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"The “Nestorian Chronicle” in the Prague “Lectures...” of Alfred Bem

During the interwar period, Prague was truly an academic capital of emigration. A unique scientific environment that formed therein a century ago was favorable for the study of Russian literature, including the ancient period. Among the philologists, who emigrated to Czechoslovakia, was Alfred Bem, known to modern science as a talented researcher of the works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Blok, Gumilyov and Mayakovsky. However, hardly anyone remembers Bem as Medievalist. The article analyzes the “Lectures” on the history of Old Russian literature (up to the mid XVII century) read to the students of Russian Pedagogical Institute named after Jan Amos Komenský in Prague in the winter semester of 1923 that have been nearly forgotten by now. These are the sheer bibliographic rarity. The circulation of this unique publication is small, just a few copies taken by duplicating machine from the typewritten original, which contains typos and corrections made by the author. “Lectures...” – a full textbook on the history of Russian literature of the XI – first half of the XVII centuries. A significant part of is dedicated to the “Tale of Bygone Years”. A. L. Bem’s view of the "Nestorian Chronicle” reflected in the Prague “Lectures...” is analyzed within the framework of studying the extensive historiographical topic of the “Research of Old Russian Literature in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s – 1930s”. This defines the novelty of this article. The conclusion is made that Alfred Bem made a considerable contribution to the study of the major Russian chronicle, provided in-depth and accurate characteristics to the “Tale of Bygone Years”, determining its historical and literary role. His contemplations on the genre and stylistic uniqueness of the “Tale” have subsequently found reflection in the works of Russian and foreign Medievalists. He also paid special attention to the history of the Corpus, thereby touching upon the question that is yet to be resolved.

Learning Japanese Using Marugoto Japanese Online Course Site (Minato)

A public university has shifted the Japanese language teaching method from using full textbooks to the application of combining textbook and online platforms. This shift is in lieu of the transition in teaching and learning patterns initiated by the rapid development of IT and the effects of pandemic. What motivates the researchers to embark on this study is that with the change of learning face-to-face to online learning, foreign language instructors need to prepare more interesting online materials to ease online teaching and learning. Generally, this study is aimed to introduce yet another online teaching materials for the teaching and learning of Japanese. Specifically, this study is to explore how the students learned Japanese online with the assistance of Minato, employing quantitative methods. A forty-seven-item questionnaire, with questions related to behaviour (13 items), situational (20 items) and cognitive (14 items) factors was administered, and 37 students participated in the survey. Based on the findings, it had been illustrated that out of 47 item questions; eleven (11) items recorded the highest score of 4.6 mean points. Eight (8) of the highest means are items from Situational Factors and three items from Cognitive Factors. The sub-factors for Situational Factors consist of learning about culture and learning about lifestyle. Out of eight (8) items with the highest means; three (3) items from culture and five items from lifestyle. The sub-factors for Cognitive Factors are learning vocabulary, learning pronunciation and learning grammar. Out of three (3) items with the highest means consists of two (2) items from learning vocabulary and one item from learning pronunciation. The lowest mean of 3.5 points is from Cognitive Factors and the item is learning grammar. Therefore, this study has proven that teaching and learning using videos and photos are the most effective methods for learning Japanese culture and lifestyle through an online platform, whilst learning grammar still need teachers-students’ face-to-face interactions in class.

Analysing Open Access Books on Guru Tegh Bahadur: A Bibliometric Study

The study makes a survey of 295 full text books on Guru Tegh Bahadur. It also makes their demographic analysis to study their chronological growth and authorship pattern (both personal and corporate). It brings out the contributions of female authors. The study finds out publishers and their geographical distribution. Formats and physical size of the digitized books have been identified along with subject wise distribution of the documents.

Addressing Disparities in Physician Access to Information in Support of Evidence-based Practice

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to determine if Minnesota physicians have access to information resources needed to support evidence-based practice (EBP), which supports a culture of safety and patient-centered care. A survey was used to determine Minnesota physicians’ need for, and access to, evidence-based clinical information. A total of 877 responses (6.4% response rate) were included in the data analysis. Participants spent 24 min daily seeking answers to clinical questions and averaged 4.41 questions per day that could not be immediately answered. Physicians reported high levels of information needs met (85.8%), though they reported limited access to drug resources, citation databases, systematic reviews, and full-text books and articles. Results also showed use of unreliable sources to support decision-making. A key finding was the extent to which workplace affiliation broadens disparities in information access. National and regional approaches can work to support EBP by reducing the information gap caused by workplace affiliation and other barriers. Further research should be done to identify partnerships, funding, infrastructure, and support to address these gaps.

Applying Mindfulness to Benefit Economically Disadvantaged Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective: To evaluate the effects of family-based mindfulness intervention (FBMI) to promote the stress management and early development of economically disadvantaged families. Method: Families receiving social security allowance and full textbook allowance and with children aged 5–7 were recruited. Participants were randomized to an FBMI with parallel programs for parents and children ( n = 51) and to a wait-list control condition ( n = 51). Results: Intent-to-treat analyses showed more significant improvements in child attention, self-regulation, and in parenting stress, in the intervention group than in the control group. At-risk group analyses showed that the high stress group benefited in small to moderate effect sizes in parenting stress and depression, and in moderate to large effect sizes in child behavioral problem and self-regulation. Conclusions: The results provide preliminary support that FBMI can alleviate the impact of economic disadvantage. FBMI should be applied in social work practice to support disadvantaged families.

Stoelting’s Pharmacology and Physiology in Anesthetic Practice, 5th ed.

Stoelting’s Pharmacology and Physiology in Anesthetic Practice, 5th ed.

Spinal cord Injury management: current procedures and the future

Background: The term ‘spinal cord injury’ refers to damage to the spinal cord from trauma, disease, or degeneration. Estimated annual global incidences are 40 to 80 cases per million population; and in Asia are between 6.7 and 246 per million population. In Iran, the prevalence is 4.4 per 10,000 and annual incidences are 98 per million men and 47 per million women. The average age at injury is 42.6 years. In many records, 80% of cases are men. Causes are motor vehicle accidents (36–48%), violence (5–29%), falls (17–21%), and recreational activities (7–16%). While 56.5% of injuries are complete and 43% are incomplete, usually in developing countries cervical spine damage and quadriplegia is common. In developed countries, 58.7% are paraplegic because of thoracolumbar events. After the initial trauma, the spinal cord undergoes chronological pathologic changes. Primary injury mechanical and secondary injury (cellular and molecular) develop vascular abnormalities, free radicals, lipid peroxidation, excitotoxicity, and electrolyte imbalances, necrotic and apoptotic cell death, and inflammatory/immunologic responses. Objectives: For managing a disease, at first it is necessary to know all available and possible methods, their pros and cons, and knowledge gaps. We sought to review treatment of spinal injuries. Materials and Methods: We downloaded and reviewed more than 170 full textbooks and articles in English from the literature PubMed, and Google scholar websites. Results: There is different in vivo and in vitro managements. The primary approach is to stop injury with surgery or molecular therapeutic interventions. Other procedures are removal of inhibition, compensation for demyelization, promotion of axonal regeneration, enhancing conduction, creation of bridges, rehabilitation and long-term follow-up, and replacement of cells, among others. Conclusions: Available data implies that restorative therapies should focus on multiple targets and different intervals after injury. Yet, if we understand the key and basic origin of the injury, we may develop effective, complete, safe, and continual procedures.

The Investigation of a Patient Believed to Have a Blood Disorder

Much has been said in the first part of this article about the important points to note in taking the history, and various possible physical signs have been considered. In many instances, however, further investigations are necessary before a diagnosis can be made or confirmed. These cannot be considered in great detail in an article of this nature, since complete consideration would involve writing a full textbook of haematology, but some of the more important investigations can be outlined under three headings according to the degree of complexity or specialisation.

The Investigation of a patient believed to have a blood disorder

Much has been said in the first part of this article about the important points to note in taking the history, and various possible physical signs have been considered. In many instances, however, further investigations are necessary before a diagnosis can be made or confirmed. These cannot be considered in great detail in an article of this nature, since complete consideration would involve writing a full textbook of haematology, but some of the more important investigations can be outlined under three headings according to the degree of complexity or specialisation.

MD Consult (beta) and First Consult (version 1.0.1) [mobile access

MD Consult (beta) and First Consult (version 1.0.1) [mobile access

Accessing Literature on the Bahá’í Faith: Emerging Search Technologies

Access to literature relating to the religion and its emerging global community has expanded phenomenally with the advent of new communications technologies. Scholarly literature is appearing in academic presses, in Baha'i-sponsored or affiliated presses, in the media, and on the Internet.1 Significant references to the Faith appear in the literature of religious studies and the social sciences generally, as well as in current affairs literature. However, there is also is an increasing volume of scholarship published on the World Wide Web (WWW) only,2 and systematic posting of essays on the Web is now widely regarded as publication. Consider, for instance, Moojan Momen's commentary Change of Culture, published on H-Bahai on 15 February 2003. s Although merely posted to a scholarly discussion group, such articles are a contribution to knowledge and are more than passing discussion.There are also innovative uses of technology by which collaborative or collective authorship takes precedence over individual authorship. These sites are known as wikis, which have come to be called crowd-sourced sites because they use the efforts, and aggregate the intelligence, of large groups of people. The Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) at http: //en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page has an expanding number of articles, and the Bahaikipedia, which commenced in March 2007 (http:// bahaikipedia.org/Main_Page), is similarly expanding in content and number of participants. Collins suggests the terms fluid, collaborative, or social-networked to distinguish this type of knowledge from the more traditional and carefully crafted expert knowledge.The rapid emergence of electronic information services is revolutionizing access to information on the Faith. Electronic sources range from websites that are freely accessible, to journal databases and full-text books available only by subscription, to discussion groups that allow researchers to communicate back and forth. By combining these sources the researcher may learn not only of such traditional sources of scholarly information as books and academic papers, but also of such other sources as news services and newspaper articles. Judicial and other official records such as those of the United Nations Organization are also becoming available, as are booklists supplied by booksellers. Search at the online bookstore Amazon.com, for example, yielded 264 Baha'i hits in March 1999, 304 the following October, 1,681 in April 2007, and 3,528 in January 2012. The REDEX CD-ROM from Newsbank titled Index to UN Documents searched in March 1999 yielded 209 references to Baha'i, while more recently, in July 2010, the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (unbisnet.org) contained 253 titles matching Baha'i. A search in the EBSCO database, in the World Magazine Bank file, yielded 107 references. It is clear from these sample searches that content available online is multiplying at an exponential rate.Computer technology makes it possible to search a database such as FirstSearch and learn that author D. C. Lewis referred to the Baha'is of Tartarstan in an article that appeared in the journal Central Asian Survey in 1 997,4 or to find in America: History and Life a reference to an article in the Armenian Review quoting newly discovered English-Language materials of Dr. Reuben Darbinian of Boston, which (p]resents the concluding extract from the daily journals of Dr. Reuben Darbinian, the editorin-chief of the Harenik publications of Boston; the entries from November 1931 through April 1932 cover daily life and thoughts on and foreign relations.5This search capacity is quite extraordinary, even if already taken for granted by a younger generation of scholars. In an earlier period, publication referred to the physical printing of hard-copy books, newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, theses, official reports, and academic journals. …

Legal Issues in Dermatology: Informed Consent, Complications and Medical Malpractice

Legal considerations can arise in almost any aspect of a dermatology practice. A full textbook on health care law would be required to adequately cover the varied legal issues as they relate to dermatology. This article will focus on the relationship between informed consent and the development of complications that may lead to a cause of action based on negligence. Because it is the lack of informed consent that may form the basis of a medical malpractice claim, the issues of what constitutes a medical malpractice claim will be fully described.

Dean of Umpires: Bill McGowan (review)

Reviewed by: Dean of Umpires: Bill McGowan Lee Lowenfish Bob Luke. Dean of Umpires: Bill McGowan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 213 pp. Paper, $29.95. Author Bob Luke grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, a Washington, DC, suburb where renowned American League umpire Bill McGowan was a neighbor. [End Page 142] In the summer of 1954, in what would be the last year of McGowan's life, the ailing arbiter occasionally invited Luke and his older brother to watch Washington Senators games on television. Thus the seed was planted for Bob Luke to one day write a book about one of the most colorful umpires in baseball history. The story of McGowan is an enthralling one. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1896, he was the son of a beer and whiskey storeowner who had emigrated from Ireland. Young McGowan grew up to be a lifelong teetotaler and a mediocre ballplayer. After trying his hand as a boxer and manager of prizefighters, McGowan embarked on his career as an umpire. He served a ten-year Minor League apprenticeship that was blemished by expulsion from the International League for engaging in a fistfight with a player. Yet in 1925, McGowan was added to the American League roster of umpires. A man of hot temper and great confidence, his first ejection was none other than Babe Ruth in a spring training game. Blessed to break in under the tutelage of two great arbiters, Billy Evans and Tom Connolly, by 1928 Bill McGowan was umpiring in a World Series. He would go on to become an iron man, working in 2,532 consecutive games (only 100 short of Cal Ripken's mark for a player). In 1938 he founded an umpire school that, after his death in 1954, was passed on to his chief instructor Al Somers (today, it is run by retired National League umpire Harry Wendelstedt). One of the valuable aspects of this slim volume is the reprinting of the full textbook used by McGowan's umpiring school in 1949. It comes complete with the imprimatur "approved by the Veterans Administration under G. I. Bill of Rights." In 1947 McGowan's school was so popular, Luke notes, that it graduated 251 future umps—95 percent of whom were veterans of World War II—and about one hundred of its graduates got jobs in some level in baseball. American League ump Bill McKinley was the first graduate of the school in 1946, followed not long after by future National League arbiter Augie Donatelli, who had survived a term as a POW in a German camp. Aspiring umpires will enjoy McGowan's discussion of the nuts and bolts of positioning, gesturing, and overall game management. There is also a section on rules interpretations that, together with Billy Evans' classic Knotty Problems of Baseball, should be on any arbiter's bookshelf. McGowan's philosophy was simple: "Keep control of the players or they'll control you." He earned the respect of many of the game's great stars like Ted Williams, who said the ump's home plate calls were correct nearly 100 percent of the time. During a rare slump, Williams even received quiet advice from McGowan. "You're trying to break the ball," he said. "Just hit it." Until a Major League rule was passed in 1952 forbidding umpires from recommending players [End Page 143] to teams, McGowan freely mentioned the names of prospects, and his tips led to the signing of such future American League stars as infielder Jimmy Dykes and outfielder Leon "Goose" Goslin. There are many fascinating pieces of information in Dean of Umpires, but a coherent narrative flow is missing. Like a pitcher hesitant to throw the ball over the plate, Luke doesn't trust his stuff enough and utilizes too many quotes from his sources. All in all the restoring of Bill McGowan, belatedly inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1992, is a worthy enterprise. He shone like a star in an age when Major League Baseball was played mainly in the daytime in two deeply-entrenched, eight-team leagues, when the World Series was "The Biggest Show on Earth," and no act on the baseball field...

Adopting an electronic text book for a postgraduate accounting course: An experiential study

<span>Students are becoming accustomed to using the Internet as an information source that supplements or replaces the normal institutional and classroom handout. However, the use of full electronic books through the Internet or CD instead of a printed full text book is a uniquely different experience, not only for these students but also for academics and their institutions. This study describes the initiative of constructing, publishing, prescribing and using an online text book for use by students in a postgraduate accounting course at an Australian university. The experience provides valuable insights that suggest the need for changes to hardware and software facilities in homes, offices and learning institutions, to students' expectations, and to purchase interfaces and text display, before electronic text books can be readily accepted as an alternative learning tool.</span><p>It is encouraging from the accounting students' feedback that there was no strong evidence of rejection of the e-book as a learning tool, despite the current technological difficulties associated with its use. This is a positive sign for the hopefully not too distant future use of this learning tool in accounting education.</p>

The full text book search and OPAC(<Special Feature>Library for information professionals)

The full text book search and OPAC(<Special Feature>Library for information professionals)

The Medical Care of Women

Women's Health The foreword hails<i>The Medical Care of Women</i>, by Carr, Freund, and Somani, as "the first full textbook on women's health [bringing] together topics important to women's health and health care, but not usually found under one cover." However, this is not the first full textbook on women's health, and although many topics are covered, the "body language" of the book betrays a noticeably traditional approach to women's health, ie, a hodgepodge of specialty topics focusing on the usual female body parts and reproductive medicine. For example, after a brief initial section on preventive medicine, over 400 pages are devoted to diseases of the gynecologic organs, breast disease, reproductive issues, and medical problems in pregnancy. And while this information is very useful, cardiovascular diseases, the major source of morbidity and mortality in women, rate only 30 pages. The color plate section also displays a traditional perspective: immediately after

DiscLit: American authors

DiscLit: American Authors. OCLC, 6565 Frantz Rd., Dublin, OH 43017; 1-800-848-5878, or G.K. Hall & Co., 70 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 02111; 1-800-343-2806. Hardware and software requirements: IBM PC, XT, AT, or PS/2 or compatible models, OCLC M3xx models, at least 640K RAM, DOS version 3.1 or higher, compact disc drive, and MS-DOS extensions 2.0 or higher. A black-and-white or color monitor may be used. Price: $995. DiscLit on CD-ROM is a joint venture between OCLC and the publisher G.K. Hall & Co. Stored on a single CD, the product consists of two units: Twayne's United States Authors Series and the OCLC American Authors Catalog. The two units, referred to as the and the are searched separately, but the information in the two units is linked so that users can move easily between them. Published in book form by G.K. Hall, the Twayne's series is composed of 143 volumes, each on the life and works of a different American author, and each having that author's name as its title. The full text of the 143 books is contained on DiscLit. The other unit of DiscLit, the OCLC American Authors Catalog, contains bibliographic information for more than 100,000 books, serials, recordings, videos, and other materials by and about the 143 authors. Installation of DiscLit is quick and easy, with clear instructions provided in the setup guide. An online tutorial is fairly well done, although to a first-time user of CD-ROMs it might seem overly complicated. The screen displays are quite cluttered. The tutorial's search tips are helpful, although some jargon terms, such as limiters and navigation, might be confusing to users. To search DiscLit, you may choose one of two searching modes: new or casual user, or experienced user. The fast mode is a menu-driven system which is quite user-friendly. The user can enter a term or phrase, or can combine terms by entering them on separate lines. For example, suppose a user wants information on American who have written on the topic of women and religion. Searching the full-text Books unit, the terms women and religion would be entered on separate lines, resulting in a list of authors names with numbers indicating occurrences of the search terms. (Isaac Bashevis Singer was at the top with eighty-nine occurrences.) The system, by default, searches for the two terms in the same section of a chapter. What is a section? This is never defined on the CD or in the documentation. However, this default of combining terms by section has great potential for false hits. To avoid this, the user may specify that terms be in the same paragraph or within a certain number of words. The search for women and religion resulted in a list of books, with those on Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sara Teasdale, and Emma Goldman having the most occurrences of the search terms. Opening the book on I. B. Singer, the user is first presented with the table of contents, with search word occurrences for each chapter. Navigation through the book itself is straightforward: chapters can be selected and opened, and moving through the chapters is facilitated by a very useful feature, Jump to search word. This enables the user to skip irrelevant chunks of text and move to the next occurrence of the search word(s). Another handy way of moving around in a book is to go to the back-of-the-book index, select a page number for a particular topic, and jump to that page. …

Pathology: Understanding Human Disease

This is the second edition of a book the authors intend to be an introduction to pathology rather than a full textbook. Dr Golden and his associates claim the volume is a response to a system of medical education that forces much detailed information into our students at a time when they are ill prepared to accept or digest it. They disclaim completeness and admit avoiding debate or controversy. They do touch on the full range of topics found in most current pathology courses, including all the major organ systems, in a bit over 550 pages. Admittedly some of the coverage is skimpy; diseases of skin, for instance, are considered in about four pages of text. Superficiality is obviously unavoidable. The critical question raised by such a well-meaning and carefully crafted book must be, is it possible to communicate a teacher's enthusiasm in such a format? I am too

Leitfaden der Kinderheilkunde.

This is the volume on pediatrics of the "Ars Medici" series. Stransky has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of crowding a readable and full textbook of pediatrics into two hundred and eighty-three pages. It is complete and covers everything, even having a chapter on diagnostic and laboratory technic. This is accomplished by many tables and outlines, and obviously the excess matter is cut to a minimum. For the student or practitioner who reads German, I doubt whether a more concise but complete work on pediatrics can be found.