Britain’s House of Commons and House of Lords Libraries have a lengthy history beginning with small collections of books and papers in the eighteenth century and evolving into today’s large organizations offering a sophisticated range of services. The central theme of this article is the conservatism of these institutions over most of their history, with the creation of modern library facilitie...

A new approach for investigating the correlation between research quality and citation counts is presented and applied to a case study of the relationship between peer evaluations reflected in scholarly book reviews and the citation frequencies of reviewed books. Results of the study designate a J-shaped distribution between the considered variables, presumably caused by a skewed allocation of ...

Recommender systems are widely used in many areas, especially in e-commerce. Recently, they are also applied in technology enhanced learning such as recommending resources (e.g. papers, books,...) to the learners (students). In this study, we propose using state-of-the-art recommender system techniques for predicting student performance. We introduce and formulate the problem of predicting stud...

Wo have been so inundated of late with works on digestion and indigestion, that when we see a new treatise we are disposed to wonder whether it contains a particle of new matter. Dr. Wilson Fox's book purports to be a step in a somewhat novel direction, viz., an effort to link together the treatment and the pathology of stomach affections. The author is Professor of Pathological Anatomy in Univ...

We prove that the matrix of capacitance in electrostatics is a positive matrix. We explore the physical implications of this mathematical fact, and study the eigenvalue problem for the matrix of capacitance and its physical meaning. Many properties are easily visualized by constructing a “potential space” isomorphic to the euclidian space and defining an inner product in it. The problem of mini...

C negative information about a product increase sales, and if so, when? Although popular wisdom suggests that “any publicity is good publicity,” prior research has demonstrated only downsides to negative press. Negative reviews or word of mouth, for example, have been found to hurt product evaluation and sales. Using a combination of econometric analysis and experimental methods, we unify these...

We propose a system that overlays textures onto the arbitrary deformable surface of an object in real time using HMD. In this system, we select a book as the object and documents as the textures. Such overlaying of textures is achieved by rendering warped textures onto a surface which is projected onto an HMD image using some geometric transformations. We assume that the surface of an object co...