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The article presents comparative analyses of the 1989 and 2022 revised editions of the "Oxford English Dictionary," focusing on the antedating of entries. It discusses the incidence of revised earliest dates of bibliographical adjustments, number of entries revised with near antedates, longer antedatings, antedatings attributed to the availability of high-quality historical text databases, and revisions to the 1989 edition earliest citations by quarterly update and original earliest date.

The article focuses on the cultural significance and diverse roles of the 1623 Folio edition of Shakespeare's works, exploring its representation of Shakespeare, its existence as a collection, and its widespread presence in institutional and personal collections worldwide. It delves into the book's multifaceted nature, discussing its functions as a symbolic representation of Shakespeare, a collection of plays, and a highly sought-after item in various collections globally.

This study employs a bibliography study method to evaluate 472 papers focused on Shewanella oneidensis biofilms. Biofilms, which are formed when microorganisms adhere to surfaces or interfaces, play a crucial role in various natural, engineered, and medical settings. Within biofilms, microorganisms are enclosed in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), creating a stable working environment. This characteristic enhances the practicality of biofilm-based systems in natural bioreactors, as they are less susceptible to temperature and pH fluctuations compared to enzyme-based bioprocesses. Shewanella oneidensis , a nonpathogenic bacterium with the ability to transfer electrons, serves as an example of a species isolated from its environment that exhibits extensive biofilm applications. These applications, such as heavy metal removal, offer potential benefits for environmental engineering and human health. This paper presents a comprehensive examination and review of the biology and engineering aspects of Shewanella biofilms, providing valuable insights into their functionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores datasets curated from the citation evidence in successive editions and revisions of the Oxford English Dictionary (1884–2022), which have been annotated to reflect the gender of the authors and other bibliographical metadata. This exploration aims both to supplement the historical account of the dictionary's uses of female-authored quotation sources, correcting and elaborating some figures which have previously been reported, and to provide a contemporary account of women's representation in OED Online , using the revision published in June 2022. In seeking to establish a more objective and empirical basis for judging 'representativeness', I treat the OED both as a self-contained bibliographical and lexicographical work, and comparatively, against other comprehensive or very large bibliographical corpora, namely the Garside et al. surveys of early English novels, the Library of Congress Catalog, and the HathiTrust Digital Library. The OED data studied here represents a significant (if restricted) subset, rather than a representative sample, of the OED corpus as a whole: modern (post-1700) quotations from books appearing with their author's name in the OED evidence are considered. While this approach does not claim to make an objectively complete tally of every woman-authored quotation collected in the OED, it does enable a more detailed and accurate account than has previously been possible, and allows for a number of consistent cross-comparisons. A companion document of Supplementary Data & Notes , available at The Review of English Studies online, describes in technical terms how the data was compiled and the processes and principles by which it was annotated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article centres on three passages about herbs and herb remedies (§91, §92 and §97) selected from the anonymous Syriac pharmacological book which Philippe Gignoux recently edited. It argues that all three passages have parallels in Galen’s On Simple Drugs, while the last section of §91 finds a parallel in Dioscorides’ De materia medica 1.107. The parallels not only help us to decipher several terms which remain unresolved in earlier research, but also facilitate a better understanding of some passages which are occasionally misleading due to the highly abbreviated character of the Syriac text. Furthermore, a comparison between the anonymous Syriac pharmacological text and earlier Syriac translations of Galen shows that our text is a multiple-layered pharmacopoeia which combines both earlier elements from Sergius of Rēš ͑ainā in the sixth century and new terminologies from Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the ʿAbbāsid translation movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of transplant infectious diseases is rapidly evolving, presenting a challenge for clinical practice and trainee education. Here we describe the construction of transplantid.net, a free online library, crowdsourced and continuously updated for the dual purpose of point-of-care evidence-based management and teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Minoxidil solution is used for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia (AGA). Minoxidil 5% solution has been shown to have superior efficacy to minoxidil 2% solution, it is unknown whether concentrations of minoxidil > 5% provide additional clinical benefit. We performed a review of the literature to examine the evidence on the efficacy and safety of higher concentrations of minoxidil in AGA. A search of the PubMed database was performed using the keywords 'minoxidil', 'androgenic alopecia' and 'pattern hair loss'. Relevant articles, including clinical trials, other clinical studies, case series and case reports published in English were considered for review. In addition, relevant references from the bibliography section of the retrieved articles were also reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dix's I Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books, 1601-1700 i (Dublin, 18y8-1y12), probably because it is not focussed on publications in Irish; but it is relevant to the overall picture of printing in Ireland and about Ireland. Virtually no early Irish books were held in Irish institutions from the time of their first printing. Sharpe and Hoyne report that Wing says it was printed by Motte, but in fact printing by Motte is claimed in the book itself on sig. [Extracted from the article]

Indigenous Peoples (IP) face significant health disparities that stem from historical trauma (HT). This is the first systematic review to investigate mental health interventions that address HT in addition to treating mental health disorders among IP in the United States. The data search included seven databases for published studies, consultations with experts, hand searching journals, and reference list checking. Five studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in the review. In total, 608 clients were examined. Findings suggested that treatments that addressed HT had a marginally beneficial effect on psychological and HT symptom outcomes. However, one study found that the intervention was not successful at maintaining these gains. Due to the limited number of studies, and the heterogeneity of research findings and the methodological limitations suffered by included studies, no definite conclusions about mental health interventions that address HT can be drawn. Recommendations for practice, such as using traditional healing practices for IP in mental health interventions, and recommendations for future research are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article centers on a handwritten account of the stillbirth of conjoined twins in eighteenth-century Mexico stitched into a book about natural history. Finding things in books as part of an accidental process of discovery in the present does not equal random acts by users in the past. Inserting documents and prints of various kinds into books represented for historical actors a distinct kind of archival practice that combined careful observation, deliberation, and a certain measure of dexterity to manipulate the physicality of a book. Examples of records and objects found in other titles from the same time period and region help to contextualize the way people used books and how they stored memories, as well as what we as researchers can learn when critically analyzing the materiality of print. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a previous review, the experiments of American chemist W.O. Atwater were critically examined, with the findings demonstrating certain weaknesses that could compromise the validity of the values currently used for metabolizable energy. An examination of published works on the heat of combustion of carbohydrates reveals 2 types of weaknesses: the inaccuracy and imprecision of the calorimetric data used, and the averaging procedure employed to estimate such representative values. The present review focuses on the first type of weakness, namely the inaccuracy and imprecision of the calorimetric data used in previous studies. An exhaustive bibliographic search yielded almost 100 heat of combustion values for some of the 6 main carbohydrates contained in plant-source foods (glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, starch, and cellulose). These heats of combustion were subjected to rigorous statistical analysis to propose the following for each carbohydrate: (1) an interval (termed a bibliographic interval) that very likely includes the actual heat of combustion value and (2) a "representative value" (calculated to produce the minimum level of inaccuracy). In addition, an estimation of the maximum level of inaccuracy that could be expected when using such a representative value is reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This bibliography provides a collection of references that documents the evolution of studies evidencing interbreeding among Canis species in North America. Over the past several decades, advances in biology and genomic technology greatly improved our ability to detect and characterize species interbreeding, which has significance for understanding species in a changing landscape as well as for endangered species management. This bibliography includes a discussion within each category of interbreeding, the timeline of developing evidence, and includes a review of past research conducted on experimental crosses. Research conducted in the early 20th century is rich with detailed records and photographs of hybrid offspring development and behavior. With the progression of molecular methods, studies can estimate historical demographic parameters and detect chromosomal patterns of ancestry. As these methods continue to increase in accessibility, the field will gain a deeper and richer understanding of the evolutionary history of North American Canis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives Manual systematic literature reviews are becoming increasingly challenging due to the sharp rise in publications. The primary objective of this literature review was to compare manual and computer software using artificial intelligence retrieval of publications on the cutaneous manifestations of primary SS, but we also evaluated the prevalence of cutaneous manifestations in primary SS. Methods We compared manual searching and searching with the in-house computer software BIbliography BOT (BIBOT) designed for article retrieval and analysis. Both methods were used for a systematic literature review on a complex topic, i.e. the cutaneous manifestations of primary SS. Reproducibility was estimated by computing Cohen's κ coefficients and was interpreted as follows: slight, 0–0.20; fair, 0.21–0.40; moderate, 0.41–0.60; substantial, 0.61–0.80; and almost perfect, 0.81–1. Results The manual search retrieved 855 articles and BIBOT 1042 articles. In all, 202 articles were then selected by applying exclusion criteria. Among them, 155 were retrieved by both methods, 33 by manual search only, and 14 by BIBOT only. Reliability (κ = 0.84) was almost perfect. Further selection was performed by reading the 202 articles. Cohort sizes and the nature and prevalence of cutaneous manifestations varied across publications. In all, we found 52 cutaneous manifestations reported in primary SS patients. The most described ones were cutaneous vasculitis (561 patients), xerosis (651 patients) and annular erythema (215 patients). Conclusion Among the final selection of 202 articles, 155/202 (77%) were found by the two methods but BIBOT was faster and automatically classified the articles in a chart. Combining the two methods retrieved the largest number of publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Objectives In long-term care (LTC) facilities, nursing staff are important contributors to resident care and well-being. Despite this, the relationships between nursing staff coverage, care hours, and quality of resident care in LTC facilities are not well understood and have implications for policy-makers. This systematic review summarizes current evidence on the relationship between nursing staff coverage, care hours, and quality of resident care in LTC facilities. Research Design and Methods A structured literature search was conducted using four bibliographic databases and gray literature sources. Abstracts were screened by two independent reviewers using Covidence software. Data from the included studies were summarized using a pretested extraction form. The studies were critically appraised, and their results were synthesized narratively. Results The systematic searched yielded 15,842 citations, of which 54 studies (all observational) were included for synthesis. Most studies (n = 53, 98%) investigated the effect of nursing staff time on resident care. Eleven studies addressed minimum care hours and quality of care. One study examined the association between different nursing staff coverage models and resident outcomes. Overall, the quality of the included studies was poor. Discussion and Implications Because the evidence was inconsistent and of low quality, there is uncertainty about the direction and magnitude of the association between nursing staff time and type of coverage on quality of care. More rigorously designed studies are needed to test the effects of different cutoffs of care hours and different nursing coverage models on the quality of resident care in LTC facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an approach for automatic extraction of measured values from the astrophysical literature, using the Hubble constant for our pilot study. Our rules-based model – a classical technique in natural language processing – has successfully extracted 298 measurements of the Hubble constant, with uncertainties, from the 208 541 available arXiv astrophysics papers. We have also created an artificial neural network classifier to identify papers in arXiv which report novel measurements. From the analysis of our results we find that reporting measurements with uncertainties and the correct units is critical information when distinguishing novel measurements in free text. Our results correctly highlight the current tension for measurements of the Hubble constant and recover the 3.5σ discrepancy – demonstrating that the tool presented in this paper is useful for meta-studies of astrophysical measurements from a large number of publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various aspects of the bibliographical history of the late author William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew," and it mentions a lack of proof regarding the dates of the conception of the play or the first performance. Shakespeare's literary sources are addressed, along with the late writer George Gascoigne's play "Supposes," adaptations of Shakepeare's work, and interventions by editors throughout history.

The article offers information on the Bibliographical Society, which support its work to promote the study of and research in historical, analytical, and descriptive and textual bibliography. It informs on Society's use of manuscripts, the history of printing, publishing and illustration. It also informs on Society's subscriptions, overseas membership, and meetings.

The article discusses George Eld for Thomas Thorpe's version of poem "Shakespeare's Sonnets." It informs that Carl D. Atkins declares that the Quarto was set by two compositors, accounting for some of the variability in punctuation, is not supportable from the bibliographical facts. It also informs that although some of the Quarto's spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italicization may be Shakespeare's own, one cannot assume that it is so in any given instance.

The article reports that the manuscript presents a comparison of research paradigms and emphases during the first century of formalized mammalogy in North America. The advent of new technologies often allows the testing of more sophisticated hypotheses, which then leads to the next generation of research methods, hypotheses, and so on.

The article highlights the use of Early English Books Online (EEBO) among scholars of early modern English literature. Topics include the book collections that have been manipulated in various ways and does not reflect the original writings or meanings; and bibliographies that does not lead to the original book references.

This article provides an overview of national bibliographic databases that include data on research output within social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe. We focus on the comprehensiveness of the database content. Compared to the data from commercial databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, data from national bibliographic databases (e.g. Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the SSH (VABB-SHW) in Belgium, Current Research Information System in Norway (CRISTIN)) are more comprehensive and may, therefore, be better fit for bibliometric analyses. Acknowledging this, several countries within Europe maintain national bibliographic databases; detailed and comparative information about their content, however, has been limited. In autumn 2016, we launched a survey to acquire an overview of national bibliographic databases for SSH in Europe and Israel. Surveying 41 countries (responses received from 39 countries), we identified 21 national bibliographic databases for SSH. Further, we acquired a more detailed description of 13 databases, with a focus on their comprehensiveness. Findings indicate that even though the content of national bibliographic databases is diverse, it is possible to delineate a subset that is similar across databases. At the same time, it is apparent that differences in national bibliographic databases are often bound to differences in country-specific arrangements. Considering this, we highlight implications to bibliometric analyses based on data from national bibliographic databases and outline several aspects that may be taken into account in the development of existing national bibliographic databases for SSH or the design of new ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whereas previous scholarship on the early eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon compilation known as Ælfwine’s Prayerbook has focused on particular kinds of material it contains, this article takes account of the full range of texts and images in the manuscript in order to understand it as a whole. To do so, the essay establishes a new theoretical framework based on a critique of ecocriticism. Bringing contemporary African environmental thinking into dialogue with Martin Heidegger’s account of human dwelling and his concept of the fourfold permits a broader and more historically appropriate conception of that which is other than human. An analysis of the contents of Ælfwine’s Prayerbook in terms of this framework is followed by a conclusion setting out the wider potential application of the approach developed in this essay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides blurbs written for and by C. S. Lewis. added to the bibliography of author and philosopher C. S. Lewis.

The author focuses on translation of the surgical works of surgeon Giovanni da Vigo by writer Bartholomew Traheron published in 1543 and mentions development of post-medieval English medical vocabulary. Topics discussed include texts from Da Vigo which appeared in Latin with abridgement in 1517, correction to the English Short Title Catalogue for historical bibliography and history of lexicography.

The article revisits the belief by Sternean scholars that the annotation on "The Ballyspallan balad," a manuscript poem found in a collection of Irish literature, was penned by Laurence Sterne. Topics discussed include the extent to which Sterne's connection with his Irish heritage, the marginal note provided by donor Henry Bradshaw who called the collection as "my Sterne volume," and the suggestion that Bradshaw's "Sterne" was not as Laurence but as John Stearne, Bishop of Clogher.

The article investigates the printing method known as concurrent perfecting, as mentioned by bibliographers W. W. Greg and R. B. McKerrow in the 1920s, but was not raised by either author Loys le Roy in 1579 or English printer Joseph Moxon in 1683. Topics discussed include bibligrapher Philip Gaskell's dismissal of the practice in 1972, evidence that concurrent perfecting was practised in earlier books, and the recurrence of headlines and skeleton formes in the book "Pavier Quartos" of 1619.

Asteroseismology is witnessing a revolution, thanks to high-precise asteroseismic space data (MOST, COROT, Kepler, BRITE) and their large ground-based follow-up programs. Those instruments have provided an unprecedented large amount of information, which allows us to scrutinize its statistical properties in the quest for hidden relations among pulsational and/or physical observables. This approach might be particularly useful for stars whose pulsation content is difficult to interpret. This is the case of intermediate-mass classical pulsating stars (i.e. γ Dor, δ Scuti, hybrids) for which current theories do not properly predict the observed oscillation spectra. Here, we establish a first step in finding such hidden relations from data mining techniques for these stars. We searched for those hidden relations in a sample of δ Scuti and hybrid stars observed by COROT and Kepler (74 and 153, respectively). No significant correlations between pairs of observables were found. However, two statistically significant correlations emerged from multivariable correlations in the observed seismic data, which describe the total number of observed frequencies and the largest one, respectively. Moreover, three different sets of stars were found to cluster according to their frequency density distribution. Such sets are in apparent agreement with the asteroseismic properties commonly accepted for A-F pulsating stars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay examines a digital archive of literary works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman managed by the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women In American. The author argues that such archival collections can inform the study of authorship and its relationship with linear continuity of historical narratives. Particular attention is given to how Gilman uses non narrative elements such as numbers, letters, and pages to develop her authorship.

The article examines the work of early 20th-century librarian Charles Evans to compile the first comprehensive bibliography of printed American texts up to 1820. It discusses the eventual digitization of Evans' bibliography and how this process informs the current perception of American literary history.