Interlibrary Loan—Reference Collaboration: Filling Hard-to-Find Faculty Requests

Interlibrary Loan Requests for Locally Available Materials: WorldCat Local's Impact

Megan Gaffney is Coordinator, Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services, at the University of Delaware Library; e-mail: [email protected]. © Megan Gaffney Several studies have researched the reasons and patterns for academic library users’ interlibrary loan requests for materials already available at their college or university library. This study examines interlibrary loan statistics at...

Hard Sets are Hard to Find

We investigate the frequency of complete sets for various complexity classes within EXP under several polynomial-time reductions in the sense of resource bounded measure. We show that these sets are scarce: The sets that are complete under 6 p n ?tt-reductions for NP, the levels of the polynomial-time hierarchy, and PSPACE have p 2-measure zero for any constant < 1. The 6 p n c ?T-complete sets...

E-politeness in Iranian English Electronic Requests to the Faculty

This paper reports the findings of a study designed to investigate English e-requestsof Iranian EFL postgraduate students (i.e., nonnative speakers of English) made totheir professors during their education at Islamic Azad University, Najaf AbadBranch, Isfahan, Iran, to find out types of politeness features employed in the students’e-mails and the extent to which these features might influence ...

Combinatorial Morse Flows Are Hard to Find

We investigate the probability of detecting combinatorial Morse flows on a simplicial complex via a random search. It is really small, in a quantifiable way. CONTENTS

Short Proofs are Hard to Find