General Catalogue Research Articles

Yue Chang and his Yao Xing Ji Yao Bian Du

Yao Xing Ji Yao Bian Du was a book on materia medica, compiled by Yue Chang, a physician in Wujin, Jiangsu, in the Qing Dynasty. This book was first published in the 23rd year of Dao Guang in the Qing Dynasty (1843) and there are three versions remaining. They were the movable-type printing of the Song Yang Study of the Tao's in 1843, the reprinted version of the Song Yang Study in the 30th year of Dao Guang (1850) , and the version of the Yi Hai Tang in the first year of Xian Feng (1851). This book involved 374 herbs, describing each of their shapes and colours, features and tastes, and meridial distribution with poems of five or seven characters, as well as their functions and prescriptions. It attached many herbs from the formulas of physicians and a 'Brief Guide of Medicine' to the poems, indicating herb features and Chinese medical culture. The book had both academic value and literature value because it integrated theories and practice. This paper examines the life of Yue Chang and his book, and clarifies the content and version sources of the Yao Xing Ji Yao Bian Du. It also corrects the mistakes of version recording to the following books: the General Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Books, the General Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine Books and the Dictionary of Chinese Medical Books.

Use and transformation of beaches as a tourism resource by promoters and managers in oceanic islands. A conflict for geoheritage conservation and social preferences in the canary islands

In the case of the Canary Islands (Spain), human occupation on beaches has generated environmental and landscape transformations and a loss of their geoheritage values. In this sense, this archipelago could be a good example to demonstrate the paradigm at the regional scale at first and island scale at second, that the colour and composition of the beaches are determinant for urban-tourist development. The beaches with the colour and composition that managers and promoters prefer most are those that have withstood the greatest anthropogenic pressure, and may lead to socio-environmental conflicts. For this, the aim of this work is to characterize and identify beach typologies according to their sedimentological characteristics, the degree of urban-tourist occupation, and the environmental changes and artificialisation that have taken place over the last sixty years in the beaches of La Palma, Tenerife and Fuerteventura. For this purpose, the General Catalogue of Beaches and Maritime Bathing Areas (the latter were excluded from the study) issued by the Canary Islands Government was used. This source was spatially and statistically analysed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and related to socio-environmental variables extracted from geo-referenced sources. Orthophotos from 1957 and more recent years were also used for the historical characterization. Finally, this information was contrasted with social preferences, obtained from online surveys, about the physical configuration of Canarian beaches. Results show that the quantity and distribution of beach types (grain size and beach colour) differ for each island, and that beach use depends on its typology, with sandy beaches being the most used as an urban-tourist resource and pebble-cobble beaches the most transformed to respond to sand beach user demand. These and other factors that have affected the evolution of these beaches and the degree of conservation of their natural functions and geoheritage values are discussed. The responses to the survey show significant patterns related to user profile and preferences regarding the beach environment and recreational services. The importance of social preferences and beach transformation is discussed to understand the evolution of beach management in the Canary Islands and the identified conflicts.

Catalogs, Checklists, and Articles Documenting the Slavic and East European Holdings of The New York Public Library

ABSTRACT This checklist covers catalogs, checklists, and articles on the Slavic and East European collections written by scholars and Slavic staff. It includes the general catalogs, in-house checklists, published monographs and articles checklists, and works on the General History of the Slavonic (later, Slavic & Baltic) Division. With some sample illustrations that are strongly related to the history of the Slavonic Collections, the checklist contains around 320 entries.

Interstellar Polarization Survey. IV. Characterizing the Magnetic Field Strength and Turbulent Dispersion Using Optical Starlight Polarization in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium

Angular dispersion functions are typically used to estimate the fluctuations in polarization angle around the mean magnetic field orientation in dense regions, such as molecular clouds. The technique provides accurate turbulent-to-regular magnetic field ratios, 〈Bt2〉1/2/Bpos , which are often underestimated by the classic Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method. We assess the technique's suitability to characterize the turbulent and regular plane-of-sky magnetic field in low-density structures of the nearby interstellar medium (ISM), particularly when the turbulence outer scale, δ, is smaller than the smallest scale observed, ℓ min. We use optical polarization maps of three intermediate-latitude fields (∣b∣ ≳ 7.°5) with dimensions of 0.°3 × 0.°3, sourced from the Interstellar Polarization Survey–General ISM catalog. We decomposed the H i emission detected by the Galactic All-Sky Survey within our fields to estimate the multiphase ISM properties associated with the structure coupled to the magnetic field. We produced maps of the plane-of-sky magnetic field strength (B pos), mass density (ρ), and turbulent velocity dispersion (σ v,turb). In the regions with well-defined structures at d < 400 pc, the average B – ranges from ∼3 μG to ∼9 μ G, depending on the method and physical properties. In the region where structures extend up to 1000 pc, B pos varies from ∼1 to ∼3 μ G. The results agree with previous estimations in the local, diffuse ISM. Finally, optical starlight polarization and thermal dust polarization at 353 GHz consistently reveal a highly regular plane-of-sky magnetic field orientation unfazed by diffuse dust structures observed at 12 μm.

Amber provenance as a Chrono-Cultural Proxy: Insights from FTIR analysis in the Iberian Peninsula

In recent years, significant advancements have occurred in our comprehension of amber consumption patterns in the Iberian Peninsula. This progress stems from the increasing volume of FTIR data related to both archaeological and geological amber. Consequently, a chronological model has been established, delineating amber consumption in the Iberian Peninsula from the Late Paleolithic to the Iron Age. Broadly, local amber consumption has been minimal since the Paleolithic period. Sicilian amber makes its appearance in Iberia around the 5th millennium BCE and fades away in the 2nd millennium BCE, giving way to Baltic amber, which has remained the sole source since then.The well-defined chronological model, the abundance of FTIR provenance data, and the infrequent association of amber with absolute or relative dates prompt us to explore whether provenance can serve as a chrono-cultural proxy for amber beads.This study introduces new amber finds, presents fresh FTIR data on archaeological amber ornaments, and incorporates minor updates and bug fixes to the general catalog. It is the outcome of a thorough bibliographic review and on-site analysis and examination of the beads.The results obtained in this study enable the reconstruction of amber consumption throughout Iberian prehistory, drawing on 29 newly FTIR-analyzed ambers from 9 sites. Our findings expand the empirical foundation, facilitating the confirmation of diachronic changes in amber consumption. Importantly, they affirm that amber provenance can indeed be employed as a viable chrono-cultural proxy.

Chemical compositions of semiregular variable red giants

ABSTRACT A sample of warm, low-level semiregular variables chosen from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars is studied for their chemical compositions by analysing high-resolution optical spectra. The abundance ratios from Na/Fe to Eu/Fe displayed by these and previously analysed semiregular variables are quite similar to ratios displayed by normal red giants across the Galactic thin and thick discs and halo populations in the solar neighbourhood, suggesting from this perspective that the variables may be among the more photometrically active red giants.

The life and works of Li Shouxian, a medical doctor in the Qing Dynasty

Li Shouxian, styled as Shanshu, was a medical doctor in the Qing Dynasty. His work Zhenjiu Yixue (Easy Study of Acupuncture and Moxibustion) has numerous versions, with the most refined one being the self-engraved edition from the third year of Jiaqing's reign, housed in the Jilin Province Library. While most content of the book was drawn from Zhenjiu Dacheng (Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion), Li's condensation and arrangement of the material achieved the purpose of making it simple and easy to learn. The book has been widely spread and holds certain academic and historical value. This paper makes a textual research on Li's life, family, and his works, clarifies the content, structure and origin of the version of Zhenjiu Yixue and corrects errors in the version records of this book in the General Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Medical Books.

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey V: Cataloguing the sky at 1 367.5 MHz and the second data release of RACS-mid

Abstract The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The first two RACS observing epochs, at 887.5 (RACS-low) and 1 367.5 (RACS-mid) MHz, have been released (McConnell, et al. 2020, PASA, 37, e048; Duchesne, et al. 2023, PASA, 40, e034). A catalogue of radio sources from RACS-low has also been released, covering the sky south of declination $+30^{\circ}$ (Hale, et al., 2021, PASA, 38, e058). With this paper, we describe and release the first set of catalogues from RACS-mid, covering the sky below declination $+49^{\circ}$ . The catalogues are created in a similar manner to the RACS-low catalogue, and we discuss this process and highlight additional changes. The general purpose primary catalogue covering 36 200 deg $^2$ features a variable angular resolution to maximise sensitivity and sky coverage across the catalogued area, with a median angular resolution of $11.2^{\prime\prime} \times 9.3^{\prime\prime}$ . The primary catalogue comprises 3 105 668 radio sources, including those in the Galactic Plane (2 861 923 excluding Galactic latitudes of $|b|&lt;5^{\circ}$ ), and we estimate the catalogue to be 95% complete for sources above 2 mJy. With the primary catalogue, we also provide two auxiliary catalogues. The first is a fixed-resolution, 25-arcsec catalogue approximately matching the sky coverage of the RACS-low catalogue. This 25-arcsec catalogue is constructed identically to the primary catalogue, except images are convolved to a less-sensitive 25-arcsec angular resolution. The second auxiliary catalogue is designed for time-domain science and is the concatenation of source lists from the original RACS-mid images with no additional convolution, mosaicking, or de-duplication of source entries to avoid losing time-variable signals. All three RACS-mid catalogues, and all RACS data products, are available through the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (https://research.csiro.au/casda/).

The Archaeological Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus

Abstract The present study offers a first comprehensive, quantifiable overview of the geographical extent and scale of the cuneiform corpus. Though one of the oldest and longest-lived scripts in history, the sheer size of this corpus, being among the largest discrete bodies of written source material from the pre-modern world, is seldom properly appreciated. We review and evaluate past quantitative assessments of the corpus and current levels of catalogue digitisation and integration, pointing to gaps in general catalogues and principal issues relating to the quantification and interrogation of textual sources at the corpus-level. Combining a newly developed open access spatial index of c. 600 locations from across Europe, Asia, and Africa where cuneiform texts have been found with a quantitative survey of reported finds from scholarly literature, we then proceed to discuss the formation of the cuneiform corpus as an archaeological artefact. Aided by an extremely broad diachronic and diatopic outlook on a uniquely large body of written source material, this study offers an innovative and novel perspective on written corpora as archaeological artefacts.

Demonstrating the possibility of safe operation in the first phase of the site selection procedure in Germany

Abstract. The Federal Company for radioactive waste disposal (BGE) is responsible for the search for a site with the best possible safety for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Germany. The site selection procedure is regulated in a law that was adopted by the German Federal Parliament (Repository Site Selection Act – StandAG, 2017, last updated 2020 (StandAG)) and aims to be a participatory, transparent, learning, and self-questioning process based on scientific expertise. The first step of the first phase of the site selection procedure was completed in September 2020 and resulted in the identification of sub-areas that give reason for expecting favourable geological conditions for the long-term storage of nuclear waste in the sub-surface. These sub-areas cover approximately 54 % of Germany and are located in three different host rocks: rock salt–halite, claystone, and crystalline rock. The challenge for the next step is to find suitable siting regions within the previously determined sub-areas that are then considered further in the next phase of the site selection procedure (Hoyer et al., 2021). The preliminary representative safety analyses in Phase I, Step 2 of the site selection procedure require according to Section 7 (6) No. 4 EndlSiUntV that “the basic possibility of safe operation shall be demonstrated, but a complete operational safety analysis does not need to be performed”. The method is described in BGE (2022a, b) and can be summarized as follows. The demonstration of the basic possibility of safe operation is carried out within the framework of the representative safety analyses for the individual aspects of operational safety in different degrees of detail. The non-radiological aspects of operational safety, which are, for example, derived from occupational health and safety, mining law and fire protection, a site-independent consideration of the regulatory basis and the derivation of corresponding actions, are considered requirements for and are taken into account by the preliminary repository design according to Sect. 6 (4) EndlSiUntV. To demonstrate the basic possibility of safe operation for the operational safety aspects “radiation protection” and “release of radioactive substances” in the investigation areas to be considered, a general catalogue is compiled that summarizes possible events and actions to fulfill the requirements for operational safety. This general catalogue is independent of location and coverage of all host rocks and repository concepts. From this general catalogue, possible specific events are identified for each individual investigation area, and the necessary actions are derived. In addition to the demonstration of the basic possibility of safe operation, the robustness of operational safety within the investigation area is evaluated in a second step.

Cross-matching the General Catalogue of Variable Stars with the Gaia DR3 source catalogue

ABSTRACT The most recent release of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) (Samus et al. 2017) contains 518 different variable types, in eight different variable categories. The catalogue has now reached its 5th version available via the VizieR service and can be considered one of the primary catalogues on the subject. The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) contains the most extensive catalogue of variable stars over the entire sky, still it is an intermediate step towards a better understanding of the quality of data and the automated algorithms being put in place to achieve a more concise classification as the work progresses. Ongoing work to identify all variability types in Gaia requires that a complete set of variable classes is represented. We investigated the most recent variability types listed therein, and compared them to the literature used to classify variable stars in Gaia. We have come across close to 10 000 individual variables in the GCVS that are not classified as variable in Gaia DR3, which include 56 variability types – some of which are bright stars. In this investigation, we demonstrate that there are still a large number of those bright stars missing from the Gaia variable classification. Clear indications show that variables with very short (&amp;lt;1 d), and very long periods, were missed by Gaia DR3 Gaia (Prusti et al. 2016 and Vallenari et al. 2022). Moreover, variables with large amplitudes were also missing. We discuss our findings in some detail.

Linguodidactic Potential of Coordinative Paremiology

A number of Russian theorists and linguistic teachers have developed a method of the folkloreparemiological approach to the study of the Russian language, which is very successfully implemented in practice. To fill the gap in the general catalog of bilingual theories, the author of the article has developed an «Indian»-Russian paremiological method adapted to solving important ethnolinguodidactic problems. Sharing the results of an experimental lesson at Kabardino-Balkarian State University, the author covers issues related to folklore sources, the teaching potential of coordinative, contrastive, «geographical» proverbs and sayings, as well as the method of language acculturation.

PROSPECTS OF LEARNING PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCIPLINES FOR HR

Studying at the National University of Food Technologies provides for systematic surveys of applicants for higher education aimed at optimizing the pedagogical process, in which, in particular, respondents note the high quality of teaching psychological disciplines and the need for further in-depth study of them. This fact determines the relevance of the problem of studying psychological disciplines for HR. The paper analyzes the compliance of the existing academic disciplines with the author's programme for the formation of psychological competence on the example of the pedagogical process of applicants for the educational degrees "Bachelor" and "Master" of the educational and professional programme "Personnel Management" full-time and part-time forms of education, that is, HR managers. The psychological content of the integral, general, professional competencies and programme learning outcomes illustrates the importance of mastering psychological disciplines for the HR sphere. The implementation of the original programme for the formation of the psychological competence of food industry specialists developed by the author in previous studies in the educational and professional process of future HR managers is effective, as evidenced by applicants for higher education, after mastering the "Fundamentals of Psychology", then they regularly choose psychological disciplines from the catalogue of the educational programme and the general university catalogue: Fundamentals of psychodiagnostics for HR, Psychology of HR professional activity, Psychology of soft skills in personnel management, Psychology of success, Leadership and team building. The best graduates apply the acquired psychological competencies in their own professional activities and become stakeholders, who, in turn, encourage the deepening of knowledge, skills and abilities during the learning of psychological disciplines in the process of social and educational training of personnel managers. The author determined that the study of psychological disciplines will allow applicants for higher education to be successful HR managers and to fulfill effectively their professional duties in future.

On the co-orbital asteroids in the solar system: medium-term timescale analysis of the quasi-coplanar objects

The focus of this work is the current distribution of asteroids in co-orbital motion with Venus, Earth and Jupiter, under a quasi-coplanar configuration and for a medium-term timescale of the order of 900 years. A co-orbital trajectory is a heliocentric orbit trapped in a 1:1 mean-motion resonance with a given planet. As such, to model it this work considers the Restricted Three-Body Problem in the planar circular case with the help of averaging techniques. The domain of each co-orbital regime, that is, the quasi-satellite motion, the horseshoe motion and the tadpole motion, can be neatly defined by means of an integrable model and a simple two-dimensional map, that is invariant with respect to the mass parameter of the planet, and turns out to be a remarkable tool to investigate the distribution of the co-orbitals objects of interest. The study is based on the data corresponding to the ephemerides computed by the JPL Horizons system for asteroids with a sufficient low orbital inclination with respect to the Sun–planet orbital plane. These objects are cataloged according to their current dynamics, together with the transitions that occur in the given time frame from a given type of co-orbital motion to another. The results provide a general catalog of co-orbital asteroids in the solar system, the first one to our knowledge, and an efficient mean to study transitions.

Towards FAIR Data Access

Towards FAIR Data Access

Revised Version of the New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, NSV Release 2

We present NSV Release 2, an electronic version of the “New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars”. A detailed file-by-file description of the new catalogue version is given. By its structure, we preserve the catalogue as a historical document, but the information it contains has been considerably renewed compared to its first electronic version. Accuracy of coordinates has been drastically improved for the objects in the catalogue; for most of them, we revised photometric and spectroscopic data. Remarks have been renewed. In the cases when there were no finding charts, we recovered variability of 2800 stars of the catalogue, despite large errors of the coordinates earlier published for them. Using photometric data from several sky surveys, we studied and transferred to the General Catalogue of Variable Stars about 5000 NSV stars.

Mobile Instant Messaging Uses and Technostress: A Qualitative Approach

A growing number of people use mobile instant messaging (MIM) apps for a variety of purposes—most commonly related to social interaction, but also to coordinate work-related activities, fulfill informational needs, and discuss politics and public affairs. Despite its convenience for daily life, MIM may also act as an environmental antecedent of technostress due to users’ inability to cope with the demands of the app in a healthy manner. We conducted two qualitative studies (N1 = 26; N2 = 147) to examine why people use MIM apps in their daily life and if diverse uses relate to MIM stress differently. This research (1) develops a general catalogue of MIM uses; (2) suggests a four-dimensional construct of MIM technostress consisting of overload, ambiguity, invasion, and urgency; (3) outlines several differences across age groups and between genders; and (4) describes possible relationships between MIM uses and stress.

Gender and Catalog

The present papers aims at analyzing the actions of the publishing industry in connection with the transposition of Latin American and Caribbean literature written by women from printed to digital format. It presents some results obtained from searches and it detects and analyzes the strategies implemented by the main commercial platforms, digital libraries and bookstores in transposing literary works by women. Likewise, it describes the mechanisms negatively impacting on their representation in the general catalog of Latin American and Caribbean literature. The irruption of works in the public domain and best-selling works by female writers from the region is also discussed.

Cataloging Italian Meteorite Museum Collections Using the BN-PL National Standard: A Case Study

This study sets out to investigate the usefulness of cataloging Italian meteorite museum collections using a national standard. This investigation follows a case-study design, with an in-depth analysis of the meteorite collection preserved at the Museum of Planetary Sciences in Prato, Italy, which has been recently cataloged using the BN-PL (Beni Naturalistici–Planetologia, Naturalistic Heritage–Planetology) standard promoted by the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD, Central Institute for Cataloging and Documentation). ICCD is a part of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The catalog cards were published in open access on the General Catalog of the Cultural Heritage (https://catalogo.beniculturali.it).

Wan's gynecology and obstetrics (Wan Shi Nv Ke) collected by the library of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

Wan's gynecology and obstetrics (Wan Shi Nv Ke), collected by the library of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, was examined with the field method. It was found some issues existed both in the recording and description of Wan's gynecology and obstetrics (Wan Shi Nv Ke) collected by the library of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in the electronic catalogue of ancient books and in the General catalogue of ancient books of traditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Guo Zhong Yi Gu Ji Zong Mu), in terms of the same version with different registration, wrong publication time, some contents missed in publication, and the version actually not collected.