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Levels of Evidence in the Journal of Music Therapy from 2000-2009: Descriptive Analyses by Year and Clinical Population

Levels of Evidence in the Journal of Music Therapy from 2000-2009: Descriptive Analyses by Year and Clinical Population

ŠIAULIŲ „KULTŪROS“ BENDROVĖS (1920–1937) KNYGŲ MENINĖ KULTŪRA

The company Kultūra (1920–1937) in Šiauliai was one of the largest and most signifi­cant Lithuanian interwar commercial publishers. During the first decade of Lithuanian independen­ce it foresaw the need to provide the public with editions, which were improved in both content and form. The publishing house tried to make its books similar to the publications released in Western Europe from the artistic point of view. The subject of the work is the Šiauliai company Kultūra book design from the artistic point of view. The aim is to determine design quality and characteristics of Kultūra books. The objectives are to explore the publishing activities of the company Kultūra; to analyze the company’s Kultūra attitu­de towards the design of the books; to identify the main factors influencing the aesthetic appearance of Kultūra books; to explore the stylistic features of the main artists who illustrated and designed the covers of the books of the company Kultūra; to analyze the design of the main types of the Kultūra company books with regard to their specifics. In the research, both general scientific and special bibliography methods were used. Analysis of primary the Kultūra company sources and scientific literature has led to the conclu­sion that considering difficult conditions of book production process and the lack of professional graphic artists in the third decade of the twentieth century, the company Kultūra was able to release quality books, meeting both the artistic and printing criteria of that time. Seventy percent of the company’s books were illustrated. The broad target audience demanded the development of both thematic and typological diversity ofthe publishing repertoire. Different artistic concepts of book types resulted in a diversity of illustrative material. The books printed in Germany have both a more attractive artistic design and a higher printing quality. The company Kultūra was able to choose a larger size of paper, to get clichés and replicas as well as to use offset printing. It pursued cooperation with the technically most powerful Lithuanian and foreign printing companies andinvited artists to design covers and illustrate books. All this is sufficient proof of how seriously the company Kultūra regarded artistic book design. The books were illustrated mostly by the po­pular artist Kazys Šimonis, eight coloured covers were designed by famous artist of Šiauliai Gerardas Bagdonavičius. A few books were illustrated by the Lithuanian artists Aldona Kazanavičienė, Anta­nas Kazanavičius and Pranas Giedravičius. Other books were illustrated by foreign artists Wilhelm Busch, Francz Müller-Münster, Paul-Gustave Doré and others.

Bibliography of recent research on Upper Silesia

The following bibliography contains the most recent research on Upper Silesia.

Joseph T. Snow, The poetry of Alfonso X. An annotated Critical Bibliography (1278–2010) (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series, 10), Woodbridge, Tamesis, 2012, XIV + 448 p.

Article Joseph T. Snow,The poetry of Alfonso X. An annotated Critical Bibliography (1278–2010) (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series, 10), Woodbridge, Tamesis, 2012, XIV + 448 p. was published on December 1, 2013 in the journal Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (volume 129, issue 4).

Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

A bibliometric approach to interdisciplinarity in Japanese rice research and technology development

Research and development of rice, a major crop, has been promoted on an interdisciplinary basis with the involvement of various research fields ranging from natural sciences to socioeconomics in Japan. This paper focuses on the structure of interdisciplinarity in Japanese rice research and technology development by analyzing the relationship among all relevant disciplines with the use of a compiled bibliography of Japanese rice research with 19,389 articles in 1,611 journals in the publishing years of 1990---2000. The relationship among the disciplines was characterized by the frequency distribution of articles among journals classified into 24 categories based on the law of scattering originally identified by Bradford (Engineering 13:785---786, 1934). The 24 journal categories ranked in decreasing order of productivity of articles were divided into 3 zones; the first nuclear zone with a smaller number of highly productive journal disciplines; the second zone with a large number of less productive disciplines; and the last zone with a larger number of the least productive disciplines, which characterized the structure of interdisciplinarity in Japanese rice research and technology development. Other aspects of the interdisciplinarity were further explored with reference to peripheral journals with a minimal number of papers on a certain subject, and the Groos droop phenomenon at the end of Bradford's S-shape curve that is the region of the least productive journals with only one paper on a certain subject, by analyzing the frequency distribution of articles in journal categories.

Constitutional Change and Responsibilities of Governance Pertaining to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative

This paper, commissioned and published in June 2008 in connection with the White House-sponsored Conference on Innovations in Effective Compassion, addresses the changing legal environment relevant to government partnerships with religious providers of social services. In particular, the paper maps the federal government's regulatory agenda in connection with the Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) onto the changes in constitutional law over the past several decades. After briefly surveying the key developmental points in the relevant constitutional law, the paper explores specific changes in federal regulations governing aid to religious providers of welfare services, and considers the litigation efforts that have occurred in conjunction with the FBCI. Some of the litigation may be traced, at least in part, to inadequacies in the FBCI's regulatory reform. In addition, the paper provides recommendations for federal and state regulatory language that could be used to facilitate the FBCI while keeping it within constitutional bounds. The paper includes a research bibliography and a table of all litigation that bears on the Initiative.

Greek University Candidates’ Targets in a Changing, Unstable and Unpredictable Economic Environment

The topic of the present study is concerned with the university candidates’ educational and career choices against an unstable economic background that may necessitate the reformulation and readjustment of choices to innovative concepts of advancement and future development as they may apply to youngsters of different social class and gender. The sudden call to precipitated maturity is a shock, as eighteen- year olds are now expected to sit for exams and simultaneously opt for an education- conduit to vocational security. More specifically, a case study concentrating on two different geographical areas: the Northern suburbs and western Attica was designed, taking into consideration the class-related socio-economic and political traits of their population. It is also estimated the extent to which educational choices are determined by gender. Close and open- end questions are utilized to unravel the societal considerations and selection tactics of the subjects, which is semantically revealed to lead to gingerly realistic steps on the quick sand of political and economic instability. There was also considerable profit from a multitude of interpretative versions and research bibliographies, so as to uncover the role that gender and class-related inequality plays in shaping and directing educational and vocational choices. The crux of our problematic is centered in a liquid status quo with individuals making judgments according to the social and educational capital established in the class and gender-related correlations within the collectivity. The research proceeds to expose vast vistas of continually re-definable prospects, renewable explorative models and a systemic complexity that regenerate youngsters' choices. It is noteworthy that information has for the first time become available on education being tied to vocation, not only against the backdrop of an economic and value crisis but also the end decade- long governmental providence.

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania

A systematic review of interactive information retrieval evaluation studies, 1967–2006

With the increasing number and diversity of search tools available, interest in the evaluation of search systems, particularly from a user perspective, has grown among researchers. More researchers are designing and evaluating interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems and beginning to innovate in evaluation methods. Maturation of a research specialty relies on the ability to replicate research, provide standards for measurement and analysis, and understand past endeavors. This article presents a historical overview of 40 years ofIIRevaluation studies using the method of systematic review. A total of 2,791 journal and conference units were manually examined and 127 articles were selected for analysis in this study, based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. These articles were systematically coded using features such as author, publication date, sources and references, and properties of the research method used in the articles, such as number of subjects, tasks, corpora, and measures. Results include data describing the growth ofIIRstudies over time, the most frequently occurring and cited authors and sources, and the most common types of corpora and measures used. An additional product of this research is a bibliography ofIIRevaluation research that can be used by students, teachers, and those new to the area. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first historical, systematic characterization of theIIRevaluation literature, including the documentation of methods and measures used by researchers in this specialty.

A Description of Reading Shakespeare's Early Modern Readers, a Digital Database

Reading Shakespeare's Early Modern Readers, directed and co-edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer and co-edited by Margaret Vasileiou, is an online database focusing on early modern and eighteenth-century readers' responses to Shakespeare. Sponsored by L'Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'Age Classique et les Lumieres (IRCL) at the Universite Paul-Valery in Montpellier, France, it documents manuscript inscriptions found in early modern editions of Shakespeare's poetry and plays, as well as early modern and eighteenth-century manuscript miscellanies, letters, and commonplace books in which inscribers have excerpted from or commented on Shakespeare and his works. This fully searchable database aims to promote research about early modern and eighteenth-century readers' responses to Shakespeare, as well as to provide researchers of Shakespeare, early modern books and manuscripts, history, and cultural studies with easily accessible evidence of early modern readers' reactions to, and appropriations of, Shakespeare.Each database entry consists of one book or manuscript, and provides users with transcriptions and descriptions of excerpts, annotations, and other inscriptions; links to images of relevant pages; information, when available, about the inscriber(s); and bibliographies for further research, many with direct links to resources. Entries begin with, among other information, the author and title of the manuscript or book, the date of publication (when applicable), the approximate dates of the inscriptions it contains and, when necessary or helpful, a brief introduction that offers information about the book 's history, its inscriber(s), or its contents. Descriptions and transcriptions of inscriptions, as well as links to images of the pages, are presented in an easy-to-read table format, allowing users to scan each book or manuscript quickly for inscriptions of interest and, when possible, to view those inscriptions in a digital image. Following the table, the editors offer brief commentary on the inscriptions, clarifying or expanding on, among other elements, the content of the book or manuscript, the identity of the inscriber(s), the response to Shakespeare evinced by the inscription(s), or the approximate dates of inscription.As of the publication of this notice, the editors have viewed and selected for inclusion in the database more than one hundred books and manuscripts, all found in either the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the United States Library of Congress, the National Library of Scotland, or the University of Edinburgh Library. Each database entry includes the shelfmark for the book and a link either to the relevant library website or, when possible, to the book 's listing in the library's online catalog.Together, these entries paint a broad picture of the editorial, personal, aesthetic, moral, and even political nuances of early modern and eighteenth-century readers' and theater-goers' reactions to Shakespeare. …

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL (Online only): Bibliography of UC ANR research on the Healthy Families and Communities Strategic Initiative priorities

Author(s): Campbell, David | Abstract: Note: The following partial bibliography includes more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published since 2009. Authored by UC ANR academics, these publications address one or more of the three priorities of the HFC strategic initiative: healthy living for obesity prevention, youth science literacy, and positive youth development. Such research informs UC Cooperative Extension teaching and extension programs across California communities.

Creating a Geo-Referenced Bibliography with Google Earth and GeoCommons: the Coos Bay Bibliography.

The article presents a study that created a geo-referenced bibliography with Google Earth and GeoCommons which resulted in a Coos Bay, Oregon bibliography. It collated a geo-referenced bibliography of research including theses, peer-reviewed articles, agency literature, and books having sample collection sites in and around Coos Bay.

Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

This November issue of RTE once again contains the Annual Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English, available only here, on the NCTE website.

Studies on literary interpretation in the classroom. A bibliography

The following list of publications presents a collection of studies on “literary interpretation”. It is based on a search of several digital databases, such as PsycINFO, the Web of Science and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Most results come from the database PsycINFO. In addition, the Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English (in Research of the Teaching of English) has been consulted. The list is complemented by using the so called snowball method, and by consulting Irene Pieper and Tanja Janssen. Publications were selected which contained research works on interpretation of literature in an educational context. The search terms were: “interpretation” com-bined with “literature” or “literary”, “reading” or “meaning construction” and “teaching” or “student”. The research works were published between 1985 and 2012. Only articles published in journals and written in English were included. Ab-stracts were derived from the databases. The list is clearly incomplete and presents not a complete bibliography, but it may be a basis for further studies in the field of “literary interpretation”.

International communication

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to acknowledge the assistance of Leanne Cannon in the preparation of this paper. Notes This article was originally published in The Journal of International Communication, vol. 10, no. 2, 2004. 1. See also Boulding (1961 Boulding , K. 1961 ‘National images and international systems’ , in J. Rosenau International Politics and Foreign Policy , New York . [Google Scholar]). 2. See also de Sola Pool (1951 de Sola Pool , I. 1951 Symbols of Internationalism , Stanford . [Google Scholar]). 3. See also Merritt (1972 Merritt , R.L. 1972 Communication in International Politics , Urbana , IL : University of Illinois Press . [Google Scholar]). 4. See also White (1968 White , R.K. 1968 Nobody Wanted War , Garden City , NY . [Google Scholar]). 5. This special issue of The Annals is devoted to articles on the roles, techniques, instrumentalities and agencies of propaganda. 6. For a comprehensive bibliography using communication data and event data in international relations see Burrowes et al (1971 Burrowes , R. , Hoggard , G.D. , Leng , R.J. , Mowlana , H. , Peterson , S. , Phillips , W.R. & Richman , A. 1971 Event-Interaction Analysis: Selected Bibliography of Recent Research, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting , Chicago , September . [Google Scholar]). 7. See also Zinnes (1968 Zinnes , D.A. 1968 ‘The expression and perception of hostility in prewar crisis: 1914’ , in J.D. Singer Quantitative international Politics , New York . [Google Scholar]). 8. See also Osgood (1962 Osgood , C.E. 1962 An Alternative to War or Surrender , Urbana . [Google Scholar]). For the theoretical bases see Heider (1964 Heider , E. 1964 ‘Attitudes and cognitive organization’ , Journal of Psychology , 24 . [Google Scholar]) and Newcomb (1953 Newcomb, T.M. 1953. An approach to the study of communicative acts. Psychological Review, 60: 393–404. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). [9. For examples of development using small group communication and workshops in international communication and international relations during this time see Doob (1969 Doob, L. 1969. The Fermeda Workshop: A different approach to border conflicts on Eastern Africa. Journal of Psychology, 73: 249–266. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Walton (1970), Doob et al (1969 Doob, L. 1969. The Fermeda Workshop: A different approach to border conflicts on Eastern Africa. Journal of Psychology, 73: 249–266. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and Kelman (1972 Kelman , H. 1972 ‘Problem solving workshop in conflict resolution’ , in R.L. Merritt Communication in International Politics , Urbana , IL . [Google Scholar]). 10. See also Mead (1961 Mead , G.H. 1961 ‘The social foundations and functions of thought and communication’ , in T. Parsons et al. Theories of Society , New York . [Google Scholar]). 11. For UNESCO publications in this area see Mowlana (1971 Mowlana , H. 1971 lnternational Communication: A Selected Bibliography , Dubuque , Iowa [Google Scholar]), pp.86–87. 12. See also Almond and Powell (1966 Almond , G. & Powell , G.B. 1966 Comparative Politics: A Development Approach , Boston . [Google Scholar]). 13. See also Fagen's three articles on mass communication in Journalism Quarterly, Autumn 1964, Winter 1964 and Spring 1965. 14. See also Mishra (1971 Mishra, V.M. 1971. Mass media variables related to urbanization and modernization in developing areas. Journalism Quarterly, 48: 513–518. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). 15. See also Deutsch (1963 Deutsch , K.W. 1963 The Nerves of Government , New York . [Google Scholar]). 16. Other discussion includes Rapaport (1960 Rapaport , A. 1960 Fights, Games, and Debates , Ann Arbor , Mich . [Google Scholar]). 17. For international communicators and foreign correspondents see Mowlana (1971 Mowlana , H. 1971 lnternational Communication: A Selected Bibliography , Dubuque , Iowa [Google Scholar]), Chapter X. 18. See also the special issue of the Stanford Journal of International Studies (June 1970) devoted to telecommunication.

Bibliography of research from the Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, Canterbury, New Zealand: 1951 to 2011

This annotated bibliography presents 434 journal and conference papers, technical reports and bulletins and guides published from 1951 to 2011 as a result of research carried out at the Winchmore Irrigation Research Station.

Abstract 023: The Effect of Dietary Protein on Blood Pressure: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Lifestyle modifications such as weight loss, increasing physical activity, and reducing alcohol consumption and salt intake have been consistently shown to decrease blood pressure. Less well understood is whether increased dietary protein intake may also reduce blood pressure and the risk of hypertension. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials to assess the hypothesis that increased dietary protein intake decreases systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adults. MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, a registry of soy research trials, bibliography review, and expert consultation were the sources of English and non-English articles published before April 2011. Search terms included randomized controlled trial, blood pressure, dietary proteins, dietary supplements, casein, soy, and meat. Forty randomized controlled trials including 3,277 participants in which amount or source of protein was the only difference between the intervention and comparison groups and that examined blood pressure were included. Using a standardized protocol and data extraction form, two investigators independently abstracted data on study design, participant characteristics, intervention, and treatment outcomes. Net effects of protein on blood pressure were pooled across trials and weighted by the inverse of the variance using random-effects models. Compared to carbohydrate, dietary protein was associated with significant decreases in mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure (95% confidence intervals) of -1.75 (-2.31, -1.19) and -1.16 (-1.60, -0.72) mmHg, respectively (all P<0.001). Blood pressure lowering effects of both vegetable and animal sources of protein were observed with significant decreases of -2.22 (-3.18, -1.26) and -2.54 (-3.55, -1.53) mmHg for systolic blood pressure, respectively (all P<0.001), and -1.25 (-2.12, -0.39) and -0.95 (-1.72, -0.19) mmHg for diastolic blood pressure, respectively (P=0.005 and 0.01, respectively). Blood pressure reduction was not significantly different when vegetable protein was compared directly to animal protein. In conclusion, dietary protein intake reduces systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adults. Replacement of carbohydrate intake with protein intake, from either vegetable or animal sources, could be an important strategy for helping to curb the growing pandemic of hypertension and related cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. Future research is indicated to assess potential differential effects of protein on blood pressure according to hypertension status.

Bibliographic Analysis of Nigerian Finfish and Fisheries Research from Colonial Era to Present

A bibliography of finfish and its fisheries research in Nigeria's inland waters ( sensu lato ) is compiled with 439 publications assessed. These are commented on with respect to geographic, biotope/catchment and taxonomic spread. The southwest of Nigeria was most favoured with respect to geographic zone: with Lake Kainji/River Niger topping the list (14%) of the biotopes and its species the most attended to. Views are adduced for the trends. Key Words: Finfish, Fisheries, research bibliography, Nigeria, colonial, present

The Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

This November issue of RTE once again contains the Annual Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English, available only here, on the NCTE website.