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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B0→K∗0γ )/B(B0s→φγ ) and the directCP asymmetry inB 0→K∗0γ

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    The ratio of branching fractions of the radiative B decays B0→K⁎0γ and B0s→ϕγ has been measured using an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7TeV. The value obtained is B(B0→K⁎0γ)B(B0s→ϕγ)=1.23±0.06(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.10(fs/fd), where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty and the third is associated with the ratio of fragmentation fractions fs/fd. Using the world average value for B(B0→K⁎0γ), the branching fraction B(B0s→ϕγ) is measured to be (3.5±0.4)×10−5. The direct CP asymmetry in B0→K⁎0γ decays has also been measured with the same data and found to be ACP(B0→K⁎0γ)=(0.8±1.7(stat.)±0.9(syst.))%. Both measurements are the most precise to date and are in agreement with the previous experimental results and theoretical expectations

    A s s e s s m e n t o f t h e L e v e l s o f P a r a t h y r o i d H o r m o n e , O e s t r o g e n a n d S e l e c t e d B o n e M i n e r a l s i n M e n o p a u s a l W o m e n

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    M e n o p a u s e i s a s s o c i a t e d w i t h v a r i o u s p h y s i o l o g i c a l a n d b i o c h e m i c a l c h a n g e s t h a t h a v e e f f e c t s o n b o n e m i n e r a l s a n d t h e i r m e t a b o l i s m . T h e r e h a v e b e e n a l o t o f c o m p l a i n t s a b o u t b o n e p a i n s a n d b o n e r e l a t e d p r o b l e m s e s p e c i a l l y a m o n g m i d d l e a g e d w o m e n . T h u s , t h e w o r k w a s d e s i g n e\ud d t o a s s e s s a n d c o m p a r e t h e l e v e l s o f p a r a t h y r o i d h o r m o n e ( P T H ) , o e s t r o g e n a n d s e l e c t e d b o n e m i n e r a l s ( c a l c i u m a n d p h o s p h a t e ) i n p r e - a n d p o s t - m e n o p a u s a l w o m e n . A t o t a l o f o n e h u n d r e d s u b j e c t s w e r e i n v e s t i g a t e d . T h e y c o m p r i s e d f i f t y p r e - m e n o p a u s a l w o m e n w i t h i n t h e a g e s o f 2 0 y e a r s a n d 4 5 y e a r s a n d f i f t y p o s t - m e n o p a u s a l w o m e n w i t h i n t h e a g e s o f 5 0 y e a r s a n d 6 5 y e a r s . T h e l e v e l s o f p a r a t h y r o i d h o r m o n e , o e s t r o g e n , c a l c i u m a n d p h o s p h a t e w e r e m e a s u r e d i n t h e s u b j e c t s . P a r a t h y r o i d h o r m o n e a n d o e s t r o g e n w e r e a n a l y z e d u s i n g e n z y m e i m m u n o a s s a y t e c h n i q u e w h i l e c a l c i u m a n d p h o s p h a t e w e r e a n a l y z e d u s i n g s p e c t r o p h o t o m e t r i c m e t h o d . T h e r e s u l t s s h o w e d t h a t p a r a t h y r o i d h o r m o n e , c a l c i u m a n d p h o s p h a t e w e r e s i g n i f i c a n t l y i n c r e a s e d ( p < 0 . 0 5 ) w h i l e t h e r e w a s d e c r e a s e i n o e s t r o g e n i n p o s t - m e n o p a u s a l w o m e n c o m p a r e d w i t h p r e m e n o p a u s a l w o m e n . P T H a n d o e s t r o g e n c o r r e l a t e d s i g n i f i c a n t l y a t ( p < 0 . 0 1 ) i n b o t h p r e - a n d p o s t m e n o p a u s e . T h i s s t u d y c o n c l u d e d t h a t p o s t m e n o p a u s a l w o m e n h a v e i n c r e a s e d s e r u m l e v e l s o f p a r a t h y r o i d h o r m o n e , c a l c i u m a n d p h o s p h a t e b u t d e c r e a s e d s e r u m l e v e l o f o e s t r o g e n . S i g n i f i c a n t p o s i t i v e c o r r e l a t i o n e x i s t s b e t w e e n P T H a n d o e s t r o g e n i n b o t h p r e - a n d p o s t m e n o p a u s e b u t n o s i g n i f i c a n t r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n P T H a n d o e s t r o g e n w i t h c a l c i u m a n d p h o s p h a t

    Letter from B. F. McAtle, Reading, Pennsylvania, to A. O. Hewitt, Bainbridge, Ohio, January 18, 1876

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    A letter written by B. F. McAtle of Reading, Pennsylvania, to A. O. Hewitt of Bainbridge, Ohio, about his share of the inheritance of Ms. Pepple. He claims to be entitled to 1/7 of her property in the amount of 731plusinterestandgivesinstructionsforsettlingtheestate.Anotewrittenontheenvelopestatesthattheletterwasansweredin1877withanofferof731 plus interest and gives instructions for settling the estate. A note written on the envelope states that the letter was answered in 1877 with an offer of 375

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

    Observations of Bºs→ψ(2S)η and Bº(s)→ψ(2S)π+π- decays

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    First observations of the B0s →ψ(2S)η, B0 →ψ(2S)π + π − and B0s →ψ(2S)π + π − decays are made using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 7 TeV. The ratios of the branching fractions of each of the ψ(2S) modes with respect to the corresponding J/ψ decays are B(B0s →ψ(2S)η) ÷ B(B0s →J/ψη) = 0.83± 0.14 (stat)±0.12 (syst) ±0.02 (B), ; B(B0→ψ(2S)π + π − ) ÷ B(B0→J/ψπ + π − ) = 0.56± 0.07 (stat)±0.05 (syst)± 0.01 (B), ; B(B0s →ψ(2S)π + π − ) ÷ B(B0s →J/ψπ + π − ) = 0.34± 0.04 (stat)±0.03 (syst)± 0.01 (B), where the third uncertainty corresponds to the uncertainties of the dilepton branching fractions of the J/ψ and ψ(2S) meson decays

    Measurement of b-hadron masses

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    Measurements of b-hadron masses are performed with the exclusive decay modes B +→J/ψK +, B 0→J/ψK +, B0→J/ψKS0, Bs0→J/ψφ and Λb0→J/ψΛ using an integrated luminosity of 35pb -1 collected in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV by the LHCb experiment. The momentum scale is calibrated with J/ψ→μ +μ - decays and verified to be known to a relative precision of 2 ×10 -4 using other two-body decays. The results are more precise than previous measurements, particularly in the case of the Bs0 and Λb0 masses

    O. B. Andrews obituary, 1937

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    Newspaper clipping on the life and death of O. B. Andrews entitled "Leader Dies.

    Empresas BIC o Sistema B

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    Empresas BIC o Sistema B , qué es, cuáles son los retos para las organizaciones que quieren hacer de su negocio, el mejor negocio para la sostenibilidad del planeta. En #PlanetaSostenible Te enseñamos casos de éxito que nos ayudan a conocer las mejores prácticas
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