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Catalogers explore a new frontier: establishing a NEASC evidence center
This article describes how cataloging staff at the Roger Williams University Library established, managed, and planned to preserve an online NEASC Evidence Center for the University’s reaccreditation process. It highlights use of MARC and AACR2rev for effective organization of the Center’s records and the continuing importance of professional cataloging skills
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights
Institutional repositories (IRs) established at universities and academic libraries over a decade ago, large and small, have encountered challenges along the way in keeping faith with their original objective: to collect, preserve, and disseminate the intellectual output of an institution in digital form. While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges. This article examines causes of low faculty contribution to IR content growth, particularly at small academic institutions. It also offers a first-hand account of building and developing an institutional repository at a small university. The article concludes by suggesting how institutional repositories at small academic institutions can thrive by focusing on classroom teaching and student experiential learning, strategic priorities of their parent institutions
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application 2004
The International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications took place on October 11-14, 2004 in Shanghai, China. It was the fourth in a series of expanded Dublin Core conferences that included a conference, tutorials and workshops. Prior to the first in this series of conferences held in Tokyo in 2001, eight Dublin Core workshop series had been held in various North American and European countries starting in 1995. These workshops and conferences have provided a forum where researchers and practitioners can exchange new ideas and demonstrate the development of metadata standards and applications from practical aspects
On symmetric commutator subgroups, braids, links and homotopy groups
In this paper, we investigate some applications of commutator subgroups to
homotopy groups and geometric groups. In particular, we show that the
intersection subgroups of some canonical subgroups in certain link groups
modulo their symmetric commutator subgroups are isomorphic to the (higher)
homotopy groups. This gives a connection between links and homotopy groups.
Similar results hold for braid and surface groups.Comment: 24 pages, 1 figur
Considerations of some critical ejector problems
Some aspects of ejector design and application, including, three dimensional effects and cross flow effects are presented
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Multifactor consumption based asset pricing model of the UK stock market: The US stock market as a wealth reference
Copyright @ 2011 University of BirminghamHere a multifactor model of UK stock returns is developed, replac- ingHere a multifactor model of UK stock returns is developed, replacing the conventional consumption habit reference by a relation that depends on US wealth. Two step Instrumental Variables and Generalized Method of Moments estimators are applied to reduce the impact of weak instruments. The standard errors are corrected for the generated regressor problem and the model is found to explain UK excess returns by UK consumption growth and expected US excess returns. Hence, controlling for nominal effects by subtracting a risk free rate and conditioning on real US excess returns provides an appealing explanation of the equity premium puzzle. US excess returns. Hence, controlling for nominal e¤ects by subtracting a risk free rate and conditioning on real US excess returns provides an appealing explanation of the equity premium puzzle
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A multifactor consumption based asset pricing model of the UK stock market: The US stock market as a wealth reference
Here a multifactor model of UK stock returns is developed, replacing the conventional consumption habit reference by a relation that depends on US wealth. Two step Instrumental Variables and Generalized Method of Moments estimators are applied to reduce the impact of weak instruments. The standard errors are corrected for the generated regressor problem and the model is found to explain UK excess returns by UK consumption growth and expected US excess returns. Hence, controlling for nomina l effects by subtracting a risk free rate and conditioning on real US excess returns provides a coherent explanation of the equity premium puzzle
Cryogenic loss monitors with FPGA TDC signal processing
Radiation hard helium gas ionization chambers capable of operating in vacuum
at temperatures ranging from 5K to 350K have been designed, fabricated and
tested and will be used inside the cryostats at Fermilab's Superconducting
Radiofrequency beam test facility. The chamber vessels are made of stainless
steel and all materials used including seals are known to be radiation hard and
suitable for operation at 5K. The chambers are designed to measure radiation up
to 30 kRad/hr with sensitivity of approximately 1.9 pA/(Rad/hr). The signal
current is measured with a recycling integrator current-to-frequency converter
to achieve a required measurement capability for low current and a wide dynamic
range. A novel scheme of using an FPGA-based time-to-digital converter (TDC) to
measure time intervals between pulses output from the recycling integrator is
employed to ensure a fast beam loss response along with a current measurement
resolution better than 10-bit. This paper will describe the results obtained
and highlight the processing techniques used.Comment: 7 pp. 2nd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation
in Particle Physics 2011: TIPP 2011. 9-14 Jun 2011. Chicago, Illinoi
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