_Restoring the Promise_ is essential reading for those trying to wrap their heads around many serious problems in America’s ivory towers. Colleges and universities can be saved from politicized sclerosis, Vedder’s engaging thoughtful analysis shows us how.

Despite the fact that science has had a significant impact on society there is a strong public perception that scientists do not really care about the affairs of society, and are content to merely conduct solitary research in socially isolated universities. In Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society, Gerhard Sonnert and Gerald Holton attempt to dispel that perception and provide an analys...

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MATERIALS are not only to be found in academic libraries; they can be found in museum, public and national, and independent research libraries as well. The focus of this paper is on independent research libraries, especially those who are members of the Independent Research Library Association (IRLA). IIUA members are eighteen private, nonprofit research and education instit...

Large reductions in thermal conductivity, in comparison to bulk materials, have been observed in materials structured at the nanoscale level. These reductions are attributed to a combination of classical and quantum size effects that manifest themselves when the characteristic length scales in the nanostructured material become comparable to, or shorter than, the mean free path of the heat carr...

In 2019, Royal Assent was granted to the United Kingdom’s Ivory Act 2018. The legislation, introduced by Environment Secretary Michael Gove in 2018, welcomed politicians and conservation groups as “an extraordinary achievement” “a landmark our fight protect wildlife environment.” passing through Parliamentary process only seven months, testament cross-party commitment tackling illegal ivory tra...

Ivory is the hard creamy-white dentin that forms tusks of some animals such as elephants, used to make decorative objects. mainly combs, ear rings, bangles, hair pins, antimony rods (anjana or Kajjal shalaka), seals, buttons, decoration pieces, boxes, dice, chessmen, furniture, ornaments, manuscript covers, mirror handles Etc. and bones are for needles, arrow heads, from Prehistoric times. They...

The identical electrophoretic isoenzyme patterns of a human-plasma-resistant Trypanozoon stock from a sheep and of two other stocks from trypanosomiasis patients in the Congo Republic indicated that the sheep stock was probably infective to man. These, and one further human stock from the Congo, closely resembled stocks isolated from man in Liberia and Ivory Coast.

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This paper describes Ivory, an attempt to build a distributed retrieval system around the open-source Hadoop implementation of MapReduce. We focus on three noteworthy aspects of our work: a retrieval architecture built directly on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), a scalable MapReduce algorithm for inverted indexing, and webpage classification to enhance retrieval effectiveness.

Description logic (DL) has existed as a field for a few decades yet somewhat recently have appeared to transform from an area of academic interest to an area of broad interest. This paper provides a brief historical perspective of description logic developments that have impacted their usability beyond just in universities and research labs and provides one perspective on the topic. Description...