RUTH PATRICK AWARD TO NANCY RABALAIS

CARLOS A . CUADRA and RUTH J . PATRICK Survey of Academic Library Consortia in the U . S

In 1970 USOE initiated a nationwide study of academic library consortia. The purpose of the study, carried out by SDC, was to develop a fund of descriptive and prescriptive information about library consortium activities. The study involved a questionnaire survey to identify and describe all known consortia, and a case-study analysis of fifteen selected consortia. This paper discusses the surve...

Nancy Knowlton

Alexander Sulakvelidze, Chief Scientist at Intralytix and one of its co-founders, says phages are a very safe and natural way of protecting food against bacteria. “The concept of using phages for improving food safety is based on simply applying phages back onto the foods in the right concentration, at the right place, and at the right time,” Sulakvelidze explains. “Thus, applying lytic phages ...

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh graduated in Communications Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989, when he moved to Harvard as a Professor of Psychology. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard i...

4 June 2001 − Ruth

STYLES OF RATIONALITY Ruth

By whatever general principles and mechanisms animal behavior is governed, human behavior control rides piggyback on top of the same or very similar mechanisms. We have reflexes. We can be conditioned. The movements that make up our smaller actions are mostly caught up in perception-action cycles following perceived Gibsonian affordances. Still, without doubt there are levels of behavior contro...