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There are people no further away than the mid‐western cities of the United States who will express real surprise when told that Canadians do not spend most of the year dressed like Eskimos, padding around on snowshoes. I have an American friend who shamefacedly admits that when his firm moved him up to Canada, he arranged with his local bookseller to keep him supplied with certain magazines and books. How surprised he must have been to find, not only a plentiful supply of American, English and even some European magazines but also a comprehensive public library system.

For over a hundred years the development of “public libraries” (that is libraries administered by local authorities, not the equally “public” libraries such as the British Museum) has been hesitating, blind, clumsy and uneven; but it is refreshing to remember that all along there have been people who have made a legend of the first librarian of Manchester. Dr. Munford has now done librarianship and history a great service by his latest book recently published by the Library Association. Edwards was not a good librarian, but had a vision of the desirable and possible future of libraries which only now is shown to be valid. The vision and the failures justified the publication of the new life of him, which completely supersedes Thomas Greenwood's book of 1902. Probably no other librarian has left behind him such a mass of letters and diaries as Edwards provided and no previous biographer of a librarian has so methodically and meticulously struggled with a mass of manuscripts such as those which confronted Dr Munford. It is hard to imagine that any other book of similar size has given so many footnotes (all assembled at the end of the book, to the amazing number of 1,564) as references to the material on which Dr. Munford has based his statements. This “portrait”, complete—“warts and all”—would not have been possible if the British Museum and the Manchester Public Libraries had not religiously preserved the great collection of Edwards's diaries and correspondence.

Introduction: Data of companies in the Informatics index between 2008 and 2017 fiscal years were analyzed. In the analysis, the following ratios were used as traditional performance evaluation criteria: Return on assets, return on equity, earnings per share, price to earnings ratio, market to book value ratio, and return on sales rate. In addition, economic value added (EVA) was also used. The companies in the Informatics index are divided into sub-sectors according to by field of activity. These sub-sectors are software, communication, and hardware marketing.

Aim: To analyze the power of traditional performance evaluation methods to explain the market value added (MVA).

Method: Regression analysis and autocorrelation tests were used as research methods. These were done with IBM SPSS Statistics 25.

Findings: Models and rates that explain the MVA with the most meaningful results were calculated. These models and ratios are as follows: For the software sub-sector, a market to book value ratio was 77.8%; for the hardware marketing sub-sector, earnings per share was 65.4%; for the communication sub-sector, a market to book value ratio was 92.5%. Market to book value was the independent variable that describes the best MVA value of the two sub-sectors.

Originality of the Study: In this study, the average of the values of all companies in the BIST Informatics Index is not taken. By dividing into sub-sectors, value deterioration from the sector difference is prevented. It is stronger in terms of statistical science.

Implications: Researchers can look for and model the relationship between traditional evaluation criteria and EVA or other value-based evaluation criteria in the same index or other indices.

Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robotic Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This paper describes the implementation of haptic feedback into Robonaut and Robosim, the computer simulation of Robotonaut. In the first experiment, we measured the effects of varying feedback to a teleoperator during a handrail grasp task. Second, we conducted a teleoperated task, inserting a flexible beam into an instrumented receptacle. In the third experiment, we used Robonaut to perform a two‐arm task where a compliant ball was translated in the robot's workspace. The experimental results are encouraging as the Dexterous Robotics Lab continues to implement force feedback into its teleoperator hardware architecture.

Zone at Harvey Nichols and the new Way In at Harrods both opened last autumn, aiming at high fashion shoppers who have traditionally spurned the conventional department store. Both opened to a blaze of publicity in magazines such as The Face (a favourite with the most avant of the avant garde), while prestigious design journals have waxed lyrical about the original shopfitting. But how do these new lifestyle departments really shape up to high street fashion competition?

Introduction Zinc weight per unit area is a crucial factor in the durability of galvanised parts with respect to corrosion and may be correlated with the thickness of the galvanised coating by means of the latter's density. Thus, the thicker the coating, the longer the part is bound to last.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how clinical nurse education and nursing students’ care practices are shaped by different logics of care.

Inspired by Mol’s work on care, the paper explores care practices connected to the clinical education of nurses. The empirical data were generated from longitudinal, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among nursing students in clinical practice combined with follow-up interviews with the students and their supervisors.

The paper illustrates how three logics of care shape clinical education: the logic of relational care, the logic of care education and the logic of care production. The paper demonstrates how the logics unfold and entangle in everyday clinical education. On the one hand, care of patients based on the relationship between patient and nurse is highly valued. On the other hand, this logic is not institutionalized in the same way as practices induced by the logic of care production and the logic of care education.

The paper may be of value to scholars and practitioners in clinical education, as well as to health educational policy makers. The findings focus on paradoxes produced by conflicting logics in practice, thus offering new reflections and alternative sensemaking of well-known problems connected to clinical education.

The International Conference on Cataloguing Principles was held after more than a decade of widespread and intensive study of cataloguing theory and practice. Only in the two periods preceding the formulation of Panizzi's Rules and the Joint Code have cataloguing problems bulked so large in the discussions of librarians and never have so many professional minds given so much time to the study of these problems. It is disappointing that after so much effort the practical results of all these labours are still in the future and that whilst we wait for a new code, thousands of admittedly unsatisfactory entries are made each year in thousands of library catalogues.

In through‐hole plated double‐sided and multilayer printed circuit boards, electroplated copper forms the main electrically conductive path on hole walls. To ensure high reliability of electrical connection during component assembly, soldering and subsequent service, the properties of process solutions and deposits must be controlled. This paper discusses the methods of measuring and controlling copper plating processing parameters to achieve the optimum deposit properties. Plating pre‐treatment is discussed also as this can influence significantly process performance.

The administration of social assistance benefits is devolved to local agencies in Belgium, which raises questions about how much variation in spell lengths of benefit receipt is associated with differences across agencies. We address this issue by analysing the monthly hazard of benefit exit using administrative record data for 14,270 individuals in 574 welfare agencies. Our random-effects model allows for differences in both the observed and unobserved characteristics of beneficiaries and of local agencies. There are large differences in median benefit duration for individuals serviced by different welfare agencies: the range is from two months to more than 24 months. We find strong associations between beneficiary characteristics (sex, age, foreign nationality, citizenship acquisition, work history and being a student) and spell length. The estimates show higher odds of exiting social assistance receipt in bigger municipalities and in agencies which provide more generous supplementary assistance, and also strong evidence of shorter episodes in agencies where active labour market programme participation rates are higher.