Royal School Research Articles

Progression of aortic stenosis in the boxer.

Thirty-five boxers that had been referred to the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies between 1989 and 1994 with left heart base murmurs and aortic velocities greater than 1.5 m/second on Doppler echocardiography were recalled for clinical examination and Doppler echocardiography between 1995 and 1996. Five dogs (14 per cent) showed an increase in murmur grade on repeat visit. Six dogs (17 per cent) showed an increase in aortic velocity of greater than 20 per cent. Eight dogs (23 per cent) had developed aortic valvular or subvalvular two-dimensional echocardiographic changes that had not been present at the initial visit. Seven dogs (20 per cent) had developed aortic regurgitation, and three dogs (8 per cent) mitral regurgitation.

Information retrieval, experimental models and statistical analysis

This paper introduces some of the considerations behind the teaching of research methodology at the Royal School of Library and Information Science at the masters level. The module in research methodology is illustrated in relation to information retrieval experiments. Theoretical and practical problems with experimental settings are analysed in relation to the different approaches of information retrieval research. Sampling problems are extremely relevant both for teaching research methodology and for planning investigations in information retrieval. The concept of a model is introduced and also the elements of the topics of the statistical part of the module in relation to typical research questions in information retrieval.

Towards a Danish Lis university

The paper analyses the development of LIS research in Denmark since 1985, when research became one of the main activities of the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS) along with education and continuing education. The paper outlines the background for the development of the School from a professional school to a university institution and the political, economic, professional and other conditions for this framework. The initiatives taken and the activities realised during the years are evaluated, especially those with relevance to international co‐operation.

Book reviews

Journal of the American Society for Information ScienceVolume 51, Issue 5 p. 491-492 Book Review Book reviews Jens-Erik Mai, Corresponding Author Jens-Erik Mai jem@db.dk Royal School of Library and Information ScienceCopenhagen, DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author Jens-Erik Mai, Corresponding Author Jens-Erik Mai jem@db.dk Royal School of Library and Information ScienceCopenhagen, DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 February 2000 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:5<491::AID-ASI14>3.0.CO;2-OCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume51, Issue52000Pages 491-492 RelatedInformation

Papillary renal carcinoma with an unusual clinical presentation in a horse

Equine Veterinary EducationVolume 11, Issue 4 p. 171-173 Papillary renal carcinoma with an unusual clinical presentation in a horse S. M. Rhind, S. M. Rhind Departments of Veterinary Pathology, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK.Search for more papers by this authorB. Sturgeon, B. Sturgeon Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK.Search for more papers by this author S. M. Rhind, S. M. Rhind Departments of Veterinary Pathology, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK.Search for more papers by this authorB. Sturgeon, B. Sturgeon Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK.Search for more papers by this author First published: 26 April 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-3292.1999.tb00941.xCitations: 5AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume11, Issue4August 1999Pages 171-173 RelatedInformation

Huxley's bulldog: the battles of E. Ray Lankester (1846-1929).

Huxley's bulldog: the battles of E. Ray Lankester (1846-1929).

Estimation of platelet counts on feline blood smears.

Blood samples were obtained from 50 cats admitted for hematologic evaluation at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Manual platelet counts were done using a hemacytometer, and the average number of platelets per oil immersion field (1,000X magnification) was determined on stained blood smears. A hemacytometer count was not obtained for one sample because of a failure in erythrocyte lysing. In nine samples, obvious platelet clumps in the blood smear prevented accurate determination of the number of platelets per oil immersion field. Hemacytometer counts on these nine samples ranged from 260-587 X 10 (3) platelets/microliter, suggesting that platelet clumps on a blood smear were usually associated with adequate platelet numbers. Simple regression analysis of hemacytometer counts and the average umber of platelets per oil immersion field for the remaining 40 samples yielded correlation coefficients (r) of 0.776 on untransformed data, and 0.892 on log10-transformed data. Each platelet per oil immersion field represented a circulating platelet count of approximately 20 X 10(3)/microliter, similar to conversion factors reported for dogs and human beings. It was concluded that estimation of platelet number on stained blood smears is a simple and quick method that appears to be reliable over a wide range of platelet counts in cats.

The DDC, the universe of knowledge, and the post-modern library

Journal of the American Society for Information ScienceVolume 50, Issue 5 p. 475-477 Book Review The DDC, the universe of knowledge, and the post-modern library Birger Hjørland, Birger Hjørland bh@db.dk Royal School of Library and Information Science, 6 Birketinget, DK-2300 Copenhagen S., DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author Birger Hjørland, Birger Hjørland bh@db.dk Royal School of Library and Information Science, 6 Birketinget, DK-2300 Copenhagen S., DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 April 1999 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:5<475::AID-ASI9>3.0.CO;2-ECitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume50, Issue51999Pages 475-477 RelatedInformation

THE THIRD COURSE IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY

The Photogrammetric RecordVolume 16, Issue 92 p. 349-350 THE THIRD COURSE IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY J. R. Sach, J. R. Sach Royal School of Military SurveySearch for more papers by this author J. R. Sach, J. R. Sach Royal School of Military SurveySearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 October 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9730.1998.tb01499.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume16, Issue92October 1998Pages 349-350 RelatedInformation

Informetrics: an emerging subdiscipline in information science

The Centre for Informetric Studies (CIS) was launched in 1996 by the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen. The head of centre presents the CIS, giving a sample of activities and research programmes. The emerging field of informetrics is described in a historical perspective as a subfield of bibliometrics. The new approach combines advanced information retrieval theories and methodologies with the scientific study of information flows. CIS aims to apply improved bibliometric methods not only to scientometrics studies and research evaluations of science and technology, but also to the analysis of their mutual societal, industrial and other special relations. This means an extension of traditional bibliometric analyses to cover non‐scholarly communities in which information is produced, communicated and used. It is also an appeal to modern LIS professionals to face the challenge of this new area of quantitative studies, and to explore the databases not only as a registry but also as a tool for analytical work. The possibilities for LIS professionals to raise their positions in information work hierarchies are emphasised, as well as the exploration of informetric techniques to support “informed” management decisions and policy making.

A reappraisal of current approaches to the management of fungal infections in neutropenic patients

Departments of Medical Microbiology and Haematology, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London NW3 2QG, UK Correspondence to Christopher C. Kibbler, Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London NW3 2QG, UK

Diagnosis of palmar foot pain in the equine forelimb

PALMAR foot pain is a term used to describe chronic unilateral or bilateral lameness associated with the palmar third of the forelimb foot which is relieved by palmar digital perineural...

Proceedings:983Edited by Peter Inqwersen, Niels Ole Pors. Proceedings: CoLIS 2: Second International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Integration in Perspective, 13‐16 October 1996. Copenhagen: Royal School of Librarianship 1996. 484 pp, ISBN: 87‐7415‐260‐2

Proceedings:983Edited by Peter Inqwersen, Niels Ole Pors. <i>Proceedings: CoLIS 2: Second International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Integration in Perspective, 13‐16 October 1996</i>. Copenhagen: Royal School of Librarianship 1996. 484 pp, ISBN: 87‐7415‐260‐2

Purulent basilar empyema and meningitis associated with exophthalmos in a pony

Equine Veterinary EducationVolume 10, Issue 2 p. 58-62 Purulent basilar empyema and meningitis associated with exophthalmos in a pony M. R. Gough, M. R. Gough Departments of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this authorI. G. Mayhew, I. G. Mayhew Departments of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this authorG. A. Munroe, G. A. Munroe Departments of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this authorR. W. Else, R. W. Else Veterinary Pathology, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this author M. R. Gough, M. R. Gough Departments of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this authorI. G. Mayhew, I. G. Mayhew Departments of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this authorG. A. Munroe, G. A. Munroe Departments of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this authorR. W. Else, R. W. Else Veterinary Pathology, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 April 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-3292.1998.tb00849.xCitations: 4AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume10, Issue2April 1998Pages 58-62 RelatedInformation

Evaluating an evaluation: the case of an integrated medical firm at st bartholomew's and the royal london school of medicine and dentistry at QMW

Evaluating an evaluation: the case of an integrated medical firm at st bartholomew's and the royal london school of medicine and dentistry at QMW

An experimental study into the mechanical properties of intramedullary nails in the treatment of simulated subtrochanteric femoral fracture: C. Al-Sayyad, M. I. Goodwin, A. W. Miles and R. J. Eveleigh (The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK and School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK)

An experimental study into the mechanical properties of intramedullary nails in the treatment of simulated subtrochanteric femoral fracture: C. Al-Sayyad, M. I. Goodwin, A. W. Miles and R. J. Eveleigh (The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK and School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK)

L’Ecole d’application de l’artillerie et du génie de Metz, 1802–1870: Enseignement et recherches. Actes de la journée, d’étude du 2 novembre 1995 ed. by Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon

148 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE tool as they once were. Even so, not only undergraduates but more advanced scholars will find this work useful as long as it is not the sole resource at their disposal. Terrence R. Fehner and F. G. Gosling Drs. Fehner and Gosling are historians at the U.S. Department of Energy. They are currently working on a history ofwaste management policies and programs from 1942 to the present. L’Ecole d’application de l’artillerie et du génie de Metz, 1802-1870: Enseig­ nement et recherches. Actes de la journée, d’étude du 2 novembre 1995. Edited by Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon. Paris: Musée des Plans-Reliefs, 1996. Pp. 76; notes, index. Price not available. The École d’application (best translated perhaps as “school of instruction”) of artillery and military engineering at Metz has suf­ fered from a double neglect. First, it has been overshadowed by the École polytechnique, the mother school from which all the écoles d’application were for many years required by law to recruit their stu­ dents. Even among these, it never attracted the attention accorded to the École des ponts et chaussées and the École des mines, older and more eminent Parisian institutions. Secondly, with the loss of Lorraine to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, the école was transferred from Metz to Fontainebleau and received (with other military institutions) a significant share of the blame for France’s defeat. It was accused ofbeing too theoretical and out-of-touch with the practical needs of warfare at a time when rifled artillery had a decisive effect on the battlefield. The conference papers collected in this slim book on the school contain abundant and useful notes as well as a list offaculty, but the book has no pretensions to being a definitive work. Rather, its aim is to give an overview of present research and to encourage further attention to some interesting problems in the history of the peda­ gogy of engineering, its relations with science, and engineering re­ search. The organizers of the conference, Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon, historians ofthe École polytechnique and the École des ponts et chaussées, respectively, point out that Metz was in fact the direct descendant of the old royal military engineering school at Mézières and for some years carried on that school’s emphasis on graphics and practice before polytechniciens gradually took over its teaching positions and gave it a decidedly analytical and theoretical bent. In their article on the general character of the school’s teaching, Bel­ hoste and Picon show that this process was neither smooth nor ever entirely complete because of the nature of engineering itself. There is inherent in the pedagogy ofengineering a tension between begin­ TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 149 ning with the application of a science to technology and beginning with the intellectually messier and analytically recalcitrant domain of practice itself. There were other tensions that conditioned teach­ ing at Metz: internal tensions between artillerists and military engi­ neers, each with proud traditions and rivals during the 18th century, and external tensions with the Ecole polytechnique and the military corps that recruited their officers from the school. These are dis­ cussed in a paper by Fabrice Hamelin, who looks at the complex administrative and bureaucratic history of the school. The majority ofpolytechnicienswent on to Metz, and the eminence of its faculty often matched that of Polytechnique. Perhaps the most famous was Jean-Victor Poncelet, pioneer of projective geometry and theoretician of hydraulics, whose course on the “science of ma­ chines” is analyzed in detail here by Konstantinos Chatzis. Philippe Prost and Jean-Francois Belhoste deal with the courses in fortifica­ tion and chemistry, respectively. These were considerably more con­ servative in their approach than Poncelet’s. But Metz was more than a school; it was also a focus and stimulant for research in ballistics and explosives. Patrice Bret describes the work at the Ecole de pyrotechnie, also located in the town of Metz, which conducted the most advanced research on black powder tech­ nology in the world. He shows that Metz was in fact the most active site...

P18 Haemostatic changes induced in 84 humans bitten by the Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) and recovery following antivenom

Haemophilia and Haemostasis Centre, Department of Haematology, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London, UK

Which febrile neutropenic patients are suitable for outpatient management?

Departments of Medical Microbiology and Haematology, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London, UK

East End, West End: Science Education, Culture and Class in Mid-Victorian London

In early nineteenth-century London scientific activity was located mainly in two areas, Westminster and the City. Westminster, with its learned societies, was the focal point of a largely gentlemanly science founded upon the expertise of the Westminster scientific elite, the gentleman scientists and the skilled Westminster artisans. In the city, the Guilds promoted instruction serving the many technically based manufacturing industries that existed in London’s East End, an area that was also home to a number of scientific societies and clubs serving the interests of those in the various trades. In the aftermath of the 1851 and 1867 Exhibitions, with a growing awareness of foreign competition in trade and industry, there was much pressure on the government to promote higher education in the sciences. This paper examines the cultural identities of three of London’s mid-nineteenth-century scientific educational institutions, two located in the West End, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines as well as the City and Guilds of London Institute, located in the East End. In comparing them it will be shown that while the West End institutions show the infusion of gentlemanly ideals held by members of the government, high civil servants and the members of learned societies located near by, and the East End institution shows something of guild and trades ideals, their scientific cultures cannot be easily demarcated. These cultures were hybrids in which various shared ideals, differently weighted, were represented.