Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Graduate Librarianship, the first professional journal dedicated solely to graduate librarianship! This issue is the culmination of a two-year effort where we discovered, often the hard way, what goes into starting an academic journal.

The study examines the first forty years of a humanities journal, Libraries & Culture (hereafter Journal). Founded in 1966 as The Journal of Library History, its contributors shaped and reshaped the Journal according to the values, habits, and competencies that they brought to changing circumstances. Over a period of forty years marked by administrative, managerial, financial, editorial, and technical challenges, the editors transformed the Journal into an interdisciplinary and erudite publication distant from its earliest beginnings as a compendium of entertaining vignettes and didactic notes on the writing and uses of library history. This study considers salient points of transformation during the life of the Journal, highlighting issues associated with various crises in scholarly communications. Key issues confronted by the Journal include the now familiar dilemmas over journal pricing structures, subscription cancellations, bibliographic control, prestige surveys and citation rankings, pressures on authors to publish, peer-review, and modes of dissemination. Historical and sociological contexts frame the resolutions of these dilemmas that are treated chronologically as they erupted in the trajectory of the Journal. The historical investigation draws on archival sources, secondary sources, interviews, participant observation, and close reading of the publication to construct a narrative about the Journal in the context of 1) changing priorities in higher education; 2) challenges faced by university presses and scholarly publication in general; and 3) professional and disciplinary developments in librarianship. The characters, actions, and settings of the history are interpreted through a sociological lens, crafted from a beginner’s understanding of the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu’s concepts of social field, multiple forms of capital, capital conversion, and habitus form the interpretive frame for the narrative. The choice of Bourdieu’s heuristic approach implies a broader interest in framing scholarly communications as value negotiations among sets of players in interdependent social fields. The players struggle not just to preserve their positions in the production and dissemination of scholarship, but also contend with others in powerful social fields--state governments, university hierarchies, and markets--about the creation of cultural capital and the power to define what is legitimate knowledge. / text

This study investigated the effects of journal writing with or without giving feedback and grade, compared to the traditional teaching on integral achievement of students with different learning styles. In addition, students&rsquo / ideas about the journal writing activities in the mathematics classes were investigated. The study was carried out with 87 first year engineering students at Atilim University from three classes. Two groups were assigned as experimental groups (EG1 and EG2) and one group was assigned as the control group (CG). Students in all groups received the same instruction on integral. Experimental groups (EG1 and EG2) also engaged in journal writing activities besides lectures. Journal writings of the EG1 students were graded and feedback was given. Journal writings of the EG2 students, however, were not graded and feedback was not given. Two open-ended achievement tests on integral were developed. One of them was used as pre-test / the other was used as post-test. In addition, Kolb&rsquo / s Learning Style Inventory was administered as pre-test to determine the learning styles of the students. Follow-up interviews were conducted with ten students from EG1 and EG2. Additionally, v classrooms were observed during the treatment. The results of the ANCOVA suggest that neither the groups&rsquo / achievement nor the achievement of the students having different learning styles in each group differ significantly on integral. The results of the interviews, however, showed that students found journal writing activities as an effective teaching method and wanted to be engaged in the activity for the future.

This thesis deals with the structural design of a test rig for combustion engine bearings with static and dynamic loading capabilities. The first part of thesis summarizes materials, geometries and possible bearing failures, then analyzes existing test rigs. The second part contains different solutions and summarizes these solutions to a final design. The last part contains analysis of possible failure of the test rig and solutions for these problems. The thesis contains drawings prepared for manufacturing and a design report.

The velvet revolution in November of 1989 meant end of communistic domination and rediscovery of democracy. The turn of eighties and nineties belongs to important historical period of Czech society; it brought principal revolution changes - new political and economy system, new international station of our state, new political rights and freedom, but also new liability and responsibility. Changes were related to Czech media too. They became private. Focus of this diploma thesis is detailed analysis of the journal Pochodeň in the turn of eighties and nineties, especially the procedure of newspaper's transformation after the year 1989. Thesis describes the period before November 1989, when Pochodeň was the press authority of regional bureau of the Communistic Party. Next part of this diploma work is characterization of the velvet revolution in the redaction and resulting development after the year 1990. Thesis is set to context of the past. Part of this capitol is general view on transformation of the Czech society, economy and Czech media. This way of conception of my analyses describes recent history of the journal Pochodeň and uses memoirs of journalists, which worked in the newspapers in the turn of eighties and nineties.

The master’s thesis deals with a design of a radial journal bearing simulator, which is ready to implement a transparent sapphire journal bearing to an optical observation of the oil film. The first part of this thesis contains a short review of a few currently used journal bearing test rigs. The next part of the work deals with a discussion of concept variants and a definition of important parameters. The last part contains a detailed description of the designed radial journal bearing simulator. Limitations of the designed simulator and recommendations for future improvements are also discussed. The result of the presented work is the designed journal bearing simulator which will allow observing of the oil film. The work also consists a complete design documentation.

According to the National Vital Statistics Report (1998), Black women age 45-64 are ten times more likely than white women of the same age to die from diseases of the heart. They are five times more likely to die from diabetes. The goal of this study was to examine how articles published in leading medical journals between 1989 and 1998 accounted for such differences in health outcomes among Black and white women. The explanatory content of the articles was analyzed and coded according to four types of attributions: genetic/biological, cultural/behavioral, structural/socioeconomic and alternative. Each type of explanation derives from different assumptions and operates with different models for understanding why health outcomes vary among groups. Alternative explanations are those that focus on the direct effect of race/gender oppression on Black women's health. Genetic/biological attributions occurred less frequently than structural/socioeconomic and cultural behavioral but were more likely to occur than alternative attributions, which were the least often employed. While alternative attributions are considered in some of the articles about Black women's health and mortality, they are overall rarely employed. The finding that explanations that most directly explore the impact of racism and sexism on Black women's health occur least often has important implications. Articles published in these three journals inform medical practitioners and affect the ability of such practitioners to adequately address the needs of Black women in their care.

Published Article / Research has two important objectives: the contribution to scientific discourse and the identification of solutions for the challenges societies, government, business and industry face. Research should be in the public domain. The publication and presentation of research results are important activities academics need to engage with. Through publications and presentations are societies informed of the positive influence and impact research can bring to them. This paper will focus on the importance of publications and how emerging scholars can be assisted to get their research published. A case study is presented of the Interim, an in-house academic journal.

Η παρούσα εργασία έχει στόχο να καταγράψει αναλυτικά τα περιεχόμενα, τους συνεργάτες και τα αναφερόμενα πρόσωπα του περιοδικού Δια- κείμενα, από το πρώτο (1) έως και το δέκατο τρίτο (13) τεύχος του. Η καταγραφή ακολουθεί την αλφαβητική σειρά, ενώ γίνεται διαχωρισμός σε ελληνικά και ξένα ονόματα. Παράλληλα, παρουσιάζονται λεπτομερώς τα περιεχόμενα κάθε τεύχους χωριστά, ώστε να αναδειχθεί πληρέστερα ο χαρακτήρας, η δομή και το ύφος του περιοδικού. Ακολουθεί η καταγραφή των περιεχομένων της σειράς Διακειμενικά, η οποία κυκλοφορεί παράλληλα με το περιοδικό. Τέλος, η εργασία περιλαμβάνει την κριτική αποτίμηση του εντύπου και σχόλια- σκέψεις για τη συμβολή του στον τομέα της Συγκριτικής Γραμματολογίας στη χώρα μας. / -

The purpose of this study is to illustrate how using journal writing in mathemathics education acts as a tool to support the learning of students. The questions asked to investigate if the purpose was met were: -          In what way do students use journals as a tool to reflect over their own learning? -          In what way do students use journals as a tool to reflect over their effort in class? During six weeks, eighth grade students from two different classes wrote journals after each mathematics lesson. In the journals they wrote about what they learnt during class and about their effort. After the six weeks nine students were interviewed. The students describe how the journal writing helped them think metacognitively about what they learnt and how they worked during class. In addition, they have had a better direct contact with their teacher who has read the students’ entries and the response given was seen as positive for learning. / Syftet med det här arbetet är att belysa hur användandet av loggbok i matematik-undervisningen kan fungera som verktyg för att stödja elevers lärande. De frågor jag ställt för att undersöka om syftet har uppnåtts var: -          På vilket sätt använder eleverna loggboken som ett verktyg för att reflektera över sitt eget lärande? -          På vilket sätt använder eleverna loggboken som ett verktyg för att reflektera över sin arbetsinsats? Under sex veckor fick elever i två olika åttondeklasser skriva loggbok efter varje matematiklektion där de fick berätta vad de lärt sig och hur deras arbetsinsats under lektionen varit. Efter denna sexveckorsperiod intervjuades nio elever. Eleverna beskriver att loggboksskrivandet hjälpt dem att på ett metakognitivt sätt medvetandegöra vad de lärt sig och hur de arbetat under lektionstiden. Dessutom har de fått en ökad direktkontakt med läraren som läst deras loggboksinlägg och de beskriver att denna feed-back påverkat deras inlärning positivt.