaneous fat of m. l. thoracis (+158 and +166 mg/100g tissue respectively) relative to feeding a perennial ryegrass pasture. However, there was no effect on total concentrations of saturated FA in the tissues studied. It was concluded that enhancing biodiversity had a positive impact on muscle FA profile reflected by increased levels of total PUFA

Predictors of geriatric institutionalization : an exploratory comparison of semi-supportive housing and professional home health care

This study examined two distinct types of elderly supportive care for their efficacy in meeting the overall needs of their clients and reducing the risk of institutionalization. Recipients of (a) professional home care and (b) residents of a semi-supportive housing unit were assessed utilizing the Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC), Version 2. The groups were assessed and compared for their baseline measurements on 23 indices o f functional indicators including; cognitive and physiological functioning, current levels o f Activities o f Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), psychological and social functioning, and rates of lnstitutional Risk. In addition, institutional admission and mortality rates were collected at one-year follow-up for the Semi-Supportive Housing group to identify predictor variables that preceded these two outcomes (institutionalization and mortality). Baseline measurement results revealed that that Semi-Supportive Housing group evidenced a lower risk of institutionalization despite being an older population and having more urinary and behavioral problems than did the Home Care group. The Semi-Supportive Housing group also reported less difficulty with managing their Activities of Daily Living (ADL's) in comparison to the Home Care group. Only one predictor variable (of 23) emerged as significant in relation to the actual outcome of institutionalization As such, semi-supportive housing residents triggering the Health Promotion variable displayed a reduced risk of subsequent admittance to long-term nursing home care in comparison to those residents not triggering tins variable

Overview of FEED, the Feeding Experiments End-user Database

The Feeding Experiments End-user Database (FEED) is a research tool developed by the Mammalian Feeding Working Group at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center that permits synthetic, evolutionary analyses of the physiology of mammalian feeding. The tasks of the Working Group are to compile physiologic data sets into a uniform digital format stored at a central source, develop a standardized terminology for describing and organizing the data, and carry out a set of novel analyses using FEED. FEED contains raw physiologic data linked to extensive metadata. It serves as an archive for a large number of existing data sets and a repository for future data sets. The metadata are stored as text and images that describe experimental protocols, research subjects, and anatomical information. The metadata incorporate controlled vocabularies to allow consistent use of the terms used to describe and organize the physiologic data. The planned analyses address long-standing questions concerning the phylogenetic distribution of phenotypes involving muscle anatomy and feeding physiology among mammals, the presence and nature of motor pattern conservation in the mammalian feeding muscles, and the extent to which suckling constrains the evolution of feeding behavior in adult mammals. We expect FEED to be a growing digital archive that will facilitate new research into understanding the evolution of feeding anatomy