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Heylicken Moreno reviews Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata; Trina Boykin Nolen reviews Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners; Stephanie Rosenblatt reviews Records and Information Management.     

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Elizabeth Parang reviews Reengineering the Library: Issues in Electronic Resources Management. Scott Johnson reviews Academic Library Management: Case Studies.     

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Beth Ashmore reviews The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success and Growth; Scott Johnson reviews Metaliteracy in Practice; Catherine Johnson reviews Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises for Creating Information-Literate Learners; Adolfo G. Prieto reviews Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries.     

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Elizabeth Parang reviews Guide to Streaming Video Acquisitions; Jill M. Church reviews Electronic Resources Librarianship: A Practical Guide for Librarians; Robert T. Wilson reviews Using Digital Analytics for Smart Assessment.     

Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses

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Michelle DeMars reviews Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians and Educators; Elizabeth Parang reviews Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship.     

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Michelle DeMars reviews The Indispensable Academic Librarian: Teaching and Collaborating for Change; Norma Durian reviews The Library Outreach Casebook; Trina Boykin Nolen reviews Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Third Edition.     

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Beth Ashmore reviews More Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data; Michelle DeMars reviews Library Consortia: Models for Collaboration and Sustainability; Sarah Tusa reviews Library Management in Disruptive Times: Skills and Knowledge for an Uncertain Future.     

人力资本纳入国民经济核算研究综述

人力资本存量的测算是经济增长分析的关键所在,但迄今仍没有令人满意的测算成果,究其原因,在于人力资本核算工作的严重滞后。针对国内外人力资本核算研究的起源、进展和实践进行归纳和评价,指出目前人力资本核算研究中存在的主要问题在于没有考虑人力资本折旧及其价格问题,而造成这一问题的关键在于数据条件的约束。为解决这一问题,应调整现有人口抽样调查表中的有关人口流动和死亡的调查项目,为人力资本折旧和重估价的估算提供基础数据。同时在国民经济核算账户中,对现存的有关个人、政府和机构的消费支出项目进行更为详细的功能分类,以获得相应的人力资本投资的支出费用数据。     

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Trina Boykin Nolen reviews The Craft of Librarian Instruction: Using Acting Techniques to Create Your Teaching Presence; Elizabeth Parang reviews Encoding Space: Shaping Learning Environments That Unlock Human Potential.     

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Heather Baker reviews The no-nonsense guide to leadership, management, and teamwork; Elizabeth Parang reviews Systematic searching: Practical ideas for improving results; Anne Washington reviews Digital preservation in libraries: Preparing for a sustainable future.     

A New Feature Selection Method for Text Categorization of Customer Reviews

With the rapid development of e-commerce, online consumer review plays an increasingly important role in consumers’ purchase decisions. Most research papers use the quantitative measures of consumer reviews for statistical analysis. Here we focus on analyzing the texts of customer reviews with text mining tools. We propose a new feature selection method called maximizing the difference. Various classification methods such as boosting, random forest and SVM are used to test the performance of the new method along with different evaluation criteria. Both simulation and empirical results show that it improves the effectiveness of the classifier over the existing methods.     

The Concerns of Authors: Textual Analysis of Online Journal Reviews

This paper presents the results of an investigation of Chinese authors' attitudes towards, and concerns about, academic journals by analyzing their comments posted on a journal review Web site. The views of 338 authors about 13 Chinese academic journals in the library and information science field were collected. Using word frequency, word co-occurrence, and factor analysis, their comments were processed and the important factors extracted. The authors addressed a series of aspects regarding the journal itself, the review and publication process, and the service provided by editors. The paper provides a unique opportunity to understand Chinese authors' views using a direct source.     

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Andersen, P. K., Borgan, O., Gill, R. D. and Keiding, N. Statistical Models based on Counting Processes
Anderson, T. W. and Finn, J. D. The New Statistical Analysis of Data
Azzalini, A. Statistical Inference—based on the Likelihood
Borodin, A. N. and Salminen, P. Handbook of Brownian Motion—Facts and Formulae
Brockwell, P. J. and Davis, R. A. Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting
Chapman, M. and Wykes, C. Plain Figures
Clarke, G. M. and Kempson, R. E. Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Experiments
Goldstein, H. and Lewis, T. (eds) Assessment: Problems, Developments and Statistical Issues; a Volume of Expert Contributions
Grenander, U. Elements of Pattern Theory
Högnäs, G. and Mukherjea, A. Probability Measures on Semigroups
Levitas, R. and Guy, W. Interpreting Official Statistics
van der Linden, W. J. and Hambleton, R. K. (eds) Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory
Ross, S. M. Simulation
Simonnet, M. Measures and Probabilities
Small, C. G. The Statistical Theory of Shape
van der Vaart, A. and Wellner, J. A. Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes with Applications to Statistics     

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Valuation of Railways Census Bulletin 21. Commercial Valuation of Railway Operating Property in the United States, 1904. Reviewed by C. W. Doten

Family Desertion. Publications of the Committee on Social Research of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. No. I. In two parts 200 pp., appendices and tables. 1905 Reviewed by Roswell F. Phelps     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Using SPSS for Windows (2nd edn) , Susan B. Gerber and Kristin Voelkl Finn
The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems , Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner
The Mathematics of Voting and Elections: a Hands-on Approach , Jonathan K. Hodge and Richard E. Klima     

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Rachael Green Clemens reviews Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns, James T. Deffenbaugh reviews Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians, and Marguerite E. Horn reviews The Accidental Systems Librarian. Serials Review 2003; 29:325–329.     

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Books reviewed in this issue.
Statistics: A Very Short Introduction.
David J. Hand
Probability and Information. An Integrated Approach.
David Applebaum; second edn
Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk, and Statistics.
Brian Everitt; second edn