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Effects of S-11701 on accumulation, release and metabolism of norepinephrine in isolated canine saphenous veins
No full text1. The effects S-11701 ([morpholinyl-2)-methoxy]-8-tetrahydro-1,2,3,4-quinoleine) on accumulation, overflow and metabolism of [ 3H]norepinephrine were investigated in isolated canine saphenous veins. 2. Saphenous veins were incubated with [ 3H]norepinephrine in the absence or the presence of S-11701; the drug caused a concentration-dependent inhibition of the tissue content of [ 3H]norepinephrine and its metabolites, except for 3-methoxy-4-hydroxymandelic acid (VMA). 3. In helical strips of canine saphenous veins previously incubated with [ 3H]norepinephrine and then suspended for isometric tension recording and measurement of the overflow of labelled transmitter and its metabolites, S-11701 (30 μM) significantly increased the spontaneous efflux of total 3H; this effect was almost exclusively due to an augmentation of the efflux of [ 3H]DOPEG. 4. During electrical stimulation (9 V, 1 Hz), S-11701 at 1 μM slightly increased the overflow of extraneuronal norepinephrine metabolites without affecting the contractile response. At the higher concentration (30μM) the compound increased the contractive response and the overflow of 3H; the latter was due mainly to an increase in [ 3H]DOPEG and, to a lesser extent, in [ 3H]norepinephrine. 5. DMI (1 μM) did not interfere with the effects of S-11701 on DOPEG efflux. 6. These experiments indicate that in the canine saphenous vein, S-11701 causes a concentration-dependent inhibition of neuronal accumulation of [ 3H]norepinephrine. At higher concentrations, S-11701 enters the adrenergic nerve terminals independently of the neuronal amine carrier and displaces [ 3H]norepinephrine from its storage sites.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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