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Contributions of regional and intercontinental transport to surface ozone in the Tokyo area
Get PDFJapan lies downwind of the Asian continent and for much of the year air quality is directly influenced by emissions of ozone precursors over these heavily-populated and rapidly-industrializing regions. This study examines the extent to which oxidant transport from regional and distant anthropogenic sources influences air quality in Japan in springtime, when these contributions are largest. We find that European and North American contributions to surface ozone over Japan in spring are persistent, averaging 3.5 +/- 1.1 ppb and 2.8 +/- 0.5 ppb respectively, and are greatest in cold continental outflow conditions following the passage of cold fronts. Contributions from China are larger, 4.0 +/- 2.8 ppb, and more variable, as expected for a closer source region, and are generally highest near cold fronts preceding the influence of more distant sources. The stratosphere provides a varying but ever-present background of ozone of about 11.2 +/- 2.5 ppb during spring. Local sources over Japan and Korea have a relatively small impact on mean ozone, 2.4 +/- 7.6 ppb, but this masks a strong diurnal signal, and local sources clearly dominate during episodes of high daytime ozone. By examining the meteorological mechanisms that favour transport from different source regions, we demonstrate that while maximum foreign influence generally does not occur at the same time as the greatest buildup of oxidants from local sources, it retains a significant influence under these conditions. It is thus clear that while meteorological boundaries provide some protection from foreign influence during oxidant outbreaks in Tokyo, these distant sources still make a substantial contribution to exceedance of the Japanese ozone air quality standard in springtime
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Historiografía y ficción: La construcción del discurso en la Estoria de España (MS 7583) de Alfonso X
Get PDFThere is a category in Spanish literature and history that meets in two different genres: historiography and romance. An example of this is found in the manuscript 7583, a revised version of Alfonso X’s Estoria de España. MS 7583 copies the historical events, but it also interrupts historical discourse with three fictional romances seeking to present them as historical fact. The fictional cycle is composed of the romance “Flores y Blancaflor,” “Berta,” and “Carlos Mainete.” My dissertation studies the intersection of history writing and literary fiction in this version of the chronicle. I analyze how fictional elements were used to construct a fictional history of Spain. In it, the historiographic formulas overlap with narrative literary topics. I enquire on how the narrative discourse was adapted to a historical chronicle, and how history and romances were interwoven into the chronicle. I focus on three main topics: the interweavings of both discourses across the manuscript; the authorial representation of historical sources; and narrative technique. I show how the compiler of MS 7583 imitates historiographic narrative structures when he inserts fictional romances to manipulate historical events. In the chronicle, the Carolingian cycle mentioned is treated as a historical event that explicitly incorporates Moorish genealogy into the imperial lines of Spain and France. I examine how this type of interpolation was made and what were the purposes of this appropriation of history through fiction. I argue that the narrative discourse in the text presents characteristics of both of them, at the same time that it is not one nor the other per se. To support my argument, I use the Cervantine term “baciyelmo.” I claim that, as the “baciyelmo,” MS 7583 represents a diffused hybrid of romance and historiography. I also examine the genealogic and discursive manipulation and the narrative techniques that allows the intersection of history and fiction. I find in MS 7583 similar narrative characteristics as found in Chivalric romances and later in Crónica del rey don Rodrigo and Amadís de Gaula, specifically with the uses of author and authorship, and narrative techniques. My dissertation analyzes both discourses in order to define how the narrative discourse is constructed and show how these complementary disciplines oblige us to rethink our approaches to both fields
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
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