Acquisition List Research Articles

Cody Firearms Museum Object Acquisitions 2023

The following is an abridged list of object acquisitions made by the Cody Firearms Museum in 2023. The museum hopes that by publishing these items that we can increase transparency surrounding our ongoing collecting whilst keeping researchers informed as to what new material might be available for study. Wherever possible the source of the artifact is listed, although is some cases a donor may have asked to remain anonymous or not be listed publicly. In such cases, we have used the language, “Gifted to the Cody Firearms Museum”. We have also omitted loans since they are not part of our core collection. Any long-term loans that are later donated will be included in the relevant list when the donation occurs. We publish the acquisition list for the preceding year in the spring–summer issue of each year.

Cody Firearms Museum Object Acquisitions: 2022

This is an abridged list of object acquisitions made by the Cody Firearms Museum in 2022. The museum hopes that by publishing lists of these items we can increase transparency surrounding our ongoing collecting whilst keeping researchers informed as to what new material might be available for study. Wherever possible the source of the artefact is listed, although is some cases a donor may have asked to remain anonymous or not be identified publicly. In such cases, we have used the language, “Gifted to the Cody Firearms Museum”. We have also omitted loans since they are not part of our core collection. Any long-term loans that are later donated will be included in the relevant list when the donation occurs. We publish the acquisition list for the preceding year in the spring–summer issue of each following year.

The Use of Poetry Texts for Listening Skills in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language

The aim of this study is to contribute to the learning process with activities that will reinforce the language learning of the students by making use of the texts of poetry in the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language. For this purpose, poems suitable for the unit themes of the B2 level of the New Istanbul Turkish for Foreigners textbooks were determined and activities for these poems were designed. The data of the research, in which the qualitative research design was adopted, were obtained by document analysis. The target audience of the study is B2 level students. For this reason, firstly, the acquisition lists for the listening skill of the B2 level from the Turkish Curriculum for Foreigners were examined. The poems planned to be used in the study were selected by taking expert opinions from Turkish literature and Turkish poetry anthologies for the units of Turkish teaching books for foreigners and their achievements. Among the objectives of the study are to enable students to meet the important poets of Turkish literature, to develop their critical thinking skills and to gain a perspective on the subtleties of language. When the books are examined, it is seen that it is not common to use the texts of poetry in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. This study, titled "The Use of Poetic Texts for Listening Skills in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language" has been prepared to draw attention to the importance of the use of poetry in teaching Turkish as a foreign language and to contribute to its spread. In this study, poems were selected considering listening, contributing to writing skills, supporting speaking skills and teaching vocabulary, and original listening activities were designed in this direction.

Cody Firearms Museum Object Acquisitions 2020 & 2021

The following is an abridged list of object acquisitions made by the Cody Firearms Museum in the years 2020 and 2021. By regularly publishing lists such as these, the Museum hopes to increase transparency surrounding our ongoing collecting whilst keeping researchers informed as to what new material might be available for study. Wherever possible, the source of the artifact is listed, although is some cases a donor may have asked to remain anonymous or not be listed publicly. In such cases, we have used the language, “Gifted to the Cody Firearms Museum”. We have also omitted loans since they are not part of our core collection. Any long-term loans that are later donated will be included in the relevant list when the donation occurs. For this inaugural instalment, we have also decided to include a list of 2020 acquisitions. In future, we plan to publish the acquisition list for the preceding year in the spring/summer issue of each following year.

The challenges of integrating publishers’, book trade and library information organizations in the Republic of Uzbekistan

The libraries being the state organizations are funded by the government and are limited in their resources. Therefore, despite the fact that the book market today is crowded with document resources, the libraries and information organization cannot afford purchasing all the publications they need. Their activities are regulated through norms and laws that provide both for competitive and single-source procurement. Mandatory copies alone are insufficient for collection development, and the library and information organizations have to find additional collection development sources through integration with publishers and bookselling organizations. Price lists, publishers’ and bookstores’ websites make the main source of information. Information technologies and computer systems enable to analyze whether the purchased publications are demanded by the users. The libraries have to provide for communicate between user services, acquisition department and the users. The team effort to draw acquisition lists enables to get the quality collection. The author examines the problems of integration of library and information organizations with publishers and booksellers as the case study of A. Navoi National Library of the Republic of Uzbekistan and State Scientific Medical library of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Development of a qualitative/quantitative strategy for comprehensive determination of polar lipids by LC-MS/MS in human plasma.

Polar lipids, especially glycerophospholipids, constitute the main components of cell membranes and are precursors of signaling molecules in many cellular and physiological processes. For this reason, the development of methods with high capability for detection of polar lipids in biological samples is required. In this research, the objective was to develop a method for comprehensive qualitative/quantitative determination of polar lipids in plasma by a combination of acquisition methods with a triple quadrupole mass analyzer. The strategy was optimized in two steps: (a) a first step for detection of lipids by monitoring selective fragmentation patterns representative of each lipid family and (b) a second step for confirmation of lipid species by detection and identification of product ions associated with the conjugated fatty acids. The acquisition list was divided into two multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) methods to ensure the detection of all transitions with suited instrumental sensitivity according to chromatographic retention time and relative abundance in plasma. The combination of the two MRM methods allowed the detection of 398 polar lipids in plasma in 64 min. Precision, estimated as within-day variability, was below 6.8% for all determined lipid families, while between-day variability was below 24.0%. This strategy has been applied to a cohort formed by 384 individuals in order to obtain a qualitative and quantitative distribution of polar lipids in human plasma. The most concentrated lipid families in relative terms were lysophospholipids, plasmalogens, and phosphatydilcholines, with mean relative concentration of 58.0, 17.1, and 8.3%, respectively. Then, sphingomyelins and phosphatidylethanolamines reported a relative concentration of 2.0%, followed by phosphatidylserines, with 1.1%. Graphical abstract.

Content analysis of the TEOG mathematics test items based on MONE attainments, TIMSS levels, and renewed Bloom Taxonomy<p>TEOG sınavlarındaki matematik test maddelerinin MEB kazanımlarına, TIMSS seviyelerine ve yenilenen Bloom Taksonomisine göre içerik analizi

The aim of the study is to classify and evaluate the mathematics test items in the Transition System of Secondary Education (TEOG) exam according to the attainment levels of the Secondary School National Mathematics Curriculum, TIMSS levels and Bloom’s renewed taxonomy. The study covers the TEOG math items between the years 2013 and 2016. In data analysis, content analysis, a qualitative research technique, was applied. For the classification of the materials, the acquisition list of the eighth grade mathematics course prepared by MONE, the scheme of TIMSS levels, and Bloom’s Renewed Taxonomy were used. Booklet A was taken as a base for the classification for each exam. According to findings, in the TEOG exams applied between 2013-2016, while the TEOG exam was consistently asking questions in certain examinations from certain acquisitions, it was seen that no questions were asked from some of the acquisitions. When the 260 mathematical items in the TEOG exams classified according to TIMSS levels, of the items 33.8% were at "Level 1", 45% were at "Level 2", 19.6% were at "Level 3" and 1.5% were at "Level 4 ". Parallel with these findings, when TEOG mathematics items classified according to Restructured Bloom Cognitive Domain Taxonomy, of the items17,69% were at "Remembering", 18,46% were at "Understanding", 54,23% were at "Implementation", 5,76% were at "Analysis" and 3.6% were at "Evaluation" levels. The results indicated that the majority of the math items in the TEOG exams were at the “Application level” and the number of items in the "Reasoning level" was limited. Such exams, as TEOG, directing students high school in consistent with their cognitive level, should measure higher order skills, as well. ÖzetÇalışmanın amacı, Temel Eğitimden Ortaöğretime Geçiş Sistemi (TEOG) sınavı matematik test maddelerinin, Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Ortaokul Matematik Programı kazanımlarına, TIMSS düzeylerine ve Bloom’un Yenilenmiş Bilişsel Alan Taksonomisine göre sınıflandırılıp değerlendirilmesidir. 2013-2016 yılları arasında TEOG sınavı matematik soruları araştırma kapsamında incelenmiştir. Verilerin analizinde nitel araştırma tekniklerinden içerik analizi kullanılmıştır. Maddelerin sınıflandırılması için MEB tarafından hazırlanan sekizinci sınıf matematik dersine ait kazanım listesi, TIMSS sorularının düzeylerini gösteren TIMSS düzeyleri şeması ve Bloom’un Yenilenmiş Bilişsel Alan Taksonomisi kullanılmıştır. Sınıflamada her bir TEOG sınavının matematik temel alanına ait A kitapçıkları temel alınmıştır. Bulgulara göre 2013-2016 yılları arasında uygulanan TEOG sınavlarında belli kazanımlardan her sınavda soru sorulurken, bazı kazanımlardan hiç soru sorulmadığı görülmüştür. TEOG sınavlarında sorulan 260 matematik sorusu TIMSS düzeylerine göre sınıflandırıldığında %33,8'i “Düzey 1”, %45'i “Düzey 2”, %19,6'sı “Düzey 3” ve %1,5 'i “Düzey 4”de yer aldığı görülmüştür. TEOG matematik test maddelerinin; Yeniden Yapılandırılan Bloom Bilişsel Alan Taksonomisine göre dağılımına bakıldığında soruların %17,69’u “Hatırlama”, %18,46'sı “Anlama”, % 54,23'ü “Uygulama”, %5,76'sı “Analiz” ve %3,46'sı “Değerlendirme” bilişsel alan basamaklarında olduğu görülmüştür. Sonuçlara göre TEOG matematik test maddelerinin çoğunluğunun “Uygulama” basamağında olduğu, “Analiz” ve “Değerlendirme” basamaklarındaki madde sayısının sınırlı olduğu görülmüştür. TEOG gibi öğrencilerin bilişsel düzeylerine göre liselere yönlendirilmesinin hedeflendiği bir sınavdaki sorular bu amaca uygun olarak üst düzey bilişsel becerileri de ölçecek şekilde hazırlanmalıdır.

State ownership, cross-border acquisition, and risk-taking: Evidence from China’s banking industry

Abstract Does state ownership breed risk-taking behavior in commercial banks? This paper examines this issue using a panel of Chinese banks. We find that state-ownership is in general associated with higher risks. In addition, we find that banks controlled by the central government have the highest credit risk, while those owned by local governments have the lowest capital adequacy ratio and liquidity ratio. By compiling a complete list of cross-border acquisitions in China’s banking sector, we investigate the impact of foreign acquisition on state-owned banks’ risk-taking using differences-in-differences and matching estimators. We find that foreign acquisition has a reducing effect on state-owned banks’ risk-taking and this effect is particularly significant for banks that are controlled by central or local government. We also find that this risk-reducing effect depends on the percentage of foreign ownership, the local business involvement of the foreign investors, and the number of foreign members on the banks’ boards of directors.

Central Forest Library Acquisition List No. 62, May 2014

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State Ownership, Cross-Border Acquisition, and Risk-Taking: Evidence from China's Banking Industry

Does state ownership breed risk-taking behavior in commercial banks? This paper examines this issue using a panel of Chinese banks. We find that state-ownership is in general associated with higher risks. In addition, we find that banks controlled by the central government have the highest credit risk, while those owned by local governments have the lowest capital adequacy ratio and liquidity ratio. By compiling a complete list of cross-border acquisitions in China's banking sector, we investigate the impact of foreign acquisition on state-owned banks' risk-taking using differences-in-differences and matching estimators. We find that foreign acquisition has a reducing effect on state-owned banks' risk-taking and this effect is particularly significant for banks that are controlled by central or local government. We also find that this risk-reducing effect depends on the percentage of foreign ownership, the local business involvement of the foreign investors, and the number of foreign members on the banks' boards of directors.

Methods of Selection and Acquisition of European French Monographs in an Academic Law Library

This article examines methods of selection and acquisition for European (as opposed to Canadian) French-language print monographs for a research-level law library collection in North America based on the study of the practices and techniques locally developed in the Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University. These techniques represent a combination of non–approval plan–based methods: blanket order, standing orders, online slip service in WorldCat, use of other libraries’ acquisition lists, and firm orders. The methods described in this article are not exclusive to the selection in the subject area of law and could be applied in other academic disciplines.

Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century (review)

Reviewed by: Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century Carol Anne Costabile-Heming Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Lyn Marven and Stuart Taberner. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011. Pp. vii + 273. Cloth $75.00. 978-1571134219. As scholars and readers of contemporary German literature are acutely aware, a large new crop of writers and engaging texts appears yearly, yet relatively little scholarly literature has been dedicated to this emerging generation. This volume fills that gap, presenting an in-depth analysis of recently emerging authors, whose notoriety ranges from German Book Prize winner Julia Franck and bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann to writers who are less widely known outside of Germany. In her introduction to the volume, Lyn Marven explains that these “emerging writers” are those who have experienced “a rise to prominence” (2) in the last decade. Contributors to the volume examine both well-known texts such as Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt (2005) and newer works by authors such as Yadé Kara and Sven Regener, whose first novels received wide acclaim. The editors’ goal is to introduce these lesser-known authors and works to an international audience. And though many of the texts discussed have been translated into English, the volume also includes two translations: a chapter from Clemens Meyer’s Als wir träumten (Katy Derbyshire) and Vladimir Vertlib’s Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur (Jamie Lee Searle). Each of the individual chapters focuses solely on one text by one author, with the overall goal of introducing new readers to that author. The texts are discussed within the context of the author’s writing as a whole, and are also presented within wider literary and theoretical trends. Presented in chronological order, the chapters provide a neat snapshot of a decade’s worth of literary productivity in Germany. Several common themes emerge, including immigration, integration, multiculturalism, and transnational societies. These themes are embodied in both the characters in the texts and the lives of their authors, many of whom hail from countries and cultures other than Germany. The individual chapters are thoroughly researched and well argued. Stuart [End Page 721] Taberner’s chapter on Vladimir Vertlib’s Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur presents a nuanced reading of the perceptions of Jewishness today within the context of broader discussions of integration and transnationalism. Writers such as Terézia Mora number among a growing cadre of authors from Eastern and Central Europe writing in German, who, as Anke S. Biendarra argues, add to the complexity of transnational contexts in contemporary German literature. Biendarra writes of “postnational literature” (48) as a response to the fluidity of borders and cultures. Emily Jeremiah examines Germanness and globalization in Sibylle Berg’s Die Fahrt, concluding that the novel demonstrates that “the global and the national are intertwined” (135), thus arguing for the “glocal.” She posits that literature can serve to blur national and cultural differences, and also simultaneously portray the global as something closer to home. In her chapter on Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt, Rebecca Braun reads the novel within the context of celebrity. She attributes the novel’s success to the fact that it appeals to both intellectuals and “nonprofessional” readers (86), precisely because it engages with celebrity as both social and literary phenomenon. In the introduction, Marven acknowledges that the volume “hopes . . . to win new readers for some of the most exciting and innovative voices in German-language literature in the twenty-first century” (15). This volume succeeds in achieving this goal. I recommend it for graduate students and scholars interested in twenty-first-century literature, and it should be at the top of the acquisitions list for research libraries. [End Page 722] Carol Anne Costabile-Heming University of North Texas Copyright © 2012 The German Studies Association

Conservation land acquisition lists and nearby property values: evidence from the Florida Forever programme

Agencies throughout the world are implementing plans to preserve open spaces. The demand to preserve open space is often justified based on the value of the amenities associated with the land. However, many times open space is valued most for what it is not: the absence of negative externalities associated with development of the open space. Florida has the most ambitious programme for acquiring conservation land of any state or nation in the world. Using evidence from Florida, this study determines whether being added to a conservation land acquisition list affects nearby property values. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection claims that being on the list should not trigger any changes in property values. The results of the hedonic regression models contradict this claim and provide evidence that being added to the conservation acquisition list (perceived as permanently undevelopable and publicly owned at some point in the future) does cause a positive increase in nearby property values for at least some of the open space projects analysed in this study.

Conservation land acquisition lists and nearby property values: evidence from the Florida Forever programme

Agencies throughout the world are implementing plans to preserve open spaces. The demand to preserve open space is often justified based on the value of the amenities associated with the land. However, many times open space is valued most for what it is not: the absence of negative externalities associated with development of the open space. Florida has the most ambitious programme for acquiring conservation land of any state or nation in the world. Using evidence from Florida, this study determines whether being added to a conservation land acquisition list affects nearby property values. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection claims that being on the list should not trigger any changes in property values. The results of the hedonic regression models contradict this claim and provide evidence that being added to the conservation acquisition list (perceived as permanently undevelopable and publicly owned at some point in the future) does cause a positive increase in nearby property values for at least some of the open space projects analysed in this study.

The availability of e‐books: examples of nursing and business

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether aggregator packages might be appropriate to replace or supplement print collections in business and nursing, it aims to identify e‐book equivalents for print books acquired for an academic library's collections.Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides a list of the library's acquisitions in two disciplines checked against e‐book aggregators' holdings. The comparison is analyzed and discussed.FindingsThe results confirm findings of a previous study showing that less than one‐third of print books acquired for this library's nursing and business collections have e‐book equivalents available from aggregators, so the aggregators' holdings do not strongly match the library's collecting profile.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study applies previous research to a different type of collection, and tests previous conclusions.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to assessment of the value of e‐book collections for academic libraries.

Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Protein Phosphorylation in Naive and Stimulated Mouse Synaptosomal Preparations

Activity-dependent protein phosphorylation is a highly dynamic yet tightly regulated process essential for cellular signaling. Although recognized as critical for neuronal functions, the extent and stoichiometry of phosphorylation in brain cells remain undetermined. In this study, we resolved activity-dependent changes in phosphorylation stoichiometry at specific sites in distinct subcellular compartments of brain cells. Following highly sensitive phosphopeptide enrichment using immobilized metal affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry, we isolated and identified 974 unique phosphorylation sites on 499 proteins, many of which are novel. To further explore the significance of specific phosphorylation sites, we used isobaric peptide labels and determined the absolute quantity of both phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated peptides of candidate phosphoproteins and estimated phosphorylation stoichiometry. The analyses of phosphorylation dynamics using differentially stimulated synaptic terminal preparations revealed activity-dependent changes in phosphorylation stoichiometry of target proteins. Using this method, we were able to differentiate between distinct isoforms of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMKII) and identify a novel activity-regulated phosphorylation site on the glutamate receptor subunit GluR1. Together these data illustrate that mass spectrometry-based methods can be used to determine activity-dependent changes in phosphorylation stoichiometry on candidate phosphopeptides following large scale phosphoproteome analysis of brain tissue.

Emotional activation of obese and normal women due to imagery and food content of verbal stimuli in a memory task

The aim of this study is to look for correlation between a physiological variable (skin conductance, SCL) and cognitive variables (reaction time, RT and productivity score) obtained in a memory task. Subjects were 17 females, including 7 patients and 10 controls. Patients were recruited among women who went to a clinic for alimentary disorders because of obesity and volunteered for this study; controls were normal women of comparable age without any alimentary problem. Tonic variations of SCL were recorded by a computerized polygraph during the execution of the cognitive task, which consisted of a computerized presentation of frequent, everyday used words evenly divided according to an alimentary/nonalimentary content and to a high/low imagery quality. The acquisition session was followed by an immediate recognition session where subjects were asked to identify the previously presented words among an equal number of similar words not included in the acquisition list. The two session series (acquisition and recognition) were repeated three times to evaluate the learning curve and habituation. This same procedure was separately performed with high imagery alimentary/nonalimentary words and with another list of low imagery alimentary/nonalimentary words. During the recognition tasks, both RT and productivity scores were recorded. A correlation analysis between cognitive and physiological variables was carried out to explore how subjects with different attitudes to food react in cognitive and somatic terms when exposed to verbal stimuli concerning this topic and to neutral verbal stimuli. Results show that obese patients have a different emotional activation in front of these verbal stimuli where both the cognitive activity and the somatic responses are affected by their involvement with the verbal stimuli. On the contrary, the imagery effect does not seem to be influenced by the content and by the idiosyncratic reactions to it of the specific groups of subjects.

List of acquisitions

List of acquisitions

도서관 정보네트워크 발전을 위한 구입자료 중복율에 대한 조사 연구 - 경기도 소재 3개 대학도서관을 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study is to identify an acquisition material duplication rate among three academic libraries for developing an academic library network. Three academic libraries located in Gyonggi-do, Korea were selected for data collection. The acquisition lists in both 2000 and 2001 were compared and analyzed between two libraries respectively. The results show that the duplication rate is 0.4% in 2000 and 2.8% in 2001 between medium in libraries, and 1.33%, 1.11% in 2000 and 3.63%, 3.88% in 2001 between a big size library and medium size libraries. These tell us that a big library can get benefit from a library network with medium size libraries.

List of acquisitions

List of acquisitions