RUTH PATRICK AWARD: JOHN DOWNING

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...

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In this chapter we focus on how local vulnerability, expressed in land degradation, is related to international and global processes. We begin with a synopsis of vulnerability in the context of land degradation and desertification. The nature of international regimes that may affect vulnerable socioeconomic groups is presented. Analogues of local–global linkages in vulnerability are summarized,...

The John Jackson Award for Best Clinical Presentation

Marcus Ware, MD, PhD (Tulane-Ochsner) Interaction of 4-Demethyl-cholesteryloxycarbonylpenclomedine (DM-CHOC-PEN) with Melanoma Melanin Metabolism and Cell Death Andrew Conger, MD (LSUHSC-NO) Pineoblastoma in Adults Rimal Hanif, MD (LSUHSC-S) The Kurdistan Experience: Building Neurosurgical Capacity in a Medically Underdeveloped Region Scientific Session I Moderator: Dr. Bharat Guthikonda Intera...

2008 AAOMPT John McM. Mennell Service Award Acceptance Speech.

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...