In 2019, the University of Connecticut (UConn) Library began systematically collecting faculty-authored books (FABs). We envisioned collection as a service—a program to capture and celebrate faculty work ensure that their intellectual contributions were represented in library’s collections. Under leadership our new dean, we crafted communicated jargon-free parameters, collaborated with liaison ...

Who’s on First? Listing Authors by Relative Contribution Trumps the Alphabet David A. Lake1 Political science as a discipline lacks any convention on the order in which authors should be listed in co-authored publications. As a result, the order of author’s surnames currently provides no information to other scholars, hiring and promotion committees, and other reviewers about the relative contr...

The performance of co-immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae and glucoamylase was evaluated in a fluidized bed reactor. Soluble starch and yeast extract were used as feed stocks. The biocatalyst performed well and demonstrated no significant loss of activity or physical integrity during 10 weeks of continuous operation. The reactor was easily operated and required no pH control. No operational pr...

In the first chapter, we consider the problem of first-best implementation in dynamic, interdependent-value environments where agents have quasi-linear preferences and private types are correlated. Our first candidate solution (I.M.) relies on methods typically seen in games with imperfect monitoring. We derive conditions under which this approach gives the planner the flexibility to implement ...

I analyzed co-authored international peer-reviewed scientific articles that resulted from research collaborations between scholars in the European Union (EU) and African countries, with a particular focus on case of Finland. Among 28 EU member states, Finland ranked 13th terms quantity produced through these collaborations. found 2015 to 2021, universities, institutes, other organizations count...

In this paper we discuss the use of models of space in mixed-reality systems. By model of space we mean a distinguishable geometric or symbolic description associated with a physical space. We outline several types of model that might exist, how they are surveyed or otherwise authored, how they are represented to the users and how the underlying middleware and sensors support them. We show that...

This article first examines the ideological composition of American university faculty and then tests whether ideological homogeneity has become self-reinforcing. A randomly based national survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities finds that liberals and Democrats outnumber conservatives and Republicans by large margins, and the differences are not limited to e...

The Book of Concord (1580) is the normative collection confessions in worldwide Lutheran Church. present Danish Church an exception due to King Frederik II’s rejection 1580. This article reviews historical background for and especially history theology Formula Concord. It pays special attention use Luther Confessio Augustana (Invariata) as theological authorities In Denmark, Philippist was pred...