Economies of scale in the library world: the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Library in San Jose, California

Discusses the new Dr Martin Luther King Jr Library in San Jose´, California, which will house the collections of the San Jose´ Public Library’s main branch and the San Jose´ State University’s Library system in one new building. Outlines the conception of the project, the site selection and the planning process. Considers the communities served, usage patterns and services. Focuses on the management structure and operations in light of a, perhaps controversial, aspect of mixing city and university library staff under the same roof, some performing similar functions, but with different supervisors and employing agencies. Discusses the new library in the context of other joint-use libraries and in the context of economies of scale and future trends. Evaluates the arising challenges and opportunities

Parsing shocks: real-time revisions to gap and growth projections for Canada

The output gap - the deviation of output from potential output - has played an important role in the conduct of monetary policy in Canada. This paper reviews the Bank of Canada's definition of potential output, as well as the use of the output gap in monetary policy. Using a real-time staff economic projection dataset from 1994 through 2005, a period during which the staff used the Quarterly Projection Model to construct economic projections, the authors investigate the relationship between shocks (data revisions or real-time projection errors) and revisions to projections of key macroeconomic variables. Of particular interest are the interactions between shocks to real gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation and revisions to the level of potential output, potential growth, the output gap, and real GDP growth.Economic development ; Economic conditions - Canada

Meeting Primary Literacy Needs Post-Pandemic: Maximizing the Instructional Power of Early Reading Texts

There is no question that elementary teachers are feeling added burdens regarding early reading instruction since returning to the post-pandemic classroom. Much discussion is occurring about lags across all areas of language and literacy development. At present, teachers have few empirical resources upon which to draw. This article considers the 2022 nine-year-old reading results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress as well as voices from virtual primary teachers in relationship to instructional recommendations made prior to 2020. Now more than ever, it is imperative that early literacy include not only foundational skills development, but also direct instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, and the development of background knowledge. This article proposes a way to integrate early language arts instruction across the curriculum by harnessing the power of texts written for young readers. Differentiating reader needs is always a consideration. What lies within the text is considered far less often. Walter Kintsch’s (1998) construction-integration and situation models include the surface level, the reader base, and the textbase, providing a paradigm for considering how these three components can work together instructionally to help developing readers gain literacy proficiency. Young children need to practice foundational and comprehension skills in text at their decoding levels. This inquiry pairs expert genre analysis of possible informational text written at a low decoding level with three types of instruction research indicates must happen in the primary grades, illustrating instructional methodologies for a) abstract and concrete high frequency sight words, b) deep comprehension, and c) text structure

The Sharia Law debate: The missing family law context

Two official enquires and one Private Members Bill are currently grappling with the ever-controversial topic of the operation of sharia tribunals in England and Wales. While these developments are valuable in that there is still a missing evidence base in terms of Sharia tribunals, this narrow focus on Sharia misses the point that a wider reappraisal of family law matters is required. This article contends that the sharia debate points to wider concerns about two areas of family law in particular: the formalities concerning marriage and the privatisation of family justice. It concludes that concerns about sharia tribunals cannot be addressed without paying attention to wider family law developments

Migration policies and sex selectivity in Kuwait

"November 1990."Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-33)Research supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanitie

Critical Perspective: The Unnatural Nature of the Animal Rights/Liberation Philosophy

Author Institution: Department of Integrative Biology and Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkele

Rapid, multiplexed microfluidic phage display

The development of a method for high-throughput, automated proteomic screening could impact areas ranging from fundamental molecular interactions to the discovery of novel disease markers and therapeutic targets. Surface display techniques allow for efficient handling of large molecular libraries in small volumes. In particular, phage display has emerged as a powerful technology for selecting peptides and proteins with enhanced, target-specific binding affinities. Yet, the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming when multiple targets are involved.Here we demonstrate for the first time a microfluidic chip capable of identifying high affinity phage displayed peptides for multiple targets in just a single round and without the need for bacterial infection. The chip is shown to be able to yield well-established control consensus sequences while simultaneously identifying new sequences for clinically important targets. Indeed, the confined parameters of the device allow not only for highly controlled assay conditions but also introduce a significant time-reduction to the phage display process. We anticipate that this easily-fabricated, disposable device has the potential to impact areas ranging from fundamental studies of protein, peptide, and molecular interactions, to applications such as fully automated proteomic screening

Public views on drought mitigation: Evidence from the comments sections of on-line news sources

During the spring of 2012 much of the south-east of England was under water use restrictions, as a result of two consecutive dry winters. The drought highlighted the region's vulnerability to this natural hazard and emphasized the issues associated with water shortages and the need for drought mitigation measures. Using qualitative content analysis of online news articles (n = 14) and their associated comments from readers (n = 1298) we explore both public preferences for drought mitigation options and the underpinning reasoning used to justify such preferences. Findings suggest that supply side interventions attract more intense commentary and divide opinion to a greater extent than demand side strategies and that dialogue around mitigation options is characterised by a pronounced concern for the relative social justice of choices. The study also generates important lessons about the structured use of on-line public opinion sources and we offer conclusions about how these might best be utilised in the future