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What are Special Collections?
Special collections refer to unique materials that provide both primary and secondary sources to people conducting original research. Our collections are special due to their scarcity or rarity, historical value, monetary value, or research value. Archives are collections of original records created throughout the lifespan of a person, family, organization, or business. These materials essentially provide evidence of the activities, events, functions, and/or responsibilities of the creator(s). Archives and special collections differ from libraries in the types of materials collected and the ways in which they are acquired, organized, described, and made publicly accessible. These differences prompt us to create specific policies and procedures to ensure that our collections can continue to be used for decades or even centuries to come. Special collections refer to unique materials that provide both primary and secondary sources to people conducting original research. Our collections are special due to their scarcity or rarity, historical value, monetary value, or research value. Archives are collections of original records created throughout the lifespan of a person, family, organization, or business. These materials essentially provide evidence of the activities, events, functions, and/or responsibilities of the creator(s). Archives and special collections differ from libraries in the types of materials collected and the ways in which they are acquired, organized, described, and made publicly accessible. These differences prompt us to create specific policies and procedures to ensure that our collections can continue to be used for decades or even centuries to come. Answered by: Kelly Larson
Do I have to come to campus to view the materials that I need?
The short answer is yes. Most of our special collections are only available in their physical formats. However, we do have some digital collections online, which are made available through the Louisiana Digital Library. We do participate in interlibrary loan services for select materials (typically microfilm) and we offer a variety of duplication options. Find out more about the Louisiana Digital Library: https://lib.lsu.edu/special#louisianadigitallibrary (https://lib.lsu.edu/special/CC/digital) View our duplication policy: https://lib.lsu.edu/special#specialcollectionsduplication (https://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/services/duplication) View our operating hours and maps: https://lib.lsu.edu/hoursandmaps (https://lib.lsu.edu/about/hours/sc) Answered by: Kelly Larson
How do I access an oral history interview?
The Louisiana Digital Library has selected interviews available. Visit LSU Libraries Special Collections: since all cataloged interviews are housed in Special Collections at Hill Memorial Library, you may visit the Reading Room where staff will provide access to a dedicated, self-guided public computer where you can access cataloged digital files during office hours. You may request a copy of the interview. See above for instructions. A copy of the interview may be jointly housed in another repository, so be sure to double-check that information in the catalog record. Answered by: Jennifer Cramer
Can I scan, photocopy, or photograph materials?
Yes, we allow researchers to make personal research copies of many of our materials using a photocopier, overhead scanner, or personal camera. A photocopier and book scanner are provided in the Reading Room. Manuscript materials may not be self-duplicated with the book scanner or the photocopier. We also do not permit portable scanners in the Reading Room. If you choose to take photographs, you will be provided with a Camera Use Policy form to complete and sign during your visit. We also offer duplication services in which a staff member can copy and send qualifying materials to you. Find out more about our LSU Special Collections duplication services: https://lib.lsu.edu/special#specialcollectionsduplication Answered by: Kelly Larson
Hi! Can students of LSU Online use ILL?
Hi Ben! Yes, LSU Online students can use interlibrary loan. Here are our Borrowing Policies (https://lib.lsu.edu/borrowingpolicies) for LSU Online from our website: "Request books and other physical items through your interlibrary loan account (https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flouis…) . Borrowing books from other libraries requires transit time. A minimum of 2 to 3 weeks is usually required, and you are responsible for the cost of shipping the material back to LSU Library. For this reason, we recommend using your local librarys interlibrary loan service for books and physical items, and using LSU Libraries Interlibrary Loan service to request journal articles and book chapters, which are delivered digitally." Jacob Fontenot LSU Libraries Interlibrary Loan Hi! Can students of LSU Online use ILL? From an LSU Online student Answered by: Jacob Fontenot
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Optimal harvest strategies with catch-dependent pricing for chub mackerel in South Korea
Chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) is a key commercial species in South Korea. However, the catch volume of chub mackerel has experienced significant fluctuations over the past few decades, with current trends indicating a decline. Despite regulatory measures such as closed seasons, resource depletion remains a concern, thereby highlighting the requirement for effective management strategies. Numerous previous studies have proposed optimal harvest strategies by assuming constant prices. However, as large catches of mackerel tend to have lower prices, it is crucial to develop optimal harvest strategies that account for this decrease. Thus, we aim to develop a monthly optimal harvest strategy for chub mackerel that considers catch-dependent pricing. We define logarithmic, rational, and irrational catch-dependent price functions and their corresponding objective functions. In addition, we develop an optimal control system based on a discrete age-structured model. We use Pontryagin’s maximum principle to prove the necessary conditions for the optimal harvest strategy under the three catch-dependent pricing functions and perform simulations using the forward–backward sweep method. We compare the optimal harvest strategies under the three catch-dependent pricing scenarios with those under a constant price. The optimal harvest strategies with the rational and irrational price functions are similar to those with a constant price, where the fishing effort increases immediately after spawning and then gradually decreases. In contrast, the optimal harvest strategy with the logarithmic price function involves a gradual increase in fishing effort from July immediately after the spawning period, with the maximum effort in June before the next spawning season. In addition, we compare the effects of monthly closed seasons across the four pricing scenarios. A closed season in July immediately after spawning provides the highest resource recovery efficiency. In contrast, a closed season in June provides the highest catch and profit efficiencies. As the cost per unit of effort increases, the fishing effort, catch, and profit decrease, while the biomass increases, and the profit decrease is smallest under the logarithmic price function. Our method can improve monthly optimal harvest strategies for other species using catch-dependent pricing functions as well as significantly contribute to enhancing fishers’ profit.
Technological Window, Technological Catch-up and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from China
The 4.0 technologies provide a technological window for regions to promote their innovation level and achieve leapfrogging. Using the panel data of China’s cities in the period from 2004 to 2021, this study finds the significantly positive impacts of technological window in technological innovation and technological catch-up and that these impacts are amplified by knowledge spillovers. Dividing regions into complex regions and simple regions based on their knowledge complexity, the roles of technological window and knowledge spillovers show heterogeneity. Complex regions are more sensitive to utilize technological window and knowledge spillovers to accelerate innovation and catch-up, while the technological window is less efficient for simple regions and these regions are difficult to absorb frontier knowledge spillovers.
Effectiveness of catch-up vaccination from 2009 to 2011 on incidence of hepatitis B in Guangzhou, China: a time series analysis
Background: The high prevalence of hepatitis B weighs heavily on public health in China. In 2009, a catch-up vaccination program for children aged 8–15y was implemented to curb hepatitis B, while the effectiveness of this intervention has not been investigated. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of catch-up vaccination on the incidence of hepatitis B in Guangzhou, China.Methods: We obtained individual data of all hepatitis B cases from 2005 to 2019 in Guangzhou from Guangzhou Center for Diseases Control and Prevention. Based on daily reported number of cases, we constructed generalized linear models to estimate the effectiveness of the intervention on the incidence of hepatitis B in each age group from 11 to 25 years. We further estimated the age-standardized effectiveness. Finally, we examined the effectiveness in different subgroups by sex and clinical types of hepatitis B.Results: A total of 58,204 hepatitis B cases among individuals aged 11–25y were reported in Guangzhou from 2005 to 2019, with an average annual age-standardized incidence of 117.30 cases per 100,000 individuals. The catch-up vaccination contributed to an age-standardized 20.02% (95% confidence interval: 15.97%, 23.87%) decrease in the hepatitis B incidence among individuals aged 11–25y and prevented an annual age-standardized average of 17.40 (95% empirical confidence interval [eCI]: 9.24, 23.78) cases per 100,000 individuals from hepatitis B during the study period. The intervention could better protect males (excess incidence rate [EIR]: -21.82 [95% eCI: -30.51, -10.15] cases per 100,000 individuals), and prevent chronic cases (EIR: -24.27 [95% eCI: -30.62, -16.09] cases per 100,000 individuals).Conclusions: The massive catch-up vaccination against hepatitis B among children plays an important role in alleviating the burden of hepatitis B.
Catch crops promote soil physical recovery after forage crop grazing
Soil compaction-induced physical degradation is a threat to sustainable crop production and environmental performance. While measures have been evaluated to alleviate compaction, the impact of catch crops establishment on soil physical recovery following winter grazing remains underexplored. Six New Zealand trials over different years investigated: (1) the effects of soil compaction induced by winter forage crop grazing on soil health, and (2) the effectiveness of catch crops establishment in facilitating soil recovery. Our findings revealed that winter grazing resulted in significant soil physical degradation in the top 10 cm, evidenced by significant reduction in total porosity, macroporosity, available water content, saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks), and soil quality S index. The degree of soil degradation was higher under increased grazing intensity (fodder beet grazing compared with kale grazing) and wetter conditions. For example, in Te Pirita-2019 with kale, changes in Ks were not significant. However, in Te Pirita-2019 with fodder beet, Ks decreased significantly from 1548 mm day⁻¹ to 88 mm day⁻¹, representing a 94.3 % reduction. Compared with fallow after grazing, growing catch crops promoted soil restoration. Conventional moldboard ploughing and the recently introduced single-pass ‘spader-drill’ outperformed direct drill for soil recovery. This study highlighted the importance of catch crop establishment using conventional tillage and spade drill to mitigate soil degradation resulting from winter forage crop grazing. The spader-drill, where soil conditions allow, is preferred because it allows earlier sowing of catch crops, leading to broader benefits such as increased crop biomass and reduced nitrogen leaching.
Catch a Fire : The Blaze and Bust of the Canadian Cannabis Industry
“Sharply observed, fiercely researched, starkly revealing, written with wit, verve, and insight, making room for the tragic ironies without ever taking its eyes off the comic ones, Catch a Fire left me shaking with laughter — when I wasn't shaking my head in dismay.” — MICHAEL CHABONThe untold story of the $131-billion Canadian cannabis blow out.Canopy Growth founder Bruce Linton didn't invent marijuana, but he figured out how to turn a Canadian start-up selling the stuff into a $22 billion international buzz. Catch a Fire goes behind the scenes of Justin Trudeau's legalization gambit and the stoned pioneering lawyers who helped make weed gummies more valuable than U.S. Steel. From the dope dealers of the 1960s to the never-before-told bribery accusations during Covid-19, cannabis historian Ben Kaplan speaks with the dealers, stealers, and renegade freaks who made and then lost money with the combined chutzpah of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried.This is the definitive history of a massive societal change — and a great boom and bust.
Bring SOEs Back for Technological Catch-Up : COMAC and China’s Commercial Aircraft Industry
In 2019, China launched the “New Whole-Nation System” as a response to U.S. technical sanctions. However, long before that proclamation, the country had endeavored to strengthen the role of state-owned enterprises in pursuing technological breakthroughs in strategic industries. Can China succeed in utilizing SOEs for technological breakthroughs? Academic responses to the policy have bifurcated into skeptics and supporters. To help resolve the divergence, this article draws from the technological paradigm and focuses on the “technological cycle time” of particular industrial sectors. We argue that for “long-cycled technological sectors,” relying on SOEs to promote technological upgrading is more feasible. China’s recent technological catch-up in the commercial aircraft industry also demonstrates how the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) has accumulated technological know-how by successfully acquiring patient capital, nurturing technical talents, and establishing long-term industrial networks. China’s unique multiple ownership system can thus contribute to its transformation into a comprehensive technological giant.
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