Author! author!: creating a digital archive of publications in a hospital library setting     

Rourke D  Samsundar DR  Shalini C 《Medical reference services quarterly》2005,24(2):87-93

Baptist Hospital of Miami has been honoring its staff authors annually during National Library Week since 1979, at the time the library was relocated. Upon "doing the math" and realizing that twenty-five years had passed, a special event was planned to celebrate the occasion in 2004. A merger of four hospitals in 1995 to form Baptist Health South Florida, and an addition of a fifth hospital in 2003 added into the complexity of these publications. Organizing the event led to the conclusion that there had to be a "better way" to manage the publication archive. This paper will include a look back at the event's past, present efforts to develop an archival database, and future plans to make articles available electronically to users, copyright permitting.  相似文献   

A refrigerator is kept open in a closed room. Does the net temperature of the room increase or remain the same. If so why?     

K. S. Nagaraj  R. Srinivasan 《Resonance》1997,2(1):65-65

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The Nobel prize in Physics-1996     

R. Srinivasan 《Resonance》1996,1(12):65-68

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The Chandrasekhar limit     

G. Srinivasan  R. Nityananda 《Resonance》2005,10(12):20-22

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Doing science that matters to address India’s water crisis     

Veena Srinivasan 《Resonance》2017,22(3):303-313

India is one of the most water stressed countries in the world. However, despite appreciable increase in funding for water research, high quality science that is usable by stakeholders remains elusive. I argue that this can be attributed to the absence of research on questions that actually matter to stakeholders, unwillingness to transcend disciplinary boundaries, and the demise of fleld-work research culture in favour of computer simulation.Conventional wisdom is these trends are driven by what is publishable. However, there is an increasing interest in the international community in interdisciplinary, problem driven, empirical research. Using examples of my own research in Chennai and Bengaluru, on water scarcity in urbanising watersheds, I offer some methods and insights.  相似文献   

Spatial Metaphor Facilitates Word Learning     

Ariel Starr  Alagia J. Cirolia  Katharine A. Tillman  Mahesh Srinivasan 《Child development》2021,92(3):e329-e342

Why are spatial metaphors, like the use of “high” to describe a musical pitch, so common? This study tested one hundred and fifty-four 3- to 5-year-old English-learning children on their ability to learn a novel adjective in the domain of space or pitch and to extend this adjective to the untrained dimension. Children were more proficient at learning the word when it described a spatial attribute compared to pitch. However, once children learned the word, they extended it to the untrained dimension without feedback. Thus, children leveraged preexisting associations between space and pitch to spontaneously understand new metaphors. These results suggest that spatial metaphors may be common across languages in part because they scaffold children’s acquisition of word meanings that are otherwise difficult to learn.  相似文献   

A simple laboratory experiment for studying the relaxation oscillations in a diode laser     

Shalini Mishra  Alika Khare 《Resonance》2004,9(12):55-66

Conclusion We have demonstrated the modulation of laser around threshold for the observation of relaxation oscillations in a semiconductor diode laser. The oscillations frequency for the diode laser D₁ was 1.5 kHz whereas the oscillations frequency corresponding to the laser from laser pointer D₂ was 227 kHz. We have also observed the variation in damping time and relaxation frequency of both the lasers as a function ofx. In fact a classroom exercise can be taken up easily to do the parametric characterisation.  相似文献   

Where Information Society and Community Voice Intersect     

Ramesh Srinivasan 《The Information Society》2006,22(5):355-365

Information and communication technology (ICT) development initiatives have begun to acknowledge the power and importance of cultural and community-focused belief systems. Yet the vast majority of such initiatives tend to preidentify developmental goals that communities hold. Paulo Freire's writings have influenced development initiatives by introducing the possibility of working with communities to orient projects. While these “participatory” initiatives have involved soliciting community feedback relative to a research project whose goals were formulated in the university or development institution, they do not go far enough to harness actual visions held by communities. It is important to conceptualize a model and methodology of engaging communities to develop and articulate their own goals of information access and ultimately, an indigenous approach toward cultural, political, and economic aspects of development. This approach holds promise to sustain communities within a return on the investment and efforts of the researcher or institution. This article closes by describing a current initiative in Southern India that reflects the described methodology.  相似文献   

Information determinism: The consequences of the faith in information     

Janaki Srinivasan  Morgan Ames 《The Information Society》2017,33(1):13-22

We identify and examine the assumption of information determinism that is commonplace in policy arenas: that mere access to the “right information” will precipitate desired actions. Our analysis focuses on implications of information determinism in three cases: California disaster response plans in the 1980s, an Indian development project in the 1990s, and an education project directed at the Global South in the 2000s. Our analyses shows that planning based on information deterministic assumptions tends to overlook the sociomaterial circumstances of information production and circulation, including how social structures and materiality shape information in practice. Further, they imbue what we call “information” with the agency to bring about change. While we do not deny that “information” can be useful, we argue that policy needs to move away from information deterministic thinking and its singular focus on information access to address the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations.  相似文献   

Book review     

Uday Maitra  Vani Brahmachari  Parameswaran Sankaran  J. Srinivasan  Chanda J. Jog 《Resonance》1999,4(7):83-91

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