TO the ordinary person who buys a book or secures what he wants from the library, the name of the publisher is of little account. How many readers of The Good Companions or Arabia…
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TO the ordinary person who buys a book or secures what he wants from the library, the name of the publisher is of little account. How many readers of The Good Companions or Arabia Deserta can remember the names of the publishing houses that issued these books? Is there, indeed, any point in remembering? The books were well bound, of agreeable paper, and sold at prices more or less consonant with prevailing values; but these are qualities the absence of which would be more likely to direct a reader's attention to the publisher's name. It is only when a book or an author has a romance separate from the romance that is told (if it is fiction), such as that of the Waverley novels, that the average reader is aware of a name like Constable or Ballantyne.
TO news‐editors, trained in the new technique of “splashing” information or events, a book has value according to its newsiness. But even the word “news” has limitations nowadays…
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TO news‐editors, trained in the new technique of “splashing” information or events, a book has value according to its newsiness. But even the word “news” has limitations nowadays. The book's subject must be topical, be of “wide appeal.” If a literary critic mentions that Mr. A. P. Herbert's book Holy Deadlock is a vigorous attack on the matrimonial laws, the news‐editor gives his readers a thrill by telling them all about it in the headings, and economising in space thereafter by cutting down his critic's copy ; for comment, not criticism, is the first purpose of the journalist to‐day as seen by the news‐editor. Inevitably, then, book reviewers must meet the demands of their editors; and publishers, those people who pay liberally for space in newspapers, have been converted to the faith of the news‐editor. The result is that book advertisements are frequently as chatty and “bright” as the news columns that surround them.
THE name is arresting, like the personality for which it stands. Cunninghame Graham: Lavery's equestrian portrait of him conveys the essential man as revealed in his writings…
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THE name is arresting, like the personality for which it stands. Cunninghame Graham: Lavery's equestrian portrait of him conveys the essential man as revealed in his writings, though the other one (somewhat reminiscent of Raeburn's Sir John Sinclair), which presents him to us afoot, lacks nothing save a horse for company. He has a passion for horses and has written many an essay in which they are leading characters and one book devoted to them—The Horses of the Conquest. William Rothenstein has recorded him in lithograph and in oils and in Men and Memories includes a reproduction of a painting of him in fencer's garb. Belcher did a charcoal drawing of him—it appeared in Punch—with a lightly indicated background of Hyde Park Corner and a horse or two, in a dexterous mere line or two, clipping past. There is a word‐picture of him in the epilogue to Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion and another in George Moore's Conversations in Ebury Street. Writer, Scots laird, Spanish hidalgo, South American ranch‐owner, he has ridden and bivouaced in Texas and Patagonia and may be found this month in Morocco, next month in London, or in Venezuela, or enjoying a braw day (or a snell day for that matter) in Perthshire.
ONE evening, while in Virginia, I dined in very select company—for I was the only guest present, excepting the Secretary of the American Library Association, who had not been a…
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ONE evening, while in Virginia, I dined in very select company—for I was the only guest present, excepting the Secretary of the American Library Association, who had not been a president of that body. I was not, however, the only Englishman in the party,—and by Englishman in this paragraph 1 mean British born,—for Andrew Keogh, the Librarian of Yale University and President for 1929–30, sat opposite me. Keogh, like myself, was born in Newcastle‐on‐Tyne.
THIS issue of The Library World marks the commencement of a new volume, and we take the opportunity of thanking our many readers for their continued good feeling and support. It…
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THIS issue of The Library World marks the commencement of a new volume, and we take the opportunity of thanking our many readers for their continued good feeling and support. It is a pleasure to us to record the fact that we are able to enlarge this initial number of the volume and that we feel the time has come when we shall make such enlargement a permanency, without any corresponding increase in the subscription price.
Yanan Wang, Jianqiang Li, Sun Hongbo, Yuan Li, Faheem Akhtar and Azhar Imran
Simulation is a well-known technique for using computers to imitate or simulate the operations of various kinds of real-world facilities or processes. The facility or process of…
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Purpose
Simulation is a well-known technique for using computers to imitate or simulate the operations of various kinds of real-world facilities or processes. The facility or process of interest is usually called a system, and to study it scientifically, we often have to make a set of assumptions about how it works. These assumptions, which usually take the form of mathematical or logical relationships, constitute a model that is used to gain some understanding of how the corresponding system behaves, and the quality of these understandings essentially depends on the credibility of given assumptions or models, known as VV&A (verification, validation and accreditation). The main purpose of this paper is to present an in-depth theoretical review and analysis for the application of VV&A in large-scale simulations.
Design/methodology/approach
After summarizing the VV&A of related research studies, the standards, frameworks, techniques, methods and tools have been discussed according to the characteristics of large-scale simulations (such as crowd network simulations).
Findings
The contributions of this paper will be useful for both academics and practitioners for formulating VV&A in large-scale simulations (such as crowd network simulations).
Originality/value
This paper will help researchers to provide support of a recommendation for formulating VV&A in large-scale simulations (such as crowd network simulations).