Serials standards work: the next frontier

Serials, one of the more complicated areas of library technical endeavors, has lacked the benefit of standards for a long time. Even now, with standards beginning to be available, the majority of institutions are not working within standard serials formats. A survey to determine the use of serials standards in libraries was conducted in 1988 by the American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division, Serials Section, Committee to Study Serials Standards. In the spring of 1988 a survey was sent to a group encompassing the Association of Research Libraries members, CONSER participants, United States Newspaper Program participants, Microform Project libraries, and some vendors and librarians who attended the Committee meetings on a regular basis. The survey questionnaire assessed the current level of serials standards awareness of librarians and vendors. Topics included the type of serials systems used, standards relevant to serials control and union listing and whether or not they are implemented, types and levels of training staff received in the application of standards, benefits of the standards, and areas where standards are most needed.     

The ongoing education of engineering practitioners: how do they perceive the usefulness of academic research?

This study explores the usefulness of academic research to engineering practitioners. Issues such as knowledge transfer, the research-practice gap and the changing social/political environment are discussed. An empirical survey of practitioners is analysed to better understand the engineering professions use of academic material, such as research journals, with the medical profession acting as the benchmark. The study also examines the future role for academia from the perspective of practitioners, with areas such as engagement, relevance, dissemination and education highlighted. While the study found there was a reasonable level of utilisation of academic material, there are still some significant gaps. The study brings to the fore the issue of relevance in applied research fields and highlights the need to evaluate the usefulness of our research to practitioners and the betterment of society.     

中国金粟兰科植物拾遗

In the present paper the longstanding confusion of three uncertain spe-cies of Chloranthus, C. monostachys R. Br., C. pernyanus Solms-Laub. and C. kiangsien-sis Metcalf is clarified.  In addition to the new record of C. nervosus Coll. et Hemsl. tothe flora of China, the distributional ranges of Sarcandra hainanensis (Pei) Swamy etBailey and Hedyosmum orientale Merr. et Chun are also found to be much bigger thanpreviously known.     

马蹄参属 Diplopanax Hand.-Mazz.的系统位置

 Diplopanax is a genus described by H. Handel-Mazzetti in 1933 according to aflowered specimen.  It was originally considered as belonging to the family Araliaceae.But fruit characters of this genus such as very large in size, oblong-ovoid in shape,and containing only one seed in a locule which has a curved embryo and very hardwhen dry etc., differ greatly from all other araliaceous plants, and evidently resemblethose of the cornaceous genus Mastixia Bl.  In addition, the fruit is very similar tothe cornaceous fossil genus Tectocarya F. Kirchh., from which it may be distinguishedby the absence of 2 germinate pores in the  endocarp.   Consequently,  the  presentauthor tends to consider that the genus Diplopanax Hand.-Mazz. is best placed inCornaceae, not in Araliaceae.      

Policies for Reporting Test Results to Parents

What are the state and district policies on reporting test results to parents? How well do local districts follow state policies?     

Effect of carbohydrate ingestion during cycling exercise on affective valence and activation in recreational exercisers

Carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion enhances “feel-good” responses during acute exercise but no study has examined the effect of regular ingestion of CHO on affective valence. We investigated the effect of CHO ingestion on perceptual responses and perceived work intensity of individual exercise sessions throughout a 10-week cycling (“spin”) exercise intervention. We also assessed whether any changes in affect and/or perceived work intensity would influence health and fitness parameters. Twelve recreational exercisers (46 ± 9 years; nine females and three males) were randomly allocated to either CHO (7.5% CHO; 5 mL · kg^?1 per exercise session; n = 6; CHO) or placebo (0% CHO, taste- and volume-matched solution; n = 6; PLA) groups. Participants exercised 2 × 45-min per week, over a 10-week intervention period. Perceptual measures of exertion (RPE), affect (feeling scale, FS) and activation (felt arousal scale, FAS) were assessed after each exercise session. The FAS ratings increased over time in CHO but decreased throughout the intervention in PLA (P = 0.03). There were no differences in heart rate (P = 0.70), RPE (P = 0.05) and FS (P = 0.84) between trials. Furthermore, no changes in health and fitness parameters were observed over time or between groups. CHO ingestion enhanced ratings of activation in recreational exercisers throughout a 10-week cycling intervention.