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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Cloning and expression of a putative cyclodextrine glycosyltransferase from the symbiotically competet cyanobacteruium Nostoc sp. PCC 9229
No full textA polymerase chain reaction-based method was used to isolate a Nostoc sp. PCC 9229 cDNA from infected glands of Gunnera chilensis. The complete gene sequence was isolated from a genomic Nostoc sp. PCC 9229 library. Sequence analysis showed 84% amino acid similarity to a putative cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase from Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 and the gene was therefore termed cgt. Southern blot revealed that the cgt gene was present in symbiotically competent cyanobacteria. The cgt gene was expressed in free-living nitrogen-fixing cultures in light or in darkness when supplemented with fructose. This is the first expression analysis of a cgt gene from a cyanobacterium.</p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Analyzing state-dependent model–data comparison in multi-regime systems
Full text linkAuthor Posting. © The Author(s), 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Springer for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Computational Geosciences 15 (2011): 627-636, doi:10.1007/s10596-011-9229-3.An approach to analyze regime change in spatial time series data sets is
followed and extended to jointly analyze a dynamical model depicting regime shift
and observational data informing the same process. We analyze changes in the joint
model-data regime and covariability within each regime. The method is applied to two
observational data sets of equatorial sea surface temperature (TAO/TRITON array and
satellite) and compared with the predicted data by the ECCO-JPL modeling system.Funding for this work was provided by Spanish National Program on Space,
under contract ESP2005-06823-C05. A. Aretxabaleta has been additionally supported by a
Juan de la Cierva grant of the Spanish Government. K. Smith was supported by NSF Grant
DMS-0934653
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
The effect of exogenous carbohydrates on nitrogen fixation and hetR expression in Nostoc PCC 9229 forming symbiosis with Gunnera
No full textThe cyanobacterium Nostoc PCC 9229 forms an intracellular nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with the angiosperm Gunnera. In symbiosis the cyanobacterium is enclosed in darkness and receives carbon from the plant in an unknown form. Out of five putative plant carbohydrate sources tested in vitro, fructose and glucose were found to support nitrogen fixation in darkness. The other three dextrin, sucrose and Gunnera sp. mucilage could not induce nitrogenase activity in darkness. The stimulatory effect by fructose was also observed in illuminated samples. After four weeks incubation in darkness, nitrogenase was still active in cultures when fructose was added and multiple thick-walled nitrogen-fixing cells (heterocysts) were observed, and chlorophyll levels unchanged. The expression as shown by Northern blot analysis revealed that fructose influenced the gene expression of hetR, a gene necessary for heterocyst formation, in darkness. Fructose and glucose may therefore be the carbohydrates supplied by the host plant to induce heterocyst differentiation and nitrogen fixation in the cyanobiont Nostoc PCC 9229.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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