bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Bone mineral density measurements of strontium-rich trabecular bone-mimicking phantoms using quantitative ultrasound
Authors: Rizvi Bisma , Silva Eric Da , Slatkovska Luba , Cheung Angela M. , Tavakkoli Jahangir (Jahan) , Pejović-Milić Ana
Published: May 2024

Purpose: Bone quantity, as determined by the current gold standard, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), through measured areal bone mineral density (aBMD), is subject to positive biases if bone strontium levels are high. This is of particular concern for populations administered strontium-based compounds for the treatment of osteoporosis. This study investigated the dependence of bone mineral density (BMD) determinations, and associated ultrasound-determined indices, obtained by quantitative ultrasound (QUS), on bone strontium content using a new generation of trabecular bone-mimicking phantoms.

Methods: A new generation of bone-mimicking phantoms, consisting of hydroxyapatite (HA) and gelatin, was developed. Castor oil layers were included in these phantoms to create a multilayer bone-mimicking phantom. These phantoms were prepared using a bone mineral fraction consisting of varying strontium concentrations in the range of 0-2.5% mol/mol as strontium-substituted HA. The effect of varying bone strontium content on determined quality indices was evaluated based on determined speed of sound (SOS), broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA) and determined quantitative ultrasound index (QUI) for phantoms with varying BMD values and varying strontium concentration using two QUS systems: a clinical Sahara® system and an in-house research system with two identical transducers with center frequency of 1 MHz. The two QUS systems were also compared through a Bland-Altman analysis.

Results: Both the clinical system and the research QUS systems showed a strong dependency between BMD and BUA, indicating a potential for QUS to be used as a means of estimating BMD (p = 0.001). SOS was found to have no correlation to BMD (p = 0.546). There was no correlation observed between BUA and increasing bone strontium concentrations for the research (p = 0.749) and clinical (p = 0.609) QUS systems. Similarly, no dependency was observed between the SOS and bone strontium levels up to 2.5 mol/mol [Sr/(Sr+Ca)]% for the research (p = 0.862) and clinical (p = 0.481) QUS systems. No effect on the QUI values was observed with changing strontium levels with either research (p = 0.939) or clinical QUS systems (p = 0.931). A Bland-Altman analysis showed that there was a clear offset in determined QUI values for both systems but they are in agreement with one another.

Conclusions: Bone quality can be assessed through the use of QUS while increasing bone strontium concentration was found to have no effect on QUS-determined quality indices. This study concludes that QUS can potentially be used for the determination of bone quality without introducing biases due to bone strontium levels as is known to be the case with DXA determined aBMD.
MRI-based automated detection of implanted low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy seeds using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and unsupervised machine learning (ML)
Authors: Nosrati Reyhaneh , Soliman Abraam , Safigholi Habib , Hashemi Masoud , Wronski Matthew , Morton Gerard , Pejović-Milić Ana , Stanisz Greg , Y. Song William
Published: May 2024

Background and purpose: Permanent seed brachytherapy is an established treatment option for localized prostate cancer. Currently, post-implant dosimetry is performed on CT images despite challenging target delineation due to limited soft tissue contrast. This work aims to develop an MRI-only workflow for post-implant dosimetry of prostate brachytherapy seeds.

Material and methods: A prostate mimicking phantom containing twenty stranded I-125 dummy seeds and calcifications was constructed. A three-dimensional gradient-echo MR sequence was employed on 3T and 1.5T MR scanners. An optimized quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) technique was applied to generate positive contrast for the seeds and calcifications. Seed numbers, centroids, and orientations were determined using unsupervised machine learning algorithms (K-means and K-medoids clustering). The geometrical seed positions and the resulting dose distribution were compared to the clinical CT-based approach.

Results: The optimized QSM-based method generated high quality positive contrast for the seeds that were significantly different from that for calcifications and could be easily differentiated by thresholding. The estimated seed centroids from both 3T and 1.5T MR data were in perfect agreement with the standard CT-based seed detection algorithm (maximum difference of 0.7 mm). The estimated seed orientations were highly correlated with the actual orientations (R > 0.98).

Conclusions: The proposed MRI-based workflow enabling an accurate and robust means to localize the seeds (position and orientation) upon validation on complex seed configurations, has the potential to replace the current widely practiced CT-based workflow.
Feasibility of an MRI-Only Workflow for Postimplant Dosimetry of LDR Brachytherapy in Prostate Patients
Authors: Nosrati Reyhaneh , Y. Song William , Wronski Matthew , Pejović-Milić Ana , Morton Gerard , Stanisz Greg J.
Published: May 2024

Purpose: The lack of positive contrast from brachytherapy seeds in conventional MR images remains a major challenge toward an MRI-only workflow for postimplant dosimetry of low-dose-rate brachytherapy. In this work, the feasibility of our recently proposed MRI-only workflow in clinically relevant scenarios is investigated and the necessary modifications in image acquisition and processing pipeline are proposed for transition to the clinic.

Methods and Materials: Four prostate phantoms with a total of 321 I-125 implanted dummy seeds and three patients with a total of 168 implanted seeds were scanned using a gradient echo sequence on 1.5 T and 3T MR scanners. Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) was performed for seed visualization. Before QSM, the seed-induced distortion correction was performed followed by edge enhancement. Seed localization was performed using spatial clustering algorithms and was compared with CT. In addition, feasibility of the proposed method on detection of prostatic calcifications was studied.

Results: The proposed susceptibility-based algorithm generated consistent positive contrast for the seeds in phantoms and patients. All the 321 seeds in the four phantoms were correctly identified; the MR-derived seeds centroids agreed well with CT-derived positions (average error = 0.5 ± 0.3 mm). The proposed algorithm for seed visualization was found to be orientation invariant. In patient cases, all seeds were visualized and correctly localized (average error = 1.2 ± 0.9 mm); no significant differences between dose volume histogram parameters were found. Prostatic calcifications were depicted with negative contrast on QSM and spatially agreed with CT.

Conclusions: The proposed MRI-based approach has great potential to replace the current CT-based practices. Additional patient studies are necessary to further optimize and validate the workflow.
Revolutionizing Banking Decision-Making: A Deep Learning Approach to Predicting Customer Behavior
Authors: Md Nasir Uddin Rana  , Sarder Abdulla Al Shiam  , Sarmin Akter Shochona  , Md Rasibul Islam  , Md Asrafuzzaman  , Proshanta Kumar Bhowmik  , Refat Naznin  , Sandip Kumar Ghosh  , Md Ariful Islam Sarkar  , Md Asaduzzaman
Published: May 2024

This article explores a machine learning approach focused on predicting bank customer behavior, emphasizing deep learning methods. Various architectures, including CNNs like VGG16, ResNet50, and InceptionV3, are compared with traditional algorithms such as Random Forest and SVM. Results show deep learning models, particularly ResNet50, outperform traditional ones, with an accuracy of 86.66%. A structured methodology ensures ethical data use. Investing in infrastructure and expertise is crucial for successful deep learning integration, offering a competitive edge in banking decision-making.
Transformative Impact of Deep Learning in Stock Market Decision-Making: A Comparative Study of Convolutional Neural Networks
Authors: Hammed Esa  , Mohammad Anisur Rahman  , Md Abu Sufian Mozumder  , Nisha Gurung  , Mohammed Nazmul Islam Miah  , Md Murshid Reja Sweet  , Mohammad Kawsur Sharif  , Md Rasibul Islam  , Md Nasiruddin  , MD SANOWAR HOSSAIN SABUJ
Published: May 2024

This research delves into the transformative impact of deep learning, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) such as VGG16, ResNet50, and InceptionV3, on organizational management and business intelligence. The study follows a comprehensive methodology, emphasizing the importance of high-quality datasets in leveraging deep learning for enhanced decision-making. Results demonstrate the superior performance of CNN models over traditional algorithms, with CNN (VGG19) achieving an accuracy rate of 89.45%. The findings underscore the potential of deep learning in extracting meaningful insights from complex data, offering a paradigm shift in optimizing various organizational processes. The article concludes by emphasizing the significance of investing in infrastructure and expertise for successful CNN integration, ensuring ethical considerations, and addressing data privacy concerns. This research contributes to the growing discourse on the application of deep learning in organizational management, providing a valuable resource for businesses navigating the dynamic landscape of the global market.
Challenges and Coping Strategies Brought by Digital Media to the Development of B&B Industry under the Perspective of Field Theory
Authors: Zhu Qiaoying , Zhong Huilan , Chen Jiayi
Published: May 2024

Based on Bourdieu's field theory, the article discusses the challenges and coping strategies of digital media in the development of the B&B industry. In the Internet field, the power struggle between B&B operators and consumers becomes the main focus. By utilizing the Internet platform, B&B operators compete to increase brand awareness and influence and attract consumers' attention. Meanwhile, consumers also influence B&B brands through the Internet field, forming a complex, competitive network. In the competition for symbolic capital, B&Bs gain social recognition through the Netflix effect and celebrity recommendations to further enhance their image and competitiveness, and through self-media accounts and matrix content marketing, B&B content is widely disseminated to enhance their exposure in the Internet arena. However, the B&B industry is also facing the problem of homogenization and needs to maintain its personalized characteristics in competition. Combining local characteristics and innovative models, B&B operators can achieve sustainable development and promote rural revitalization.
Prevalence of Human Malaria Parasite among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at Eldin Specialist Hospital Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Authors: Nanvyat Nannim , Jwat N. D. , Luka I. , Otakpa E. O. , Mamka’a T. T. , Samson M. , Goselle O. N. , Mwansat G. S.
Published: May 2024

Malaria infection is a severe parasitic infectious disease transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. The disease presents with severe consequences in pregnant women and children <5 years, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where the burden of the disease is highest. Malaria in pregnancy may present with severe symptoms such as miscarriages, premature delivery, low-birth-weight neonates, and neonatal death. This study therefore determined the prevalence of malaria infection among pregnant women in Jos Metropolis. Capillary blood samples were collected from 200 symptomatic pregnant women attending Eldin Specialist Hospital, in Jos, and thin and thick blood Giemsa-stained films were prepared and examined for the presence of malaria parasites. Our findings revealed that 70(35%) of the 200 pregnant women sampled were infected. Based on gravidity, incidence of malaria infection was highest in the primigravidae 45 (41.9%) as compared to multigravidae 25 (27.8%) although decreasing with gestational age, as subjects in their first trimester were more infected 44 (44.0%) with the least being those in their third trimester14 (21.5%). Two peaks of infection were encountered in respect to age; 46.2% in subjects aged 20-24 years and 42.9% in subjects aged 30-39 years with the least infection recorded in subjects aged > 39 years, 17.9%. Malaria incidence is decreasing in the country due to scale up intervention and prevention measures, however, malaria still remains a major public health problem among pregnant women and deliberate efforts need to be put in place to forestall the negative impact of this disease.
Integrating Writing in the Classroom with Reader Responses
Authors: McCoy Rebecca K.
Published: May 2024

In recent years many colleges and universities have implemented "Writing Across the Curriculum" programs to train faculty to integrate more writing assignments into their courses. These programs, based on the idea that writing is not just a skill to be mastered in English courses, provide a much-needed resource to professors, most of whom received minimal training in teaching during their graduate studies. Indeed, writing across the curriculum involves more than improving effective written communication. Instead, it also can be a powerful tool for learning content and for developing critical thinking in all disciplines. For history teachers, these programs can have particular value. The traditional model for teaching college history, especially in survey courses, has been the lecture format and hour exams in "bluebooks." While such methods are useful for teaching content, they frequently do not foster long term retention or even a deeper understanding of the material.
The "reader response" is one type of writing assignment that I have used in both world civilization surveys and upper-division European history courses to get students to engage more closely with reading assignments and to promote class discussion. A reader response falls into a pedagogical category called "writing to learn." In contrast to writing assignments that test students or involve a research paper designed to communicate what has been learned to an audience (usually the professor), the reader response is more personal; it is a means of"thinking on paper."
Marcus And Burner, Eds., America Firsthand
Authors: Schulkin Carl
Published: May 2024

The fourth edition of America Firsthand delivers exactly what it promises. It "gives voice to ordinary Americans," providing a wide range of eyewitness accounts that permit students to sample "a broad range of human experience." The selections are substantial enough, ranging from six to eight pages each, to allow students "to immerse themselves in each writer's perspective." America Firsthand is intended to help meet "the challenge of connecting traditional chronology with the new materials of social history." Both volumes are organized in accordance with "the traditional markers of United States history" and include accounts of the American Revolution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Vietnam War. The editors' introduction to each part announces the theme and briefly explains the relationship of each selection to that theme. The equally concise headnotes preceding each reading are very informative and help contextualize the subject matter for the beginning student.
Nardo, The Bill Of Rights
Authors: Geib George
Published: May 2024

Opposing viewpoints readers are among the most established of all forms of supplementary reading in the history classroom. By presenting history in the form of discourse, and demonstrating the steps in the process through which we move in constructing an interpretation of the past, a good interpretive reader can help students appreciate historical method. This type of assignment often facilitates student participation, from one-on-one discussions to teams in mock legislatures, conventions, and courts. With a bit of guidance from a good moderator, it's a proven path to student involvement.
The Bill of Rights is part of a larger series of digests being produced by Greenhaven Press. Style and length suggest a target audience of high school and community college readers, although the author is careful not to speak down to the audience.
Kornfeld, Margaret Fuller - A Brief Biography With Documents
Authors: Warner Sue
Published: May 2024

Margaret Fuller was well known in early nineteenth-century America as a writer, philosopher, feminist, and activist. She was part of the Transcendentalist movement, a friend and colleague (and often a critic) of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first editor of the Transcendentalists' journal, the Dial, and the first American woman journalist to serve as a foreign correspondent. Yet she remains virtually unknown to Americans today. In this brief biography, Eve Kornfeld, professor of history at San Diego State University, attempts to convey the essential elements of Fuller's life and her struggle to create a personal identity that would enable her to live a "fully human life" without what she considered to be artificial constraints based on gender, class, or race.
Calloway, Ed., Our Hearts Fell On The Ground - Plains Indian Views On How The West Was Lost
Authors: Clark David Anthony
Published: May 2024

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground follows the fate of Plains Indian people as they recoiled from, resisted, and accommodated the dramatic and devastating effects of military campaigns, forced removals, and cultural terrorism during the nineteenth century. Both a companion volume to Calloway's earlier The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America (1994) and a collection of native voices able to stand on its own, this latest addition to the Bedford Series on History and Culture is clearly aimed at a community college and four-year undergraduate audience and less obviously directed at people interested in American Indian issues.
Colin Calloway, professor of history and Native American studies at Dartmouth College and author most recently of New Worlds for All (1998), contributes a rich collection of native voices that tell a riveting and sorrowful story about relations between indigenous people and American settlers, government officials, reformers, and missionaries. Two elements contribute to the successful presentation of Indian insights and voices in Our Hearts Fell to the Ground. First, there are Calloway's wonderfully crafted thirty-page introduction and fifty-plus pages of contextual material. Considered together, these eighty pages suggest that army bullets, transcontinental railroads, and gold rushes were experienced by native people as suppressions of local autonomy, as thefts of ancestral homelands, and as deaths of friends and family members. Within the setting developed by Calloway-the American conquest of the Plains-readers can probably acknowledge the relevance of hearing and listening to native voices.
Internationalizing The Teaching Of Early U.S. History
Authors: Lyons John
Published: May 2024

As I have been teaching the history of the United States for the past few years, I have increasingly come to the conclusion that my, and other, survey courses need to be revamped to internationalize the teaching of United States history and thereby situate the nation more fully into the larger transnational and global context. At the moment, most teachers ofUnited States History since 1865 rarely consider events beyond the country's borders and when they do it is only to examine briefly America's role in the two World Wars and the Vietnam War or maybe to discuss immigration to the United States. Those teaching the early American history survey spend even less time on events outside the United States, suggesting the nation had little economic, military, or cultural influence on the rest of the world in this period. Instead, they concentrate on the history of the various English colonies and the internal political policies and practices of the new nation while rarely mentioning other countries.
Eubank, The Origins Of World War II
Authors: Saylor Thomas
Published: May 2024

The Origins of World War II is the third edition of a work that first appeared in 1969. The book is organized in a chronological fashion, beginning with the aftermath of 1918 and ending with a detailed chapter on 1939 and the outbreak of war. There is an informative chapter that introduces readers to the post-1918 European reality, with an explanation of what the major powers sought during and after Versailles.
Marvel, The Salem Witch Trials
Authors: Gill Jill
Published: May 2024

The Salem Witch Trials, edited by Laura Marvel. is part of Greenhaven's Opposing Viewpoints series. The goal of this series is to elucidate various interpretive positions on controversial historical subjects. and serve both as a vehicle for and an example of scholarly debate. This latest addition to the series on the Salem witch trials succeeds in fulfilling this mission; it would be highly useful as a source for class discussion or as a springboard for a paper, both on the trials themselves and on the nature of historical interpretation.
Small, Antiwarrior - The Vietnam War And The Battle For America's Hearts And Minds
Authors: Mugleston William
Published: May 2024

The intrusion of the Vietnam war into the 2004 presidential campaign demonstrates, if such evidence were further needed, the staying power of the most divisive military conflict in the nation's history since the Civil War. In Antiwarriors, Melvin Small of Wayne State University provides an overview of the antiwar movement of the Johnson and Nixon years.
Williams, Ed., The Terrorist Attack On America
Authors: De Graaf Lawrence
Published: May 2024

The destruction of the World Trade Towers by terrorists on September 1 1, 2001, elevated the problem of Islamic terrorism to a central place in United States foreign affairs. It is therefore essential that any course in recent American history or current events cover this topic and the major issues that have grown out of it. This anthology of magazine articles and editorials written in the months immediately following 9/11 is an early effort at doing this in a classroom book. Part of Greenhaven's "Current Controversies" series, it is organized around four questions that in early 2002 seemed to be the leading issues of this subject.
Rielly, Ed., Baseball And American Culture - Across The Diamond
Authors: Armstrong Thomas
Published: May 2024

Even the most casual fan of baseball will find essays in this volume to excite, bring back memories, and cause contemplation about the "national pastime." With topics ranging from American fans to baseball's inclusiveness ( on the diamond if not in the ranks of management), to the economics of baseball, to management-labor disputes, or to baseball and the arts, the volume includes some twenty-three essays, each of which has accompanying notes. Some of the essays evoke a nostalgia for the game: Derek Catsom's piece, "On Fenway, Faith and Fandom: A Red Sox Fan Reflects," is noteworthy in that respect.
Shannon, Atlantic Lives - A Comparative Approach To Early America
Authors: Long Michael
Published: May 2024

Some of the best ideas for the teaching of history come from those people who have devoted their lives to teaching the subject matter. Professor Timothy Shannon at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania has recognized the need for a comprehensive textbook devoted to the Atlantic World and its place in the study of colonial America. Atlantic Lives is the result of that effort. His work presents a history of the Atlantic World from 1450 through 1830 with book chapters roughly following a chronological order. The book's design provides for a thematic approach to the study of colonial American settlement.
Reichard, Politics As Usual - The Age Of Truman And Eisenhower
Authors: Broadwater Jeff
Published: May 2024

With the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September I I, 200 I, much has changed since Gary Reichard's Politics as Usual appeared in 1988. Accordingly, the new second edition incorporates recent scholarship informed by the opening of Soviet archives, and it gives greater attention to events in the Middle East. Despite the changes, Reichard's theme remains consistent: The period between 1945 and 1960 was "the last sustained period when 'politics as usual ' prevailed in the United States." What other writers have seen as the age of the "vital center" or of the "liberal consensus," Reichard, a historian and administrator at California State University, Long Beach, sees as a period of "a seemingly purposeful equilibrium."
Women's History Through Family History
Authors: Snider Christy Jo
Published: May 2024

The undergraduate family history project has become a standard assignment in survey courses around the country over the last twenty years-sometimes as an optional project and sometimes as a required assignment. This activity, which documents the lives of two or more generations of a family or evaluates a family member in light of a historical event, has become popular in part because it has several advantages over typical undergraduate research papers-it generates a high level of student interest, it is more difficult to plagiarize, it builds a deeper relationship between professors and their students, and it allows students to connect personally with the material presented in class.1 In teaching a U.S. women's history course for undergraduate majors, I have modified this project to take advantage of these benefits, while at the same time using it to introduce higher-level research skills.2
Buel, Jr. America On The Brink - How The Political Struggle Over The War Of 1812 Almost Destroyed The Young Republic
Authors: McCook Matt
Published: May 2024

It is ironic that the early republic's party of centralization, the Federalists, opposed what Walter Borneman has recently called "the war that forged a nation." Richard Buel explores this irony and analyzes the political struggle surrounding the War of 1812 in America on the Brink. Drawing from Federalist newspapers, private correspondence, and Congressional records, Buel asserts a revisionist interpretation of the war and events leading to it. He argues that self interested Federalist ideologues caused the war by rejecting the alternative course of economic coercion and undermined U.S. war efforts, nearly destroying the republic.
Bradley, Ed., Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860 - A Reader
Authors: Pethel Mary Ellen
Published: May 2024

C. Bradley Thompson combines breadth and depth with the publication of this primary source reader on political and moral approaches to antislavery. Thompson's purpose is to present the best antislavery minds, show factionalism within the movement, reflect wide-ranging goals of theory and practice, and invite students to think critically about compromise, moral suasion, and political action. In the preface he poses numerous questions such as, "Is compromise ever permissible in a conflict between two antagonistic moral systems, or is it inherently corrupting?"
Fleming, The Illusion Of Victory - America In World War I
Authors: Bourque Stephen
Published: May 2024

Although the Great War of 1914-1918 has long been a popular topic for European historians, it has generally been ignored by American scholars. Consequently, few students know much about it, other than vague ideas that the "War to End All Wars" was caused by German submarines sinking the Lusitania, America "saving" France, and a League of Nations that the United States did not join. This lack of factual awareness is unfortunate since it is exactly the kind of story our citizens need to understand.
Southgate, What Is History For?
Authors: Salevouris Michael
Published: May 2024

This is a good book-a thoughtful, well-written, and even "useful" meditation on the philosophy of history in our time. Beverly Southgate, Reader Emeritus in the History of ideas at the University of Hertfordshire, not only explores (in the first half of the book) how historians and others justified history's utility in the past, but also makes a provocative argument (in the second half) about what history should be for today and in the future. Southgate's case is multi-layered and is grounded in a wide reading of history, philosophy, social theory, and literary criticism.
Kintisch And Cordero, Breaking Away From The Textbook - A Creative Approach To Teaching American History
Authors: Willson Gregory
Published: May 2024

This book is a compilation of assignments and activities designed to enliven the learning experience in U.S. history classrooms. Aimed primarily at K-12 teachers, Kintisch and Cordero maintain their larger purpose is to teach "independent thinking," "problem solving," and "taking a position and justifying it." The activities and assignments are not broken down into grade level, but arranged chronologically from European exploration in the fifteenth century to the recent past.
De Leon & Greswold Del Castillo, North Aztlan - A History Of Mexican Americans In The United States
Authors: Redinger Matthew
Published: May 2024

In the century and one-half since the United States gained the northern third of Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the region's Hispanic population has undergone a remarkable transformation. Contact between people of Mexican descent and those of Anglo heritage has changed both groups. Arnoldo De Leon and Richard Griswold de! Castillo present their readers with a passionate, sensitive, and comprehensive examination of the nature of that change.
Zeilzer, Ed., The American Congress - The Building Of Democracy
Authors: Hutchins Teresa
Published: May 2024

The book covers a great deal of material. It divides Congress into four eras. As the reader progresses through each era, one can follow the struggle of early Congresses to find a balance in using their powers. The reader then progresses into a discussion about political parties, the role of parties in Congress, and the struggle of Congress to cope with difficult issues such as slavery and westward expansion.
Hollywood Actors' Participation In World War II
Authors: Gladwin Lee
Published: May 2024

Which famous country-western singer and movie start, first name Orvon, served with the U.S. Army Air Forces Transport Command during World War II? Which former child star and costar of the "Andy Hardy" series enlisted in 1944?1 The answers to these questions may be found, in part, by searching the U.S. Army Serial Number Electronic Merged File and the World War II Prisoner of War File, now available at the National Archives and Records Administration's Access to Archival Databases websites. These and many other servicemen's enlistment and/or prisoner-of-war information await discovery by students and teachers.
Adding Hollywood To The American History Survey
Authors: Blankenship Steve
Published: May 2024

The Fog of War, Errol Mann, director, 2003.
The New World, Terrence Malick, director, 2005.
Apocalypto, Mel Gibson, director, 2007.
The movie critic and the history teacher do not look for the same things in films. Dialogue, plot, and denouncement for the critic give way to context, significance, and example for the teacher. The virtue of continuity for the critic yields to the teacher's need for the episode that accentuates the lecture's main points. The critic avoids missing a moment of a film; the teacher often will defeat his or her purpose if a selected film clip takes more than a few minutes from class time. A clip that runs too long can jeopardize classroom context and revert to a movie instead of an illustration or commentary on the lesson at hand. But, when used judiciously, film excerpts can provoke students' critical thinking about course materials, whether lecture, images, map study, primary-source analysis, or text. The purpose of this review is not to judge overall quality of The Fog of War, The New World, and Apocalypto, but to identify and evaluate selected segments from the three films for their usefulness in the American history survey.
Johnson, The Early American Republic, 1789-1826
Authors: McIlhenny Ryan
Published: May 2024

Paul Johnson, professor of history at the University of South Carolina and author of a number of highly acclaimed works including A Shopkeeper's Millennium, has offered a fresh survey of the American republic's early and arguably most critical developmental period. Chapters I and 2 focus on the heated political debates between the commercial-industrial Federalists and the democrat-agrarian Jeffersonians over the most beneficial program to steer the course of the young nation. Such disputes laid the groundwork for American party politics.
Practicing History - New Direction In Historical Writing After The Linguistic Turn
Authors: Shihade Magid
Published: May 2024

Practicing History consists of debates on theoretical analysis in the last twenty-five years and on the tools of understanding and analyzing the past. In the preface and introduction Gabriel Spiegel provides context and background to the debates in the field and summarizes the main arguments. Spiegel divides the book into three sections containing thirteen chapters written by well known scholars in the field such as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Anthony Giddens, and Joan Scott, to name only a few.
Women In Late Medieval And Reformation Europe, 1200-1550
Authors: Weakland John
Published: May 2024

This excellent volume is part of the European Culture and Society Series. Helen M. Jewell, now retired, was formerly Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Her previous publications include Women in Medieval England and Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c. 500-1200, the latter also in this series.
Spanish Inquisition
Authors: Garza Kimberlee
Published: May 2024

Helen Rawlings has written a first-rate introduction to the complex study of a subject that has entertained a second awakening within the scholarly world of historical literature. Intended for the mature student or general interest reader, The Spanish Inquisition is written almost in textbook form, providing for an easy to understand and well-organized volume of work. Rawlings examined both the work of past scholars and the newer research done by British, European, and American scholars, to establish a clear understanding of the structure of the Inquisition as an institution; when and where activity was most present; and the short and long term effects it had on Spanish society and culture. With over 41 books cited in this volume, combined with the author's authority on the subject, this is an excellent resource and a thought-provoking read.
American Reformers 1870-1920 - Progressives In Word And Deed
Authors: Cockroft Jeannette
Published: May 2024

This book is a collection of twelve biographical essays dealing with major figures of American social, political, and economic reform in the period 1870-1920. Arranged in chronological order and rooted in secondary sources, these essays include well-known reformers such as Lester Frank Ward, Jane Addams, and Walter Rauschenbusch, as well as lesser known reformers such as Charles W. Macune, Harvey W. Wiley, and John Randolph Haynes. In discussing the contributions made by these individuals, Piott transcends the traditional late nineteenth and early twentieth-century divisions between Populism and Progressivism; instead, he develops a comprehensive political and economic framework that not only underscores the excesses of industrial capitalism but also outlines a framework for amelioration. To this end, Piott identifies three commonalities among reformers.
Five Days In August - How World War II Became A Nuclear War
Authors: Stein Stephen
Published: May 2024

This short book presents a reconsideration of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in the last weeks of World War II. Given the considerable scholarship on the subject, it is difficult to find much new to say. Yet Michael Gordin, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University, does. As he notes, diplomatic, military, and scientific historians have explored the dropping of the atomic bomb in different ways and asked different questions.
Teaching The Black Death With Systems Thinking
Authors: Swendson David
Published: May 2024

Winston Churchill suggested that "history unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths,"1 but however that might be, too many students of history tend to view the unfolding as a disconnected series of events, or perhaps worse as a mere collection of facts. Over the past several years I have introduced a different method of teaching history concepts in a variety of course settings, as well as in presentations to groups. This method involves systems thinking or understanding how events are related to and influence each other and combine in series and feedback loops to create very complex patterns. I propose that it is the identification and understanding of these patterns that make history useful in understanding the past, dealing with the present, and planning for the future. In this paper I describe how system mapping can be used to clarify the events of the Black Death in Europe and I provide some sample "maps." (The four figures in the essay are examples from students maps.)
Beaudoin, Poverty In World History
Authors: Percy Thomas
Published: May 2024

The Themes in World History Series has acquired a new and important addition with Steven Beaudoin's treatment of poverty throughout world history. Designed specifically for the classroom, the book provides an impressive overview of the state of current scholarship while intertwining strands of world history. The result is a very readable narrative that investigates the causes of poverty, attitudes toward poverty, and relief efforts from the pre-modern world to the present.
Bridges, Ed., Freedom In America
Authors: Freund Alexander
Published: May 2024

Freedom in America is a collection of 95 documents from U.S. history that define and discuss the concept and practice of freedom. From the Charter of Virginia (1606) and the Mayflower Compact (1620) to speeches by Ronald Reagan (Tear Down This Wall, 1987) and Bill Clinton (Religious Liberty in America, 1995), students can explore through these primary sources how Americans' ideas about freedom, liberty, and justice have changed through the course of four centuries. After a one-page introduction, in which Kenneth Bridges stresses that despite all criticism, the documents' authors "exude a tremendous sense of optimism that the nation can overcome prejudice, repression, and whatever impediment that slows the progress of justice," the documents are presented with paragraph-long introductions.
Hoffer, The Brave New World - A History Of Early America
Authors: Kotzin Daniel
Published: May 2024

Instructors of courses in colonial America should consider this thorough textbook. By developing a unifying theme for understanding early America, Peter Hoffer keeps the text focused. While living standards and freedom improved for many, he argues, others labored as subordinates. But the story, as the author emphasizes, is more complex, as even oppressed people had human agency.
Calhoun, Ed., The Gilded Age - Perspectives On The Origins Of Modern America
Authors: Pethel Mary Ellen
Published: May 2024

In this second edition of collected essays on the Gilded Age, editor Charles Calhoun has improved upon an already valuable teaching text. As stated in the preface, this edition includes revised and new essays as well as a list of suggested readings that showcase newer works of related scholarship. Calhoun's synthesis of sixteen lively essays offers an amalgamation of topics that remains extensive in scope.
Donaldson, Ed., Modern America - A Documentary History Of The Nation Since 1945
Authors: Neumann Caryn
Published: May 2024

It seems as if there are dozens of documentary histories of post-World War II United States. Most cover the same ground- Cold War, life in the 1950s, civil rights, feminism, protests in the 1960s, and Vietnam. Gary Donaldson's Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945 differs from the pack with unexpected depth and an unusual choice of documents that might very well prompt undergraduates to read the book.
Bembo, The Travels And Journals Of Ambrosio Bembo
Authors: Cantrell Phillip
Published: May 2024

The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo is a seventeenth-century travelogue that offers contemporary readers an uncommon glimpse into the culture and civilization of Western Asia and India over three hundred years ago. Born in 1652 to a distinguished Venetian family, Ambrosio Bembo served in the Venetian navy and took part in several wars before completing his term of service. With military life behind him, Bembo left Venice in 1671 at the age of nineteen to follow the route of Pietro della Valle, another celebrated seventeenth-century traveler from Venice.
Hunt, Building Jerusalem - The Rise And Fall Of The Victorian City
Authors: Morley Ian
Published: May 2024

Works profiling Britain's post-industrial past are abundant, given the nation's standing as the world's first industrial and urban society. Accordingly, present-day authors face a massive challenge in conferring new information on Britain's development during the nineteenth century. Such a challenge thus confronts Tris tram Hunt, author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City.
Hadley, Field Of Spear - The Last Mission Of The Jordan Crew
Authors: Saylor Thomas
Published: May 2024

There has been an enormous output of works in English on World War II, dealing seemingly with any and all aspects of it: individual battles and military figures, the air war and battle at sea, politicians and the home fronts. Yet precious few narrative histories exist that allow readers to view and understand events from multiple perspectives. A fine new book, Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew, uses a variety of sources to explore a single event and see the complex, broader implications that emerged from it.
Glant, Remember Hungary 1956 - Essays On The Hungarian Revolution And War On Independance In American Memory
Authors: Joyce Davis
Published: May 2024

Howard Zinn taught me long ago that objectivity is a myth, neither possible nor desirable, and that the best we can do in writing history is to be honest and open and up front about our biases and then proceed to write the best history we can. Assuming the same principle applies to book reviewing, I should note that Tibor Giant is my friend. We were colleagues for two years, 1994-96, at Kossuth University, in Debrecen, Hungary. I was the Soros Professor of American Studies; Giant and I coauthored a textbook during that time, and we have continued our relationship over the years. He is now Chair of the North American Department of the Institute of English and American Studies of the university, now known as the University of Debrecen.
Uji Beberapa Konsentrasi Ekstrak Daun Sirih Terhadap Pertumbuhan Jamur Pyricularia orizae Pada Padi di Laboratorium dan Rumah Kasa
Authors: Zahara Nela , Pamekas Tunjung
Published: May 2024

Gangguan patogen Pyricularia orizae dapat mengakibatkan beberapa hal yaitu turunnya kualitas padi yang disebabkan oleh rusaknya bentuk fisik dan menurunnya proporsi produksi. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari upaya dalam penanggulangan produksi padi agar tetap optimal. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan suatu alternatif pengendalian yang lebih ramah lingkungan yaitu dengan penggunaan fungisida nabati. Fungisida nabati berasal dari tumbuh-tumbuhan yang diproses dalam bentuk ekstrak atau dibuat menjadi konsentrat namun tidak mengubah struktur kimia, sehingga residu fungisida nabati lebih cepat terurai. Tumbuhan yang dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai fungisida nabati antara lain yaitu sirih hijau ( Piper betleL.). penelitian dilakukan secara eksperimen dan disusun berdasarkan Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL), yang terdiri dari 5 perlakuan dan 5 ulangan, data yang diperoleh dianalisis secara statik dengan analisis ragam dan uji lanjut dengan Duncan's New Multiple Range Test (DNMRT) pada taraf 5%. Hasil penelitian identifikasi patogen P. orizae dan pemberian ekstrak daun sirih dapat menghambat pertumbuhan P. orizae di Lab dan di rumah kasa pada konsentrasi masing-masing (0 mm, 23,8 mm, 39 mm, 38,2 mm, dan 34,8 mm), dan rumah kasa (60.0 mm, 55.0 mm, 55.0mm,55.0mm, dan 50.0mm), tinggi tanaman pada minggu ke 15 (86.2 cm, 81.1 cm, 93.5cm, 86.4 cm, dan 95.7 cm), dan rata -rata jumlah klorofil dari masing-masing perlakuan (29.07 mg/L, 29.74 mg/L, 33.55 mg/L, 31.79 mg/L, dan 36.33 mg/L).
Perbandingan Efektivitas Zat Pengatur Tumbuh Organik dan Anorganik dalam Mendukung Pertumbuhan Stek Kopi Robusta
Authors: Nengsih Yulistiati , Hartawan Rudi , Purba Khairul , Wahyu Aditya Deska
Published: May 2024

Robusta coffee plants are cross-pollinated, so the genetic characteristics of the new plant are not the same as the parent if propagation is carried out generatively. One way to overcome this problem is through vegetative propagation. The research aims to determine the effectiveness of organic and inorganic growth regulators to support the growth of robusta coffee cuttings. This research was conducted at the Experimental Station, Campus II, Batanghari University in Pijoan, Jambi from April to August 2022. The research used a completely randomized environmental design. The treatment design is 5 levels of organic and inorganic growth regulators, namely (p0): control, (p1): 50% onion shallot extract, (p2): natrium nitrophenol 0.60 mLL-1, (p3): 75% onion shallot extract, (p4): natrium nitrophenol 0.90 mLL-1. The parameters observed were live cuttings, rooted cuttings, sprouted cuttings, rooted and sprouted cuttings, number of roots, dry weight of roots, air temperature and air humidity. Research data was processed using anova. Further data processing takes the form of orthogonal contrast to compare organic and inorganic growth regulators. A onion shallot extract concentration of 75% is better than a concentration of 50% and a natrium nitrophenol concentration of 0.9 mLL-1 is better than a concentration of 0.6 mLL-1. Treatment with 75% onion shallot extract resulted in 100% growing cuttings, 100% sprouting cuttings, 60.22% rooted cuttings, and 60.22% sprouting and rooting cuttings. Natrium nitrophenol treatment with a concentration of 0.9 mLL-1 resulted in 100% growing cuttings, 100% sprouting cuttings, 65.55% rooted cuttings, and 65.55% sprouting and rooting cuttings. Organic growth regulators from onion shallot extract and inorganic substances from natrium nitrophenol have the same effect in stimulating the growth of robusta coffee cuttings.
Penyakit Moler Pada Bawang Merah
Authors: Cahyaningrum Hermawati , Nurhayati Nurhayati , Nurmili Nurmili , Suneth Risma F , Sirajuddin Sirajuddin , Gazali Imam , Hafid Agus , Lenin Ismon , Meilin Araz
Published: May 2024

Penyakit Moler merupakan salah satu ancaman serius bagi budidaya bawang merah (Allium sp.) di seluruh dunia termasuk Indonesia. Penyakit ini dapat mengakibatkan kerugian yang signifikan dalam produksi bawang merah dan dapat menyebar dengan cepat dalam kondisi yang sesuai. Tulisan ini bertujuan memberikan informasi terkait  aspek-aspek utama penyakit Moler, penyebab penyakit moler, gejala dan pengendaliannya. Penyebab penyakit Moler adalah cendawan atau jamur Fusarium oxypsporum. Gejala awal penyakit ini meliputi penurunan pertumbuhan tanaman, daun yang menguning, dan akhirnya pembusukan pada umbi. Upaya pengendalian penyakit Moler melibatkan praktik-praktik budidaya yang baik, penggunaan varietas tahan, pengendalian mekanis, pengendalian hayati menggunakan Trichoderma. Oleh karena itu, pemahaman yang baik tentang penyakit Moler pada bawang merah dan tindakan pencegahan yang efektif menjadi kunci dalam meminimalkan dampak negatifnya terhadap produksi bawang merah secara global.