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Prospects of an Odyssean homecoming for Percy Jackson after his sojourn in Lotus Hotel: 75 minutes of intergenerational conversations with Rick Riordan
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-10-16)The minutes that I have written up for this post are a record of 75 real minutes of conversations during “Hour 10” of the Harvard College course “The Ancient Greek Hero,” which took place “live” on October 13, 2020. A ... -
Providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important
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A pseudo-Homer gets exposed by Homer
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Public access to federally funded research: The Cornyn-Lieberman and CURES bills
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Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization
(2010)We analyzed Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. Beginning with an initial set of over five million blogs, we used social network analysis to identify a highly active ‘Discussion ... -
Public Engagement with Conservation at the British Library
(International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2008)The new Centre for Conservation at the British Library (BL) opened in London in 2007. It comprises state-of-the-art book conservation studios and sound preservation facilities, inextricably intertwined with an ambitious ... -
Public Should Have Free Access to the Research it Funds
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The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission
(2023)Libraries have continuously evolved their ability to provide access to collections in innovative ways. Many of these advancements in access, however, were not achieved without overcoming serious resistance and obstruction ... -
Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors
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Publishing Without Exclusive Rights
(University of Michigan Library, 2022-04-26)Journal publishers don’t need exclusive rights. Or, they don’t need them for publishing. They don’t need them to make a work public or to add value in the form of peer review, copy editing, metadata, formatting, discoverability, ... -
QR Codes in the Library: Are They Worth the Effort? Analysis of a QR Code Pilot Project
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)The literature is filled with potential uses for Quick Response (QR) codes in the library. Setting, but few library QR code projects have publicized usage statistics. A pilot project carried out in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music ... -
Quality of life assessment software for computer-inexperienced older adults: multimedia utility elicitation for activities of daily living
(American Medical Informatics Association, 2002)Functional status as measured by dependencies in the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is an important indicator of overall health for older adults. Methodologies for outcomes-based medical-decision-making for public policy, ... -
Quantitative Methods and Ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2013)The purpose of this chapter is to provide a context for thinking about the role of ethics in quantitative methodology.We begin by reviewing the sweep of events that led to the creation and expansion of legal and professional ... -
A question of “reception”: how could Homer ever outlive his own moments of performance?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-08-30)In the cover illustration for this essay, a painter is picturing Homer at a moment of performance. Or, I could even say that we see Homer here in—not just at—a moment of performance. Homer sings, accompanying himself on ... -
Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument
(Springer Verlag, 1994)I find (as others have found) that question-begging is formally valid but rationally unpersuasive. More precisely, itought to be unpersuasive, although it can often persuade. Despite its formal validity, question-begging ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, I: Did Athena, Goddess of Athens, Belong Only to the Athenians?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-04-17)In conversations about the ancient world, my sorely-missed friend Emily Vermeule was fond of asking this rhetorical question: in Mycenaean times, was Athena a goddess who was worshipped only in Athens? And there can be ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, II: In Mycenaean Times, Was Athena a Goddess Who Was Worshipped Only in Athens?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-04-24)In classical Athenian visual art, we find representations of the goddess Athena in the act of conveying the hero Hēraklēs to Olympus in her chariot, as we see in the illustration that I have chosen as the cover for this ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, III: Is ‘Athena’ the Name of a Person or of a Place?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-05-01)In asking myself whether the Greek proper noun Athḗnē is the name of a person, that is, the goddess known to us as Athena, or the name of a place, that is, the city known to us as Athens, I venture into a way of thinking ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, IV: Is Athena, Viewed Theologically, a Person?
(2020-05-08)In the previous posting, Classical Inquiries 2020.05.01, I asked this question: is “Athena” the name of a person or of a place? And my answer was: “Athena” is the name of a place that we know as Athens. I backed up that ... -
Racial disparity in cardiac procedures and mortality among long-term survivors of cardiac arrest
(American Heart Association, 2003)Background— It is unknown whether white and black Medicare beneficiaries have different rates of cardiac procedure utilization or long-term survival after cardiac arrest. Methods and Results— A total of 5948 elderly ...