Technology For Dissemination Research Articles

The Ecology of Picture Study

icture Study was one of the elements in art education in the United States for more than fifty years. It appeared sometime in the late 1800s and began to fade at the end of the 1920s (Stankiewicz, 1983). It was, therefore, feature in the formative years of art education, and yet its practices have led later art educators to look on it with attitudes ranging from skepticism to distaste (Mathias, 1924; Hendrickson and Waymack, 1932; Eisner, 1972; Hurwitz and Madeja, 1977). In the following, I intend to examine this movement, bearing in mind Erickson's suggestion that it is worthwhile for art educators to look at the past for a different sort of situation against which we can compare ourselves (1977, p. 27). The practice of Picture Study seems to have been widespread (Morrison, 1935) and doubtless involved many individuals, as studies by Saunders (1966) and Stankiewicz (1983; 1985) imply. The movement at one time or another related to number of other features of American education. In regard to this, Stankiewicz (1983) has listed factors that she felt shaped Picture Study, including: a) new and improved technologies of reproduction and dissemination of printed images, b) growing interest in art fostered by the Columbia Exposition of 1893, c) Idealism in both philosophy of education and aesthetic theories, d) growing feminization of the classroom and school cultures, and e) growing numbers of immigrant children who understood the language of pictures better than English, (p. 1).

Methods for Subject-oriented Knowledge Forming. Dialogue System for Medical Diagnosis

This paper discusses the methods of information proceeding by the comtemporary computers. It is necessary to use the methods of compression and re-regulation the information by means of rising the level of abstraction and information Significance the effective use of which depends on real subject field tasks.The new technology of knowledge representation and dissemination consists in producing problem-oriented dialogue systems (PODS) with further their transferring to the personal computers within physical memory carriers.The methods of knowledge representation in the problem of simulation different types of subject fields, demands to the PODS-user interaction and principles of its construction are discussed here.The offering methods are used in modelling dialogue system for preliminary medical diagnostics and decision making concerning the tactics of medical aid.

Music, Science, and Technology

ON the scale of global music, it is quite likely that the establishment of the nexus of music, science, and technology as a necessary conjunction, permeating every aspect-composition, performance, dissemination, analysis, research, pedagogy-of sonic art, is one of the two principal developments of the period between the last old Grove's and the first Grove. The other comparable development is the widespread emergence of a global musical consciousness itself. Indeed, the two developments are intertwined: the emerging global musical consciousness has been sustained by the technology of sonic dissemination of recent decades and is hardly imaginable without it. I would like to be able to report that The New Grove actually reflects and satisfies the need for information and evaluation created by the new global musical situation. But it only mirrors the confusion of virtually all human musical institutions in the face of such sweeping changes: it waffles.

日本医学図書館協会相互貸借業務の現状と課題 相互貸借業務実態調査報告の概要

Interlibrary loan operations of the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) were inquired in April 1980 and the report of the results was presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association on October 1980. The author, an ex-chairman of the Inquirery Committee, summarizes the report, and also points out the urgent problems which the JMLA faces, such as a plan of a national biomedical information center, formation of networks between other library associations, and a rapid progress of information dissemination technology.

Page charges

Some authors cannot or will not submitto journals that assess page charges. Even if funds are available, page charges divert monies from research. If page charges can harm the quality of the journal by discouraging submission of good papers, and if they limit the amount of research possible, why do page charges exist? More importantly, why are page charges an integral part of the income strategy for AGU publications?Page charges help keep subscription rates down; in particular, they permit the circulation of large amounts of material to individuals at very low rates. Additionally, page charges reduce to some extent the dependence of the number of pages published on the subscription revenues. Furthermore, page charges will provide a financial base for experimentation with and adaptation to future information dissemination technologies.

Minicomputer technology for bio-medical information dissemination

Bio-medical information dissemination is continuing to increase in complexity. This trend places additional work on both the information user and supplier. In the medical community the chief information supplier usually is the library of health sciences.