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- Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
- Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.
- Modeling and Analysis Using Computational Tools
- This book chapter presents two special algorithms, Mean Value Analysis and Convolution Algorithm, for the analysis of closed queuing networks, and an introduction to simulation techniques that are widely used in analyzing queuing systems in general.
- Real-Time Systems: An Introduction and the State-of-the-Art
- This encyclopedia article gives an overview of the broad area of real-time systems. This task is daunting because real-time systems are everywhere, and yet no generally accepted definition differentiates real-time systems from non-real-time systems.
- Hybrid Approach for Energy-Aware Synchronization
- This book chapter discusses a time synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks that aims to save sensor battery power while maintaining network connectivity for as long as possible.
- Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text
- This book chapter discusses annotating and identifying emotions in text.
- Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia
- Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.
- Collaborating with Your Local Public Library
- This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
- Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions
- This book chapter discusses digital collection preservation. The authors provide a philosophical base for cultural memory organizations' need to participate in distributed digital preservation solutions as community-owned and community-led initiatives. This chapter will be useful for all readers, particularly those with questions about the value of collaborative engagement in the digital arena for cultural memory organizations.
- Metaphoric Analysis of a Shipyard Union Dispute: Theory and Method in the Cultural Analysis of Collective Action
- This book chapter discusses the metaphoric analysis of a shipyard union dispute and the theory and method in the cultural analysis of collective action. Rather than treating grievances and political opportunities, given, and exogenous to organized movement groups, cultural analysts of social movements have recently focused on cognitive and linguistic processes by which factors relevant to collective behavior are themselves interpreted collectively.
- Media and Communication
- This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.
- Dear Facebook
- This book chapter is written in the form of a break-up letter from the author to the social networking website, Facebook. It discusses social networking, technological changes, urbanization, globalization, media technology, and philosophical ideas about society.
- The Functional Ontology of Filmic Documents
- This book chapter discusses the functional ontology of filmic documents. The authors examine a few phases of probing of filmic documents, and the relationship between structure and meaning. The authors have taken the liberty of sketching the earlier phases and of presenting the most recent in somewhat more detail. Considerations of the early phases, among other issues of document use, led to the functional ontology construction as a foundation for this probing and for wider concerns within the arena of messages, meanings, and uses.
- Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures Today
- This book chapter discusses educating communities. and preserving tomorrow's treasures today. Librarians, curators, archivists, and volunteers work hard to conserve and preserve materials as they are added to their collections, insuring that the materials can be safely used. However, not all genealogical and historical information is held in cultural institutions; unknown numbers of valuable information sources reside with individuals and in residences. By educating the community today on how to protect the treasures in their care, we have the potential to minimize the repairs needed for these items in the future.
- Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species
- This book chapter discusses a research project to promote biocultural conservation in Cape Horn, Chile. In an effort to achieve the goal of transdisciplinary integration, the authors used the strategy of identifying a charismatic species, since doing so serves to motivate people towards biodiversity conservation, to communicate ecological concepts, and to integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
- Assessing Interoperability in the Networked Environment: Standards, Evaluation, and Testbeds in the Context of Z39.50
- This book chapter discusses interoperability in the networked environment.
- How to Hook a Hottie: Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Cosmo Girl! Magazine
- This book chapter discusses different media texts targeted at a different audience, magazines written for an audience of teenaged girls, which also work to naturalize male sexuality as aggressive and predatory. The authors study advice columns and articles in these magazines that depict teenaged boys as sexually forceful and emotionally stunted, and that encourage girl readers to expect and enable such behaviors.
- Prediction of Partition Coeffecients and Permeability of Drug Molecules in Biological Systems with Abraham Model Solute Descriptors Derived from Measured Solubilities and Water-to-Organic Solvent Partition Coefficients
- Book chapter on the prediction of partition coefficients and permeability of drug molecules in biological systems with Abraham model solute descriptors derived from measured solubilities and water-to-organic solvent partition coefficients.
- Selection of Ionic Liquid Solvents for Chemical Separations Based on the Abraham Model
- Book chapter on the selection of ionic liquid solvents for chemical separations based on the Abraham model.
- Prediction of Toxicity, Sensory Responses and Biological Responses with the Abraham Model
- This book chapter discusses the prediction of toxicity, sensory responses and biological responses with the Abraham model.
- Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks
- Book chapter discussing neural dynamics and the criticality, cooperation, avalanches and entrainment between complex networks.
- Theses and Dissertations from Print to ETD: The Nuances of Preserving and Accessing Those in Music
- Book chapter discussing the unique challenges of digitizing music theses and dissertations.
- "The Silicon Dream": Breaking Glass on the Small Screen
- Book chapter discussing the Brian Gibson film "Breaking Glass" and the author's experiences viewing the film and thoughts about the impressions it made.
- The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
- This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
- Reengineering The Portal to Texas History
- This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
- Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague (1769) Epistolarity at the Transatlantic Intersection of Public and Private
- Book chapter on Frances Brooke's "History of Emily Montague" and the epistolarity at the transatlantic intersection of public and private.
- Mme Riccoboni Épistolière-Romancière L'Épître-Préface à Garrick et les Lettres de Mme de Sancerre
- Book chapter on the novelist Madame Riccoboni with letters by Madame de Sancerre and a letter addressed to David Garrick.
- Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers
- Book chapter on considerations on the impact of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement (OS) on second language writers. This chapter examines the extent to which the WPA OS reflects (or does not reflect) the presence and needs of second language writers.
- Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes the roles of metadata in facilitating the ETD lifecycle, methods to capture metadata manually and automatically, examples of programs using metadata to enhance ETD access, and strategies to manage metadata over time.
- Vanillin Biosynthesis - Not as Simple as it Seem?
- Book chapter on vanillin biosynthesis. The author gives an introduction to vanillin biosynthesis, the multiple pathways to vanillin, and the way forward.
- Monolignol Biosynthesis and its Genetic Manipulation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Book chapter manuscript on monolignol biosynthesis and its genetic manipulation.
- Guide to Options for ETD Programs
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes ETD access policies and intellectual property issues, deposit procedures, repository system options, ETD program management and ETD program services.
- Open (Flu) Season: A Case Study of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia
- Book chapter discussing a project by the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine (CHM) in partnership with the University of Michigan Library's MPublishing division, to create an open source digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States.
- Self-Medication Among Older Adults in the United States
- Book chapter discussing self-medication among older adults in the United States.
- Social Aging
- Book chapter discussing social issues in aging such as structural lag theory, race and ethnic differences in aging, different social roles associated with older adults, and how the role of retirement has changed in recent years.
- Use of Health Care Services by Older Adults in the United States, Great Britain and Canada
- Book chapter on the use of health care services by older adults in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
- Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways
- Book chapter on metabolomics and gene identification in plant natural product pathways.
- Beyond Structural Genomics for Plant Science
- This book chapter provides an overview of the genomics and postgenomic technologies that are likely to have the greatest impacts on agronomy over the next 10-20 years and describes a number of case studies of their application.
- Computational Studies of the Thermochemistry of the Atmospheric Iodine Reservoirs HOI and IONO₂
- Book chapter discussing computational studies of the thermochemistry of the atmospheric iodine reservoirs HOI and IONO₂.
- The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan Library
- Book chapter on the evolution of publishing agreements at the University of Michigan Library. Taking as an example an open-access journal with a single editor, this chapter discusses the various configurations of rights agreements used by the University of Michigan Library throughout the evolution of its publishing operation, the advantages of the various models, and the reasons for moving from one to another.
- Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library
- Book chapter discussing hiring and training graduate assistants for the academic library.
- Introduction to the Law and the American Legal System
- This book chapter offers an introduction to the law and the American legal system.
- Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library
- Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
- Крестьянский Союз в 1920-е годы и формирование крестьянской идентичности: модернизационный дискурс: The Peasant Union in the 1920s. The Formation of a Peasant Identity: Modernizing Discourse
- Book chapter discussing the Peasant Union in the 1920s, the formation of a peasant identity, and modernizing discourse.
- Engineering Disease Resistance in Plants: An Overview
- This book chapter gives an overview of engineering disease resistance in plants.
- Nachrichten: Electronic News Bulletins and the German Language
- Book chapter discussing electronic news bulletins and the German language.
- Initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures
- Book chapter discussing the initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures.
- Was war, was ist, was sein wird: Rezeption der Werke Günter Kunerts
- Book chapter discussing the works German writer Günter Kunert.
- Censorship and Review Processes: The Case of Günter Kunert
- Book chapter discussing censorship and review processes and the case of Günter Kunert.
- Berlin's History in Context: The Foreign Ministry and the Spreebogen Complex in the Context of the Architectural Debates
- Book chapter discussing Berlin, Germany's history in context and the Foreign Ministry and Spreebogen Complex in the context of the architectural debates.
- Texts and Contexts: GDR Literature during the 1970s
- Book chapter discussing texts and contexts in German Democratic Republic literature during the 1970s.