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Community Science, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2024.Abstract The Philadelphia Region is threatened by anthropogenic climate change, with frontline communities facing disproportionate adverse impacts. To be effective, regional plans for climate resilience need to respond to diverse stakeholder needs, with research and information gathering critical to governance and decision‐making.
A. Kavathekar +16 more
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Library Mechanization at Auburn Community College
Information Technology and Libraries, 1970 Use of an IBM 1401 computer and a single keypunch operation for changing a college book collection from Dewey decimal to Library of Congress classification; for acquisitions, accounting and circulation procedures; and for production of a list of ...
Eloise F. Hilbert
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Distilling abstractions: Genre redefining essence versus context [PDF]
, 2015 The construction of concepts achieved by the apparently incompatible ideas of essence and context is examined through genre. Essence is defined by essential characteristics: innate, immutable, independent of context.
Olson, Hope A., Zhang, Lei
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Tracking technical change: Past, present and future
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1047-1087, November/Novembre 2024.Abstract Productivity growth in many countries has remained low for several years. Whether new technologies can reverse the trend depends on the scope of their impact and scale of their adoption—two dimensions of technical change that are historically difficult to measure.
Michelle Alexopoulos, Jon Cohen
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The use of traditional systems of knowledge organization in peruvian libraries
Biblios, 2012 It describes and discusses the use of the most traditional Systems of Knowledge Organization, such as the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Library of Congress (LC), lists of subject headings and thesauri; in the Peruvian information systems.
Rosa Dorival Córdova +1 more
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Classification on the Web: an analysis of Dewey Linked Data
Palabra Clave [La Plata], 2020 With the availability of information in the World Wide Web its access and retrieval by the users is facilitated, and the Library and Information Science (LIS) field’s knowledge and techniques can be applied to this environment in order to help with the ...
Kazumi Tomoyose +1 more
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The Role of Indexing in Subject Retrieval [PDF]
, 1975 On first reading the list of speakers proposed for this institute, I became aware of being rather the "odd man out" for two reasons. Firstly, I was asked to present a paper on PRECIS which is very much a verbal indexing system-at a conference ...
Austin, Derek
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Reconstructing the Holocene glacial history of northern Troms and western Finnmark, Arctic Norway
Boreas, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 619-654, October 2024.This paper reconstructs the glacial history of northern Troms and western Finnmark, northern Norway. We show that mountain glaciers were terminating on land, close to the present coastline between around 12.1 and 10.6 ka. Continued recession of the main Fennoscandian Ice Sheet towards the SE led to the isolation of several large plateau icefields and ...
Josh R. Leigh +5 more
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Interoperable subject retrieval in a distributed multi-scheme environment : new developments in the HILT project [PDF]
, 2005 The HILT (HIgh-Level Thesaurus) project (http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/), based primarily at the Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR) (http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/) at Strathclyde University in Glasgow is entering its fourth stage following the ...
McCulloch, E., Nicholson, D.
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Migration tracking assists harvest management of overabundant Canada geese in Manitoba, Canada
The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 88, Issue 7, September 2024.Temperate‐breeding giant Canada geese have been declared overabundant in Manitoba, Canada; thus, spring hunting seasons have been considered to reduce their numbers. To help increase harvest rates in these regions, we used tracking data obtained from light‐level geolocators to investigate potential differences in spring migration timing among target ...
Leanne R. Neufeld +2 more
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