A New System for Classifying Children in the Jewish School

Members of the clergy provide a great deal of counseling. How did this come about? How are they prepared for this role? In what capacity is this role played by rabbis? Do rabbis feel their training is adequate for what they are called upon to do? What are the implications of this for both education and professional development of rabbis? This article addresses these questions historically and through presentation of an empirical study of Conservative rabbis who studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary and are currently in the pulpit.     

Some observations on the speechmaking of governor Nelson A. Rockefeller

The study of interpretation lacks fundamental information about the criticism of performed texts. This study attempts to begin to provide necessary information about preferred types of evaluation forms, criteria for evaluation, and what students find |most helpful in the evaluation of performance.     

From the science of science to Scientometrics visualizing the history of science with HistCite software

While ISSI was founded in 1993, Scientometrics and Bibliometrics are now at least half a century old. Indeed, the field can be traced to early quantitative studies in the early 20th century. In the 1930s, it evolved to the “science of science.” The publication of J.D. Bernal's Social Function of Science in 1939 was a key transition point but the field lay dormant until after World War II, when D.J.D. Price's books Science Since Babylon and Little Science, Big Science were published in 1961 and 1963. His role as the “Father of Scientometrics” is clearly evident by using the HistCite software to visualize his impact as well as the subsequent impact of the journal Scientometrics on the growth of the field. Scientometrics owes its name to V.V. Nalimov, the author of Naukometriya, and to Tibor Braun who adapted the neologism for the journal. The primordial paper on citation indexing by Garfield which appeared in Science 1955 became a bridge between Bernal and Price. The timeline for the evolution of Scientometrics is demonstrated by a HistCite tabulation of the ranked citation index of the 100,000 references cited in the 3000 papers citing Price.     

Theoretical and experimental study of through-wall microwave tomography inverse problems

We consider the problem of building structure estimation using microwave ray tomography. A Bayesian formulation is developed, and a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) procedure is used to sample the posterior distribution, which is based on a data likelihood defined in terms of a residual misfit between observed and predicted waveforms. To accelerate model optimization, a simulated annealing approach is combined with the MCMC, using specific model moves to explore each component of the model space. Our approach is applicable to data acquired in the frequency or time domain and for monostatic or bistatic acquisition modes. Experimental data for a multi-wall laboratory test structure were acquired using a horn antenna connected to a vector network analyzer and used to validate both the forward model and the inversion approach. Although, in true remote sensing problems for building structure, the model order is usually unknown, in this initial study, the actual inversion experiment is performed in a reduced-dimension model space for which a subset of the variables are taken as known or fixed. Generalization to the variable-dimension problem can be achieved by using reversible jump MCMC sampling procedures.