Meteorite reference work

Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere

Purpose – This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform for providing reference service, and discusses Lyceum, an open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose. Design/methodology/approach – The following topics are explored: the evolution of libraries’ uses of blogs, the advantages of conducting the reference transaction as a collaborative effort, and the use of blogs as...

Meteorite studies

eteorites yield a wealth of information concerning Solar System origin, geochemical evolution of primitive parent objects, and irradiation histories of material in space. Since the numerous (approximately 16,000) antarctic meteorites include many of rare or unique types, current extraterrestrial materials research attention focuses on this population. Antarctic meteorites also have the potentia...

Educational Meteorite Thin Sections

Reference values for maximal work capacity in healthy children.

Recently, the European Respiratory Journal published a paper by GULMANS et al. [1] on reference values for maximal work capacity (Wmax) in healthy children [1]. The paper described the Wmax of boys and girls using a model which related Wmax per kilogram of fat free mass (FFM) to age and gender. For the model to be valid the relationship between Wmax and FFM should have been a proportionality (i...

The sheep genome reference sequence: a work in progress.

Until recently, the construction of a reference genome was performed using Sanger sequencing alone. The emergence of next-generation sequencing platforms now means reference genomes may incorporate sequence data generated from a range of sequencing platforms, each of which have different read length, systematic biases and mate-pair characteristics. The objective of this review is to inform the ...