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Modelling And Syntheses Of Vanillin Derivatives Targeting Influenza Virus Neuraminidase
Full text linkInfluenza remains a serious global threat. To date, zanamivir and oseltamivir used as NA inhibitors were reported to be resistant to influenza virus. Therefore, new and effective NA inhibitors must be discovered. In this study, pharmacophore modelling approach was used to search for NA inhibitors with new scaffold. Two computer softwares such as Discovery Studio 2.5 and LigandScout 3.1 was utilized. Through the softwares, the pharmacophore modelling approaches was generated. Ligand-based and structure-based pharmacophore modelling approaches will complement each other. Ligand-based pharmacophore modelling approach is based on common features functional groups
Modelling of Schiff Base Vanillin Derivatives Targeting Streptococcus Pneumoniae Bacterial Neuraminidase
Full text linkStreptococcus pneumoniae is a pathogenic bacterium which has led to serious pneumococcal infections. Despite the fact that efficient therapeutic agents and vaccinations are available for the treatment of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections, more strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae have acquired significant resistance towards the available antibiotics. The neuraminidase of Streptococcus pneumoniae possess significant contribution in pathogenesis, aiding the release and spread of virus. Simultaneously, Schiff base vanillin derivatives were reported in past literature for their great deal of potential as inhibitors of influenza virus neuraminidase. Hence, the research aims to evaluate the inhibitory activity of Schiff base vanillin derivatives against Streptococcus pneumoniae neuraminidase via ligand-based pharmacophore modelling and structure-based molecular docking using LigandScout 4.4.9 and AutoDock 4.2. Ligand-based pharmacophore modelling was performed to analyse the anti-neuraminidase activity of Schiff base vanillin derivatives based on their pharmacophore fit values and matching pharmacophore features with a pharmacophore model, generated from a list of training sets, which are reported drugs against Streptococcus pneumoniae neuraminidase. In structure-based molecular docking, the Schiff base vanillin derivatives were evaluated based on their docking performances with the active sites of the crystal structure of PDB:2YA8. Evaluations were based on their pharmacophore scores, binding affinity and matching interactions with the inhibitory ligand of 2YA8. 20 out of 21 Schiff base vanillin derivatives successfully show good results in ligand-based pharmacophore modelling, as well as satisfying docking performances in structure-based molecular docking. Furthermore, they also fulfill the Lipinski’s Rule of 5, thus displaying appreciable potential as inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae neuraminidase
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
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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