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The American Film Institute (AFI) presently does relatively little in terms of film preservation, but its founding in 1967 led to the growth of many of the mechanisms that define the motion picture preservation community today. As this article reveals, the AFI's success in promoting ongoing federal government support for motion picture preservation cannot be separated from the political context of the Cold War. The AFI's first director, George Stevens Jr., had previously been the head of the Motion Picture Service of the United States Information Agency (USIA). This work with a public diplomacy agency was essential to his vision for the design and structure of the AFI. Likewise, the AFI was founded as an independent nonprofit, but with the promise of significant ongoing funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). While this arrangement worked well at first, a change in presidential administrations and design flaws in the AFI's support mechanisms led to it being unable to meet the expectations of the very film preservation community it helped to foster.
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The forecasting of energy consumption in China is a key requirement for achieving national energy security and energy planning. In this study, multi-variable linear regression (MLR) and support vector regression (SVR) were utilized with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) artificial neural network of Chinese energy to establish a forecasting model. The derived model was validated through four economic variables; the gross domestic product (GDP), population, imports, and exports. The performance of various forecasting models was assessed via MAPE and RMSE, and three scenarios were configured based on different sources of variable data. In predicting Chinese energy consumption from 2015 to 2021, results from the established GRU model of the highest predictive accuracy showed that Chinese energy consumption would be likely to fluctuate from 2954.04 Mtoe to 5618.67 Mtoe in 2021.
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This study highlights the unique accommodations integral to welcoming transgender library patrons. Research shows transgender people have unique needs which differ from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals, and experience substantial barriers to obtaining quality library service. Most studies in the past exploring the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender library users focused exclusively on LGBQ users. This study surveyed adult transgender individuals (n = 102) with an online questionnaire. The majority of participants were white, designated female at birth, and under 40 years old. Survey respondents needed libraries to make accommodations for them to feel safe (p ¡ 0.001). The top 5 accommodations needed were recent transgender literature, gender identity or expression as part of library nondiscrimination policy, gender neutral, single-stall bathrooms where a key did not need to be requested, recent LGBQ literature), and an established remote process for name change.
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