The Indian Ocean has sustained robust surface warming in recent decades, but the role of multidecadal variability remains unclear. Using ocean model hindcasts, characteristics of low-frequency Indian Ocean temperature variations are explored. Simulated upper-ocean temperature changes across the IndianOcean in the hindcast are consistent with those recorded in observational products and ocean re...

TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC FACTORS, AND changes in the educational system are major factors in what is being termed a “revolution” in libraries. Does library user education have a place in that future? Some believe that libraries would be more effective concentrating their resources elsewhere. To put library instruction in perspective requires a look at its past and the status of programs in terms of...

Purpose: The aim of the study is to compare the perceived benefits of public libraries between five culturally different countries: Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, South Korea and the U.S. Design/methodology/approach: The data was based on representative samples of Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Korean and American adult library users. In Finland a mail survey was used and in other countries web ...

abstract recent global warming has led to a change in the global hydrological cycle and an increase in extreme events such as flood and drought at the global and continental scales. however, at the regional scale, the magnitude of warming and the resulting changes in water resources are different from one region to another. unlike air temperature whose increase is evident throughout the world, ...

Let (Xn,i )1≤i≤n,n∈N be a triangular array of row-wise stationary Rd valued random variables. We use a “blocks method” to define clusters of extreme values: the rows of (Xn,i ) are divided into mn blocks (Yn,j ), and if a block contains at least one extreme value, the block is considered to contain a cluster. The cluster starts at the first extreme value in the block and ends at the last one. T...

The thriver model is a novel framework that unifies the concepts of posttraumatic and postecstatic growth. According to the model, it is not the quality of an event, but the way it is processed, that is critical for the occurrence of post-event growth. The model proposes that meaning making, supportive relationships, and positive emotions facilitate growth processes after positive as well as tr...

NOAA’s recent assessment of Arctic greenness has reported a remarkable finding: the Arctic is browning (Epstein et al., 2015). Whilst a clear greening trend has been apparent for most of the satellite record’s 33 year history (indicating an increase in biomass and productivity), there is now an overall decline in greenness from 2011 to 2014. If this is a new direction of travel for arctic veget...

It is expected that stock prices can be aaected by the local and overseas political and economic events. We extract events from the nancial news of Chinese local newspapers which are available on the web, the news are matched against stock prices databases and a new method is proposed for the mining of frequent temporal patterns.

This study attempts to discover the pattern of rural library usage among rural youth in Malaysia and to determine the problems that are associated with such usage. The findings of this study provide an insight into youth usage of rural library services. The most obvious pattern that resulted from the findings is the connection between library usage and the availability of reading materials. Fur...