THE WORD BAROMETER

The Library Barometer 2000.PDF

4 What is the use of user studies? 5 Background and aim of the report 5 Organisational aspects of quality assurance and the development of university libraries 6 Library Barometer 2000 – point of departure 8 The main standpoints of the reference group 8 The aim of the Barometer 9 Method of procedure 10 Results 11 Level 1 – A framework for interpretation: Information channels and library relatio...

The thymus: a barometer of malnutrition.

In 1810 J. F. Menkel noted that the human thymus was especially sensitive to malnutrition (see Jackson, 1925; Beisel, 1992), and the term ‘nutritional thymectomy’ came into common usage. By 1845 Simon (1845) had observed that the thymus is ‘a barometer of malnutrition, and a very sensitive one’. These observations were made over a century before the role of the thymus in lymphocyte development ...

Case Study : The Swiss Electronic Government Barometer

Diastolic function: a barometer for cardiovascular risk?

PERIOPERATIVE cardiovascular risk assessment has undergone significant advances, including development and validation of multivariable risk indices for prediction of major cardiac complications, advances in detecting ischemic heart disease, and noninvasive detection of symptomatic reductions in left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. However, we have recently recognized that current preoperati...

Mere Generation: Essential Barometer or Dated Concept?

The computational creativity community (rightfully) takes a dim view of supposedly creative systems that operate by mere generation. However, what exactly this means has never been adequately defined, and therefore the idea of requiring systems to exceed this standard is problematic. Here, we revisit the question of mere generation and attempt to qualitatively identify what constitutes exceedin...