There are many community energy schemes. Their number and variety are increasing briskly. They bring new kinds of information into existence and they handle existing kinds of information in new ways. They share, to varying degrees, vulnerabilities to a wide range of information security threats. Those threats include new opportunities for crime and terrorism. At the extreme, their effects include danger to persons through interference with their ‘critical home infrastructure’ such as heating, lighting and refrigeration. The excitement of the novelty of community energy, and the focus of thinking on flows of energy and of money, means that often the flows of information, and their security, are not being considered as carefully as they ought to be.
During a four-year period, librarians collected student data by card-swiping undergraduate students who attended one of the core English composition class-based one-shot instruction sessions provided at a large state-supported doctoral-granting university. Data for students who attended library instruction was anonymized and compared to the same data points for students who were enrolled in the English class but did not attend library instruction. The authors compared student success indicators for the control and treatment groups (GPA, pass or fail status in course, and retention) and found a positive correlation between attending library instruction and student success.
This paper addresses succession planning through mentoring within the library. The authors define succession planning as the recruitment, development, and advancement of library personnel to fill staffing gaps and prepare future leaders. The benefit to libraries through the use of mentoring in succession planning will be addressed given this will allow the cultivation of more knowledgeable and confident employees. The authors will explore the concepts in this area through the literature, discuss the results of their study conducted via survey and provide recommendations for implementing a succession planning program through the use of mentoring based on their findings.
K-shell x-ray production cross sections and KP/Ka ratios are presented for 0.6-to 2.4-MeV protons and alpha particles incident on thin targets of selected elements from Nb to Gd. The KP/Ka ratios are compared to the theoretical predictions of Scofield and agree within 10%. The experimental cross sections are compared to the theoretical predictions of the plane-wave Born approximation (PWBA) and the PWBA modified to include binding energy, Coulomb deflection, and relativistic effects. It is seen that the PWBA modified for binding energy and Coulomb deflection effects agrees with the experimental data for Nb to within uncertainties, but its predictions are lower than the data by larger amounts as the target Z increases. Inclusion of an ad hoc semiclassical relativistic correction to the theoretical cross section, as suggested by Hansen, improves the agreement with the data, but overestimates the data for the highest-Z elements,
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