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ARRIVE guideline checklist for Co-cultures of cerebellar slices from mice with different reelin genetic backgrounds as a model to study cortical lamination by Adalberto Merighi and Laura Lossi
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Design and Cloning of Short HairpinRNAs (shRNAs) into a Lentiviral Silencing Vector to Study the Function of Selected Proteins in Neuronal Apoptosis
Full text linkDouble-stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) is a new simple and fast research tool for shutting 7 down genes and characterizes function of their respective proteins. Many strategies for design and delivery of 8 siRNA to target cells are available. Here, we describe the use of lentiviral short hairpin RNA (shRNA) RNA 9 silencing to identify the involvement of d-serine racemase (SR)- an enzyme that syntheses d-serine to modu- 10 late glutamate-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor- in regulating rat cerebellar granule neurons (CGN) apoptosis. 11 Apoptosis is induced by serum and KCl withdrawal and is detected with fluorometric caspase 3 assay
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
Immunocytochemical phenotype of differentiating neurons
No full textImmunohistochemistry techniques have been extensively used to identify and colocalize several proteins in
neuronal specimens. A challenging task is the specific labeling of neuroepithelial-deriving cells in the course
of neurogenesis. On the basis of the time-dependent expression of several molecular signals named as early,
intermediate, or late markers, neuroscientists can compose a coherent frame of sequential or overlapping
neuronal phenotypes. Starting from brain sections or brain-derived culture systems, this chapter describes
an immunofluorescence multi-labeling protocol which, by exploiting the concurrent labeling of antigens
of interest by means of an appropriate panel of antibodies, can help define several classes of neuronal cells
which appear during the course of neuronal development
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
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