Born to refugees, and raised in foster homes straight out of Dickens, Tony Stankus nonetheless managed to graduate Summa Cum Laude from the College of the Holy Cross. He served as his alma mater's Science Librarian for 34 years, before accepting a full Professorship at the University of Arkansas
ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apneas are interruptions of sleep owing to a momentary choking off of ... more ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apneas are interruptions of sleep owing to a momentary choking off of the body’s air supply. These may occur hundreds of times during a night’s sleep, but are rarely consciously noticed by the patient. Their cumulative effects on health in the daytime can be disastrous in terms of accidents and worsening of chronic conditions. Up until the 1980s, the only cure was a permanent surgical opening in the trachea. This was superseded by the work of Australian pulmonologist, Colin Sullivan, who invented and developed a medical technology called Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) that would maintain respiration by inflating the airways so as to keep them open during sleep. Apnea continues to cause health problems and CPAP devices continue to provide solutions that help millions in the United States and tens of millions worldwide.
For Doctor of Nursing Practice & Advanced Practice Students Guide to requesting items in Inte... more For Doctor of Nursing Practice & Advanced Practice Students Guide to requesting items in Interlibrary Loan.
ABSTRACT The journal assortment proposed by the Committee of Professional Training (American Chem... more ABSTRACT The journal assortment proposed by the Committee of Professional Training (American Chemical Society) is very strong in prestige and subspecialty titles from around the world. Yet, ironically for a society that strongly encourages undergraduate research and enforces an equitable distribution of subjects in curriculum, the list misses titles favorable to small college research and is imbalanced in specialities and formats. A counterproposal correcting these perceived failings is presented at the cost of more money, a little internationalism, and the exclusion of specialties rarely encountered at liberal arts colleges.
Reference and User Services Quarterly, Mar 22, 2004
Obesity has made headline news throughout 2003 and there are no signs that interest in this topic... more Obesity has made headline news throughout 2003 and there are no signs that interest in this topic will abate any time soon. A quick search on the index term "obesity" in the Factiva database on November 17, 2003 retrieved 426 hits when limiting results to the past three months. The severity of the growing problem of obesity has been highlighted by recent pronouncements from the nation's leading health authorities. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control, recently named obesity "the number-one health problem facing the [United States.]" (1) Within days of this announcement, Richard H. Carmona, the U.S. Surgeon General, requested help from pediatricians to curb the marked rise of childhood obesity and, at the same time, introduced "Shaping America's Youth," a new anti-obesity Web site for physicians, teachers, parents, and others looking for strategies to combat childhood obesity. (2) These two developments may have triggered recently proposed federal legislation that, if passed, would require U.S. restaurant chains to label each menu item with nutritional content information. (3) How many Americans need to lose thirty or more pounds? It has been estimated that 31 percent of Americans are obese (when obesity is defined as weighing thirty or more pounds over one's ideal weight), and that this figure will escalate to 40 percent by 2010. (4) However, even more alarming is the dramatic increase in the number of Americans who are very obese, defined as being more than one hundred pounds overweight. This statistic increased four-fold between 1986 and 2000, with the number of clinically obese Americans now approaching one in five adults. (5) Even our pets are pudgy. The National Academy of Sciences recently reported that one-fourth of cats and dogs in the Western world are overweight. (6) The impetus for this column came fifteen months ago when Tony Stankus informed me that he was launching a weight-loss program with the goal of losing 150 pounds. Tony's transformation has been truly amazing. He lost 150 pounds in only fifteen months and has managed to keep these pounds off. Readers can view the dramatic results by looking at these "before" and "after" photographs posted at the following URL: www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/transformedtony.html. The only thing weighty now about Tony is his vita. He is one of the country's preeminent science librarians, having served as science librarian at the College of the Holy Cross for three decades. In addition to serving as the previous editor of "The Alert Collector" column, he has authored or coauthored ten books and more than one hundred articles. He is best known for his scholarship relating to serials publishing, publishing trends in the sciences, liaison librarianship, and other topics relating to collection development. He is a frequent contributor to Science and Technology Libraries and serves as the editor of the "Making Sense of Serials" column in Technicalities.--Editor ********** There have been few, if any, articles in our own literature dealing with the provision of reliable material to overweight library users seeking to change their situation. Why might this be so? It cannot be because the reading public is uninterested in weight loss. There have been 2,036 new weight-loss books published in English in the last ten years, according to WorldCat. Over the last two years, People magazine alone has featured four cover stories on weight loss: TV's Today Show weatherman Al Roker (November 18, 2002); 1980s pop-star Carnie Wilson (January 15, 2001); TV interviewer and sometime talk-show host Bryant Gumbel (July 28, 2003); and, most inspirationally, the January 13, 2003, cover, which featured eight ordinary people who had each lost half their body weight in excess fat, for a collective total of 1,027 pounds, with genuinely insightful coverage inside. It cannot be because Americans are uninterested in obesity's association with many of the illnesses to which they, or members of their family, may one day be vulnerable. …
Information Resources for Students on Breast Cancer Each has Sections & Chapters You Can Down... more Information Resources for Students on Breast Cancer Each has Sections & Chapters You Can Download
... Other discipline areas covered (check boxes applicable): Agriculture Anatomy and Physiology A... more ... Other discipline areas covered (check boxes applicable): Agriculture Anatomy and Physiology Animal Science and Management Biochemistry Aquaculture and Management Bioinformatics Crop & Grassland Science & Management Cellular and Molecular Biology ...
Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Nov 11, 2008
ABSTRACT Virtually all major food and beverage processing companies employ professional taste-tes... more ABSTRACT Virtually all major food and beverage processing companies employ professional taste-testing panels or conduct consumer preference surveys for appearance, aroma, and texture as well as taste. The literature and procedures underlying this sensory evaluation of foods have a strong basis in the specialty within experimental psychology called psychophysics. Founded in the late 1800s in Germany, psychophysics continues to flourish today in university departments of psychology and teaching hospital departments of neurology and psychiatry. While greatly aided by advances in chemical detection and medical imaging, sensory evaluation is actually still based mostly on eliciting human subject responses to physical and chemical sensations from novel food and beverage products, or from new formulations of familiar products, and then statistically analyzing the respondent's reactions as entered on questionnaires. This article reviews some of the terminology and concepts of psychophysics as applied to the contemporary sensory evaluation of commercially important foods and beverages, and lists selected classic or current research readings related to several enduring questions of test and questionnaire reliability in these intertwined fields.
ABSTRACT Any notion of cancelling very expensive American and European science journals in order ... more ABSTRACT Any notion of cancelling very expensive American and European science journals in order to subscribe to Japanese titles is shown to be questionable. Analysis of the published output of several firms and universities, sampling from dozens of journals, and examination of thousands of articles and citations suggest that with a few exceptions, the Japanese themselves place primary emphasis on appearing in these same, very expensive, highly cited American and European titles. While the Japanese do have journals well worth acquiring, their acquisition must be funded by other means.
Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Oct 1, 2008
Psychologists, social workers, and school counselors are increasingly adding neurofeedback (NFT),... more Psychologists, social workers, and school counselors are increasingly adding neurofeedback (NFT), a controversial alternative or complementary therapy to their treatment plans for patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. NFT involves training the patient in self-regulation of brain wave patterns, employing a standard diagnostic tool, the EEG, in an interactive operant conditioning mode not often used by neurologists or psychiatrists. Some
ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apneas are interruptions of sleep owing to a momentary choking off of ... more ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apneas are interruptions of sleep owing to a momentary choking off of the body’s air supply. These may occur hundreds of times during a night’s sleep, but are rarely consciously noticed by the patient. Their cumulative effects on health in the daytime can be disastrous in terms of accidents and worsening of chronic conditions. Up until the 1980s, the only cure was a permanent surgical opening in the trachea. This was superseded by the work of Australian pulmonologist, Colin Sullivan, who invented and developed a medical technology called Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) that would maintain respiration by inflating the airways so as to keep them open during sleep. Apnea continues to cause health problems and CPAP devices continue to provide solutions that help millions in the United States and tens of millions worldwide.
For Doctor of Nursing Practice & Advanced Practice Students Guide to requesting items in Inte... more For Doctor of Nursing Practice & Advanced Practice Students Guide to requesting items in Interlibrary Loan.
ABSTRACT The journal assortment proposed by the Committee of Professional Training (American Chem... more ABSTRACT The journal assortment proposed by the Committee of Professional Training (American Chemical Society) is very strong in prestige and subspecialty titles from around the world. Yet, ironically for a society that strongly encourages undergraduate research and enforces an equitable distribution of subjects in curriculum, the list misses titles favorable to small college research and is imbalanced in specialities and formats. A counterproposal correcting these perceived failings is presented at the cost of more money, a little internationalism, and the exclusion of specialties rarely encountered at liberal arts colleges.
Reference and User Services Quarterly, Mar 22, 2004
Obesity has made headline news throughout 2003 and there are no signs that interest in this topic... more Obesity has made headline news throughout 2003 and there are no signs that interest in this topic will abate any time soon. A quick search on the index term "obesity" in the Factiva database on November 17, 2003 retrieved 426 hits when limiting results to the past three months. The severity of the growing problem of obesity has been highlighted by recent pronouncements from the nation's leading health authorities. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control, recently named obesity "the number-one health problem facing the [United States.]" (1) Within days of this announcement, Richard H. Carmona, the U.S. Surgeon General, requested help from pediatricians to curb the marked rise of childhood obesity and, at the same time, introduced "Shaping America's Youth," a new anti-obesity Web site for physicians, teachers, parents, and others looking for strategies to combat childhood obesity. (2) These two developments may have triggered recently proposed federal legislation that, if passed, would require U.S. restaurant chains to label each menu item with nutritional content information. (3) How many Americans need to lose thirty or more pounds? It has been estimated that 31 percent of Americans are obese (when obesity is defined as weighing thirty or more pounds over one's ideal weight), and that this figure will escalate to 40 percent by 2010. (4) However, even more alarming is the dramatic increase in the number of Americans who are very obese, defined as being more than one hundred pounds overweight. This statistic increased four-fold between 1986 and 2000, with the number of clinically obese Americans now approaching one in five adults. (5) Even our pets are pudgy. The National Academy of Sciences recently reported that one-fourth of cats and dogs in the Western world are overweight. (6) The impetus for this column came fifteen months ago when Tony Stankus informed me that he was launching a weight-loss program with the goal of losing 150 pounds. Tony's transformation has been truly amazing. He lost 150 pounds in only fifteen months and has managed to keep these pounds off. Readers can view the dramatic results by looking at these "before" and "after" photographs posted at the following URL: www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/transformedtony.html. The only thing weighty now about Tony is his vita. He is one of the country's preeminent science librarians, having served as science librarian at the College of the Holy Cross for three decades. In addition to serving as the previous editor of "The Alert Collector" column, he has authored or coauthored ten books and more than one hundred articles. He is best known for his scholarship relating to serials publishing, publishing trends in the sciences, liaison librarianship, and other topics relating to collection development. He is a frequent contributor to Science and Technology Libraries and serves as the editor of the "Making Sense of Serials" column in Technicalities.--Editor ********** There have been few, if any, articles in our own literature dealing with the provision of reliable material to overweight library users seeking to change their situation. Why might this be so? It cannot be because the reading public is uninterested in weight loss. There have been 2,036 new weight-loss books published in English in the last ten years, according to WorldCat. Over the last two years, People magazine alone has featured four cover stories on weight loss: TV's Today Show weatherman Al Roker (November 18, 2002); 1980s pop-star Carnie Wilson (January 15, 2001); TV interviewer and sometime talk-show host Bryant Gumbel (July 28, 2003); and, most inspirationally, the January 13, 2003, cover, which featured eight ordinary people who had each lost half their body weight in excess fat, for a collective total of 1,027 pounds, with genuinely insightful coverage inside. It cannot be because Americans are uninterested in obesity's association with many of the illnesses to which they, or members of their family, may one day be vulnerable. …
Information Resources for Students on Breast Cancer Each has Sections & Chapters You Can Down... more Information Resources for Students on Breast Cancer Each has Sections & Chapters You Can Download
... Other discipline areas covered (check boxes applicable): Agriculture Anatomy and Physiology A... more ... Other discipline areas covered (check boxes applicable): Agriculture Anatomy and Physiology Animal Science and Management Biochemistry Aquaculture and Management Bioinformatics Crop & Grassland Science & Management Cellular and Molecular Biology ...
Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Nov 11, 2008
ABSTRACT Virtually all major food and beverage processing companies employ professional taste-tes... more ABSTRACT Virtually all major food and beverage processing companies employ professional taste-testing panels or conduct consumer preference surveys for appearance, aroma, and texture as well as taste. The literature and procedures underlying this sensory evaluation of foods have a strong basis in the specialty within experimental psychology called psychophysics. Founded in the late 1800s in Germany, psychophysics continues to flourish today in university departments of psychology and teaching hospital departments of neurology and psychiatry. While greatly aided by advances in chemical detection and medical imaging, sensory evaluation is actually still based mostly on eliciting human subject responses to physical and chemical sensations from novel food and beverage products, or from new formulations of familiar products, and then statistically analyzing the respondent's reactions as entered on questionnaires. This article reviews some of the terminology and concepts of psychophysics as applied to the contemporary sensory evaluation of commercially important foods and beverages, and lists selected classic or current research readings related to several enduring questions of test and questionnaire reliability in these intertwined fields.
ABSTRACT Any notion of cancelling very expensive American and European science journals in order ... more ABSTRACT Any notion of cancelling very expensive American and European science journals in order to subscribe to Japanese titles is shown to be questionable. Analysis of the published output of several firms and universities, sampling from dozens of journals, and examination of thousands of articles and citations suggest that with a few exceptions, the Japanese themselves place primary emphasis on appearing in these same, very expensive, highly cited American and European titles. While the Japanese do have journals well worth acquiring, their acquisition must be funded by other means.
Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Oct 1, 2008
Psychologists, social workers, and school counselors are increasingly adding neurofeedback (NFT),... more Psychologists, social workers, and school counselors are increasingly adding neurofeedback (NFT), a controversial alternative or complementary therapy to their treatment plans for patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. NFT involves training the patient in self-regulation of brain wave patterns, employing a standard diagnostic tool, the EEG, in an interactive operant conditioning mode not often used by neurologists or psychiatrists. Some
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