bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Promoting experiential learning through the use of high-fidelity human patient simulators in midwifery: A qualitative study
Authors: Amod Hafaza B. , Brysiewicz Petra
Published: January 2019

Background: The need to use innovative teaching and learning strategies in the nursing pedagogy is important in the 21st century. The challenges of clinical sites and opportunities for nursing students to gain clinical experience are a growing concern for many nurse educators. High-fidelity human patient simulators (HFHPS) are computerised mannequins that replicate a real-life patient, and when integrated into classroom teaching they allow students to become fully immersed into an almost real-life scenario.Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe how HFHPS can promote experiential learning following the management of postpartum haemorrhage as a midwifery clinical emergency.Method: A descriptive qualitative research approach was carried out in this study. The research setting was a local university in KwaZulu-Natal. The total population included all (N = 43) fourth-year baccalaureate of nursing undergraduate student midwives who participated as observers and/or role-players of a scenario role-play. An all-inclusive sampling was performed. There were 43 student midwives involved in the simulation teaching session with 6 of these students actively participating in each role-play at a time, while the remaining 37 observed. This occurred in two separate sessions and all the student midwives were involved in a debriefing session. These student midwives were then followed up and asked to participate in a focus group. The data in this article came from two separate focus groups which comprised 20 student midwives in total. Data were analysed using content analysis.Results: Four categories emerged from the data, namely HFHPS offers a unique opportunity for student midwives to manage complex real-life emergencies; promotes reflection by allowing student midwives to reflect or review their roles, decisions and skills; allows student midwives to learn from their own experiences and encourages student midwives to try out what they learnt in a real-life situation.Conclusion: High-fidelity human patient simulators can be used in a complex case scenario to promote experiential learning of a clinical emergency.
Liberia, South Carolina
Authors: Coggeshall John M.
Published: January 2019

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows members of a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community’s 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.
An ensemble probabilisitic approach to reconstruct the biogeochemical
state of the North Atlantic Ocean using ocean colour images
Authors: Garnier Florent , Brasseur Pierre , Brankart Jean-Michel , Santana-Falcon Yeray , Cosme Emmanuel
Published: January 2019

Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the potential of using a probabilistic modelling approach in the prospect of ocean colour data assimilation. The main objective of the study is to assess the benefits of using error covariances based on an explicit simulation of model uncertainties. The relevance of this approach is evaluated by considering 3D observational updates of the ensemble (one update at one time step) performed every 5 days (over one year) using the statistics of a North Atlantic coupled NEMO/PISCES stochastic ensemble simulation involving 60 members, as previously described in Garnier et al, 2016. In this experiment, SeaWIFS ocean colour data are used to update the ensemble with a low rank ensemble Kalman Filter analysis scheme. The non-Gaussian behaviour of the model variables is taken into account using anamorphic transformations. Comparisons between the updated ensemble and the MERIS satellite observations shows that the integration of high resolution SeaWIFS data significantly improves the representation and the ensemble statistics of chlorophyll concentrations. We also show that these improvements consistently cascade in the water column chlorophyll distributions and on non-observed variables closely linked with the primary production. In addition, we present first results illustrating the potential of our approach for biogeochemical forecasts. The objective is to examine the model response to data assimilation in the perspective of future operational applications. For this purpose, we perform a 60 member simulation initiated from updated biogeochemical states. This forecast simulation shows that ocean colour data assimilation would be skillful considering integration cycles of the order of a day. Finally, the intend of this article is to point out the feasibility of operational biogeochemical data assimilation in the near future.
Machine Learning in Health Care: A Critical Appraisal of Challenges and
Opportunities
Authors: Sendak Mark , Gao Michael , Nichols Marshall , Lin Anthony , Balu Suresh
Published: January 2019

Examples of fully integrated machine learning models that drive clinical care are
rare. Despite major advances in the development of methodologies that outperform
clinical experts and growing prominence of machine learning in mainstream medical
literature, major challenges remain. At Duke Health, we are in our fourth year
developing, piloting, and implementing machine learning technologies in clinical care.
To advance the translation of machine learning into clinical care, health system leaders
must address barriers to progress and make strategic investments necessary to bring
health care into a new digital age. Machine learning can improve clinical workflows in
subtle ways that are distinct from how statistics has shaped medicine. However, most
machine learning research occurs in siloes, and there are important, unresolved
questions about how to retrain and validate models post-deployment. Academic medical
centers that cultivate and value transdisciplinary collaboration are ideally suited to
integrate machine learning in clinical care. Along with fostering collaborative
environments, health system leaders must invest in developing new capabilities within
the workforce and technology infrastructure beyond standard electronic health records.
Now is the opportunity to break down barriers and achieve scalable growth in the number
of high-impact collaborations between clinical researchers and machine learning experts
to transform clinical care.
Reified Life
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition addresses the most pressing political question of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or expendable, human and otherwise. Reified Life theorizes the dangerous social implications of a posthuman future, whereby human agency is secondary to algorithmic processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instruments, and nonhuman market and technological forces. Narkunas contends that it is premature to speak of a posthuman or inhuman future, or employ an ‘ism, given how dynamic and contingent human practices and their material figurations can be. Over several chapters he diagnoses the rise of “market humans,” the instrumentalization of culture to decide the life worth living along utilitarian categories, and the varied ways human rights and humanitarianism actually throw members of the species like refugees outside the human order. Reified Life argues against posthumanist calls to abandon the human and humanism, and instead proposes the ahuman to think alongside the human. Reified Life elaborates speculative fictions as critical mechanisms for envisioning alternative futures and freedoms from the domineering forces of speculative capital, whose fictions have become our realities. Narkunas offers, to that end, a novel interpretation of the post-anthropocentric turn in the humanities by linking the diminished centrality of humanism to the waning dominion of nation-states over their populations and the intensification of financial capitalism, which reconfigures politics along economic categories of risk management.
The Effect of Information Technology on the Recruitment Process in Healthcare Organization in Makkah City
Authors: Khadija Zamil , Omar Alsharqi
Published: January 2019

As technology advances in recruitment and selection, it provides job seekers with more options for finding a career in the healthcare industry. At the same time, it helps organizations to streamline the hiring process. Internet job sites like CareerBuilder, Monster and Hot Jobs allow job seekers to post resumes which employers can view online and select qualified candidates. In addition, online candidate-tracking systems are helpful to employers. Social media forums like Facebook and LinkedIn are useful sources when selecting proper candidates for the healthcare industry. This research set aims to analyse the role of information technology in the healthcare recruitment process. The literature review demonstrates the impact of IT on the recruitment process in the healthcare sector. Literature from different secondary sources, such as books and journals, are discussed in this research. The methodology applied in this research takes a descriptive analytical and deductive approach. In the data collection and analysis part, the data were collected from 130 human-resource employees from different healthcare organizations in Makkah city. A quantitative data analysis method has been followed in order to analyse the raw data obtained in the survey. This helps to get appropriate outcome for the research by fulfilling its research aims and objectives. The outcome results from this study were as follows: First, that using information technology will be very useful in the recruitment process, because it will provide a better outcome than traditional methods. Second, there will be improvement in the quality of recruitment when using information technology in the recruitment process. Third, there will be a small improvement in communication when IT is used in the recruitment process rather than traditional methods. Finally, using IT in the recruitment process will be much more effective than the traditional way. The recommendations made from this study are the following: As outcome is one of the major components in the healthcare industry recruitment system, the applications for providing care must not vary between institutions. In order to improve quality in the healthcare recruitment process, it is necessary to apply IT in the proper way. For instance, those applications that have security issues and may lead to data leakage of candidates must be avoided. Using social media could be useful in enhancing communication in the healthcare recruitment process. The government has an important role to play in setting up standards for organizations. In turn, following these standards could be helpful in guaranteeing the effectiveness of the system.
FOTODIM—Software for Sizing of Photovoltaic Systems
Authors: Santos Daisy Regina dos , Nogueira Carlos Eduardo Camargo , Pazuch Felix Augusto , Schneider Francielle Pareja , Siqueira Jair Antonio Cruz , Nogueira Vitor Lisboa , Souza Samuel Nelson Melegari de , Silveira Vander Fabio
Published: January 2019

This study addresses the development of a computational tool for the sizing of photovoltaic systems interconnected to the grid (grid-tied) and isolated (off-grid) systems. The calculations for the sizing were obtained from the CRESESB Engineering Manual for Photovoltaic Systems, the GREENPO Photovoltaic Systems Technology, Design and Installation Manual, and the BLUESOL Solar System Introduction Digital Book. With knowledge of the latitude, longitude and altitude data of the site, the tool calculates the angle of the modules for better absorption of the photovoltaic radiation. For systems connected to the grid, it is also necessary to provide information on the consumption of the building to be serviced by the photovoltaic system. For isolated systems, in addition to information on the site, it is necessary to know the demand and consumption of the building. Decision-making criteria are based on economic analysis, according to indexes such as Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and Discounted Payback. The screens developed for the sizing tool and examples of sizing of both photovoltaic systems are presented as results, through tables and graphs. The developed software is reliable, and all calculations have theoretical basis.
Polymer-Coated Urea in Broadcast or Furrow Application in the Corn-Palisadegrass Intercropping System
Authors: Almeida Rodrigo Estevam Munhoz de , Favarin José Laércio , Oliveira Felipe Brendler , Junior Clovis Pierozan , Oliveira Silas Maciel de , Lago Bruno Cocco , Tezotto Tiago , Otto Rafael , Trivelin Paulo César Ocheuze
Published: January 2019

Polymer coated urea (PCU) have the potential to increase nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) by the release of N following crop demand while reducing losses by volatilization, leaching and denitrification. However, the NUE of PCU is still unclear especially in systems of corn-palisadegrass intercropping. Broadcast application of urea result in ammonia volatilization losses, new technologies must be adopted in order to allow broadcast application of urea. The aim of this research was to evaluate NUE from PCU in the corn-palisadegrass intercropping system and the viability of the broadcast application using PCU. Two field trials were carried out in a 4 × 2 factorial design including fertilization treatments and application forms. Fertilization treatments were: Conventional Urea topdressing (CUT); Conventional Urea at corn planting (CUP); PCU applied at planting to release in 30 days (PCU30); PCU mixture applied at planting to release in 30 and 60 days (PCU30+60); and application forms: broadcast placement and in furrow. 15N-urea was used for the determination of NUE. The corn yield and palisadegrass above-ground biomass were not affected by the fertilization treatments or application forms. PCU did not increase N uptake and the NUE by corn or palisadegrass in relation to urea. The N uptake from fertilizer by palisadegrass intercropped with corn is less than 1% of all N uptake on the intercropping system and at most 2% of the N fertilizer applied. The slow release urea does not enable the broadcast application and its efficiency depended upon the same climatic conditions as those of the conventional urea.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 11, No. 3
Authors: Brown Anne
Published: January 2019

Reviewer acknowledgements for Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2019.
Investigating Pre-Service Early Childhood Education Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Competencies Regarding Digital Literacy Skills and Their Technology Attitudes and Usage
Authors: Altun Dilek
Published: January 2019

The integration of technology into education is a substantial issue for supporting and updating teachers’ professional development in today’s world and bringing up digitally literate generations and well-educated human capital. Studies have shown that technology integration in education is a complex and multidimensional issue. TPACK transcends the triad of core knowledge types and comprises the basis for the effective integration of technology into teaching. Therefore, the present study sought to understand the contribution of the technology attitudes and usage, digital literacy skills, and online reading comprehension strategies in pre-service early childhood teachers’ TPACK competencies. The participants in the study were 481 voluntary pre-service early childhood teachers (female=398, male=83). The data were collected as a cross-sectional survey. The study findings revealed that pre-service teachers’ TPACK competencies are associated with their technology attitude and usage, digital literacy skills, and online reading comprehension strategies, as well as that the variables explained 38% of the variance. However, pre-service teachers’ grade level and GPA are not related to their self-reported TPACK competencies. These findings can be seen as signals of the necessity for theoretical knowledge and practice to be developed in pre-service teachers’ technology integration in education.
Influence of Salt and Millet Treatments during Meat Fish Fermentation in Senegal
Authors: Diop Michel Bakar , Fall Moussou , Konte Mamadou Abdoulaye , Montet Didier , Maiga Amadou Seidou , Guiro Amadou Tidiane
Published: January 2019

Microbial growth in meat from traditional handled Arius heudelotti fish during fermentation at 25-30°C in Senegal has been determined. Microorganisms involved in fermentation and pathogen microorganisms were analyzed in function of salt and millet addition [1/1 (w/v)].

Total viable microorganisms, lactic acid bacteria, H2S-producing Enterobacteriaceae, staphylococci, fungi and spore-forming bacteria counts in the crude meat fish reached 6.34 ± 0.28, 4.10 ± 0.61, 4.33 ± 0.45, 3.71 ± 0.69, 1.50 ± 0.3 and 1.33 ± 0.58 Log10 CFU/g.

H2S-producing bacteria predominated (8.3 ± 0.25 Log10 CFU/g) after 24 h incubation at 25-30°C of untreated meat fish or that immersed in saline [14% NaCl (w/v)]. The pH of raw meat fish was 6.32 ± 0.1. It increased during unsalted fermentation, while it slightly decreased for the saline procedure. Meat fish fermentation in salty water added with NaCl at 80% (w/v), widespread in Senegal, allowed weak acidification in addition to growth inhibition of H2S producing Enterobacteriaceae which dropped to 3.53 ± 0.45 Log10 CFU/g after 24 h of fermentation. The fish fermentation in water added with malted millet flour at 15% (w/v) enabled significant growth of lactic acid bacteria and pH dropping to 4.9 ± 0.19. SH2-producing Enterobacteriaceae, Staphyloccoci and spore-forming bacteria showed a weak growth in the meat fish significantly acidified in millet solution, indicating preservative factor improvement when compared to the abusive salting traditional procedure which is a dietetic concern.
Conclusion
Authors: Westfahl Gary
Published: January 2019

The conclusion first notes evidence of continuing interest in Clarke’s science fiction and speculates that future readers may especially appreciate his work for two reasons. First, as space travel becomes more commonplace, and more people are living in outer space, his plausible stories about space life may be of special interest to them. Second, in contrast to characters in other twentieth-century novels, who are primarily concerned with establishing and maintaining relationships, future readers, largely living in solitude, may better identify with Clarke’s isolated protagonists. Yet Clarke’s characters also seem unlike contemporary people in their calm focus on doing their jobs instead of obsessing about their personal problems or regarding themselves as victims. Yet this might also strike future readers as refreshing.
Conclusions
Authors: Kaplan Jonathan , Umaña Federico Paredes
Published: January 2019

In addition to summarizing our research at Chocolá, in this final chapter the problematic issues challenging archaeologists working in the piedmont and the Southern Maya Region as a whole are reviewed—a far more difficult situation for archaeological research than in the Lowland jungles to the north. A stress is put on the likely great archaeological riches remaining to be discovered in the Guatemalan piedmont and coast, but, at the same time, the urgency of the threat to these riches from the enormous pressures of modern development as Guatemala continues its largely unplanned urban, suburban, and industrial expansions through the otherwise plantation-rich south. Because archaeology in the Lowlands has more or less always been well funded, and with no shortage of archaeologists focused on the Lowland Maya, present and future researchers are urged to “look south” for future research in hopes of salvaging for study and for world heritage what remains of a region still little studied but, from all evidence, one that was seminal to later developments in Maya civilization and wider Mesoamerica.
The Bioarchaeology of Childhood
Authors: Inglis Raelene M. , Halcrow Siân E.
Published: January 2019

Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase of research in the study of children and childhood in the past from anthropological, archaeological, and bioarchaeological perspectives. Despite recent research and theoretical developments, the advancement of research into childhood in the past continues to be somewhat hampered by the disparate theoretical approaches that are applied. This chapter reviews both the development of the bioarchaeological study of childhood and the important theoretical issues – including age, gender, and biocultural approaches – and offers suggestions for the development of approaches that “speak” between the different theoretical perspectives in the study of childhood in the past. Suggested future research directions include the integration of biological aspects into the social life course approach, by incorporating aspects of the biologically underpinned life history theoretical approach. Another imperative is to critically evaluate the attribution and meaning of “agency” in the bioarchaeology of childhood.
Bioarchaeological Analyses of Children and Childhood from the Kellis 2 Cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
Authors: Wheeler Sandra M. , Williams Lana J. , Dupras Tosha L.
Published: January 2019

Infancy and childhood have long been recognized as critical periods of increased physiological stress, morbidity, and mortality, and they have therefore been the focus of much research in bioarchaeological investigations in recent years. The Kellis 2 cemetery (c. 100–360 AD) in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct the lives, experiences, and deaths of infants and children using a multi-modal approach. This chapter emphasizes the necessity of addressing issues of children’s lives and mortality directly through analyses of their physical remains. In addition, melding analyses of the body with the mortuary treatment, the prevalence of skeletal stress indicators and disease, the data on nutrition and diet, and the patterns of seasonal mortality allows for a more nuanced interpretation of childhood experiences in antiquity.
In Conclusion
Authors: Knowles Sebastian D.G.
Published: January 2019

The author draws from his position as editor of the Florida James Joyce Series to present twelve different new approaches to Joyce study. The book returns home by comparing the centrifugal method (departure) with the centripetal theme (return): Joyce’s departures are a cycle of fifths, which inexorably comes back to the home key. The twelve forewords given in this chapter are all centrifugal gestures, radiating outward in a series that has no limit. Concluding that universities in crisis must expand their definitions of research, teaching, and service, the author finds a home in the colleagues who have supported the Joycean enterprise. The book ends with a tribute to the best of Joyceans, Zack Bowen, whose approach models the empathy, collegiality, and hospitality that universities have forgotten.
The Sheltered Life
Authors: Lear Ashley Andrews
Published: January 2019

“The Sheltered Life” looks at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow’s attempts to sustain romantic attachments while maintaining their success as writers. Rawlings spent much of her time in Richmond interrogating friends and relations about Glasgow’s romantic relationships, especially her confirmed engagement to Henry Anderson. Rawlings herself was married to Norton Baskin after her initial marriage to Charles Rawlings fell apart over their volatile tempers and professional jealousies. Glasgow never married and found it difficult to sustain her romantic affairs for any length of time. Both women prioritized their professional lives as writers over romantic attachments and were regularly frustrated by their partners’ inability to understand their lives as writers.
Women Who Will—Do
Authors: Lear Ashley Andrews
Published: January 2019

“Women Who Will—Do” catalogues the nonfiction writings by Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings that detail their shared interest in social activism. Many of these writings were included in the material collected by Rawlings for the Glasgow biography or shared in correspondences between the two women writers. This chapter focuses on Rawlings’s interest in conservationism and Glasgow’s work with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Both women found ways to use their fame and wealth to influence others about the social issues they supported.
The Theoretical and Methodological Framework
Authors: Jiménez Luis F.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 2 lays out a theory of migrant influence. It does so by borrowing heavily on the theories of social remittances and economic remittances as well as social networks. It shows how and why migrants are more or less likely to shape a country’s politics. It develops the ideas of how contexts and social networks work together and how these elements can limit or expand the influence of migrants.
The Political Impact of Migrants in Colombia and Ecuador
Authors: Jiménez Luis F.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 7 presents fieldwork carried out in Colombia and Ecuador in the summer of 2012. It mostly presents data derived from the interviews conducted with mayors and local authorities in the highlands of Colombia and Ecuador. The chapter also gives some specific examples of how migrant influence improved the lot of their communities, particularly with basic government services. It also presents some observations from migrant organizations in Ecuador. Overall, the data strongly supports that migrants channel new ideas to their communities of origin, and that the locals are noticing.
Conclusion
Authors: Jiménez Luis F.
Published: January 2019

The conclusion summarizes the findings of the book. It uses a comparative approach to underline more explicitly how each case has contributed to our understanding. It then moves on to consider what the findings might tell us about other regions of the world. It specifically considers Central America, parts of South America, south Asia, and Africa.
Transnational Hispaniola
Authors: Mayes April J. , Jayaram Kiran C.
Published: January 2019

In the introduction, Mayes and Jayaram describe the Transnational Hispaniola paradigm for an audience new to studies of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The introduction also includes a brief description of each chapter of the collection.
The Contested State
Authors: Tavárez Fidel J.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 2 argues that the Dominican Republic’s separation from Haitian rule in 1844 reflected competing and conflicting notions about nationhood, belonging, and the legacies of Haitian rule over the island of Hispaniola.
“A Border between Geographies of Grief”
Authors: Jean-Charles RéGine Michelle
Published: January 2019

Chapter 4 analyzes representations of the Haitian-Dominican border in the literature of Edwidge Danticat, Roxane Gay, and Évelyne Trouillot, who each exhume the historical trauma of the 1937 Massacre of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian ancestry. Jean-Charles argues that these authors understand the border as a space of violence and death but also, quite ironically and powerfully, as a space for creation and possibility.
Construction of and Resistance to the Detention Regime, 1981–1991
Authors: Lindskoog Carl
Published: January 2019

Chapter 4 explains how the government’s blanket detention policy came about and why the Haitian-only detention policy was subsequently expanded to include all inadmissible aliens. This chapter charts the growth of the new detention system in its first decade, including the introduction and use of the first private, for-profit prisons in the United States. In addition, chapter 4 illustrates the wide-ranging resistance movement that developed alongside the growing detention system, documenting the role played by detainees as well as their allies in the streets, courtrooms, and halls of Congress. The campaign of legal resistance is a particular focus of this fourth chapter because many of the most important legal challenges to the burgeoning immigration detention system came from Haitians.
The Study of Chinese Women and the Anglican Church in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Authors: Pui-lan Kwok
Published: January 2019

This chapter presents a cross-cultural study of gender, religion, and culture, using the history of Chinese women and the Anglican Church in China as a case study. Instead of focusing on mission history as previous studies usually have done, it treats the missionary movement as a part of the globalizing modernity, which affected both Western and Chinese societies. The attention shifts from missionaries to local women’s agencies, introducing figures such as Mrs. Zhang Heling, Huang Su’e, and female students in mission schools. It uses a wider comparative frame (beyond China and the West) to contrast women’s work by the Church Missionary Society in China, Iran, India, and Uganda. It also places the ordination for the first woman in the Anglican Communion—Rev. Li Tim Oi—in the development of postcolonial awareness of the church.
The Making of Bible Women in the Fujian Zenana Mission from the 1880s to the 1950s
Authors: Yun Zhou
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores women missionaries from the Church of England Zenana Mission Society and their Bible women in Fujian. It focuses on the intercultural exchange between these two groups of women from entirely different backgrounds from the 1880s to the 1950s, with an aim to address Chinese experience from a transnational perspective. It shows that Bible women were central figures in a process of proselytizing local women and were formed mainly through a series of intercultural communications with their Western mission workers. The author argues that Bible women were the combined historic product of a particular Chinese historical and cultural context and a worldwide evangelical workforce by Western women, developed through transnational interactions and nurtured in a relationship of sisterhood and friendship.
Zhan Aimei (1874–1943)
Authors: Lin Jennifer R.
Published: January 2019

Kuo Siu-may (1916–1995) is best known as the wife of Bishop K. H. Ting (1915–2012). In previous studies she has generally been cast in the shadow of her husband. Kuo Siu-may was educated in Anglican schools and her life and work may be seen as part of the development of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (CHSKH) and of Chinese history as a whole. She also transcended this framework and developed her own role in society. This chapter considers Kuo Siu-may as an independent individual in her own right and interpret her role as an Anglican woman intellectual in pre- and post-liberation China from different perspectives. This chapter offers a different perspective on the role of Anglican women beyond the confines of the Church and opens up a new area of scholarly research.
Information Literacy and Instruction: Making a Place for Makerspaces in Information Literacy
Authors: Mann Leah
Published: January 2019

In recent years, many libraries have experimented with the idea of creating makerspaces in their facilities. Library makerspaces provide patrons with opportunities to experiment not only with different technologies, but with different ways of thinking. In this column, Leah Mann explores the relationship between making and information literacy and describes how librarians can use makerspaces to create unique pedagogical opportunities to develop practical real-world skills, build problem-solving abilities, and enhance knowledge transfer. She explains how the maker movement can affect not only school libraries, but other types of libraries as well.—Editor
Connections, Conversations, and Visibility: How the Work of Academic Reference and Liaison Librarians Is Evolving
Authors: Johnson Anna Marie
Published: January 2019

The work of reference, subject, and liaison librarians is evolving, rapidly in some cases. This article provides an overview of the new roles that these librarians are involved in based on an extensive review of the literature in these areas over the last ten years. While some of these roles have been extensively covered in bibliographic essays of their own (data management, changes to information literacy instruction), this article attempts to provide a broader view of the situation, along with highlighting salient examples of the ways that librarians are trying to forge new and different connections with faculty and students, facilitate important conversations, and stay visible and relevant on their campuses.
Data Seeking Behavior of Economics Undergraduate Students: An Exploratory Study
Authors: Garrison Betty , Exner Nina
Published: January 2019

This article investigates the information seeking behavior of undergraduate economics students to determine their effectiveness in locating data sets for a multiple regression analysis assignment and seeks to discover how students pursue the process of learning to find and use data. A study was conducted in fall and spring 2015 to find out (1) what influences affect students’ ways of seeking data sets; and (2) what changes occur over the course of students’ data search. The findings say that while only about 10% of students started with the library, either a library database or a librarian, nearly half eventually used the library in some form for this course project. The conclusion reached as a result of the survey was that undergraduates have widely varying data search concepts, that more of the students look for personal interest data than business discipline data, and that the searching part of economics students’ first regression project can add a noticeable amount of time to the assignment before they can even get started working on the regression itself. Included are ideas for further research and ways to reach students before data searching gets frustrating, as well as thoughts on how to structure data search learning and how to use insights into student behaviors to overcome the reluctance of some faculty.
Outstanding Business Reference Sources 2018
Authors: Business Reference Sources Committee BRASS
Published: January 2019

Each year, the Business Reference Sources Committee of BRASS selects the outstanding business reference sources published since May of the previous year. This year, the committee reviewed twenty-one entries; of these, one was designated as “Outstanding,” seven as “Notable,” and two as a “Notable New Edition.” To qualify for the award, the title must meet the conventional definition of reference: a work compiled specifically to supply information on a certain subject or group of subjects in a form that will facilitate its ease of use. The works are examined for the following: authority and reputation of the publisher, author, or editor; accuracy; appropriate bibliography; organization; comprehensiveness; value of the content; currency; distinctive addition; ease of use for the intended purpose; quality and accuracy of index; and quality and usefulness of graphics and illustrations. Additional criteria for electronic reference titles are accuracy of links, search features, stability of content, and graphic design. Works selected must be suitable for medium to large-size academic and public libraries.
Book Review: A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice
Authors: Kipnis Daniel G.
Published: January 2019

The Chandos’ book series is designed to help the overworked librarian with practical advice using extensive case studies. The book begins with defining “informationist” and outlining the transformation from a traditional reference librarian to an informationist. The theme of the book deals with filling “information” gaps and each chapter focuses on different types of services that can help fill information gaps at a variety of health institutions.
Book Review: Assessing Library Space for Learning
Authors: Colegrove Tod
Published: January 2019

In Assessing Library Space for Learning, Susan E. Montgomery has assembled a collection of articles from a broad range of practitioners, including educational development, psychology, architecture, user experience, and librarianship generally. The rich mixture of backgrounds delivers more than the promise of its title, offering the reader deep insight into the practical aspects of academic libraries. A welcome contribution in the field, addressing what is largely a dearth in the library literature regarding library space assessment generally—much less, its use for learning. What is available is generally not reflective of the substantial change that has been underway for decades: the “big shift” from a formerly “singular focus on books to a much more dynamic and ever-fluid emphasis on user experience” (53). This book brings together a working understanding of the role of library as place, with practical assessment along multiple learning axes.
Book Review: Framing Information Literacy: Teaching Grounded in Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice (Vols. 1–6)
Authors: Lobley Marla
Published: January 2019

This series successfully multitasks as a resource for lesson plan ideas while also teaching instructional theory and pedagogy. With one volume for each of the six frames in ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, this set is about practical applications of the frames in academic library instruction. Each volume includes complete lesson plans, including handouts and assessment ideas. The plans are grouped by discipline and the beginning of each plan designates the intended population and the learning theory, pedagogy, or instructional strategy used in the lesson. What is missing from these descriptions is whether the lesson is best suited to one-shot or multiple sessions, ideal class size, and how long the lesson takes. While such notations would make it easier for readers looking for ideas to quickly implement, this series is better suited to readers looking for clever concepts that they can adapt to their needs.
Book Review: Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Practice
Authors: Mahan Natalie
Published: January 2019

The refrain that reappears throughout Leveraging Wikipedia is that Wikipedia and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) are natural allies and a fair amount of text is dedicated to convincing the reader of this. It promises practical strategies for putting this alliance to work and ultimately delivers on that promise, if in a circuitous and somewhat repetitive way. After the first few chapters it becomes clear that there are only so many established ways for library professionals to harness the audience and infrastructure of Wikipedia for the benefit of their library. The authors offer a wide array of examples for how they tailored these tried and true methods for the specific niche of their work. The task of building on this existing foundation with innovative new partnerships between Wikipedia and libraries rests on the shoulders of the reader.
Book Review: American Women Speak: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection of Women’s Oratory
Authors: Spieth Bethany
Published: January 2019

American Women Speak provides brief biographies and oratorical samples for American women notable for their use of the spoken word from the 1630s through the present. Aside from brief front and back matter, including a subject guide and chronology, the book consists entirely of biographical sketches of the women along with, for most of the women, examples of their oratory. The examples include excerpts from and the full text of speeches, testimonies, and interviews. They cover a wide range of progressive topics, including women’s rights, environmentalism, pacifism, and gun control. Only two of the included women are activists for conservative causes.
Book Review: Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science, Society, and Solutions
Authors: Babirad Mandy
Published: January 2019

An up-to-date and critical examination of international issues is essential as climate change creeps higher up the global agenda every year. While there are many works on this topic, circumstances change so quickly that it can be difficult to capture in this format. Author Dr. Bruce E. Johansen, the Fredrick W. Kayser Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, offers up this timely three volume set as an investigation into societal impact, science, and solutions. This is the author’s fourth encyclopedic work on the topic of climate change and global warming. The work’s intent is to address the disconnect between scientific study of climate change and the language of popular discourse and policy making. To that end, many of the topics are inherently political and they have far-reaching global impact, the solutions for which take up a large amount of political real estate.
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication
Authors: Lougen Colleen
Published: January 2019

The contributors in this single-volume handbook thoroughly examine the pedagogic and practitioner interpretations of language and professional communication, as well as the theoretical frameworks of related disciplines: business communication, management communication, workplace communication, corporate communication, and organizational communication. Further, the handbook “is an attempt to introduce current research and practice in the field of language teaching and learning in professional contexts to a wider audience” (xvi).
Philosophy and the Historical Perspective: A New Debate on an Old Topic
Authors: van Ackeren Marcel
Published: January 2019

Since the rise of analytical philosophy, the relation of current philosophy and its past is more hotly debated among philosophers than ever. In this Introduction, I first explain the main questions of this debate: Does the study of the history of philosophy contribute to philosophy? What is this contribution? Is there a specific method relating the historical perspective to current philosophy? What does this mean for our view on philosophy in general? Second, I critically discuss doubts about the usefulness of the debate and defend its importance. Third, I briefly discuss the relation of the historical perspective and its relation to the philosophy of philosophy, and finally I summarize the evolution of the debate and some of its main positions.
I am Recoding the Sound of My Speaking Voice. Enunciation in Alvin Lucier's I'm Sitting in a Room
Authors: Vandsoe Anette
Published: January 2019

‘I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in’, states the American sound artist and composer Alvin Lucier (1931-) in his canonical piece I am Sitting in a Room (1970), thereby emphasising the very act of enunciation in which someone is addressing someone else in an individual speech act. Though the question of enunciation has been touched upon in several analyses of this piece, none of them have connected it to the strong and vast theoretical field established by the French linguist Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) and further developed by numerous phenomenologically-oriented analytical approaches, particularly in relation to literary and film studies. By shifting our attention from the statement to the very act in which it is produced, the article aims not only to shed light on an essential part of Lucier’s artwork, but also to show how the theory of enunciation can prove fruitful in relation to sound studies as such. In conclusion, the article suggests that in addition to the text, the vocal performance and the recording can also be seen as communicative acts.
Radiolab - three different approaches
Authors: Stockfelt Ola , Lønstrup Ansa , Sangild Torben
Published: January 2019

The three papers in this ‘suite’ have a special background and context. At the 2010 conference SoundActs in Aarhus the three panellists were each given the task to provide a paper with an analysis of the same sound object, thus exhibiting and contrasting different scholarly approaches to sound studies. The object was selected by Torben Sangild, who was familiar with the chosen context: the signature of the US radio programme and podcast Radiolab. The two other participants did not know the context and chose to analyse the sound object without further contextual investigation. This object was chosen for several reasons. First of all, it is brief (less than 17 seconds), which meant that it was possible to make a detailed analysis; at the same time, though, it is relatively complex, which means that it can accommodate three different analyses. It is a sound object with a global audience, taken from one of the most popular podcasts worldwide, accessible on the internet. Finally, it is a piece of functional sound design, rather than a work of art, which raises the question of context more clearly. The result is three rather different approaches: 1) a process analysis, observing analytical listening strategies towards the constructed object, 2) a vocal analysis, regarding the sound object as a polyphony of voices, and 3) a contextual analysis, framing the sound object as a radio signature. Ola Stockfelt analyses the sound object as something that is constructed via his own repeated listening process – as a scholarly-analytical analysis of the subjective act of creating meaning. He draws on presumptions and prejudices, demonstrating the impossibility of a purely structural listening. The analysis relates these hermeneutical reflections to formal musicological observations of harmony, timbre, space and rhythm in some detail. Ansa Lønstrup’s paper analyses the sound object as a polyphony of voices. Her analysis is inspired by two phenomenologists: Don Ihde, whose notion of ‘voice’ is understood in a more general sense as the voices of all things, and Lawrence Ferrara, who methodologically operates within tree levels of investigation: 1) the syntax, 2) the semantic and 3) the ontology level. Accordingly, this analysis is conducted, as if the sound object was performed by a vocal ensemble oscillating ‘between a musical and a speech act’. Torben Sangild’s paper focuses on the concrete function of the sound object as a radio signature. This prompts a generic analysis and a semantic model of radio signatures in general, eclectically employing formal, indexical, gestural, discursive and contextual levels of meaning. The analysis of the Radiolab signature focuses on the overall gesture of tension and release as well as the semantic elements in a constellation with the content and style of the radio programme. After the three individual contributions, a brief summary and conclusion will follow, answering any questions that may arise in the process.