TITLE: Doing the LibraryThingTM in an Academic Library Catalog BACKGROUND: Many libraries and other cultural institutions are incorporating Web 2.0 features and enhanced metadata into their catalogs. These value-added elements include book jacket images, reviews, and user-generated tags. One such site that libraries are looking at as a model is LibraryThing. LibraryThing is a social networking ...

Galaxy peculiar velocity data provide important dynamical clues to the structures obscured by the Zone of Avoidance (hereafter, ZOA) with resolution > ∼ 500 km s . This indirect probe complements the very challenging approach of directly mapping of the distribution of galaxies behind the Milky Way. In this work, the Wiener filter method is applied to reconstruct the 3D density and velocity dist...

D who should receive a mail-order catalog is among the most important decisions that mail-ordercatalog firms must address. In practice, the current approach to the problem is invariably myopic: firms send catalogs to customers who they think are most likely to order from that catalog. In doing so, the firms overlook the long-run implications of these decisions. For example, it may be profitable...