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Investigation of Physicochemical Properties of Qalay Abdul Ali Soil, Kabul, Afghanistan
No full textThe article presents the physicochemical properties of soil from six different areas in Qalay Abdul Ali, Kabul, Afghanistan. The authors collected dissimilar samples from six diverse areas, each with a unique profile identifier, and transported them to the research laboratory. The key objectives of this study are to recognize and profile such areas in terms of their physical and chemical characteristics and correlate them with the earlier geological periods of the Qalay Abdul Ali Region. Due to regional conflicts in the region, such quantifications are necessary as very limited data for this region existed. From the analysis, the authors assess that the soil type is gravely soil, and silt with gravels with mostly neutral pH of the soil, although, in specific regions, it was near-acidic. The amounts of CaCO3, EC (electroconductivity), and pH are dissimilar according to the locations, the values of EC, and pH within a normal range at whole locations, and the remnants of plants in various quantities. These observations recommend that the soil limitations can be used accordingly for the utilization of soil factors in the regions of the study sites and extra washbasins in the country. As the population continues to grow, such data will be critical to the future sustainability of this region
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
Views Abdul-Ali Khan "Adib King" of the mosques of Kufa and easy in 1856 مشاهدات عبد العلي خان " أديب الملك " لمسجدي الكوفة والسهلة عام ١٨٥٦ م
No full textWhile the visit of the Iranian politician Abdul Ali Khan, "Adib King" of the city of Kufa and the mosques of "Kufa" and "easy" and the recording of his observations, one of the main resources of researchers and interested in the history of the mosques, as it seeks to explore them and their reality in the middle of the nineteenth century, Such a second motivation in the selection of research. In the middle of the nineteenth century AD, the Iranian sultan Abdul-Ali Khan, Adib al-Malik, visited the Kufa and Al-Sahla mosques in the holy city of Kufa, the era of Ottoman domination. It is of great importance to eliminate the pests that afflicted the two Ottoman- In the course of the ages, except the religious and doctrinal differences, until they often reached the fighting, the fighting and the bloodshed, and the This visit came to wipe out the black page that was written between them in the past ages and to create a state of coexistence Tuberculosis J and peace, the industry state of understanding and rapprochement between Islamic sects, which in turn reflected on the situation of the cities of the holy shrines in Iraq, the Iranians Kantzam visit her ... and others
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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