The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content if . . .

The Task Force (TF) was charged with compiling/reviewing/disseminating selection criteria for electronic resources to supplement traditional selection criteria (e.g., authorship, content, provenance, accuracy, relevance to institutional mission, and s . . .

Methodology: A Web-based form was used to gather data about the quality of library collections, electronic resources, services, facilities, and “other” in an open-ended format. Respondents were asked to volunteer their affiliation (student, EXL studen . . .

Funds for social programs have declined steadily in recent years, while the problems that confront social service providers have grown. Funds for the FamilySource Network have been cut over 33% during the six years studied in this report. This shrinki . . .

This paper describes a method for estimating larval supply of a temperate reef fish, the kelp bass Paralabrax clathratus, that is simple, inexpensive, requires relatively low effort, and integrates larval supply over time, Using this method, we sample . . .

Using an active learning approach to motivate students to learn has been advocated by many educators. It has been an ongoing discussion on whether marketing educators should customize their teaching activities based on the learning styles found in the . . .

We report on observations of 11 transit events of the transiting extrasolar planet XO-1b by the SuperWASP North observatory. From our data, obtained during 2004 May-September, we find that the XO-1b orbital period is 3.941634 +/- 0.000137 days, the pl . . .

The study extends previous work by Gross and Sheth (1989), providing evidence of continued U.S. advertiser emphasis on timeoriented advertising appeals. Additionally, the specific character of time-oriented appeals has changed consistent with recent s . . .

The Oviatt Library has integrated its resources with Google Scholar, offering a simple way to simultaneously access both free web resources and subscription databases. This easy, four-step process in a familiar interface saves time and frustration for . . .

It is found that the sharp resistivity peak observed near the Curie temperature TC in the manganites R1-xAxMnO3 is closely correlated to the residual resistivity ρ0 of the sample, suggesting that nonmagnetic randomness plays an important role in deter . . .

This report was prepared by the faculty and students from the California State University at Northridge Urban Studies & Planning Program and Department of Health Sciences with assistance and guidance from the Sustainability Council of Ventura County. . . .

As noted in the foreword, Differences Between, Changes Within was intended to keep up with changes in AACR2. This revised edition reflects changes through its final set of amendments, which were issued in 2005. Some guidelines have been changed and so . . .

Since the final approval of the criteria for ABET accreditation of Information Systems (IS) programs in December 2001, only seven institutions have been awarded specialized accreditation for their undergraduate IS degrees. To date only, only one under . . .

Principal components analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) are used to identify global patterns in solar and space data. PCA seeks orthogonal modes of the two-point correlation matrix constructed from a data set. It permits the ident . . .

Findings and suggestions following the 2003 web usability survey. This study was conducted with L. Lampert prior to the current web site re-design. Students were given a pretest of information literacy skills and library instruction experience prior t . . .

This project involved the development of a comprehensive and educational social marketing communications plan designed to help educate middle-school-aged youth about information use and abuse online. We achieved our goal of enhancing digital informati . . .

The kagome spin-12 systems have attracted intensive attention in recent years as the primary candidate for hosting different gapped spin liquids (SLs). To uncover the nature of the novel quantum phase transition between the SL states, we study a minim . . .

A variety of joint action studies show that people tend to fall into synchronous behavior with others participating in the same task, and that such synchronization is beneficial, leading to greater rapport, satisfaction, and performance. It has been n . . .

The SuperWASP-I (Wide Angle Search for Planets-I) instrument observed 6.7 million stars between 8 and 15 mag from La Palma during the 2004 May-September season. Our transithunting algorithm selected 11 626 objects from the 184 442 stars within the RA . . .

Let X 1, ···, Xn be i.i.d. random variables defined in ℝ d having common continuous density f(x), and let Rij be the rank of Xj in the ordered list of distances from X¡. Both the mutual neighbor probabilities p 1(r, s) = P(R 12 = r, R 21 = s) and the . . .

Both pharmacological intervention (i.e., thiazolidinediones [TZDs]) and lifestyle modification (i.e., exercise training) are clinically effective treatments for improving whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanism(s) by which these therapi . . .

I've just come back from attending both the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual conference in San Antonio and the American Libraries Association (ALA) Annual conference in San Francisco. I'm sure I've gone to every SLA conference for the last 1 . . .

Context. Based on the viscous disk theory, a number of recent studies have suggested there is large-scale meridional circulation in protoplanetary disks. Such a flow could account for the presence of crystalline silicates, including calcium- and alumi . . .

We have discovered an extremely red object, LSF 1, located 7" southwest (P.A. 217 degrees) of the bright spectroscopic binary system HD 155826. Originally reported by IRAS as one source detected at 12-60 ?m, and found as a single 6-25 ?m source of sim . . .

Despite the wide reach of medical licensing in health care production through its impact on the nature and cost of care, it has been all but ignored in debates over health care reform. This paper pulls together statements made by economists whose expe . . .

The SuperWASP cameras are wide-field imaging systems at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and at the Sutherland Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory. Each instrument has a fie . . .

A new method is devised for calculating the Igusa local zeta function Z_f of a polynomial f(x_1,,,,,x_n) over a p-adic field. This involves a new kind of generating function G_f that is the projective limit of a family of generating functions, and con . . .

Under high pressure, triply bonded molecular nitrogen dissociates into singly bonded polymeric nitrogen, a potential high-energy-density material. The discovery of stable high-pressure forms of polymeric nitrogen is of great interest. We report the st . . .

A commentary discusses negotiations between the Purdue University faculty and Elsevier Science Inc. over the cost of Elsevier journals. The average cost for a science and technology periodical has increased 50% since 1992. The larger the price increas . . .

In Arabidopsis thaliana ,cis-regulatory sequences of the floral homeotic gene AGAMOUS ( AG ) are located in the second intron. This 3-kb intron contains binding sites for two direct activators of AG , LEAFY (LFY) and WUSCHEL (WUS), along with other pu . . .

Fall 2002, the latest revision of the Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems was adopted. Included in the new curriculum model was an updated list of desired exit characteristics for information system . . .

Sexual minority adolescents (SMA) consistently report health disparities compared to their heterosexual counterparts, yet the underlying mechanisms of these negative health outcomes remain unclear. The predominant explanatory model is the minority str . . .

This proposal requests funding for acquisition of a High Performance Computer (HPC) cluster to expand and strengthen the computational facility of W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge (CSUN) . . .

This paper contains the grant proposal and final report for a project conducted by the California State University at Northridge library to demonstrate online database searching and introduce the use of bibliographic management software to faculty and . . .

Exoplanets are often associated with disks of dust and debris, analogs of the Kuiper Belt in our solar system. These "debris disks" show a variety of non-trivial structures attributed to planetary perturbations and utilized to constrain the properties . . .

In January 2010 the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) contracted with researchers at California State University, Northridge to evaluate the “Integrated Service Delivery” (ISD) initiative. This initiative was designed to integrate the work . . .

Creating an optimal travel plan is not an easy task, particularly for people with mobility disabilities, for whom even simple trips, such as eating out in a restaurant, can be extremely difficult. Many of their travel plans need to be made days or eve . . .

Surface water mapping is essential for studying global environmental changes in the quantity and quality of water bodies. This study explores the applicability of machine learning algorithm Support Vector Machine (SVM) in detecting open water surface . . .

With rapid development of electronic publishing technologies, e-books, especially EPUB, are being published at the same level of paper books publication volume. But still e-books with accessibility features are rare in the Korea market due to the prod . . .

Update from CSU ScholarWorks, August 6, 2019