Information technology in humanities scholarship: British achievements, prospects and barriers

Der vorliegende Beitrag resümiert die Ergebnisse eines gemeinsamen Projekts der Britischen Akademie und der Forschungsabteilung der Britischen Bibliothek zur Anwendung von Informationstechnologien in den Humanwissenschaften. Diskutiert werden Probleme der Informationssammlung, -aufbereitung, - speicherung und -wiedergewinnung im Zusammenhang mit den neuesten Möglichkeiten der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung und der Telekommunikation. Der zweite Abschnitt gibt einen knappen Überblick über den Einfluß der neuen Medien (Text, quantitative Daten, Ton, Bild und elektronische Kommunikation) auf die Forschungstechniken selbst und das traditionelle Selbstverständnis der Humanwissenschaften. Abschließend wird auf organisatorische Fragen wie Aus- und Weiterbildung des Personals, maschinelle Ausrüstung,- Zugang zu Netzwerken und die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen des 'information handling' eingegangen. (pmb)'The British Academy and the British Library Research convened the Humanities Information Review Panel in April 1990. The Panel's brief was to examine all aspects of the generation, storage, and use of information in the humanities, and to look especially at the new methods of handling information provided by the use of computers, telecommunications, and other associated technologies. Section two of this concise report outlines the impact of new technology on scholarship (text, data, images, sound, combined sources, electronic communication, tools); section three discusses new developments and the change of the traditional image of the humanities scholar; section four describes training and support, network access and equipment, research infrastructure, information ressources, regulatory issues and funding; section five summarises the recommendations of the Panel.' (author's abstract

Barriers to Need-Based Financial Aid: Predictors of Timely FAFSA Completion Among Low-Income Students

Access to financial aid is dependent on a variety of factors, including the time of application; the earlier students apply for financial aid, the greater their access to institutional and often state resources. We use the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP) as a case for investigating the economic, social, and academic factors that affect application timeliness, and in turn, access to need-based financial aid. We analyze a stratified sample of 4,000 low-income students who completed the 2003-04 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and assess the relationships between Expected Family Contribution (EFC), first-generation status, and academic performance in order to understand the likelihood that low-income students will complete the FAFSA in time to qualify for need-based financial aid. The findings indicate that there are significant differences in the timeliness of FAFSA completion among low-income students that could qualify for a MAP grant; students with a slightly higher EFC are more likely to complete the FAFSA in time to qualify for need-based aid. Additionally, students who had at least one parent who attended college and who had higher academic performance in high school are significantly more likely to complete the FAFSA before critical deadlines and qualify for need-based financial aid. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings

City managers matter in how cities engage with their citizens

Social media and other online innovations allow city managers to engage with their citizenry in new - and often relatively inexpensive - ways. But why have some cities embraced and adopted these technologies while others have lagged behind? In new research which draws on a survey of 2,500 managers in 500 cities, Fengxiu Zhang and Mary K. Feeney find that ..

Future Applications of GIS: Depth vs Breadth - The case of the Land Use Profiler

As society becomes increasingly spatially enabled, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) will evolve, and geographical information will be embedded in most information applications and services that society uses. This trend presents many opportunities and challenges. It means GIS technologies will facilitate ¿more¿ by becoming `less`. As the general use of GIS increases, the visible appearance of GIS decreases, as it becomes an integrated part of organisational and societal information systems. The trend is for GIS to move from a multi-use tool for project and departmental systems, to specific product systems for multiple users, multiple applications and multiple purposes. These new systems are not all technically GIS, but are systems with embedded geographic knowledge, and the data and tools to capitalise upon the capabilities and to facilitate distribution. The Land Use Profiler (LUP) system is an easy to use spatial analysis tool developed by the Department of Infrastructure in Victoria. It constitutes an illustration of these trends in GIS. Developed to locate areas of land best suited to particular land-use purposes, the LUP is a tool being piloted to facilitate preliminary investment decisions. The LUP adopts user-friendly interfaces, easy-to-assemble query structures and GIS embedding to facilitate broad-spectrum inquiries across a number of datasets using a `what-if-analysis`. The use and implementation of such a tool raises interesting issues about the transparency of spatial information processing. It reinforces the developmental trends of GIS and provides an indication where these trends may lead

Future Applications of GIS: Depth vs Breadth - The case of the Land Use Profiler

As society becomes increasingly spatially enabled, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) will evolve, and geographical information will be embedded in most information applications and services that society uses. This trend presents many opportunities and challenges. It means GIS technologies will facilitate ¿more¿ by becoming `less`. As the general use of GIS increases, the visible appearance of GIS decreases, as it becomes an integrated part of organisational and societal information systems. The trend is for GIS to move from a multi-use tool for project and departmental systems, to specific product systems for multiple users, multiple applications and multiple purposes. These new systems are not all technically GIS, but are systems with embedded geographic knowledge, and the data and tools to capitalise upon the capabilities and to facilitate distribution. The Land Use Profiler (LUP) system is an easy to use spatial analysis tool developed by the Department of Infrastructure in Victoria. It constitutes an illustration of these trends in GIS. Developed to locate areas of land best suited to particular land-use purposes, the LUP is a tool being piloted to facilitate preliminary investment decisions. The LUP adopts user-friendly interfaces, easy-to-assemble query structures and GIS embedding to facilitate broad-spectrum inquiries across a number of datasets using a `what-if-analysis`. The use and implementation of such a tool raises interesting issues about the transparency of spatial information processing. It reinforces the developmental trends of GIS and provides an indication where these trends may lead

The angry woman poems

This thesis consists of poems written and/or revised between September, 1969 and March, 1971, while the author was enrolled In the Master of Pine Arts in Creative Writing program of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The poems are divided into two sections intended to be mirror images of each other. Groups of poems have also been arranged to reflect upon each other thematically and structurally. Some of the poems included have been published or accepted for publication in the following magazines: Brown Bag. Café Solo, Fly by Night. The Greenfield Review. The Greensboro Review, and INTRO #3

CrY2H-seq: a massively multiplexed assay for deep-coverage interactome mapping.

Broad-scale protein-protein interaction mapping is a major challenge given the cost, time, and sensitivity constraints of existing technologies. Here, we present a massively multiplexed yeast two-hybrid method, CrY2H-seq, which uses a Cre recombinase interaction reporter to intracellularly fuse the coding sequences of two interacting proteins and next-generation DNA sequencing to identify these interactions en masse. We applied CrY2H-seq to investigate sparsely annotated Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factors interactions. By performing ten independent screens testing a total of 36 million binary interaction combinations, and uncovering a network of 8,577 interactions among 1,453 transcription factors, we demonstrate CrY2H-seq's improved screening capacity, efficiency, and sensitivity over those of existing technologies. The deep-coverage network resource we call AtTFIN-1 recapitulates one-third of previously reported interactions derived from diverse methods, expands the number of known plant transcription factor interactions by three-fold, and reveals previously unknown family-specific interaction module associations with plant reproductive development, root architecture, and circadian coordination