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Does the library offer a book delivery service?
Yes, LSU Library offers book deliveries to faculty and staff only . We will deliver LSU Library books and interlibrary loan books to your departmental mailbox. Reserve and Government Document materials will not be included. To use the service, request the item through your interlibrary loan account. On the request form under "Delivery Options" select "Deliver to Departmental Mailbox." The request will arrive 1-2 business days from the date we receive the item. Heres how to get your materials delivered:
- You will need an ILLiad account to make the request.
- Once logged in, you will need to select "Deliver to Departmental Mailbox" for your Delivery Method. Books will be delivered to the departmental mailbox of the requestors within 1-2 business days. A second attempt will be made if the delivery is not successful the first time, but if the department office is inaccessible again, patrons will receive an e-mail stating the problem and asking them to come pick up their materials.
- The materials will be placed on hold and kept at the checkout desk for 7 days. If they are not picked up in this time frame, they will be returned to the collection. Be aware of the following:
- Users are responsible for returning materials back to the library.
- Materials will be checked out to the patrons library account prior to being delivered.
- The user is responsible for the items requested through this service.
- Any LSU Library books not returned or renewed within 40 days of the due date will be considered lost and the usual penalties will apply.
- A limit of eight physical material format items can be requested per day. LSU Libraries | Book Delivery Answered by: Access Services Staff
Whats the difference between a patent and trademark?
A patent (https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics) is a property right granted by the U.S. Government to an inventor to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted. A trademark (https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics) can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies your goods or services. Its how customers recognize you in the marketplace and distinguish you from your competitors. Answered by: Kendall Caple
Can you help me file a patent?
LSU Libraries has a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), representative who can answer general questions about the patent and trademark process, but they are not an attorney and cannot provide legal advice or help file the actual patent. In addition to answering general questions, our PTRC representative can:
- Provide free brochures and forms on patents and trademarks via email or in person.
- Offer free one-on-one consultations by appointment (https://lsu.libcal.com/appointments/caple) .
- Instruct patrons in the use of search tools such as PatFT (Patent Full-Text) and TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System)
- Direct patrons to legal assistance and resources. For free assistance in filing a patent, consider contacting the USPTOs Pro Se Assistance Center (https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/using-legal-services/pro-se-assist…) . Pro se personnel can meet with applicants to answer patent-related questions and assist in filing their applications via video conference or telephone. For an appointment: Please call 1-866-767-3848 or email ProSeAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov (http://www.ProSeAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov/) or click the appointment link HERE (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pro-se-appointments-tickets-99211447109) . Answered by: Kendall Caple
How do I register a patent, trademark, or copyright?
Trademarks, patents (https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-patent-copyright#) , and copyrights (https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-patent-copyright#) are different types of intellectual property (https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-patent-copyright#) . The USPTO (https://www.uspto.gov/) grants patents and registers trademarks. The U.S. Copyright Office (https://www.copyright.gov/) at the Library of Congress registers copyrights. Use the IP Identifier (https://ipidentifier.uspto.gov/) to learn what kind of intellectual property you have. Once you identify your IP needs, click the following links below for further information on how to register your properties: Patent Process Overview (https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/patent-process-overview) Trademark Process Overview (https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-process) Copyright Registration Tutorials (https://www.copyright.gov/eco/tutorials.html) Answered by: Kendall Caple
Does the library loan AV equipment, PC's, laptops, etc.?
The LSU Student Technology Fee funds the purchase of mobile computing devices available for checkout at the checkout desk in room 241 of LSU Library. These include laptops, webcams, PC microphones, computer mice, calculators, phone chargers, HDMI cables, dry erase markers and erasers, umbrellas, and more. Gear 2 Geaux is solely for student use because it is funded by student fees. Music Resources also houses a Creator Space outfitted with video and audio recording equipment. See the links below for more information. LSU Libraries | Gear 2 Geaux
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MEDLINE
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, Medline contains citations and abstracts to international biomedical literature from over 3700 journals on topics including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. OldMedline from the NLM Gateway includes the years 1958 - 1965. The ISI/Web of Knowledge Interface contains info from 1950 to the present.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains information on over 6,000 journals and book series that fall within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography. This information has been gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in the listings. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of scope, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, links to online content, peer review, and submission guidelines.
Old Testament Abstracts
Old Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Abstracts from over 450 journals are included. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
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Catch and Kill
In Hollywood, deadly secrets lurk just behind the scenes. Scarlett Norris is Hollywood's darling, an award-winning actress on her way to the top. To her younger sister, Angie, she is all that and more—beautiful, loving, fearless, and a guiding light—things Angie believes she herself could never be. When Scarlett suddenly commits suicide, Angie is devastated, but something keeps nagging at her. Scarlett would never do such a thing. Would she? In a move that stuns her family, timid, anxious Angie summons the courage to leave her sheltered New York life to follow Scarlett's path to Hollywood. She gains access to the gilded world of film stars, movie moguls, and powerful producers, and discovers a new sense of self. She also discovers that beneath Hollywood's dazzle and glamour lie some dark and ugly truths. Angie slowly starts piecing together what really happened to Scarlett. Can she expose the corruption of Hollywood and live to tell? Suspense-filled and gripping from beginning to end, Catch and Kill is about staring down monsters—even those that have the power to destroy you.'Heartbreaking search for truth and justice.'- Advanced ReviewFans of The Assistant and Casablanca will love this thrilling book.
Catch the Sun
A brand new YA/crossover standalone survivor romance from Jennifer Hartmann, the fan-favorite author of Still Beating, Lotus, and June First, packed with the same light-in-the-dark hope for healing in the face of tragedy. Perfect for fans of If He Had Been With Me, A Thousand Boy Kisses, and Binding 13.'Kissing you feels like catching the sun…'At seven years old, Ella Sunbury and Max Manning were inseparable—until life scattered them in different directions, forcing Ella to abruptly leave town. A decade later, she returns for their senior year of high school, moving in across the street from her childhood best friend.But she's not the same girl Max once knew.She now lives in the shadow of her brother: a notorious felon on death row, convicted of a crime that shook the nation. Reeling from the fallout and shunned by her peers, all Ella wants is to fade into the background.Max has little room for distractions, juggling responsibilities for a disabled father and a distant twin brother. But Ella's return reignites something within him. He wants to be close to her again, to understand her…and to turn their friendship into more.But as their relationship blossoms, new tragedy strikes, and darkness threatens to tip their delicate balance. In order to find the light, they'll have to navigate the shadows.And to catch the sun…they must first endure the flames.
Culturally Sustaining Catch-Up? How English Language Arts Teachers 'Compensate' with Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy after the State Exam
What does it mean to teach in a school that claims commitment to both culturally sustaining pedagogy and high-stakes test achievement? This study explores how ELA teachers perceive and navigate that tension over a school year. Specifically, it examines how teachers describe their instruction before and after the April state exam. Analysis of interviews and artifacts from nine teachers indicated that, after the exam, teachers consciously compensated for a lack of culturally sustaining pedagogy earlier in the year. Teachers described compensating post-test through criticality, plurality, and democracy--attempting a form of culturally sustaining catch-up. They also more frequently mentioned joy.
Collaboratively assessing the impact of a restrictor rope on the catch derived from a bottom trawl survey.
Fishery-independent surveys are vital for marine resource management, offering unbiased assessments of species abundance. Consistent trawl gear performance, however, is challenging across diverse geographic ranges or with multiple vessels. A trawl modification that has repeatedly been shown to improve consistency across a large depth range is the use of a restrictor rope to limit the width of trawl gear. While its stabilizing impact on gear performance is established, its effect on catch rates is less understood. We assessed the utility of this gear component in a collaborative experiment conducted in southern New England, USA, focusing on the impact of a restrictor rope on catches of the region's commercially important species in a common trawl survey net. Drawing input from regional stakeholders, this experiment partnered with a commercial fishing vessel to conduct alternate tows, with and without a restrictor rope attached to the trawl doors. Results suggest few or subtle impacts of the restrictor rope treatment on total catches or catch-at-length for the examined species. This research offers valuable insights for standardizing gear performance using restrictor ropes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The Catch
A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer's impeccably curated life overboard in the next romantic comedy from international bestselling author Amy Lea.In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded bed-and-breakfast owner and fisherman, Evan Whaler—who single-handedly disproves the theory that Canadians are “nice.”After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his fiancée by his welcoming yet quirky family, who are embroiled in a long-standing feud over the B&B. In a bold attempt to mend family fences, Mel agrees to fake their engagement for one week in exchange for Evan's help with her social media content.Amid long hikes and campfire chats, reeling in their budding feelings for each other proves more difficult by the day. But is Mel willing to sacrifice her picture-perfect life in the city for a chance at a true, unfiltered love in the wild?
Orthogonally Functionalizable Redox-Responsive Polymer Brushes: Catch and Release Platform for Proteins and Cells
Polymer brushes engineered to “specifically capture” and “release on demand” analytes such as dyes, proteins, and cells find biomedical applications ranging from protein immobilization to cell death. Utilizing a disulfide-linker-containing monomer as a building block enables the fabrication of a redox-responsive polymer brush platform with the “catch and release” attribute. Herein, thiol-reactive redox-responsive polymer brushes are fabricated using a pyridyl disulfide-based monomer, and their postpolymerization functionalization is demonstrated via thiol–disulfide exchange reaction with thiol-containing dyes, (bio)­molecules, and cell adhesive ligands. After establishing reversible conjugation using a fluorescent dye and other model compounds, copolymer brushes postmodified with thiol-containing mannose demonstrated selective immobilization of concanavalin A in the presence of peanut agglutinin. In addition, a thiolated RGD peptide was conjugated to the side chain of polymer brushes to facilitate cell adhesion, followed by on-demand harvesting. To enable localized drug delivery to surface-adhered cells, orthogonal chain end and side chain functionalization using the thiol-Michael addition and thiol–disulfide exchange reaction, respectively, was used to conjugate the cell adhesive RGD peptide and the anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX). On-demand DOX release and internalization by surface-bound cancer cells were demonstrated via cleavage of disulfide linkages in the presence of a reducing agent. This approach may provide an attractive methodology to deliver therapeutic agents precisely to specific cells.
Critic-V: VLM Critics Help Catch VLM Errors in Multimodal Reasoning
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable advancements in multimodal reasoning tasks. However, they still often generate inaccurate or irrelevant responses due to issues like hallucinated image understandings or unrefined reasoning paths. To address these challenges, we introduce Critic-V, a novel framework inspired by the Actor-Critic paradigm to boost the reasoning capability of VLMs. This framework decouples the reasoning process and critic process by integrating two independent components: the Reasoner, which generates reasoning paths based on visual and textual inputs, and the Critic, which provides constructive critique to refine these paths. In this approach, the Reasoner generates reasoning responses according to text prompts, which can evolve iteratively as a policy based on feedback from the Critic. This interaction process was theoretically driven by a reinforcement learning framework where the Critic offers natural language critiques instead of scalar rewards, enabling more nuanced feedback to boost the Reasoner’s capability on complex reasoning tasks. The Critic model is trained using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), leveraging a preference dataset of critiques ranked by Rule-based Reward (RBR) to enhance its critic capabilities. Evaluation results show that the Critic-V framework significantly outperforms existing methods, including GPT-4V, on 5 out of 8 benchmarks, especially regarding reasoning accuracy and efficiency. Combining a dynamic text-based policy for the Reasoner and constructive feedback from the preference-optimized Critic enables a more reliable and context-sensitive multimodal reasoning process. Our approach provides a promising solution to enhance the reliability of VLMs, improving their performance in real-world reasoning-heavy multimodal applications such as autonomous driving and embodied intelligence. Our data and code are released at https://github.com/kyrieLei/Critic-V.
A Minimum Error Increment ELM Algorithm Based on Catch Fish Optimization Algorithm for Power Load Forecasting
Power load forecasting constitutes a pivotal component within the framework of power system planning and scheduling. In conventional ELM models employed for power load forecasting, the generation of input weight matrices and bias vectors is often overlooked. This oversight can lead to pathological characteristics in the overall model, thereby introducing uncertainty with respect to the number of hidden layers. This, in turn, poses challenges to the system with regard to computational cost and forecasting performance. In this paper, we propose a minimum error increment ELM algorithm based on the fishing optimization algorithm (CFOA-MEI-ELM) to address these issues. Through experimental verification, we assess the efficacy of this novel algorithm.
Catch Causal Signals from Edges for Label Imbalance in Graph Classification
Despite significant advancements in causal research on graphs and its application to cracking label imbalance, the role of edge features in detecting the causal effects within graphs has been largely overlooked, leaving existing methods with untapped potential for further performance gains. In this paper, we enhance the causal attention mechanism through effectively leveraging edge information to disentangle the causal subgraph from the original graph, as well as further utilizing edge features to reshape graph representations. Capturing more comprehensive causal signals, our design leads to improved performance on graph classification tasks with label imbalance issues. We evaluate our approach on real-word datasets PTC, Tox21, and ogbg-molhiv, observing improvements over baselines. Overall, we highlight the importance of edge features in graph causal detection and provide a promising direction for addressing label imbalance challenges in graph-level tasks. The preprint version is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01707. The model implementation details and the codes are available on https://github.com/fengrui-z/ECAL.
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