Monday, December 21, 2009

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)



The International Biometric Society has chosen Springer as the new publisher of their Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), beginning in March 2010 (v.15). Backfiles to 2001 (v.6-14) will also be made available on SpringerLink.

JABES is a quarterly journal publishinging papers of interest to applied researchers and consultants in the agricultural, biological (including biotechnology), and environmental sciences (including natural resources). The focus of the journal is on new, interdisciplinary, and important statistical methods using real-world data.

JABES volumes from 2001-2009 (v.6-14) were previously made available from the website of the American Statistical Association. Volumes from 1996-2003 (v.1-8) will continue to be available from JSTOR.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

American Journal of Potato Research



View and search the full run of the American Journal of Potato Research online, from 1923-2009!

UW-Madison's own John Bamberg, Professor of Horticulture, is the Editor-in-Chief of this publication of The Potato Association of America.

Our library patrons have access to 419 full-text journal titles from the same interface (SpringerLlink), as well as several reference e-books:

The American Journal of Potato Research is just one of 1000's of journals whose articles can be searched at one time, from the following subscription databases:

Monday, November 16, 2009

Journal permission changes in Proquest


The UW-Madison Libraries provide access to many databases on the Proquest platform, including:
  • ABI / Inform Global (business)
  • Alt-Press Watch (alternative and independent media)
  • Dissertations & Theses
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • GenderWatch
  • Hoover's Company Records
  • National Newspaper Abstracts
  • Proquest Research Library (multidisciplinary)
New Content (selected):
  • Biota Neotropica - new citation, full text, and page image coverage
  • New Zealand Journal of Ecology - new citation, abstract, full text, and page image coverage

Permission Changes (selected):

  • Annals of Botany - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Behavioral Ecology - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Biometrika - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Biostatistics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Briefings in Bioinformatics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • European Review of Agricultural Economics discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Glycobiology -discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics - discontinued citation, abstract and page image coverage
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • International Journal on ELearning - discontinued full text, page image, and text+graphics coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia - discontinued full text and page image coverage; dtation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Technology and Teacher Education - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Heredity - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Mathematical Medicine and Biology - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Plant & Cell Physiology - discontinued citation, abstract and page image coverage
  • What Works in Teaching and Learning - ceased publication

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Dow Jones Factiva periodical database


The UW-Madison libraries subscribe to the Factiva database of business and finance publications, newswires, photographs and multimedia content.

New features:
  • Automated translation from Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese & Chinese (traditional and simple) into English, and vice versa

  • Exclusive online content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Dow Jones Newswires

  • "Concept Explorer" uses semantic technology to connect words, ideas & people from multiple industries, including Agriculture & Forestry

Periodicals searched include:

AgExporter
AGRA Alimentation (Abstracts)
Agra Europe
Agrarisch Dagblad (Agricultural Daily) (Dutch)
Agrarnaya nauka (Russian)
Agrarwirtschaft (German)
Agrarzeitung Ernährungsdienst (German)
Agri Marketing (Abstracts)
Agribusiness (Abstracts)
Agricultural Chemical News (Abstracts)
Agricultural Research
Agriculture Week
Agropromyshlennaya gazeta Yuga Rossii (Russian)
Agrow Online Plus
AGROW World Crop Protection News
Agweek (MCT) (N.D.)
AIZ - Agrarisches Informationszentrum Pressedienst (German)
American Gardener (Abstracts)
Apply
Arable Farming (U.K.)
ASI Agricultural Supply Industry News
ASI Online Plus
Australian Cotton Outlook
Australian Farm Journal
Australian Life Scientist
Avicultura Profesional (Spanish)
Bee Culture
Biomolecular Diagnostics News
Bit (Dutch)
Boerderij (Dutch)
Boerderij Melkvee 100Plus (Dutch)
Boerderij Regionaal (Dutch)
Boerderij Verdieping (Dutch)
Cap Weekly
China Green Times (Chinese - Simplified)
China Green Times (Chinese - Traditional)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Simplified)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Traditional)
Corn & Soybean Digest
Cotton Grower (Abstracts)
Crop Science (Abstracts)
Croplife (Abstracts)
CropLife (Abstracts)
Crops (Abstracts)
Delta Farm Press
Department of Agriculture Documents
Ekonomika selskogo hozyaistva Rossii (Russian)
Europolitics Agriculture
Europolitique Agriculture (French)
Farm Chemicals (Abstracts)
Farm Chemicals International (Abstracts)
Farm Industry News
Farm Journal (Midwest/Central Edition)
Farm Weekly
Farmers Guardian
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly (Abstracts)
Farming News
Feed & Grain
Feed Mix
Feed Tech
Feedmagazine Kraftfutter (German)
Focus on Intermediates & Contract Chemicals (Abstracts)
Food Review
Fruit & Veg Tech
Global Pesticide Campaigner (Abstracts)
Grain: World Markets and Trade
Greenhouse Grower (Abstracts)
Groenten en Fruit (Dutch)
Grounds Maintenance
Grower
Hay & Forage Grower
Het Schaap (Dutch)
Horticulture
Horticulture News [NZ]
Horticulture Week
Interfax: China Commodities Daily - Grain & Softs
Interfax: Food & Agriculture Report (Russian)
Interfax Food and Agriculture (Abstracts)
Interfax: Russia & CIS Food & Agriculture Weekly
Irrigation Journal
The Japan Agricultural News (Japanese)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
Krestyanskaya Rossiya (Russian)
Krestyanskie vedomosti (Russian)
KZ Press-Club: Agriculture (Russian)
Land Letter
The Land
Landcare
Lesnoi region (Russian)
Lesnye novosti (Russian)
Magasin Agricole (Abstracts)
Milling & Baking News
Montana Business Quarterly
New York State Conservationist
NOVECON: Russia/CIS Agribusiness Digest (Russian)
Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
Outlooks on Pest Management (Abstracts)
Pluimveehouderij (Dutch)
Pro
Pro Farmer
Ranch and Rural Living
Relations Culture (Abstracts)
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (Abstracts)
Resource Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
Resource News International
Ryba Kamchatskogo kraya on-line (Russian)
Rybak Severa (Russian)
Selskaya gazeta (Russian)
Selskaya zhizn (Russian)
SinoCast Agriculture Beat
Soil Science Society of America Journal (Abstracts)
Southeast Farm Press
Southwest Farm Press
Straight Furrow [NZ]
The Tablelander
Tasmanian Country
Terra e Vita (Abstracts)
Terre & Nature (French)
The Main Report’s Profitable Agri-Business
Timber Trade Journal
Top Producer
Trekker (Dutch)
TTJ - The Timber Industry Magazine
UkrAgroConsult (Russian)
Vakblad AGF (Dutch)
The Weekly Times
Western Farm Press
What's new in Farming
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Simplified)
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Traditional)
Yard & Garden
Zemedelske Noviny (Czech Republic, Abstracts)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Potato & late blight genomes sequenced



The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium recently announced the complete genome sequencing of the cultivated potato plant, Solanum tuberosum L.

This comes hot on the heels of the genetic sequencing of one of its infamous enemies, Phytophthora infestans, the cause of late blight.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Agricultural water use in Wisconsin



Data estimating water use in Wisconsin have been generated every 5 years since 1950. The latest report on state-wide water use has been released by the U.S. Geological Survey, compiling data through 2005.

Since 1950, water use for irrigation, industrial, commercial, domestic, and livestock purposes has increased 333%. The largest daily use of water is for cooling at thermoelectric-power plants: 6,898 million gallons per day (Mgal/d). Other findings include:

Irrigation (non-domestic)

  • Irrigation water use = 402 million gallons per day (Mgal/d)
  • 96% is from ground-water
  • 97% is used for agriculture

  • 3% is used for golf courses, commercial landscaping, athletic fields, parks, cemeteries, sod farms, nurseries, orchards, evergreen farms, greenhouses, specialty edibles, and botanical gardens

  • Irrigated crop land = 386,000 acres

  • Portage, Waushara, and Adams counties = highest agricultural irrigation water use; these counties lead the state in the production of potatoes, corn, and vegetables (snap beans, carrots, peas, etc.)
  • Primary crops irrigated (by acreage) = assorted vegetables, corn, potatoes, soybeans, alfalfa
  • Most intensively irrigated crops = berries, potatoes, corn

Non-irrigation (agricultural)

  • Livestock use = 73 Mgal/d; 90% from ground-water
  • Clark, Grant, and Marathon counties = highest livestock water use
  • Aquaculture use = 82 Mgal/d; 52% from surface-water

Industrial

  • The paper-products industry is the largest industrial water user = 357 Mgal/d

More resources:

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Proquest/COS/CSA down: 9/26-27



Database maintenance

  • 9:00pm Saturday, September 26th - 9:00am Sunday, September 27th
  • Improvement: The New York Times will now include browse/search capability for over 3 million assigned subject terms from 1851-1993

Library tools affected include:

Monday, August 31, 2009

Broken links for U.S. government documents



The links to many U.S. government resources are currently not working.

These links, also called "PURLs" or "persistent URLs" are maintained by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). GPO's PURL server had a significant hardware failure on August 24, 2009. The hardware has been fixed, but the process to restore online document service is on-going.

No data has been lost, and if you have a non-PURL internet address for the documents, you will still be able to reach them. Even documents hosted by GPO itself should still be available.

If you do encounter a broken PURL, do an internet search on the title, using Google or another search engine. I'm also happy to help look for a document.

Here's what a GPO PURL looks like: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS5149

And here's a MadCat library catalog record with a PURL link.

Alternate access...

...to selected government documents in the plant & insect sciences not available in print at the UW-Madison:

Friday, August 28, 2009

Upcoming events: WI Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters



"The nonprofit Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters connects people and ideas from all areas of knowledge and all walks of life to celebrate thought, culture and nature in our state and help solve our common problems."

In 2006, The Academy sponsored a state-wide public policy program on "The Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin."

Selected upcoming events:

September 29, 2009
"Green Jobs: Growing Wisconsin Employment"
Discovery World Museum, Milwaukee, WI

October 13, 2009
"The Future of Farming and Rural Life: Reconnecting with Wisconsin Values and the Lost Art of Citizenship"
Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI

November 15, 2009
"Heat Waves and High Water: Climate Change, Public Health, and the 2050 Wisconsin Landscape"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

March 16, 2010
"What's Driving My Car? 2050 Biofuels and Other Sustainable Energy Sources"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

May 11, 2010
"Why Third World Migrants Will Disappear from the United States by 2050"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Andrew Bent honored by Am. Phytopathological Society


Dr. Andrew F. Bent, a faculty member in the UW-Madison department of Plant Pathology, is the 2009 winner of the Noel Keen Award for Research Excellence in Molecular Plant Pathology from the American Phytopathological Society.

This award recognizes contributions to "the understanding of molecular aspects of host-pathogen interactions, plant pathogens or plant-associated microbes, or molecular biology of disease development or defense mechanisms."

Dr. Bent's current research is focused on:
  • Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) structure/function, and plant detection of bacterial flagellin
  • Study and manipulation of disease resistance in soybean
  • Previously unidentified biochemical responses of plants to pathogen infection

Recent publications:

Adams-Phillips. L., J. Wan, X. Tan, F.M. Dunning, B.C. Meyers, R.W. Michelmore & A.F. Bent. 2008. Discovery of ADP-ribosylation and other plant defense pathway elements through expression profiling of four different Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas R/avr interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 21(5): 646-657.


Bent, A. & D. Mackey. 2007. Elicitors, effectors and R genes: The new paradigm and a lifetime supply of questions. Annual Review of Phytopathology 45: 399-436.


Bent, A.F. 2006. Arabidopsis thaliana floral dip transformation method. In: Agrobacterium Protocols (K. Wang, Ed.). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. Methods in Molecular Biology 343: 87-103.


Briggs, A.G., L.C. Adams-Phillips, A.F. Bent. 2009. Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation and host-pathogen interactions [Meeting abstract]. Phytopathology 99(6): S16.


Dunning, F.M., W. Sun, K.L. Jansen, L. Helft & A.F. Bent. 2007. Identification and mutational analysis of Arabidopsis FLS2 Leucine-Rich Repeat domain residues that contribute to flagellin perception. Plant Cell 19(10): 3297-3313.


Bent, A.F., T.K. Hoffman, J.S. Schmidt, G.L. Hartman, D.D. Hoffman, X. Ping & M.L. Tucker. 2006. Disease- and performance-related traits of ethylene-insensitive soybean. Crop Science 43: 893-901.


Genger, R.K., G.I. Jurkowski, J.M. McDowell, H. Lu, H.W. Jung, J.T. Greenberg and A.F. Bent. 2008. Signaling pathways that regulate the enhanced disease resistance of Arabidopsis "defense, no death" mutants. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 21(10): 1285-1296.

MacGuidwin, A.E., A.F. Bent, D.I. Rouse. 2006. Active learning in "Plants, Parasites, and People" [Meeting abstract]. Phytopathology 96(6): S159-S160.

Suarez-Rodriguez M.C., L. Adams-Phillips, Y. Liu, H. Wang, S.H. Su, P.J. Jester, S. Zhang, A.F. Bent & P.J. Krysan. 2007. MEKK1 is required for flg22-induced MPK4 activation in Arabidopsis plants. Plant Physiology 143(2): 661-669.


Sun, W., F.M. Dunning, C. Pfund, R. Weingarten & A.F. Bent. 2006. Within-species flagellin polymorphism in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris and its impact on elicitation of Arabidopsis FLS2-dependent defenses. Plant Cell 18: 764-779.


Tan, X.P., B.C. Meyers, A. Kozik, M. Al West, M. Morgante, D.A. St. Clair, A.F. Bent, R.W. Michelmore. 2007. Global expression analysis of nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeat-encoding and related genes in Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biology 7(56).

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Search property data in 2,000 e-books



Knovel has launched the first of several database enhancements, making it easier and faster to find reliable technical information. Changes include:

  • Graphs/Equations/Tables (G.E.T.) search tab
  • Improved search results display
  • Keyword auto-complete
  • Spell check
  • Suggested search terms
Graphs, Equations & Tables search

You can search for numeric and other tabular data contained in Knovel's interactive graphs, equations and tables from over 2,000 books and databases. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel and HTML. Types of data you can search:

  • Acid-base properties: acceptor or donor number

  • Applications: use, human or veterinary therapeutic category

  • Bearing properties: bearing strength, bearing yield strength, shear modulus, shear strength

  • Combustion properties: calorific value, combustion products/fuel ratio, flame temperature, heat per volume of standard air, ignition energy, ignition temperature, laminar flame velocity, percent theoretical air, rate of pressure rise, research octane number, stoichiometric combustion product, terminal oxygen concentration, Wobbe index

  • Creep properties: creep stress, stress to rupture

  • Electrical properties: arc resistance, dielectric conststant, dielectric strength, dipole moment, dissipation factor, electric conductivity, IACS electric conductivity, formation resistivity factor, specific resistivity at min temp, specific resistivity at max temp, standard electrode potential V, static decay time, surface resistance, surface resistivity, thermoelectric voltage, voltage, volume resistivity

  • Electrochemical properties: reduction potential

  • Energy and power consumption: degree days, mean daily temperature range, power consumption

  • Environmental characteristics: acidification, atmospheric half life, bioconcentration factor, chemical oxygen demand, log bioconcentration factor, energy use, eutrophication, global warming potential, greenhouse gas emissions, ozone precursors, urban ozone formation potential, theoretical oxygen demand

  • Flexural properties: flexural modulus, flexural strength, flexural strength retained, flexural yield strength, fatigue properties, notched fatigue endurance, unnotched fatigue endurance

  • Gas properties: altitude, compression ratio, odor threshold, percent humidity, residual water

  • Geography: elevation, latitude

  • Hazard-related properties: biodegradation probability, Biological Oxygen Demand, carcinogenicity, explosion limit, exposure limit, flammability, flammability limit, flash point, flash point method, food law approvals, 100-yr global warming potential, Halocarbon global warming potential, hazard rating, HMIS health, HMIS flammability, HMIS reactivity, ignition temperature, lower flammability limit, maximum workplace concentration, terminal oxygen concentration, mutagenicity, NFPA flammability, NFPA Health, NFPA Instability, NFPA Reactivity, oxygen index, ozone depletion potential, personal protection, reproductive/developmental toxicity, RTECS No., safety group, threshold limit, TLV - TWA, toxicity, UN risk phrases, UN safety phrases

  • Ion exchange properties: dry exchange capacity, exchange swelling, wet exchange capacity

  • Material composition: ash content, azeotropic concentration component A, carbon residue, filler content, material composition, H/C ratio, nominal composition, nutrient content, energy basis, nutrient content, mass basis, other metals, volatiles content, water content, content of individual elements

  • Materials and substances: additives, alloy number, atomic number, CAS Registry no., chemical category
    color (including Gardner scale or platinum-cobalt scale), common formula, class/condition/temper, DOT no., DPR, EC no., EEC, EINECS No., empirical formula, entry code, EPA, form, ICSC, ingredients, linear structure, manufacturer, IUPAC name, material or substance name, material class, material DIN No., molecular formula, odor, P number, physical state, schedule number, specification, supplier, trade or common name, type or grade, UNS no., valence, yellowness index change

  • Mechanical hardness: Brinell hardness, Durometer hardness, hardness, Rockwell hardness, Rockwell B hardness, Rockwell C hardness, Shore hardness, Shore hardness change, static load, Sward hardness

  • Mechanical properties: Poisson's ratio, reduction of area

  • Optical properties: band gap, band gap pressure coefficient, band gap temperature coefficient, molar refraction, refractive index, specific rotation

  • Organisms: species

  • Permeability: permeation rate, vapor transmission rate

  • Physical constants: acceleration of gravity, acentric factor, API gravity, atomic weight, boiling point, critical compressibility, critical density, critical pressure, critical temperature, critical molar volume, critical volume, density, density temperature coefficient, diffusion coefficient, dissociation constant, freeze point, gas/liquid volume ratio, gas specific gravity, lattice constants, melting point, molecular mass, molecular weight, molar density, molar volume, natural abundance, parachor, pour point, property code, radius of gyration, refractive index, saturation temperature, second virial coefficient, sedimentation constant, specific gravity, specific volume, specific weight, theoretical oxygen demand, triple point pressure, triple point temperature, van der Waals' area, van der Waals' volume, vapor pressure, weight, weight per unit length

  • Process conditions: conversion, yield

  • Processing properties: application method, machinability rating, melt flow index, melt temperature, molding pressure, polydispersity index, processing method, processing temperature, shrinkage

  • Radiation and radiation safety: Archer Fitting Coefficient alpha, Archer Fitting Coefficient beta, Archer Fittin, Coefficient gamma, air kerma, Beta (v/c), distance, energy/mass, effective dose, field size, Gamma (1-2)(1/2), T/A kinetic energy per nucleon, momentum, operating potential, removal mean free path, workload

  • Reaction kinetics: first order rate constant

  • Rheology: Darcy friction factor, dynamic viscosity, kinematic viscosity, melt flow index, Reynolds number, thixotropic index, viscosity

  • Shear properties: bearing strength, shear modulus, shear strength, shear yield strength, tear strength

  • Size: area, AWG, diameter, diameter change, length change, metric designator, thickness, volume, volume change

  • Solution properties: pK acid dissociation constant, acid number, cation exchange capacity, concentration, cryoscopic constant, Davies scale, detection limit, ebullioscopic constant, free energy function, Hansen solubility parameter, Henry's law constant, Hildebrand solubility parameter, iodine value, Kauri butanol number, mol fraction of substance, Negative Log Solubility Product pKsp, octanol-water partition coefficient, log octanol-water, partition coefficient, pH polarity parameter, saponification value, solubility, solubility parameter, solubility product constant, solvent, supersaturation ratio, suspended solids, water solubility
  • Special indices: datatype, graph index, properties index, subject index

  • Spectroscopic properties: absorption coefficient, anisotropy factor, attenuation coefficient, chemical shift, effective attenuation coefficient, emission lifetime, emissivity, energy, molar extinction coefficient, frequency, gain cross section, ionization potential, magnetic moment, nuclear spin quantum number, quadrupole moment, relative sensitivity, saturation fluence, scattering coefficient, spectral wavelength, transport scattering coefficient, width

  • Stability: log formation constant, corrosion rate, corrosion resistance, deflection temperature, material consumption rate, maximum continuous service temperature, NACE resistance rating, PDL Rating, water absorption, weight loss

  • Stoichiometric properties: mass ratio, stoichiometric excess, volume to mass ratio, volumetric ratio

  • Surface properties: adsorption capacity, apparent porosity, closed pores, Freundlich coefficient, Freundlich exponent, particle diameter, particle length, pitting depth, relative roughness, sorption coeffcient, log sorption coeffcient, specific surface area, surface tension, surface area
  • Tensile/compressive properties: allowable stress, compressive modulus, compressive strength, compression ratio, compressive stress, compressive yield strength, elastic limit, elongation, elongation retained, endurance limit, fatigue strength, fracture toughness, load ratio, modulus of elasticity, modulus retained, rupture strength, stress intensity, tear resistance, tensile modulus, tensile strength, tensile strength retained, tensile stress, tensile yield strength

  • Test/exposure conditions: PV value, acid concentration, activity, allowed working pressure, chromic acid, inhibitor concentration, concentration, copper sulfate inhibitor concentration, experimental parameters, exposure medium, exposure strain, exposure medium class, exposure stress, ferric chloride inhibitor concentration, light intensity, load, load/deformation type, nitric acid inhibitor concentration, penetrant, route of entry, sample geometry, temperature, testing apparatus, time

  • Thermal properties: area heat flow, ASME temperature limit, brittleness temperature, elongation, glass transition temperature, maximum continuous service temperature, melting point, melting range, minimum continuous service temperature, phase transition temperature, Thermal Diffusivity, thermal expansion coefficient, UL RTI rating, vapor pressure, Vicat softening point, working pressure

  • Thermodynamic properties: acentric factor, adiabatic compressibility, compressibility factor, dry-bulb temperature, enthalpy of combustion, enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of fusion, enthalpy of solution, enthalpy of sublimation, enthalpy of vaporization, entropy, entropy of fusion, entropy of formation, free energy function, Gibbs free energy of formation, Cp heat capacity, heat of adsorption, heat of combustion, heat of solution, Helmholtz free energy of formation, internal energy of formation, isothermal compressibility factor, log equilibrium constant, mean coincident design wet-bulb temperature, molar enthalpy, molar entropy, molar heat of vaporization, Prandtl Number, Q quality factor, h specific enthalpy, s specific entropy, cp specific heat, specific heat at constant pressure, cv specific heat at constant volume, specific heat ratio, u specific internal energy, v specific volume, specific volume change at min pressure, specific volume change at max pressure, w speed of sound, thermal conductivity, thermal resistivity, van der Waals’ coefficient, velocity of sound, wet-bulb temperature

  • Thermodynamic variables: pressure, temperature

  • Tissues: tissue, tissue source, tissue preparation

  • Toughness: fracture energy, impact strength retained, normalized Izod impact strength, notched impact strength, plane strain fracture toughness, relative critical crack-size index, unit Charpy impact strength, unit propagation energy, unnotched impact strength, work to maximum load

  • Transport properties: diffusion coefficient, dynamic viscosity, energy gradient, friction gradient, headloss, solute retention, specific resistance, thermal conductivity, transport number at min concentration, transport number at max concentration, volumetric flow rate, volumetric flow rate per unit area, volumetric flow rate/pressure, water absorption

  • Transportation: DOT class, ICAO/IATA Class/packing group, IMDG Class/packing group, TDG class, UN/NA class, UN number, UN packaging group

  • Tribological properties/wear: coefficient of friction, tribological conditions, wear coefficient, wear mechanisms, wear rate

  • Velocity

  • Volatility: relative evaporation rate

Friday, August 14, 2009

MadCat library catalog upgrade: 8/14

The MadCat online library catalog is being upgraded until approximately 11:00am, Friday, August 14th.

Unrelated services are not affected, including:

"MadCat" is the UW-Madison's name for our online library catalog (once called a "card catalog"). A library catalog is a way to search or browse to find materials which the libraries have collected: books, journals, magazines, newspapers, movies and other visual works, music and other audio works, software for check-out, maps, kits, realia, government documents, technical reports, databases and data sets, standards and codes, etc.

Monday, August 10, 2009

National Community Gardening Week: August 23-29


The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared August 23rd-29th to be "National Community Gardening Week"!

"Community gardens provide numerous benefits including opportunities for local food production, resource conservation, and neighborhood beautification," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

"But they also promote family and community interaction and enhance opportunities to eat healthy, nutritious foods. Each of these benefits is something we can and should strive for."

Videos:
E-books:
Books, documents & theses:
Websites:
Bibliographies:

Thursday, August 6, 2009

New campus library website!



The new UW-Madison Libraries website launched this week. The new design features:
  • A single tabbed search box for Articles, Books, Journals, Databases, and Site Search
  • Re-worded links, based on user testing
  • No deleted content
  • A commitment to continuous improvement

If you'd like assistance finding the new location for your favorite resources or services, please let me know.

As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Note: the MadCat library catalog will soon undergo design changes, as well.