In the 19th century it was difficult for the growing number of medical practitioners in North America to access current medical literature. Various ways were suggested to solve this problem; one of them was the creation of physician-run medical library…

This thesis examines images of martial women as they were produced in the biography column of the late Qing journal Nüzi shijie (NZSJ; 1904-1907). By examining the historiographic implications of revised women's biographies, I will show the extent to which…

This thesis is a step forward in evaluating insulin therapy and defining its role in cardiac surgery first described as Glucose-Insulin-Potassium (GIK) solution 40 years ago., Chapter (I) includes a review of the literature on insulin therapy in cardiac surgery…

Niyaz Fateh&dotbelow;puri (1884-1966 A.D./1302-1384 A.H.) was an accomplished literary critic, poet and religious scholar. He published a very successful magazine Nigar, primarily a literary journal, which soon became a platform for debating many of the most controversial religious, ideological, political…

We consider optimal design for changepoint problems with particular attention paid to situations where the only possible change is in the mean. Optimal design for changepoint problems has only been addressed in an unpublished doctoral thesis, and in only one…

The Serbian education system severely deteriorated after a series of conflicts and NATO bombings dismantled the nation from the 1990's-2000. Although violence is not uncommon to schools around the world, researchers have demonstrated that the long term effects of war…

This thesis attempts to historicize our understandings of economic rationality and economic action, specifically in the period leading up to the South Sea Bubble of 1720, an event which seemingly remains shrouded in mystery. The fundamental question addressed is what…

A reduction in the consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of predation resulting from harvesting of top predators has been hypothesized to result in failure of harvested species to recover from low abundance, even if harvesting is reduced or ceases. I examined…

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Last year, Stewart Brower, co-editor of the open access journal Communications in Information Literacy, defended the peer review process. He argued that despite its flaws, peer review helps librarians’ careers. “Peer-reviewed articles get librarians promoted. Peer-reviewed articles get librarians tenured.”…

As the younger generation of born digital library users and even well-established scholars rely increasingly on Google, or its new products Google Scholar and Google Book, for information resource discovery and access, libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to ensure…