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Preservation treatments of aged papers by supercritical carbon dioxide
No full textInnovative neutralizing and strengthening treatments for aged acidic paper have been developed, based on the use of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2SCF) as solvent system. After treatment with the non toxic neutralizing agent CaCO3 in CO2SCF, acidic papers exhibited a pH increase of water extracts, the creation of an alkaline reserve and a decrease in the rate of artificial aging, while mechanical tensile properties properties of aged acidic papers improved after treatment with catechol both simply dissolved in ethanol or in CO2SCF in the presence of ethanol as co-solvent
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
Physico-chemical characterization of compatibilized poly(propylene)/aromatic polyamide blends
No full textPolypropylene/arom. polyamide blends were prepd. by melt mixing, without or with the addn. of an interfacial modifier, viz. a PP grafted with 1% of maleic anhydride. The characteristics of these polymer blends were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mech. thermal anal., SEM and surface tension measurements. The transport parameters of oxygen through films of such polymer blends were also detd. by the differential permeation method. The new compatibilized blend materials, being transparent, sterilizable, dimensionally stable, and having very high barrier properties towards oxygen, are particularly suitable for packaging applications
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
Kinetic studies on the accelerated aging of cellulosic materials
No full textThe natural aging of cellulosic materials (high purity paper, cotton, raw and bleached flax, viscose) was simulated by thermal oxidation in air at constant temperature (123-192 degrees C). Also the synergetic effect of light was investigated at 50-85 degrees C. The kinetics of polymer degradation was followed through intrinsic viscosity measurements and was correlated with the degree of crystallinity, determined by X-ray diffraction, and with the surface oxidation of the investigated samples, evaluated through XPS analysis. At least two constant rate stages were observed in kinetic runs. The acceleration factors and time necessary for simulating a 20-year thermal aging of the investigated cellulosic materials were obtained from the calculated activation parameters by extrapolation of the process rate coefficients to room temperature. Surface oxidation parallel to aging led to the formation of low-molecular-weight, easily removable products in pure cellulose materials, while in lignin-containing materials mainly lignin was involved
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