Library and information sciences / Museology

Relationships abound in the library and information science (LIS) world.

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation of those facts.

Health Information Management: What Strategies?

The present monograph intends to establish a solid link among three fields: fuzzy set theory, information retrieval, and cluster analysis.

This volume is an attempt to give the American reader an idea of the extent of the Dutch network of trade in the seventeenth century.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The history of printing, books, and libraries, is confined only to a limited extent within the boundaries of individual countries.

As the central event of modern times, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 remains a major focus of historical investigation and controversy.

MURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H.

One of the characteristics of the final decade of this century is the treatment of information as a commodity.

The 1994 conference of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries drew together an exceptional group of invited speakers and contributed papers.

Russian literature between 1750 and the romantic age presents a confus- ing picture.

Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research.

IT ALL STARTED with the American Library Association (ALA) which wanted to celebrate its centenary in 1976 at its headquarters in Chicago.

Complementation has received a great deal of attention in the past fifteen to twenty years; various approcahes have been used to study it and different groups of complement-taking verbs have been examined.

This book is the second in a series of studies published under the auspices of the Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate School and U niver- sity Center of The City University of New York.

This book discusses the natural and anthropogenic determinants of the environment and their impact on human health.

Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years.

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c.

Homeostasis.

This book deals with medieval Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic, such as Moses Maimonides, Judah Halevi, and Solomon Ibn Gabirol, as well as the Hebrew translations and commentaries of Judaeo-Arabic philosophy.

Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of weeks to years, provide specific challenges for the ecosystems and the populations existing within the region.

The book addresses the questions: Is Australia's rapidly growing human population and economy environmentally sustainable for its estuaries and coasts?

In recent decades radiobiologists' efforts have been directed at identifying the mechanisms of radiation effects; the general mechanisms have since been studied extensively.

This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards.

Humans are diurnal organisms whose biological clock and temporal organization depend on natural light/dark cycles.

The 2012 American Jewish Year Book, "e;The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization,"e; contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, David Koffman, and Randal Schnoor), national affairs (Ethan Felson), Jewish communal affairs (Lawrence Grossman), Jewish population in the United States (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky), and World Jewish population (Sergio DellaPergola).

The probability for exposure to damaging radiation, toxic chemicals in the environment and adverse biological agents has increased exponentially today.

This is the first book to summarize all aspects of allergenic pollen: production, atmospheric distribution, and health impacts, as well as the means of monitoring and forecasting these phenomena.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues connected with mortars on historic structures.

This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans.

This book examines the ways in which China's universities have changed in the dramatic move to a mass stage which has unfolded since the late 1990s.

In a new era of global health diplomacy, the most important tool for decision-making is negotiation.

Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to the management of nutrients based on changes in biological communities.

This book addresses questions of relevance to governments and industry in many countries around the world, in particular concerning the link between contaminated-land-management programs and the protection of drinking water resources and the potential effects of climate changes on the availability of these same resources.

Emilie du Chatelet was one of the most influential woman philosophers of the Enlightenment.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems.

Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.

This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years.

In recent years, the concept of environmental security has been adapted to include preparedness for acts of ecoterrorism.

The aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people.

This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases.

Libraries face a number of challenges in adapting to new ways of information seeking that may stress convenience over quality, reducing the priority of information literacy skills.

A library is an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

The present day knowledge or information-based society is making extensive use of information for all kinds of activities.

The present day knowledge or information-based society is making extensive use of information for all kinds of activities.