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Bioactive Phytochemicals from Grape Seed Oil-Processing By-Products
No full textWinemaking leads to by-products with high added value, which can be used for
new productions in different fields. The reuse of grape seed is addressed in the
production of oil and related oil-processing by-products. The main residue from
seed oil processing is represented by grape seed flour. A focus on grapeseed oil
and health by literature quantitative research analysis is presented. Chemical
composition, bioactive compounds, and biological and functional properties ofgrape seed oil and oil-processing by-products are described, and databases
containing data and information on grape seed by-products are highlighted.
Due to their contents of nutrients and bioactive molecules, grape seed oil and
oil-processing by-products raise interest for use in different fields. A picture of
food and nonfood applications of extracts and bioactive compounds from grape
seed oil and oil-processing by-products is presented
Glicosinolates in food
No full textGlucosinolates are secondary plant metabolites that have attracted researcher’s
attention due to their potential chemopreventive activity. More than 120 different
glucosinolates have been identified in plants, and several of these compounds
have been studied for the potential anti-cancerogenic effect of their metabolic
breakdown products (mainly ITCs).
Glucosinolates are peculiar of vegetables belonging to Brassicaceae family but
are present also in few other species (capers, papaya, and moringa) used for
human consumption. The type and concentration of glucosinolates in food are
highly variable depending on several factors, such as genetics, cultivation site,
cultivar, growth conditions, developmental stage, plant tissue, post-harvest handling,
and food preparation methods. As types and concentration are also the
main determinant of their biological activities, estimates of their content in food
are essential tool to understand if a certain diet is adequate to deliver qualitatively
and quantitatively appropriate glucosinolates and ITCs.
The aim of this chapter is to describe qualitative and quantitative glucosinolate
distribution among commonly eaten food, as well as the effect of the post-harvest
handling on the glucosinolate food content
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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