Thematic Index Research Articles

Every Day, Every Hour by Nataa Dragni

Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry Patty Paine, Jeff Lodge, & Sam Touati, eds. Ithaca Press Poets from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are represented in this ambitious anthology. “The unique voices of the poets collected here create a tapestry that stirs the heart and soul and offers insight into the rich culture and history of the region.” Andrew Delahunty & Sheila Dignen Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion Oxford University Press This little paperback reference book is both useful and entertaining. It identifies over two thousand allusions found in literary and popular culture with quotations to illustrate proper usage. A well-organized thematic index completes the volume, simplifying the search for obscure terms. Opening the book at random can also be a satisfying afternoon’s diversion. Nota Bene tion that “our responsibility to others sometimes requires us to bury knowledge, even destroy it.” Of many successful stories in the volume, “The Animals at the Budapest Zoo” deserves to be ranked with major works in the genre. Confined to limited time and space, it foregrounds most effectively the moral and psychological strains imposed by the siege, describing the futile attempts of two surviving zookeepers to keep themselves and the animals alive in spite of deprivation of heat and food, shelling, and impromptu big-game hunts by Russian soldiers. One of the keepers becomes obsessed by ancient tales of metamorphosis, when the concept of the self did not exist, because in the present “having a mind was . . . a handicap.” His friend, asked in effect to feed him to the zoo’s lion so that he can metamorphose into the savage and mindless, hugs himself “as if in consolation for the emptiness of his stomach, for the delirium of this siege without end, the constant fear, the boredom, waiting on the clock, the slow erasure of affection, of the list of things he would not do.” The rhythm of the series, here and elsewhere one of Dobozy’s most effective stylistic devices, is not only compelling but encapsulates the structure of the story as a whole. And other strong passages, notably some of the concluding paragraphs, show that Dobozy’s style has attained the measured gravity and eloquence worthy of a mature artist. They also offer hope for future work from a writer who has not quite reached his mid-forties. Robert Murray Davis University of Oklahoma Nataša Dragnić. Every Day, Every Hour. Liesl Schillinger, tr. New York / London. Viking / Chatto & Windus. 2012. isbn 9780670023509 / 0701186944 Readers and foreign presses have embraced Every Day, Every Hour as an enchanting first novel. Alas, however , its fairy-tale romance collapses under the weight of stylistic and structural contrivance. The novel follows its ill-fated protagonists, Luka and Dora, from their births in a small coastal Croatian town until they reach forty-nine and forty-six, respectively. Aspiring artist Luka, five, and aspiring actress Dora, two (!), meet in kindergarten: Luka faints, Dora revives her “prince,” and voilà—inseparable soul mates. But Dora’s move to Paris with her parents four years later creates a void in Luka’s life and a powerful memory the younger Dora cannot access. Both mature: Luka turns pain into art in Zagreb while Dora, always may–june 2013 • 61 reviews “full of voices,” conquers the Parisian stage. Meeting accidentally at Luka’s first Parisian art show, they consummate their childhood love. But upon Luka’s return home to arrange their wedding, his Zagreb girlfriend, Klara, uses pregnancy to trap him in a wretched marriage, and he trades art for hotel work. The lovers’ lives thereafter intersect only at inopportune moments, assuring that love is repeatedly found and lost. The structure foreshadows and underscores their heartache. Their last meeting opens the novel, as Dora reveals that she has recently married and that her teenaged, buddingartist son is Luka’s. The penultimate chapter repeats that first scene verbatim , and the final chapter ends with their mantra—“What do we do now?” “Let’s get out of here.” But even though fate has given Luka an exit—he has learned that he did not father his first child with Klara— Dora is now married. One...

A Tailor-Made Off-the-Rack Fit

were not adding value. A large majority have struggled to justify their fees while passive managers have gained ground. In the year ending June 2011, worldwide, index assets grew by 24.7% to almost US$6 trillion, according to Pensions & Investments. But investors also realized that their portfolio objectives went beyond outperforming a benchmark, particularly if that benchmark left them exposed to overvalued stocks, as market-capweighted indices have been accused of doing. This problem is exactly where customized beta can play a role. “It seems to be one of the things that people are thinking about more and more in terms of their investment strategy,” notes Andy Barber, head of manager research at Mercer, the investment consultancy. Customized beta is a thematic index solution that ranges in approach and variety. Strategies can be roughly divided into three groups: alternative strategies that provide different approaches to traditional market-capweighted indices (including risk parity, minimum variance,

Thematic Catalogue of Troubadour and Trouvère Melodies (review)

Thematic Catalogue of Troubadour and Trouvere Melodies. By Donna Mayer-Martin and Dorothy Keyser. (Thematic Catalogues Series, no. 18.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2011. [v, 739 p. ISBN 9780918728821. $120.] examples, bibliography. Scholars of troubadour and trouvere song are indebted to and deeply reliant upon catalogs. Most research on these repertories begins by consulting either the catalog of Alfred Pillet and Henry Carstens (Bibliographie des Troubadours [Halle: Niemeyer, 1933]) or that of Gaston Raynaud and Hans Spanke (Hans Spanke, G. Raynauds Bibliographie des altfranzosischen Liedes [Leiden: Brill, 1980]). These foundational resources organized the sprawling corpus of troubadour and trouvere song into a tidy series of entries indicating the text incipits of thousands of songs and their manuscript concordances. Donna Mayer- Martin and Dorothy Keyser have combined the information in these volumes for the first time, producing a single catalog of both troubadour and trouvere songs. They have also added a new thematic index of melodic incipits. result is a welcome resource that is sure not only to facilitate future research, but also to help inspire comparative work on the troubadours and trouveres. catalog begins with a short introduction explaining its unusual genesis. project began when Mayer-Martin signed the contract with Pendragon Press in 1984; Keyser joined her in 1992 and completed the catalog after Mayer-Martin's death in 2009 (pp. vii-ix). Mayer-Martin was unable to complete a planned study of the manuscript history, a lacuna that has already been partially filled by Mary O'Neill's recent monograph on trouvere song, which is curiously absent from the bibliography (Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France [Ox ford: Oxford University Press, 2006]). Keyser's introduction offers a brief summary of the troubadour and trouvere traditions, a discussion of issues in transcription, and a bibliography. summary of troubadour and trouvere traditions could have benefited from having been brought up to date with recent research. For example, Keyser's statement that the origin of the music of troubadour song is enigmatic is certainly arguable, but should be read against Margaret Switten's convincing study of the influence of the Aquitanian versus on the melodies of troubadour song (Versus and Troubadours Around 1100: A Comparative Study of Refrain Technique in the 'New Song,' Plainsong and Medieval 16 [2007]: 91- 143). Similarly, the assertion that the northern French city of Arras hosted a puy or guild is inaccurate. Old French term puy refers not to a guild, but to an elusive song contest purportedly held by the bourgeois members of the Carite de Notre Dame des Ardents, the first confraternity of musicians. (Carol Symes, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras [Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007]). Keyser also addresses the thorny issue of rhythm in trouvere song. She adopts a non-mensural approach, including neumatic incipits for melodies with mensural significance (pp. xii-xiv). She argues that the scholarly consensus supports a nonmensural interpretation for all sources except trouvere manuscript O. There are, however, many scholars who also adopt rhythmic interpretations of trouvere manuscripts M and T, a factor that is not discussed. Finally, Keyser provides a scholarly bibliography, helpfully cued to individual manuscripts. Unfortunately, the bibliography also lacks references to many relevant studies published in the past decade. In addition to O'Neill's book (cited above), readers should take note of studies by Judith A. Peraino and John D. Haines (Peraino, Re-Placing Medieval Music Journal of the American Musicological Society 51 [2001]: 209-64 and Haines, The Trans - formations of the Manuscrit du Roi, Musica Disciplina 52 [1998]: 5-43). …

Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum (ThesCRA)

This is an indispensible road map to navigating the entire, eight volume ThesCRA series. ThesCRA is a major multivolume reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals encompassing the period from 1000 BC to AD 400. The eight volumes provide authoritative and in-depth information on ancient cults and rituals. Illustrated articles in English, French, Italian, and German address such topics as processions, sacrifices, libation, dedications, purification, consecration/foundation rites, heroization and apotheosis, banquet, dance, music, rites related to cult images, divination, prayer, asylum, oaths, malediction, profanation, magic, cult places, personnel, and instruments, stages and circumstances of life, work, hunting, travel, festivals and contests, private/public space, polarities in religious life, and religious interrelations between the classical world and neighboring civilizations. The final installment, this thematic index covers the complete set and complements, rather than replaces, the earlier abbreviations and index volume, which indexes the first five volumes.

Thematic Data Index Construction Based on Urban Data

The paper is focused on these thematic data index construction, and puts forward a kind of category data indexes for rapid queries for urbanization thematic data index. The corresponding metadata tables could be constructed as non-spatial data are stored in the binary format. This aim is to classify the data by the metadata information and to establish the classified index respectively for the attribute data. The experiments confirmed that the proposed the category index can create urban thematic data index, and can quickly query attribute data needed.

Sobre o Dicionario de afixos do galego medieval

Neste artigo presentamos unha versión parcial e provisoria do Dicionario de afixos do galego medieval, que constitúe o primeiro repertorio temático de formacións afixais derivativas dentro do sistema lingüístico galego-portugués e que está en fase de elaboración. O corpus textual en que nos baseamos cínxese, polo momento, á produción literaria do galego medieval, isto é, á poesía profana e relixiosa, á Arte de Trovar, ao Livro de Tristan, á Crónica Troiana, aos Miragres de Santiago e á Crónica de Santa Maria de Íria. Canto á organización da información deste traballo, após a descrición da creación deste dicionario e do seu proceso de elaboración, detallamos a macroestrutura e a microestrutura dos artigos lexicográficos, cunha breve mostra de voces afixadas que aparecerán neste catálogo lexical.

Japanese philosophy: a sourcebook

With Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, readers of English can now access in a single volume the richness and diversity of Japanese philosophy as it has developed throughout history. Leading scholars in the field have translated selections from the writings of more than a hundred philosophical thinkers from all eras and schools of thought, many of them available in English for the first time. The Sourcebook editors have set out to represent the entire Japanese philosophical tradition--not only the broad spectrum of academic philosophy dating from the introduction of Western philosophy in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but also the philosophical ideas of major Japanese traditions of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto. The philosophical significance of each tradition is laid out in an extensive overview, and each selection is accompanied by a brief biographical sketch of its author and helpful information on placing the work in its proper context. The bulk of the supporting material, which comprises nearly a quarter of the volume, is given to original interpretive essays on topics not explicitly covered in other chapters: cultural identity, samurai thought, women philosophers, aesthetics, bioethics. An introductory chapter provides a historical overview of Japanese philosophy and a discussion of the Japanese debate over defining the idea of philosophy, both of which help explain the rationale behind the design of the Sourcebook. An exhaustive glossary of technical terminology, a chronology of authors, and a thematic index are appended. Specialists will find information related to original sources and sinographs for Japanese names and terms in a comprehensive bibliography and general index. Handsomely presented and clearly organized for ease of use, Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook will be a cornerstone in Japanese studies for decades to come. It will be an essential reference for anyone interested in traditional or contemporary Japanese culture and the way it has shaped and been shaped by its great thinkers over the centuries.

Artscanada’s “Black” Issue: 1960s Contemporary Art and African Liberation Movements

In August 1967, as the slogan Black Power burst the confines of African American subcultures and global anti-colonial movements began to circulate prominently within mainstream mass media, seven men from two countries met via a transnational telephone connection to talk about the colour black. Their conversation, and its subsequent publication in the arts journal artscanada’s October 1967 issue titled “Black,” provides this article’s focus. While the thematic issue indexes a rare intersection between elite art and racial politics, and while it is unlikely that any of these representatives of innovative contemporary art practices intimate with the radical countercultures of Greenwich Village and Yorkville saw any cloying taint of bigotry compromise their views about art and art-making, the issue nonetheless enforces covert racism sustained by ideologies of Whiteness. The result is that rather than embracing creative expression associated with black, Black-as-race is construed as alien to contemporary art’s mise-en-scène.

Animalish

Animalish Vilmos Voigt (bio) Owl. Desmond Morris. Reaktion Books. http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk. 24 pages; paper, $19.95. In my country "animal," more precisely, in adjective form, "animalish," means "very, excellent." One can say it both in a positive and a negative way. The elegant book of Desmond Morris was published by Reaktion Books in the smaller MacBook size series called "Animal." The series editor is Jonathan Burt—and indeed it was an excellent idea to give several animals an overcoat-pocket book of their own. Not only cat and horse, but crow and tortoise, giraffe and elephant, and even cockroach and flea will be described in separate volumes. The volumes are written from different backgrounds; still their tendency is the same: to enhance culture historical essays concerning different species of animals. If we ask ourselves how many important animals will deserve to be treated in a separate book from the point of view of culture history—perhaps the number twelve will be the first correct guess. Dog, cat, horse, cattle, pig, lion, a bird, a fish, perhaps bear, wolf, or fox, even the bee should belong to that club. But if we read the list of Reaktion Books volumes, we ought to realize soon, how many more animals are inseparable ingredients in our culture: as for nutrition, source of energy, subject of admiration or fear, and simply as decorative pets or symbols in coats of arms. Each book in the series looks the same: they include smooth essay texts, many impressive black-and-white and colour illustrations, good references, selected bibliography, and a thematic index. Owl has furthermore a biologically very careful "classification of owls" (not less than 198 species and from all over the world) and finally a list of websites and associations taking care of the owls. As for selecting the author, Desmond Morris was simply the best possible choice. He is today the well-known media sensitive British biologist and ethologist. There are ten short chapters in the book. The introduction tells us about the intention of the author: what complexity in cultural acceptance of the owls he wants to show. There is no final chapter or summary in the book, yet the same tendency marks the whole text. Strongly historical (and, of course, strongly biological) chapters start with the prehistoric owls and end with once Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Owls have fascinated throughout human history. They are often mentioned, depicted, described. Ever child will easily recognize a picture of an owl. However, as Morris argues on the first page of the book, nowadays people never see a living owl. They do not have any personal and biological owl knowledge, only written or illustrated owl lore. Owls in nature have existed for at least 60 million years. Owls in human culture have been represented for at least 30,000 years. It was generally known among archaeologists and art historians that in Aurignacien rock art, there are fairly exact pictures of owls. Still it was a nice surprise that on December 18, 1994 at Chauvet Cave in France explorers have found a large underground dome with abundant illustrations of animals: bison, dear, horses, rhinos, mammoths, etc. And there is engraved on the wall a thirteen inch tall owl figure in "actual size," so accurately that we can tell her/his identification as a typical Bubo virginianus (great horned owl). It is fortunate that in the cave there are pictures of other animals too, who never lived in caves, nor were associated with the underworld. Thus we could exclude the rapid fantasy of seeing in that rock art owl portrait a cultic object of the powers of the night. Click for larger view View full resolution Detail from cover Morris does not offer a simple answer to the problem. So we have to leave the Stone Age and follow him further, towards the ancient civilizations: Babylon, Egypt, then Greece and Rome. Greece was the first culture in Europe that became truly "obsessed" with owls. On coins and pottery we invariably find their images, which have influenced the later European culture. Everybody knows that the owl was the bird of goddess Athena, name-giving patron of Athens. And...

Research on Semantic Retrieval System for the Document Knowledge Based on Domain Ontology

Domain ontology can effectively organize the knowledge of that domain and make it easier to share and reuse. We can build domain ontology on thesaurus and thematic words and index document knowledge using domain ontology. Under which this paper designs a semantic retrieval system for the document knowledge based on domain ontology, and the system consists of four main components: ontology query, semantic precomputation for document and the concept similarity, semantic extended search and reasoning search. Finally, this paper makes an experiment on high-speed railway domain. The experimental results show that the developed semantic retrieval system can reach the satisfied recall and precision.

Universities and Climate Change – Introducing Climate Change at University Programmes

Chapter 1 Climate Change at Universities: Results of a World Survey, Walter Leal Filho . - Chapter 2 Path to the Future for Climate Change Education: an University Project Approach, Maruf Sanni, James O. Adejuwon, Idowu Ologeh and William O. Siyanbola. - Chapter 3 Australian Universities, Government Research and the Application of Climate Change Knowledge in Australian Coastal Zone Management, Laura Stocker, Bob Pokrant, David Wood, Nicholas Harvey, Marcus Haward, Kevin O'Toole, Tim Smith. - Chapter 4 Implications of the University with the Climatic Change, Javier Benayas, Inmaculada Alonso, David Alba, Luis Pertierra. - Chapter 5 University of Minnesota Water Based Nitrogen Budget, Erica K. Schram and Jim A. Perry. - Chapter 6 Sustainable Literacy and Climate Change: Engagement, Partnerships, Projects, Julie Matthews and Peter Waterman. - Chapter 7 Getting to the Heart of Climate Change through Stories, Scott Carlin, Ph.D.. - Chapter 8 Climate change education in curricula of technical and classical universities, Dagnija Blumberga, Maris Klavins. - Chapter 9 Interdisciplinary and interfaculty approaches in higher education capable to permeate the complexity of climate change, Roland Hergert, Volker Barth, Thomas Klenke. - Chapter 10 Campus as Classroom: Integrating People, Place and Performance for Communicating Climate Change, Millie Rooney and Jennifer McMillin. - Chapter 11 How to educate for a healthy climate at a university? An intergenerational cooperation (A case study from Slovakia), Alexander Feher, Martin Hauptvogl, Petra Trangosova, Lucia Svetlanska. - Chapter 12 Targeting a low-carbon university: a greenhouse gas reduction target for the Australian Technology Network of Universities, Chris Riedy and Jane Daly. - Chapter 13 Malaysian University Students' Awareness of Geographic Information Systems, Nor Rasidah Hashim and Mohd Fazlin Nazli. - Chapter 14 The changes of life style - significant contribution to GHG emission reduction efforts, DaliaStreimikiene and Remigijus Ciegis. - Chapter 15 Universities as Learning Organizations for Sustainability? The Task of Climate Protection, Florian Ludeke-Freund and Simon Burandt. - Chapter 16 Using a Spare-Time University for climate change education, Michael H. Glantz and Ilan Kelman. - Chapter 17 Embracing the Future: The Ball State University Geothermal Project, James W. Lowe, Robert J. Koester and Philip J. Sachtleben. - Chapter 18 Engaged learning for Climate Change: The Perils and Potentials of Collaborative Partnerships and Projects, Julie Matthews. - Chapter 19 Learning for climate responsibility - via consciousness to action, Anne Virtanen. - Chapter 20 CO2 Emissions Impact of Sustainable Food Procurement: Informing University Policy, Esther E. Bowen and Pamela A. Martin. - Chapter 21 Graduate Studies of Global Change at the University of Latvia, Arnolds Ubelis, Janis Abolins, Dina Berzina, Janis Blahins, Gunars Bajars. - About the Authors. - Thematic Index.

Cognitive Bizarreness in the Dream and Waking Mentation of Nonpsychotic Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Cognitive Bizarreness in the Dream and Waking Mentation of Nonpsychotic Patients With Parkinson's Disease

A new thematic index to the International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications

A new thematic index to the International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications

Consort manuscripts catalogued

The revival of English consort music has so far taken about 120 years: in August 1888 Mary Louisa Armitt published her ground-breaking article ‘Old English viol music’ (Quarterly Musical Review, iv (1888), pp.175–192, 243–64), based on research into the Music School Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and about two years later Arnold Dolmetsch began to search the British Museum library for repertory for his viol consort, which made its public debut on 27 April 1891. For most of the 20th century researchers were more or less fully occupied with finding out what there was—hence the Viola da Gamba Society's monumental Thematic index of music for viols, now freely available online (www.vdgs.org.uk/publications-ThematicIndex.html)-and with making an ever-increasing proportion of it available in modern editions. In the last couple of decades attention has turned in earnest to the task of cataloguing and studying the sources in detail, identifying the copyists and investigating their activities—hence the present volume and its predecessor, published in 2001.

How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (review)

Reviewed by: How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology David McCraw (bio) Cai Zong-qi . How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 456 pp. Paperback $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13941-0. The world could definitely use a good undergraduate textbook that covers traditional Chinese poetry. Those of us who teach survey courses have either made do with inadequate anthologies, or made up our own materials, in frustration. Surely, an off-the-shelf one-volume textbook would find wide welcome among literature teachers? Cai Zongqi's volume looks like it could fill this void. It includes 400 pages of scholarly contributions with one expert writing a chapter on each of eighteen chronologically selected topics, a neatly thematic index, and extensive appendices, including a welcome list of words with final stops that modern Mandarin has lost. It even claims to focus attention on formal and prosodic issues. Sounds promising; we read with high expectations! On reading Cai's preface, we immediately get pulled up short by his assertion that this anthology will "help students overcome language barriers and engage with Chinese poetical texts in ways that yield as much aesthetic pleasure and intellectual insight as one gets from the originals" (p. xxi). Well, since we are dealing with an undergraduate textbook here, that seems too high an ideal. However, adding the Chinese might enrich the experiences of those students with enough Chinese to divine some of the sense under the translations. In his next paragraph, Cai asserts "classical Chinese poetry may be regarded as a living tradition"; from my experience with young Chinese students, this also rings too idealistic. Bold claims continue. Cai recommends that "like Chinese readers, students should be able to see the physical shape of a poem in Chinese, read it out loud, and hear it read fluently in the original." Now we are sure his vision of an undergrad literature class belongs to fantasy; this textbook will certainly not achieve that aim—not without adding years of hard work at the language! Furthermore, what does he mean by "original"? Given this volume's nearly exclusive reliance on Mandarin romanizations, you could wonder whether he thinks ancient and medieval poets spoke like people in Beijing today. Then Cai reveals we have worse problems than just his overly ambitious goals. He continues: "[T]he inclusion of Chinese texts reveals the nonalphabetical nature of Chinese writing. The romanizations make apparent the monosyllabic and tonal nature of Chinese characters. They carry tone marks that will aid students in reading poems aloud. . . ." Nonsense! Including Chinese texts reveals nothing unless you can already read Chinese. Languages can be monosyllabic and tonal (though we could argue at considerable length whether this generalization always applied to Old Chinese), but characters do not carry tone marks. In fact, characters by themselves do not tell us how to read them—as experience with Japanese would [End Page 22] convince anyone. Cai has made some sort of blunder; has he here (as later on) confused talk of language with talk of its writing system? Or, perhaps more probably, has he committed a simple English error by an inadvertently ambiguous pronoun reference? In either case, this muddled statement will surely mislead undergrads. The curmudgeon in me starts to raise his churlish head. Cai continues by claiming that his translations "afford a direct look at the noninflectional nature of Chinese and demonstrate how the absence of inflectional tags changes the entire dynamic of reading. Instead of being told the poet's feelings and thoughts, we are often expected to experience them ourselves while creatively engaging words and images in a dynamic interplay." First, we doubt any translation could "afford" all that. Second, does Cai really want to argue that, when the Chinese poet says "Today I'm unhappy," readers will experience this vicariously in a way that they could not if a Latin poet or a French poet said so? We take leave of this preface with unease, still hoping the rest of this volume may redeem a bad preface. Unfortunately, Cai's introduction does little to dispel that unease. It contains additional English problems: consider "probably a major theme" (p...

Naming That Tune: Mobile Music Information Retrieval Systems

It is a typical but often dreaded music reference question—‘‘Can you help me figure out what this song is?’’—accompanied by the humming of a sometimes unrecognizable tune segment. Print resources like thematic catalogs and notation indexes can help identify a small group of classical music works, but successful use of these sources requires a combination of mathematics, transcription, and luck. However, technology has made it easier to answer this kind of question when one is faced with the plethora of popular music melodies, even when the patron cannot recall the lyrics to a particular song. Harnessing, organizing, and providing access to an unwieldy amount of recorded music has seemed nearly impossible. For years, research in music information retrieval (MIR) systems has been underway using experimental tools and creative programs that address such complicated issues as multiple recordings of the same work, differences in recording quality, tempo variances, and algorithm creation. MIR is the umbrella over a variety of more specific topics from metadata to programming, with a fascinating history and innovative projects on the horizon (see Resource List for further reading). The MIR systems discussed in this column—Midomi and Shazam—are only two of many, but I selected them because they are free and mobile. Both systems have applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry, and other cell phone brands so that music discovery, identification, and sharing can take place anywhere. These two systems can thus be used on the go, and they can also assist librarians trying to answer that [in]famous reference question.

Stone the crows: Oxford dictionary of modern slang

Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries. Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang is a fascinating and entertaining collection, packed with illustrative quotations and providing full details of origins and dates of first printed use. The text contains expressions from around the English-speaking world such as 'dork' and 'cockamamie' (North America) and 'giggle-house' and 'Jimmy Woodser' (Australia). As well as the A-Z listing of terms, the book contains a comprehensive thematic index, enabling users to home in on particular areas of interest, such as the body, food and drink, and human behaviour. Full of surprises, Stone the Crows is an essential read for word lovers and anyone with an interest in language.

The importance of vocational and social aspects of approaches to learning for medical students

Having performed research using approaches to learning and studying inventories and become familiar with the concepts they purport to measure, the authors were concerned that existing inventories might not capture the full range of intentions and motivations for learning that exist within populations of medical students. We used semi-structured interviews to explore the approaches to learning of undergraduate medical students at two time points: in the academic setting (year 2) and subsequently in the clinical setting (year 3). A thematic index was created using a framework analysis approach with the data derived from the academic setting and subsequently applied to and developed by the data derived from the clinical setting. Some themes and sub-themes emerging from the analysis fitted well with the deep, surface and strategic approaches described previously in higher education. Others did not. In particular, the importance of the vocational and social aspects of learning was striking in this sample of students, in both academic and clinical settings, and these would be missed by the majority of existing inventories. This study confirms that existing conceptions of approaches to learning within the higher education literature do not account for the full range of intentions and motivations that exist within medical student populations.

Nursing leadership: a concise encyclopedia

A single comprehensive reference for nursing leaders, leadership organizations, nursing clinicians, and educators, Nursing Leadership is the only compendium of nursing terminology in existence. Written by eminent nursing professionals, it provides descriptions of prominent individuals in nursing, information regarding nine leadership-related topics, and current trends in nurse leadership. This second edition has been expanded to encompass 80 new entries and revisions or updates to all original entries. It provides an extensive overview of current leadership issues including theories, characteristics, and skills required of nurse leaders in today's complex health care system. Highly respected contributors include Claire Fagan, Beverly Malone (NLN CEO), Polly Bednash (AACN CEO), Patricia Benner, and many others. For ease of use this new edition contains both alphabetic and thematic indexes, extensive cross-referencing, and print and web references for each entry. The new edition features: Thematic list of entries in addition to alphabetic index An extensive overview on salient nursing leadership issues, themes, characteristics, and current and future developments A legacies section on nursing luminaries throughout history Over 80 new entries and updates and revisions of original entries Extensive cross-referencing and print and web resources for each entry

Les instruments de recherche du minutier central des notaires de Paris. Quatre-vingts ans de travaux

Over the past eighty years the archivists in the Minutier central des notaires de Paris (the central notarial archive of Paris) have experimented different methods to make the collection accessible. The main shifts in perspective divide the period into three phases. During the early years (1928-1948), Ernest Coyecque, archival advisor to the Chamber ofNotaries and responsible for planning the transfer to the Archives Nationales, endeavoured to supply the records with essential finding aids, whilst Jacques Monicat, keeper of the Minutier central, started an exhaustive inventory but could not carry it far because of the overwhelming quantity of documents. In 1948, the year in which the first transfers were completed, the archivists undertook a series of thematic indexes at the request of research institutions, but then stopped in 1977 when funding was suspended. During the 1970s theMinutier central became a focal point for experiments in computerised inventories of archives. These different phases all contributed to defining current ways of dealing with notarial records, and produced a structured albeit highly complex set of finding aids. The end results might not be entirely satisfactory, but should be considered adequate in relation to the available support. As for the relevance of the tools thus created for the specific needs of end users, the debate remains open.