RUTH PATRICK, 1907 - 2013

CARLOS A . CUADRA and RUTH J . PATRICK Survey of Academic Library Consortia in the U . S

In 1970 USOE initiated a nationwide study of academic library consortia. The purpose of the study, carried out by SDC, was to develop a fund of descriptive and prescriptive information about library consortium activities. The study involved a questionnaire survey to identify and describe all known consortia, and a case-study analysis of fifteen selected consortia. This paper discusses the surve...

An Edinburgh surgeon of the Crimean war--Patrick Heron Watson (1832-1907).

IN March 1854 Britain and France declared war on Imperial Russia which was already at war with Turkey, and in September of that year, after an abortive campaign in Bulgaria, an expeditionary force proceeded to the Black Sea, having the Crimea as its field of operations and Constantinople as its base. In order to satisfy the need for medical officers in the campaign a large number of young docto...

Parry, Ruth H. and Land, Victoria (2013) Systematically reviewing and synthesizing evidence from conversation

Background: Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very litt...

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh graduated in Communications Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989, when he moved to Harvard as a Professor of Psychology. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard i...

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