Current Status of East Asian Collections in American Libraries

This study of the East Asian collections in American libraries in 1975 provides new data on the current status of resources, growth rate, geographical distribution, acquisitions, cataloging, personnel, fiscal support, unit capabilities and cost, use patterns, and services. The analysis is based on information from ninety-three libraries, including twenty-two not previously reported.Of the collections in this survey, eighty-nine are located in the United States, three in Canada, and one in Mexico. About one-half of them were established before, the other half since, 1960 (Table 1). Sixty-six of the collections are in university and college libraries, six in federal libraries, seven in public libraries, and fourteen in museum and special libraries. The size of the collections varies from a few thousand to as many as over a million volumes—with 11 having over 200,000 volumes; 5 between 100,000 and 200,000 volumes; 43 between 10,000 and 100,000 volumes; and 34 under 10,000 volumes. The incorporation of East Asian materials in branches of public libraries is a new trend, primarily for providing materials in vernacular languages to minority groups in the local community.

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Book Review: Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America: From Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero

Reference & User Services Quarterly ◽

10.5860/rusq.56n3.218a ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 218

Author(s):

Mike Toski

Keyword(s):

Public Libraries ◽

Grand Canyon ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Recent Past ◽

Historic Sites ◽

Ground Zero ◽

National Monument ◽

American Academic

This new work explores 260 celebrated locations of historical import in the United States. A unique publication, the only similar undertaking in the recent past is Thomas W. Paradis’s The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Landmarks (Lorenz 2011). This older Lorenz edition is not widely held in American academic or public libraries, focuses more on the visual, and also highlights seemingly less-compelling sites such as state capitol buildings, marketplaces, and warehouses. Newton-Matza’s book, on the other hand, hones in on places more widely acknowledged as historically significant, such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Grand Canyon. Other locations included here may be closely associated with major battles or well-known figures of the American past—US presidents, writers, and inventors, for example. The latter type of entry tends to be largely biographical (e.g., the Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia) while others focus chiefly on whatever significant event took place there, such as Woodstock or Ground Zero.

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Consigned to hedge: south-east Asia and America's ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ strategy

International Affairs ◽

10.1093/ia/iiz227 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 96 (1) ◽

pp. 131-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

See Seng Tan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

East Asian ◽

The United States ◽

External Pressure ◽

The Other ◽

Great Power ◽

South East Asia ◽

Asian Countries ◽

The Us ◽

The Face

Abstract This article assesses how south-east Asian countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have responded to the ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) strategies promoted by the United States and the other countries in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the ‘Quad’: US, Japan, Australia and India). Their nuanced ripostes imply a persistent commitment to hedging and shifting limited alignments in the face of growing great rivalry and the lack of a clear FOIP vision among Quad members. In the face of external pressure to take sides, the ASEAN states are likely to keep hedging through working selectively with China and the United States. Given the United States' apparent preference to balance China and Trump's disregard for multilateralism, ASEAN's ability to maintain its centrality in the evolving regional architecture is in doubt—despite the Quad countries' (belated) accommodation of ASEAN in their FOIP strategies. However, the success of the US strategy depends on Washington's ability to build and sustain the requisite coalition to balance Beijing. ASEAN has undertaken efforts to enhance bilateral security collaboration with China and the United States respectively. In doing so, ASEAN is arguably seeking to informally redefine its centrality in an era of Great Power discord and its ramifications for multilateralism.

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ECONOMIC GROWTH OF SELECTED EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES: A MACROECONOMIC VIEW OF THEIR DEPENDENCE ON THE US AND EUROPE

The Singapore Economic Review ◽

10.1142/s0217590815500666 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 61 (05) ◽

pp. 1550066

Author(s):

EU CHYE TAN ◽

CHOR FOON TANG

Keyword(s):

East Asian ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Asian Countries ◽

Modeling Framework ◽

Long Run ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

Short Run ◽

The One

This paper aims to ascertain whether direct macroeconomic linkages exist between some East Asian (EA) countries on the one hand and the United States (US) and Europe on the other, based upon quarterly real gross domestic product (GDP) series spanning from the early 1990s. Long-run and short-run lead-lag relations are explored within a trivariate modeling framework. Contrary to popular belief, the empirical evidence suggests generally either very nominal or no direct links at all between these EA countries and the US in terms of GDP. Direct links with Europe are completely ruled out. All these would allude to a very limited susceptibility of these EA economies to shocks in the US and Europe, barring a global economic crisis of catastrophic proportions. The growing belief that if China sneezes, the world catches the flu is also not borne out by the empirical results.

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Current Status of Research and Development of Superconducting Microwave Devices in the United States, Europe and the East-Asian Countries

The Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan ◽

10.1541/ieejjournal.130.141 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 130 (3) ◽

pp. 141-145

Author(s):

Shigetoshi OHSHIMA

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Research And Development ◽

East Asian ◽

The United States ◽

Current Status ◽

Microwave Devices ◽

Asian Countries

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Cross-situational Consistency of Female Politicians’ Language Use

RUDN Journal of Language Studies Semiotics and Semantics ◽

10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-4-1021-1036 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 1021-1036

Author(s):

Denis S. Mukhortov ◽

Yana S. Malyavina

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Role Models ◽

Minority Groups ◽

The United States ◽

Current Status ◽

Political Discourses ◽

Secretary Of State ◽

Female Politicians ◽

Male Discourse ◽

Rhetorical Questions

This article seeks to study political discourses of American female politicians, specifically Madeleine Albright, the first female United States Secretary of State in the history of the United States of America, from 1997 to 2001, Condoleezza Rice, the 66th United States Secretary of State, and Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State. Different in age, ethnicity, political views, educational and social backgrounds, they reveal that in order to succeed in the political arena, women are bound to hide their female personality. Examples in question are Madeline Albright and Condoleezza Rice, recurrent users of such male discursive features as rhetorical questions, logical order of arguments, conceptual metaphors of war, sports, and hunting. Gender-marked female discourse is characterized by hesitation, use of standard speech, cognitive, social words, and hedges. Research shows that Hilary Clinton is a typical example of the female-marked political discourse. This has enabled her to pursue, among others, a feminist agenda, which has proved an efficient communicative tactic. Drawing on the socialization specifics of Albright, Rice, and Clinton, the paper explains why Albright and Rice tend to have a male-marked discourse and Clinton a female-marked discourse, as the first female Secretary of State, Albright simply had no female role models, with only male predecessors before her. She seeks to make her speech as neutral as possible, just at times exploiting female discursive patterns. Condoleezza Rice, Albright’s successor, uses characteristically male discourse the most. It can be attributable to the fact that she belongs to two ‘minority’ groups: women and African Americans. Sounding femalish might have weakened her chances to stay the strong Secretary of State that the geopolitical situation would demand. It is noteworthy that female politicians can, or have to, switch between male-marked and female-marked discourses in order to achieve certain goals and preserve their current status.

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Characterization of Fungal Species Associated with Ascochyta Blight of Dry Pea in Montana and North America and Development of a Differential Medium for Their Detection

Plant Health Progress ◽

10.1094/php-05-20-0037-rs ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 262-271

Author(s):

Ayodeji Owati ◽

Bright Agindotan ◽

Mary Burrows

Keyword(s):

Growth Rate ◽

North America ◽

Mycelial Growth ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Ascochyta Blight ◽

The United States ◽

Fungal Species ◽

The Other ◽

Current Status ◽

P Value

Montana leads the production of dry pea in the United States. About 530,000 acres were planted to pea in 2019, accounting for 48% of the total national production ( USDA-NASS 2019 ). A predominant foliar disease of dry pea in Montana is Ascochyta blight, which is caused by multiple fungal pathogens including Didymella pisi, Peyronellaea pinodes, and Peyronellaea pinodella. D. pisi is the predominant pathogen causing Ascochyta blight of dry pea in Montana. Recently, an anticipated shift in pathogen composition has been observed in northeastern Montana from D. pisi to P. pinodes. Also, a Phoma sp. was found associated with infected dry pea seeds and included in this study. To characterize these fungi, we evaluated the effects of temperature (15, 20, 25, and 30°C) on mycelial growth rate and sporulation. The optimum temperature for mycelial growth and sporulation was either 20 or 25°C depending on the species. Analysis of variance supported that at all evaluated temperatures, Phoma sp. had the highest growth rate and produced more spores than the other species (P value < 0.001). In pathogenicity assays, P. pinodes caused more severe disease than the other species when inoculated on pea plants (cv. Carousel, P value ≤ 0.001). The Phoma sp. was not pathogenic. Peameal agar (PMA) was developed as a diagnostic tool for these pathogens. On PMA, the fungal species showed different mycelial morphology, which was used to visually discriminate them. Results from this study will be used as a base to understand the adaptability, pathogenicity and aggressiveness, and current status and changes in the population composition of fungal species causing Ascochyta blight of dry pea in Montana and North America.

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Working With Interpreters to Support Students Who Are English Language Learners

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/persp1.sig16.15 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (16) ◽

pp. 15-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Henriette W. Langdon ◽

Terry Irvine Saenz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

English Language Learners ◽

Language Learners ◽

English Language ◽

First Language ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Primary Language ◽

Second Best ◽

Support Students

The number of English Language Learners (ELL) is increasing in all regions of the United States. Although the majority (71%) speak Spanish as their first language, the other 29% may speak one of as many as 100 or more different languages. In spite of an increasing number of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who can provide bilingual services, the likelihood of a match between a given student's primary language and an SLP's is rather minimal. The second best option is to work with a trained language interpreter in the student's language. However, very frequently, this interpreter may be bilingual but not trained to do the job.

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