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Perception of static magnetic field by humans: a review

We review the scientific data available on the ability of humans to perceive static magnetic fields with intensities comparable to the intensity of the natural geomagnetic field. It is currently assumed that birds have at least two independent magnetoreceptory systems. Various authors have reported the existence of the sensory ability to perceive the Earth’s magnetic field and to use it for spatial orientation in different species of mammals. The question of whether this ability exists in humans has been raised repeatedly. During the past 40 years, serious scholarly titles have published the results of behavioral studies on humans’ ability to perform homing to their home range by magnetic cues, of the ability to point towards a certain magnetic compass direction, and claims of magnetic modulation of the ability to discriminate weak light flashes. Several research groups have tried to find out whether brain bioelectric activity responds to changes in the stationary magnetic field. Cortical activation following changes in the static magnetic field, which suggested transduction of the changes in the Earth’s magnetic field into neural responses, was found by analyzing event-related synchronization/desynchronization. However, no behavioral manifestation for the putative magnetoreception in humans is evident. All attempts to detect behavioral responses to magnetic field changes in humans have been less than convincing.

Czech and Slovak Listings: 2015, 2016, and 2017

Due to the volume of materials published, brief summaries have been provided for selected scholarly titles, either copied from or based primarily upon texts by their publishers, followed by lists o...

¡Adelante! Reflections and Aspirations on the First Anniversary of LALVC

We take this opportunity to reflect on the first year of publishing LALVC , plan for the future, and thank all of the contributors, peer reviewers, editorial board members, subscribers, and other supporters. The enthusiasm for LALVC 's content, as revealed by submissions, subscriptions, mentions on

Words by the tail: Assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits.

This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits. At the operational level, while both head and tail fits of zipfian word distributions are more independent of corpus size than other lexical diversity indicators, the latter however neatly outperforms the former in that regard. This benchmark-setting performance of zipfian distribution tails proves extremely handy in distinguishing actual patterns in lexical diversity from the statistical noise generated by other indicators due to corpus size fluctuations. From an empirical perspective, analysis of Web of Science (WoS) article titles from 1975 to 2014 shows that the lexical concentration of scholarly titles in Natural Sciences & Engineering (NSE) and Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) articles increases by a little less than 8% over the whole period. With the exception of the lexically concentrated Mathematics, Earth & Space, and Physics, NSE article titles all increased in lexical concentration, suggesting a probable convergence of concentration levels in the near future. As regards to SSH disciplines, aggregation effects observed at the disciplinary group level suggests that, behind the stable concentration levels of SSH disciplines, a cross-disciplinary homogenization of the highest word frequency ranks may be at work. Overall, these trends suggest a progressive standardization of title wording in scientific article titles, as article titles get written using an increasingly restricted and cross-disciplinary set of words.

Bloomsbury Popular Music

Reviewed by: Bloomsbury Popular Music Caitlin Schmid Bloomsbury Popular Music. [England]: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017–], https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/home (accessed 12 September 2018). [Requires a Web browser and Internet connection. Annual subscriptions are currently only available to institutions: libraries, research institutes, schools, and other organisations.] The Bloomsbury Popular Music (BPM) online database collects together The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World (fourteen volumes in total, eleven of which are currently available), all of the 33 1/3 and 33 1/3 Global book series offering individual authors' analyses of influential pop albums, and a growing library of scholarly books from Bloomsbury's Popular Music Studies list. At the time of writing, this last category included twenty-five books with titles ranging from João Sardinha and Ricard Campos's edited volume Transglobal Sounds: Music, Youth and Migration (2016) to Gavin Hopp's Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (2009), and the promise of at least five more every year. Altogether, BPM provides full access to 175 titles and counting. If you know exactly which one of those 175 titles you want to read, each of the three wings of BPM (Encyclopedia, 33 1/3, and Scholarly Titles) has its own portal under the "Browse Contents" button in the upper right corner. If you plan to look up a specific definition or the number of times a musician is referenced in BPM's content, the "search" bar is front and center on every page. If you are not looking for something in particular, however—if the project is in its beginnings, or you wish to gather more information about a particular cultural context—that is where BPM really shines. On the upper right-hand side of every page, the user will find a menu with a tab titled "Explore", and three sub-headings labeled "Place", "Artist", and "Music Genres". Each of these leads to a page that draws on the BPM library's metadata to create a list of thousands of [End Page 345] alphabetically-organised categories, all of which are populated by a clearly-marked number of data points consisting of entries from the encyclopedias, chapters, or articles from the book series, and extra informational content. I might, for example, scroll down the "Artist" page to find "Beyoncé Knowles (3)". One click provides me with a list of every time her name appears in BPM's holdings: an "artist page" (complete with photograph), and two articles in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia VIII on "R&B, Contemporary", and "Hip-Hop". A quick perusal of the "Place" page uncovers 177 hits for the "United Kingdom" category, forty-five hits for "Cuba", and one for "Cyprus". Under "Music Genres", the "W" section alone is a treasure trove of juxtapositions: "Waiata (Song)" sits comfortably next to "Waltz", "Western Swing", "Waila", "Wedding Songs", "Wienerlied", "Waka", "West Coast Jazz", and that questionable catch-all, "World Music". My eye, however, was caught by the twenty-nine hits associated with the Music Genres category "Art Rock"; I clicked through. "Art Rock" features Artists' Pages (from Pink Floyd to Yoko Kanno), entries in the 33 1/3 series (featuring Brian Eno, Television, Patti Smith, and more), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia articles (as diverse as Utrecht and Avant-Pop), and one scholarly book by Shelton Waldrep titled Future Nostalgia: Performing David Bowie. In the left side bar, BPM lists a set of "subjects", further breaking down the metadata associated with my twenty-nine results. Five of these hits concern The Velvet Underground, I discover, under the "Artists" subject. Twenty-seven are cross-listed with "Rock", and nine with the "New York Downtown Scene". I notice in "Periods" that nineteen of my hits are attached to the 1970s and only one to the 1920s. Under the "Topics" subject, various hits are cross-listed with "Social Phenomena", "Performers and Performing", "Music Industry", "Radio", "Gender", "Rhythm", and "Religion"—twenty-six topics in all. Which of my hits specifically deal with "Art Rock" and "Gender"?, I wonder. Click: the 33 1/3 Patti Smith's Horses by Philip Shaw, Waldrup's Future Nostalgia, and a Bloomsbury Encyclopedia entry on "Russia". When I click through to Patti Smith's Horses, I am provided with...

E-book and print book price and desirability for university libraries: a comparative study

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare the prices of print and electronic versions of the same scholarly titles charged from a university library. This study also examines whether preferences for print or electronic formats differ with disciplines and whether high preferences for the electronic version in particular disciplines lead to tagging of high prices for e-books in those disciplines. This study evaluates association in prices of e-books and their print versions for scholarly books. It also explains trends in gaps of prices of electronic and their print versions over the time to understand changing price policy of e-books with time.Design/methodology/approachThis is a case study analysing and interpreting prices of 717 book titles available in electronic and print versions out of 1248 book titles recommended by the faculty members of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in early 2014. The minimum prices quoted by publishers or aggregators for these books became the secondary data for the study. The research methodology is based on quantitative descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.FindingsThe study statistically rejected the hypothesis that price tags of electronic and print versions of books do not differ significantly. E-books are usually more expensive than their print counterparts. They are more highly priced in disciplines, where the users prefer electronic books over the print ones. There is a moderate association in prices of electronic and their print versions; libraries can estimate about the budget which would be required for procuring books in electronic format with the help of price of print version; however, the accuracy of this stipulation would be only 20 per cent. The study has highlighted that 95.4 per cent of the scholarly e-books in English medium are published in the USA and the UK. The university presses of Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton and MIT and commercial publishers like Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate and Springer are the major publishers and providers of the scholarly e-books.Originality/valueThis study provides insights into pricing policy of electronic and their print versions of scholarly book titles for libraries. Thus it may be relevant and helpful for library administrators in informed decision making while developing their collections for books.

Welcome from the Editors

Welcome from the Editors

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the world’s most authoritative list of scholarly, peer-reviewed, fully open access journals, and a “must” for libraries of all types. As of August 2007, DOAJ includes over 2,800 titles, over 10% of the world’s estimated 20-25,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journal titles. This is an impressive list; in terms of numbers of titles, DOAJ compares favorably with commercial journal packages. DOAJ is growing rapidly, at a rate of more than one title per calendar day. DOAJ’s highly functional and aesthetically pleasing interface features a number of search options, including a new search option for authors looking for open access or hybrid journals to publish in. DOAJ is freely available, and working towards economic sustainability through an optional membership / sponsorship program. This article examines the DOAJ membership program in some depth. Membership fees for libraries and library consortia are an incredible bargain. The membership fee for DOAJ’s 2,800 (and growing) title list is less than the average subscription cost for a single journal in any scientific discipline, and DOAJ represents significant staff time savings for libraries. The promotional benefits of DOAJ membership are important to position libraries for leadership in the internet age, and especially in the key emerging area of scholarly communications. DOAJ is a very popular service among libraries, with a strong reputation for quality; membership or sponsorship is likely to be highly beneficial to library service providers. As a free resource, DOAJ is strongly recommended for all libraries. DOAJ titles can be included in A-Z journal lists, library catalogues or websites, and subject-specific URLs can be added to subject guides or pathfinders.

Services of Women in Preaching Hadith Knowledge

Hadith is the precious talk, discussion and conversation of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), indirect revelation and is the authentic commentary of the Holy Quran. From the beginning of the history of Islam after the Holy Prophet Muhammad(P.B.U.H), Muslim ummah: including gents and ladies has been making efforts to save Prophet Muhammad's (SAWS) Hadiths. Because Hadith is the authentic exaggeration of the Holy Quran. Without hadith one cannot understand the correct meaning of the Holy Quran. If we take a glance on the history of Islam, we can observe that with gents side by side ladies took effective part in taking of hadith and its spread. Due to acknowledgement of these services of women of Islam, Muslim Ulema have been writing various books and also gave them various scholarly titles, like Syda, Musnada, shykha and likewise. In current age there are a lot of books and articles were written, like "Ai-ala mun-nisa, Alddurrulmanthur, Almaratul Muslima etc, but all were in Arabic language. In Urdu there is a shortage of books and also articles in this topic. That is why this article is being presented as a prolongation of series of acknowledgement of the Services of Muslim Women's effort in the field of hadith in Urdu.

Savory Bites: Books on Eating in Early America

Savory BitesBooks on Eating in Early America Etta Madden (bio) Colonial Food Ann Chandonnet Oxford: Shire Publications, 2013 66 pp. Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World Michael A. Lacombe Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 224 pp. Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century Kyla Wazana Tompkins New York: New York University Press, 2012 275 pp. A few years after his book Civil Tongues and Polite Letters (1997) connected eighteenth-century literature to American coffeehouses and taverns, but prior to his immersion into writing about foods of the Carolina low country (“Prospecting”), David S. Shields published an essay on global consumption. “‘The World I Ate’” (2001) illuminates the ideas of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste, contrasting Americans’ diets of denial and simplicity with their desires to indulge every sensual dream of food. For Shields, the obese and irascible New Yorker of Broadway, Edward, memorialized in Brillat-Savarin’s meditation 21, provides the symbolic prophecy of what America and Americans would become—in light of the power of empire and in spite of the messages preaching simple eating and Puritan restraint. Well-known works of American literature, such as Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Joel Barlow’s “Hasty Pudding” (1796), embody these thematic tensions between indulgence [End Page 495] and denial, idealizing nation building even while gobbling up others in the process. The poignant political themes of these works and Shields’s professional path of the last two decades mark the ever- increasing variety of studies devoted to food culture that have continued to influence American literary scholarship. Studies of food—and all activities associated with it—continue to pour forth from academic and popular presses at a rate that is difficult to capture in print.1 At least three recent scholarly titles addressing American food culture are beyond the purview of this essay. The edited collection spearheaded by Benjamin E. Zeller, Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, has a title provocative to early American literature scholars but contains nothing colonial or of the early Republic. Similarly, Allison Carruth’s Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food asserts a forceful argument about the politics of appetite, yet it focuses on twentieth century and contemporary literature. And Mark McWilliams’s Food and the Novel in Nineteenth Century America, which discusses the tensions between simplicity, abundance, and haute cuisine, primarily represents in its chapters on the early Republic ideas that appeared in his engaging essay in Early American Literature a decade ago (“Distant Tables”). Listing titles of these recent publications serves little purpose other than to reinforce the array of materials available for those seeking to refine their teaching or scholarship in what was at one time a specialized niche of early American studies. The three volumes considered in this essay provide additional examples of the specialized approaches and breadth of the field. What links the three, more than “food practices in early American literature,” however, is their emphasis on eating as a political act—a topic only implicit in one but made an overt purpose of the other two. Anne Chandonnet’s Colonial Food, a slim introductory volume, glorifies the adoption and hybridization of food practices among the various peoples interacting on American soil as “fusion cuisine”—not overtly a political label, but one idealized nonetheless through her presentation (17). Michael A. LaCombe makes his stance apparent in his book’s title: Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World. Eating, he argues—whether in the colonial Carolinas, the Chesapeake region, or New England—was never merely consumption of nutrients, although survival was crucial and “hunger regularly trumped fears of hybridity” (51). Even more so, Kyla Wazana Tompkins asserts in Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th [End Page 496] Century the political nature of eating through symbolic depictions of the kitchen as architectural space and consumption of the racialized Other. She makes apparent not only differences among groups and individuals but, more importantly, unexpected reversals of their supposed power that emerge through imagery of eating. In spite of the linking theme—the politics of eating—these publications manifest obvious differences, not just with the temporal...

Tribute: Douw GS Greef (6 November 1974–11 November 2014)

It was with deep sadness that we mourned the sudden departure to the great beyond of Dr Douw Greeff, who was the director of Medpharm Publications. Medpharm is a medical and pharmaceutical scholarly journal publishing company, established in 1988, which has since grown to publish prominent scholarly titles. My first contact with Douw was at Elsie Ballot Hospital, Amersfoort, Mpumalanga, as a young energetic community service doctor while I was coordinating the Extended Programme on Immunisation for Mpumalanga province as a specialist family physician. It was later on in 2004 that our paths once again crossed at the Medpharm offices when I was appointed associate editor of the South African Family Practice journal and he was the publisher of the journal.

Walk This Way: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Periodicals Emphasizing Sustainability, Environmental Responsibility, and Walkable Communities

A select bibliography of publications focused on sustainability, walkability, and the overall philosophy of “being green” within the urban environment is presented. The publications include a mix of scholarly, trade, and popular titles. The same categories of information are present for each entry. This bibliography is the second in a series dedicated to examining the broad subject matter of urban studies within a more focused lens. The first bibliography, examining housing policy, was published in The Serials Librarian, 65(2).

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2009

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2009

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2008

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2008

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2007

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2007

Ghosts in Machines and a Snapshot of Scholarly Journal Publishing in Canada

Ghosts in Machines and a Snapshot of Scholarly Journal Publishing in Canada

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2006

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2006

JSTOR

SUMMARY JSTOR has become a standard offering at most U.S. universities and colleges, as well as a growing number of higher education institutions outside the U.S. This paper will track the growth of JSTOR since its inception in 1995 as an experimental digitization project to today as an archive of over 500 scholarly titles in 40 disciplines. We will consider the two threads of JSTOR's mission-to safeguard titles in a digital form, and to provide access to them as broadly as possibleand assess the value the project has provided to the academic community. In addition, there will be some discussion of future directions and challenges for JSTOR.

JSTOR: Past, Present, and Future

JSTOR has become a standard offering at most U.S. universities and colleges, as well as a growing number of higher education institutions outside the U. S. This paper will track the growth of JSTOR since its inception in 1995 as an experimental digitization project to today as an archive of over 500 scholarly titles in 40 disciplines. We will consider the two threads of JSTOR's mission-to safeguard titles in a digital form. and to provide access to them as broadly as possible-and assess the value the project has provided to the academic community. In addition, there will be some discussion of future directions and challenges for JSTOR.

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2005

Significant European Scholarly Titles, 2005