Book Sets Research Articles

Empowering Library Services through User‐Centric Analysis of Co‐loan Patterns

ABSTRACTBy examining loan data from public libraries in South Korea, we seek to understand patterns in user borrowing behaviors and explore thematic connections among borrowed books. The subject headings of 55.5 million book sets borrowed by individual users on the same day were analyzed using ITEM2VEC. We have identified 40 subject heading communities through cosine similarity of each subject vector, and we have labeled each community using a large language model. Two prominent communities were identified: Global Modern Literature and Novels and Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Folklore. The latter community was associated with a diverse array of subjects, indicating an expansion in children's reading preferences. The study results will be useful for improving collection development and the relevance of book recommendations, as well as for incorporating user information behavior into traditional library material classification schemes.

Defending The Open Future: Replies to MacFarlane, Green, Wasserman, and Bigg & Miller

AbstractIn this symposium piece, I reply to the diverse and wide‐ranging set of objections to my book (The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False) set forth by MacFarlane, Green, Wasserman, and Bigg & Miller.

Exploring named‐entity recognition techniques for academic books

Recent advances in the natural language processing (NLP) field have achieved impressive results in various tasks. However, NLP techniques are underrepresented in the analysis of Humanities and Social Science texts and in languages other than English. In particular, academic books are a highly valuable source of information that has not been exploited by these techniques at all. The recognition of named entities (person names, organizations or locations) and their semantic annotation over books could enrich the visibility and discoverability of the information by users. This is an opportunity for academia and the academic publishing industry in which semantic search is a central task and now books can be queried by named entities of interest that are in their content. This work proposes a methodology to apply named‐entity recognition to publish the results into an ontological semantic‐web format. The work has been performed over a corpus of academic books provided by UNE (Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas, Union of Spanish University Presses). Results show an enrichment of the information extracted over the books and of the possibilities of querying them at the individual level but also within the whole set of books, increasing the possibilities for books to be discovered or retrieved beyond metadata.

Incorporating Triple Entry Accounting as an Audit Tool—Enhancing Modern Accounting Systems

Abstract: Despite the advancements in modern accounting systems, fraud remains a prevalent issue, necessitating extensive time and financial resources for audits. Integrating modern accounting ledgers with a public blockchain could facilitate easily verifiable accounting records, streamlining the audit evidence gathering and analytics process. Continuous audits could become feasible through readily available audit evidence from the public blockchain. The proposed audit solution aims to establish verifiable "Financial Fingerprints" (signed indexes) for each accounting entry, subsequently publishing them to specific addresses on the public blockchain. This initiative seeks to structure accounting ledgers in a Triple Entry Accounting format, where the third entry involves notarizing an index of each accounting entry on the public blockchain. The essence of Triple Entry Accounting lies in its atomicity, ensuring a single authoritative set of books. Any attempt to present an alternative set of books would be automatically detected. The approach to achieving this objective can be articulated through two value propositions. Firstly, Triple Entry Accounting offers a means to establish a provable official set of books, providing market access independent of network effects. Secondly, it aims to dismantle data silos by leveraging the blockchain as a shared ledger, thereby assisting auditors in efficiently gathering adequate audit evidence. With its standalone value proposition, Triple Entry Accounting offers benefits even before the network effect comes into play, leading to the development of an open standardized protocol for implementing it as an extension to modern accounting systems.

“Rakstu Avots” – Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas grāmatu sērijas ideja un tās īstenojums (1932–1940)

Appreciating the essential role of books in shaping the worldview of individuals, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (LELB) and its pastors actively published books on Christian themes in the independent Republic of Latvia (1918–1940). Among them was the book series “Source of Writings” (Rakstu Avots) initiated and edited by a pastor, bibliophile, and librarian Gustavs Šaurums (1883–1952). Almost 90 titles of books were published in the series from 1933 until the Soviet occupation in the summer of 1940. The aim of the book series was to prevent the influence of “harmful” literature on society, offering good religious reading material instead. The research aims to determine the opinion of LELB pastors about the most important ethical values and reading material needed by society, as well as society’s attitude towards this literature. The main source of the research is the book set of the series. The bibliographic method (collection of bibliographic information about the book series and its analysis) used in the research allows us to ascertain the range of authors and works chosen by the publishers, the frequency of publishing, the circulation and other important characteristics of books. The text analysis method provides an opportunity to determine the essential ideas the publisher wanted to popularise and strengthen in society. The publishing frequency of the series (one printed work every month) and the consistently low price (the annual set cost one lat) are commendable. The annual sets of the series did have 12 issues, but they were small in size, modestly designed, and mostly printed in Gothic script (except for the children’s books, which were printed in antique type and usually illustrated). The works postulated a strong Christian faith and complete trust in God’s destiny as a fundamental ethical value. The works of the series, kept in the spirit of conservatism, did not take into account the complex life situation of the 20th-century individual, in which he had to face various spiritual, intellectual movements and growing secularism. The series gained attention only in the LELB environment.

Mathematics Education Based On Toba Batak Culture Learning Model To Improve The HOTS Capabilities Of Prospective Elementary School Teachers

The aim of the research is to analyze the effectiveness level of the development of the Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model. The Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model has fulfilled the effectiveness level to enhance students' HOTS abilities, which include: (a) syntax, consisting of: cultural apperception, problem-solving discussions, patterns of social interaction using representation and problem-solving, reflection on work results, (b) social system built on collaboration principles, (c) management reaction principles where lecturers act as facilitators, (d) supporting system such as: semester lecture plans, teaching materials, lecturer guidebooks, student guidebooks, and student activity sheets, (e) instructional impact in the form of students' HOTS abilities and accompanying impact in the form of scientific attitudes, collaboration, and realistic thinking. The Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model is equipped with a set of model books, semester lecture plans, teaching materials, lecturer guidebooks, student handbooks, and student activity sheets that have met the effectiveness level. The effectiveness level of the Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model is influenced by four aspects, namely: The lecturer's capacity to oversee learning scored 4.17 on the NKD scale, placing it in the high category. Student's Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) were rated at 0.85, indicating a high level of proficiency. Active student participation was noted at 25%, categorized as active. Student responses were at 93%, indicating a high level of engagement. The level of students' HOTS abilities through the application of the Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model has increased from the moderate category to the high category, with an N-Gain score of 0.81 in the high category. The level of active student activities through the application of the Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model has a value of 25% in the active category. The level of student response to the learning process in implementing the Realistic mathematics education based on Toba Batak culture learning model obtains a value of 93 in the high category.

TRACTION ALTERNATOR FOR ELECTRIC DRIVE OF FRONT LOADER CHASSIS

For heavy construction equipment with a hybrid electric transmission, the power center of a group of traction electric drives can be formed by an electric generator and a renewable energy storage device (battery array) with the possibility of their joint operation to provide a surge of current in a group of traction electric drives. The battery array can be used to power a generator in a starter mode when starting a diesel internal combustion engine.
 
 The purpose of the study is to substantiate the choice of the magnetic system of the power generator for the electric transmission and the possibility of a starter mode for an internal combustion engine drive. The study was carried out within the framework of a subsidized project to create mass production of a family of front loaders with a hybrid electric drive in Chuvashia.
 
 Materials and research methods. The studies were carried out by the method of finite element analysis using the Russian software ELCUT (professional version and a set of reference books for domestic electrical and magnetic materials).
 
 Results. The stage of analytical calculation of the active parts of a transmission electric generator for the preliminary design stage is presented. It was carried out for the following conditions: the use of Russian electrical and magnetic materials, the use of common industrial bearings and antifreeze, compatibility with existing technological equipment in the production of traction electric motors, engine mode for performing the starter function. The substantiation of the choice of the magnetic system based on the ratios of magnetic fluxes of different sizes of stator teeth is given. The article is illustrated with diagrams of magnetic and thermal fields for given operational characteristics and properties of a transmission electric generator.
 
 Conclusions. For a given type of drive diesel engines installed on the front loaders, the highest efficiency indicators of the proposed generator magnetic system occur when using a multiplier. The power supply of the generator in the starter mode is provided by the installed array of traction batteries of the front loader without additional step-up converters.

Unsilencing Palestine 1922–1923: hundred years after the beginning of the British Mandate – the Frank Scholten photographic collection revisited

ABSTRACT This piece presents an interview conducted by Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri with Salim Tamari and Yair Wallach about the Frank Scholten photographic collection (now available with Creative Commons access), discussing the archive's significance and use for researchers of the history of Mandate Palestine.During the turbulence of the period after the First World War, Dutch photographer Frank Scholten (1881-1942) travelled to Palestine with the aim of producing an ‘illustrated Bible'. He arrived in Palestine in 1921, where he stayed for two years. While the bulk of his photo collection consists of images of Palestine, his camera lens gives a snapshot into modernity in the Eastern Mediterranean more broadly. The entire Frank Scholten collection, consisting of 12,000 negatives and 14,000 prints, represents a work in progress towards a 16-volume set of books on the ‘Holy Land', only two volumes of which were ever published.One of the hallmarks of Scholten’s collected work is the thoroughness with which he imaged Palestine. His images of people cut across religious and confessional lines, ethnic backgrounds, and class and urban-rural divides. He imaged people at work as well as in their leisure time, but most of all, he imaged people in the context of their daily life, rather than divorced from the landscape.

Implementing Triple Entry Accounting as an Audit Tool—An Extension to Modern Accounting Systems

Despite the technological leaps modern accounting systems have brought about, fraud is still prevalent. This necessitates spending time and money on audits. Connecting modern accounting ledgers to a public blockchain would make accounting records easily verifiable, aiding the audit evidence gathering and analytics process. Continuous audits will be made viable by readily available audit evidence from the public blockchain. The proposed audit solution creates verifiable “Financial Fingerprints” (signed indexes) for every accounting entry. These Financial Fingerprints are then published to a certain range of addresses on the public blockchain. The objective is to help accounting ledgers be structured in a Triple Entry Accounting format. The third entry can be defined as publishing a notarized index of each accounting entry to the public blockchain. The crux of Triple Entry Accounting is atomicity, meaning there can only be one book. Trying to present an alternative set of books would still be possible, but it would be automatically detected. The method used to achieve the objective can be presented as two value propositions. The first value proposition of Triple Entry Accounting is to define a provable official true set of books. This is important because it is a door into the market without being dependent on network effects. The second value proposition of Triple Entry Accounting is to break down the data silos by using the blockchain as a shared ledger and thus help auditors immensely in their tedious work to gather sufficient and appropriate audit evidence. Because of value proposition number one, Triple Entry Accounting presents standalone value even before the network effect begins. The result of this is an open standardized protocol for implementing Triple Entry Accounting as an extension to modern accounting systems.

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as Bildungsroman

AbstractThis article argues that Hegel’s book The Phenomenology of Spirit can be read as a Bildungsroman or a theory of reception. Hegel (as he appears in this book) sets forth to educate his readers to a historical understanding. This is the article’s main argument which will be split up in three parts. First, it seems that Hegel tries to lead the uneducated reader to his own ideal philosophy. If so, the reception will be merely technical, i.e., the book has only one answer and the reader has to submit to Hegel to get him right. The article argues against such a reading. Secondly, it seems more likely that Hegel invites his readers to take an active part in the interpretation of the book. To substantiate this claim, the article argues that the hitherto unknown phenomenon in the book “touches” and challenges the reader, who must “touch” back and accept the challenge in order to grasp the phenomenon. This reception involves the experience of “touch” (not physical) and is therefore haptic. Thirdly, and in extension of the haptic reception, the article argues that there is a reception as recollection, meaning that Hegel invites the reader to reflect upon the recollected experiences or “the gallery of images” that Hegel has archived in his book. In doing so, the reader will see the gallery of images with new eyes—which ultimately is a process of Bildung as the reader gains self-awareness and knowledge through Hegel’s images.

International Clinical Radiotherapy Audit in CCCN- iPAAC Project.

Project iPAAC - Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer was a project in which 2 centers in Europe were selected for international certification (Lower Silesian Oncology Center and Charité Hospital). We were subjected to general certification under CCCN and organ certification for colorectal and pancreatic cancer. The certification process included the reporting of a set of standards books (general and specific) and quality measures - 35 for colorectal and 21 for pancreatic cancer, an onsite presentation at an audit and a site visit. Radiation therapy was one of 10 table of contents sections. These sections included a description of the structure of the facility including satellite units, equipment and systems integration, the number of patients treated, the team of radiation oncologists, medical physicists, medical technical radiology assistants. In addition, crucial elements were the reporting of waiting time and overrun of total treatment time. We have begun the process of standardizing data entry, acquisition and reporting using the Aria v.15.6 management and verification system with InSightive. The following metrics proved to be key to RT application and quality: QI13 - information on distance to mesorectal fascia, OI26 - quality of TME rectum specimen, QI27 - complete pathology report of colorectal carcinoma, QI2add - neoadjuvant RT/CRT clinical UICC stages II and III. For the calculation of QI, the MSD Data Warehouse system was used. The final audit was performed on the time frame data from 1.01.-31.05.2021. The project lasted from the signing of the tripartite agreement on 7.06.2019 through the pre-audit on 10-11.09.2020 and the audit on 1-2.07.2021 until the certification on 16.09.2021. We have fulfilled mostly set of standard general and specific for colorectal and pancreatic cancer. The SOP for the management of LINAC breakdowns, and radiochemotherapy was detailed. According to the data obtained from the InSightive: the number of patients treated with teleradiotherapy by 31.05.2021 was 2298, and with brachytherapy - 167. The system allowed, with the help of an automated dashboard, to determine the average planning time of 15.3 days and to monitor the overrun of the total treatment time of 0.14% for Wrocław, and 0.31% and 0% for satellite units (in 2020 - 4.5% during Covid pandemics). The percentage results for the reported metrics are as follows: QI13 - 38.65% QI26 - 89.29% QI- 27 - 59.21% QI2add - 80%. In the international audit radiation oncology was summarized in the audit report as very high level and as leading position of CCCN and the chapter of set of standards has been implemented on a wide scale. International audit with set requirements allows to check the resources on personnel, equipment and to complete the missing procedures (SOP). The most objective tools for auditing are quality metrics, and their collection should be automated, allowing for a continuous ongoing quality assurance process.

Nora Elizabeth Barakat, Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire

Examining modern state formation in the Middle East, historians have traditionally focused on central state institutions and nationalist movements which were predominantly centered in urban settings. Recent scholarship, however, has increasingly turned its gaze to the interior of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman territories, showing that actors and places that were historically deemed marginal to, or even threatened by, the processes of modern state-building were in fact actively involved in, if not central to, the development of state institutions. Barakat’s Bedouin Bureaucrats is a welcome contribution to this increasingly vibrant historiographical field. By rethinking the concept of the “tribe” and through stressing Bedouins’ deeply rooted historical connections to land, agriculture, and modern state institutions, her book sets new standards in studying Bedouin actors in the Middle East.

Can you have it your way? The consequences of racial capitalism in fast food in America

First paragraph: White Burgers, Black Cash deftly traces the inter­twined history of fast food, race, and capital in America. The goal of this monograph is to chart the racial and spatial pathways fast food has tra­v­eled, from its genesis in the early twentieth cen­tury to the contemporary moment—where it has become heavily concentrated in Black communi­ties. From the onset, Naa Oyo A. Kwate sets the tone for the rest of the study, stating, “Fast food has always been a fundamentally anti-Black enter­prise” (p. xiii). The introduction shows how the anti-Blackness of fast food goes beyond health disparities, and instead is rooted in the subordina­tion of Blackness throughout history. The book sets out to outline the history of fast food’s color line, with an emphasis on three cities: New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. . . .

Faculty Forum: Dermatology Residency and an Approach to the MD Examination: A Primer for Postgraduate Students

In this review, we will discuss the approach to dermatology residency year-wise and detail the books and resources that would be useful for the student. For each major domain, we carried out a Google Book search using the terms, ‘Dermatology,’ ‘Sexually transmitted disease,’ ‘Leprosy’ and books and then based on our own experience of the books that were thrown up in the search, we arrived at the ideal book set for MD training.

To the City of Murky Dreams

This letter is addressed to the quintessential city, an urban imaginary that encompasses the hopes of planners, writers, and those entangled nature-cultures who populate them. From Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow that set off the garden cities movement, to fiction such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and Antoni Jach’s Layers of the City that explore the socio-historical construction of urban imaginaries and more recently Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book set in a climate changed future, cities can be seen as places of abundant resources or destructive development. A swell of these voices build throughout the letter as the many idealistic versions of the city entangle and prevent any one vision from solidifying. This letter will explore these contested imaginaries, particularly the way these imaginaries impact those who are welcomed, fed and allowed to prosper and those who are chased out, excluded, and destroyed. But this letter is also about particular cities: Jach’s Paris, Calvino’s Venice and Wright’s Southern Australian City but also the Kombumerri country (Gold Coast), the city I live in and onto which I inevitably read these imaginaries. How might cities such as those built on Kombumerri country and Naarm be reimagined through critical posthumanism? Drawing on the work of Karen Barad, Astrida Neimanis, Donna Haraway and Val Plumwood, this letter meanders through the murky waters, entangled buildings and constructed garden spaces of literary urban imaginaries as I unsettle the quintessential city.

Adaptations in the Polish Rites of the Sacrament of Marriage

One of the issues raised by the Second Vatican Council was the need to revise the liturgical books that had been used until that time. The ritual of the sacrament of marriage was the first to undergo this process. The editio typica was prepared, and, following the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law in 1983, the Holy See published the second model edition of the ritual in question. The Polish version of the rites of the sacrament of marriage was developed on the basis of the Latin book, using historical sets of liturgical books from the nation. By virtue of the authority granted by the legislator, the Polish Episcopal Conference incorporated liturgical adaptations relevant to Poland into the ritual. With adherence to the indications included in the editio typica, the formularies and ceremonies established domestically were taken into consideration.

Contesting the Black Flâneur: The rhetoric of disruption and Ubah Cristina Ali Farah's urban literature

This article investigates the spatial poetics of disruption in Ubah Cristina Ali Farah's second novel Il comandante del fiume. The book sets a unique stage around fragmented flashbacks to resignify the configuration of Afro-Italian urban identity and community. These flashbacks are rendered through a complicated recoding of Rome's urbanscape by its protagonist, Yabar, a young Somali immigrant who experiences a mysterious disfigurement of his body and narrates his past as he recuperates in the hospital. The Black body thus becomes the primary shifting site through which new paradigms of spatial arrangements against power and authority are articulated. This article argues that, by having Yabar fantasize, observe, and live through Rome's urban physicality, Ali Farah delineates a poetics of disruption that functions to redraw the conceptual boundaries of Blackness and postcoloniality in contemporary Italy. Ali Farah's experiment with the city as an actual character de-romanticizes it as a historical fixed site, and instead displays the possibility of plurality in the shape of Black corporeal relationality in determined stances. In this novel, not as observed objects, the protagonists remap Rome as a Black city and carry forward a Benjaminian mode of flâneur to observe the city's fragmented and chaotic arrangements, demystifying its undercurrent construction of racial exclusion.

О «Каталоге книгам рукописным, употребляемым правоверными ойратами» Г. С. Лыткина

Introduction. Oirat-language (Clear Script) sources have been cataloguized by A. G. Sazykin, V. L. Uspensky, N. S. Yakhontova, K. V. Orlova, D. N. Muzraeva, and others. The Mongolian Collection of the Gorky Scientific Library at St. Petersburg University is a most significant set of Clear Script books and manuscripts. Oirat manuscripts were delivered mainly from Kalmyk-inhabited steppes through the efforts of A. V. Popov, K. F. Golstunsky, A. M. Pozdneev, G. S. Lytkin who would repeatedly arrive in pursuit of scholarly research — to record folklore narratives and collect manuscripts. Goals. The article aims to introduce into scientific circulation a catalog of Oirat manuscripts compiled by G. S. Lytkin (1859–1860) and stored at the Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg University, and attempts to trace correlations between the mentioned list and V. L. Uspensky’s catalogue of Mongolian manuscripts and woodcuts. Materials. The study deals with a total of nineteen Oirat-language sources supplemented with explanations and notes of the compiler. Results. The catalogue of G. S. Lytkin presents both canonical works, including ones translated by Ven. Zaya Pandita, and didactic, narrative, and ritual texts. The study reveals that V. L. Uspensky identifies no collection affiliation for some manuscripts included in G. S. Lytkin’s catalogue, while others are attributed by the former to collections of K. F. Golstunsky, A.V. Popov, A. M. Pozdneev, and Stepanov.

Review of social policy in the African context

Rescuing social policy in Africa is what this book sets out to do. The book is positioned against two trends seen to have subjugated social development on the continent: The neoliberal agenda that swept across Africa from the 1970s onwards with social policy only playing a residual role. And the current trend of focusing on social cash transfers despite this merely being one aspect of social policy. To emancipate social policy, Prof. Adesina and his colleagues suggest studying social development in Africa through the lens of ‘transformative social policy’ (TSP). The concept of TSP was developed by the late, eminent scholar Prof. Mkandawire. In the first three chapters, his previous colleagues at Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development discuss the concept of TSP and its potential. Adesina highlights how TSP aims at the advancement of human well-being through the integration of social and economic policies and by focusing on social policies’ multiple tasks; the ‘objectives of social policy measures are transformative of the economy, social relations, social institutions and deepening democracy’ (p. 3). Aina discusses how TSP can be related to promoting inclusive development and suggests looking at the founders of modern African nations who regarded social policy as essential in their aspirations for development. Hujo too provides ideas on how to rethink social policy in the African context. All three authors tend to position TSP against neoliberalism and the dominant cash transfer paradigm, rather than pinning down the exact nature of TSP. Mostly, TSP is about what it should achieve: a better world and human flourishing; social policy is transformative when tackling structural inequalities and inequities. Nevertheless, the broad conceptualization of social policy allows for an open and potentially more holistic and integrated view of social policies’ potential for development. This is well illustrated by the remaining chapters in the volume.

A systematic review on homo Islamicus: classification and critique

PurposeThis paper aims to systematically review the concept of homo Islamicus discussed in the existing literature. The second objective is to offer a set of criticisms of the descriptions of homo Islamicus.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper prespecified eligibility criteria are applied to select articles that are indexed in Scopus and ProQuest, or published by two major publishers, ScienceDirect and Emerald, or appear on ResearchGate. A set of books related to homo Islamicus was also used as secondary sources to support the selected articles. As a result, this paper systematically reviews 53 articles and four books to synthesize the homo Islamicus.FindingsThere are four notions of homo Islamicus: Firstly, homo Islamicus as the kind of economic agent that is required to achieve Islamic economic objectives. Secondly, homo Islamicus as a defining factor that makes the difference between Islamic and conventional economics. Thirdly, homo Islamicus as an economic agent whose characteristics are something Islamic economics aims to realize. Lastly, homo Islamicus as an economic agent representing the fundamental assumption in Islamic economics.Practical implicationsMapping homo Islamicus can be helpful for future researchers to conduct analyses related to homo Islamicus, especially in the context of empirical studies of the existence of homo Islamicus in economic reality. This literature review can help other researchers to understand the development of literature related to homo Islamicus.Originality/valueThis paper seems to be the first to systematically identify, select and synthesize the description of homo Islamicus in the literature.