We want to thank the authors for responding to our paper and for apprising readers as to the effects of the new information technologies in Asian educational settings. We think Miyake has characterized our argument very accurately and succinctly. As she points out the equity issues we raise are exacerbated in Asia because the resources available through new technologies are mostly in English. B...

ALICEROBBIN ABSTRACT THISARTICLE EXAMINES SELECTED ECONOMIC and social indicators of our multiracial and multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century to provide an information base for wise decisions about effective library services. The statistical profile describes the demography, economic well-being , and educational attainment of the principal racial and Hispanic origin groups. T...

How do experienced users extract information from a complex visualization? We examine this question by presenting experienced weather forecasters with visualizations that did not show the needed information explicitly and examining their eye movements. We replicated Carpenter & Shah (1998) when the information was explicitly available on the visualization. However, when the information was not ...

The importance of socioeconomic position, measured at multiple levels (e.g., individual, household, area) and across the life course, for studying health disparities is now well recognized (1–7). Our multilevel study (8) reported that individual-based socioeconomic measures (IBSMs) and area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) together capture birth weight inequalities that otherwise would have...

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible o...

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible o...

0031-9007= We show that matter effects change the ! oscillation probability by as much as 70% for certain ranges of energies and path lengths. Consequently, the ! survival probability also undergoes large changes. A proper understanding of survival rates must consider matter effects in P as well as P e. We comment on (a) how these matter effects may be observed and the sign of 31 determined in ...

Model a network as an edge-weighted graph, where the (unknown) weight we of edge e indicates the frequency of observed interactions, and over time t we observe a Poisson(twe) number of interactions across edges e. How should we estimate some given statistic of the underlying network? This leads to wide-ranging and challenging problems, on which this article makes only partial progress.

A challenge for educators is to fuse the learning of information literacy to an academic education in such a way that the outcome is systematic and sustainable learning for students. This challenge can be answered through longterm commitment to information literacy education bound to organisation-wide, renewable strategic planning and driven through systemic reform. This paper explores the proc...