Libraries have multiple portals to access their electronic resources. At Queens College, the two are catalog, Ex-Libris’ Primo, and Springshare’s A-Z Database List. The most recent comprehensive review of List was conducted five years ago by previous resources librarian. As such, list had formats for displaying information lacked consistency. supporting overall layout not helpful users nor libr...

There is a lot of talk about giving machines emotions, some of it fluff. Recently at a large technical meeting, a researcher stood up and talked of how a Barney stuffed animal (the purple dinosaur for kids) “has emotions.” He did not define what he meant by this, but after repeating it several times, it became apparent that children attributed emotions to Barney, and that Barney had deliberatel...

to implement testing for MRSA amongst all farm animals. The association say the bacteria are widespread in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In the Netherlands 39 per cent of pigs tested positive for the bacteria strain that can be passed to humans. And 13 per cent of calves carried a different strain from that found in hospitals. These studies also found that 50 per cent of farmers were al...

We present a model to explain the origin of local clouds, including the so-called Local Fluff surrounding the solar system. We present observational evidence from ROSAT PSPC data, that manifest the existence of an interaction shell between our local interstellar bubble and the adjacent Loop I superbubble. A linear stability analysis of this compressed interaction shell has been performed. We sh...