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September 29, 2006
Disease Profiler Trial
The Library is currently trialing the following database:
Disease Profiler Module - Health and Wellness Resource Center
*Click on “Disease Profiles: Statistics” under Quick Start
Disease Profiler is a collection of health-related statistics gathered anonymously from the health care programs of over 50 large companies from across the nation. The statistics capture how approximately three to four million active or retired employees use their employers' health care system each year. The cost of care, disease prevalence and demographic information related to disease diagnoses are only a few of the insights provided by this view into the U.S. health-care system. Please send comments to Erin Rushton
Trial ends October 26, 2006
Posted by erushton at 11:21 AM
New Publications by BU Biology Researchers
Title: The inflected alarm caw of the American Crow: Differences in acoustic structure among individuals and sexes
Author(s): Yorzinski JL, Vehrencam SL, Clark AB, McGowan KJ
Source: CONDOR 108 (3): 518-529 AUG 2006
Posted by erushton at 09:46 AM
New Publications by BU Nursing Researchers
Title: Breast cancer-specific intrusions are associated with increased cortisol responses to daily life stressors in healthy women without personal or family histories of breast cancer
Author(s): Dettenborn L, James GD, Valdimarsdottir HB, Montgomery GH, Bovbjerg DH
Source: JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE 29 (5): 477-485 OCT 2006
Posted by erushton at 09:33 AM
September 26, 2006
Trial to JGR - Earth Surface
Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface focuses on the physical, chemical and biological processes that affect the form and function of the surface of the solid Earth over all temporal and spatial scales, including fluvial, eolian, and coastal sediment transport; hillslope mass movements; glacial and periglacial activity; weathering and pedogenesis; surface manifestations of volcanism and tectonism.
The library currently subscribes to the print version of this journal, but is considering an electronic subscription. Please send any comments to Angelique Jenks-Brown. Trial ends November 22, 2006.
Posted by ajbrown at 02:30 PM
September 22, 2006
New Psychology Publications by BU Researchers
Title: Relations, objects, and the composition of analogies
Authors: Gentner, D; Kurtz, KJ
Source: COGNITIVE SCIENCE 30 (4): 609-642 JUL-AUG 2006
Title: Psychometric validation of the Temptation and Restraint Inventory in two samples of college drinkers
Authors: MacKillop, J; Lisman, SA; Weinstein, A
Source: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT 28 (3): 157-163 SEP 2006
Title: Role of parenting and maltreatment histories in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders: Mediation by cognitive vulnerability to depression
Authors: Alloy, LB; Abramson, LY; Smith, JM; Gibb, BE; Neeren, AM
Source: CLINICAL CHILD AND FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW 9 (1): 23-64 MAR 2006
Title: The alcoholism generator
Authors: Miller, MW; Spear, LP
Source: ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 30 (9): 1466-1469 SEP 2006
Title: Infantile sensitivity to ethanol's motivational effects: Ethanol reinforcement during the third postnatal week
Authors: Molina, JC; Ponce, LF; Truxell, E; Spear, NE
Source: ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 30 (9): 1506-1519 SEP 2006
Title: The Iowa Sleep Experiences Survey: Hypnotizability, absorption, and dissociation
Authors: Fassler, O; Knox, J; Lynn, SJ
Source: PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 41 (4): 675-684 SEP 2006
Posted by ajbrown at 02:50 PM
September 20, 2006
AccessScience Trial
The Science Library is currently trialing AccessScience, the online edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. AccessScience provides access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. Please contact Erin (erushton@binghamton.edu) for a user name and password. Feedback may be send to Alesia McManus (amcmanus@binghamton.edu)
Posted by erushton at 04:49 PM
September 18, 2006
Open Letter from Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group recently published an open letter to customers. Highlights from the letter include:
* The Nature Podcast, launched in the autumn of 2005, had up to 40,000 downloads per week.
* Nature Materials saw an increase of more than two points in its impact factor, to 15.941, and Nature Reviews Microbiology increased nearly five points to 13.989.
* Nature Physics was launched in October 2005, and is performing well.
* In 2007, Nature will be launching Nature Photonics and Nature Nanotechnology
Posted by erushton at 05:12 PM
September 12, 2006
RSS Feeds and Podcasts from the NLM
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has created a list of its RSS Feeds and Podcasts. Click here to view the list.
Posted by erushton at 11:47 AM
September 07, 2006
Upgrades to ISI Web of Knowledge
ISI Web of Knowledge recently updated its interface and introduced several new capabilities including:
Author Finder: distinguish between authors with the same name.
RSS Alerting:: get custom RSS feeds to receive search, citation, and tables of content alerts from ISI Web of Knowledge.
Improved topic search results: get more complete search results. Cast a wider net with the new implied "AND" between search terms.
Click here to view online demonstrations and training tutorials.
Posted by erushton at 02:38 PM
September 06, 2006
New Publications by BU Biology Researchers
Title: Enhancement of in vitro growth of pathogenic bacteria by norepinephrine: Importance of inoculum density and role of transferrin
Author(s): O'Donnell PM, Aviles H, Lyte M, Sonnenfeld G
Source: APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 72 (7): 5097-5099 JUL 2006
Title: Involvement of the cysteine protease calpain family in cell death after cryopreservation
Author(s): Robilotto AT, Baust JM, Van Buskirk R, Baust JG
Source: CELL PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY 4 (1): 17-30 SPR 2006
Posted by erushton at 11:31 AM
New Open Access Journals from BioMed Central
BioMed Central, the independent publishing house that provides free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research, has recently launched the following new Open Access journal:
Carbon Balance and Management
From BioMed Central: An open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of research aimed developing a comprehensive, policy relevant understanding of the global carbon cycle.
Posted by erushton at 11:20 AM
September 01, 2006
New Computer Science & Engineering Publications by BU Researchers
Minimizing flux spatter during lead-free reflow assembly
Manjunath, D; Iyer, S; Eckel, S; Damodaran, P; Sriharl, K
SOLDERING & SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY 18 (3): 19-23 2006
Guest Editors' introduction to the special issue: machine learning approaches to multimedia information retrieval
Ghafoor, A; Zhang, ZF; Lew, MS; Zhou, ZH
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS 12 (1): 1-2 AUG 2006
A probabilistic semantic model for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval
Zhang, RF; Zhang, ZF; Li, MJ; Ma, WY; Zhang, HJ
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS 12 (1): 27-33 AUG 2006
Minimizing makespan on a batch-processing machine with non-identical job sizes using genetic algorithms
Damodaran, P; Manjeshwar, PK; Srihari, K
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS 103 (2): 882-891 OCT 2006
Posted by amcmanus at 11:46 AM