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Nebrioporus balli
No full text<i>Nebrioporus balli</i> (Vazirani, 1970) <p> <i>Potamonectes balli</i> Vazirani (1970: 127) (orig. descr.).</p> <p> <i>Nebrioporus balli</i> (Vazirani); Nilsson & Angus (1992: 287).</p> <p> <i>Nebrioporus</i> (s.str.) <i>balli</i> (Vazirani); Nilsson (2001: 170; 2003: 66).</p> <p> <b>Type locality.</b> W. Pakistan> Khewra Salt Range.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> The holotype and some paratypes should stand in NZSI, although they have been not found in that collection (P. Mazzoldi, personal communication, 2007).</p> <p> This taxon clearly belongs to the <i>laeviventris</i> -group and it could be close to <i>N. indicus</i> and <i>N. sagartus,</i> or even be a synonym of one of them. A single, non-type, male specimen in BMNH, identified as <i>Potamonectes balli</i> by Vazirani (India, Uttaranchal Pradesh, Bhimtal, Kumaon Kalees, 5.VI.1978: see also under "Additional material examined" of <i>N. indicus</i>), is undoubtedly a specimen of <i>N. indicus</i>. Nevertheless, this question may only be resolved through examination of the type material (see also discussion under <i>N. sagartus</i>).</p>Published as part of <i>Toledo, Mario, 2009, Revision in part of the genus Nebrioporus Régimbart, 1906, with emphasis on the N. laeviventris-group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 1-111 in Zootaxa 2040</i> on pages 90-9
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full textWe 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
Hecullus balli Beamer 1937
No full textballi Beamer, 1937 (United States) bracteatus Ball, 1901 (United States) mexicanus n. sp. (Mexico) Key to species of Hecullus 1. Female 8.0 mm or longer (43A1,B1, 48A,B); female head length 1.7x or more interocular width (43A1, 48A); known males (H. balli) with forewings pale and without distinct shading along veins (43A2,B2), head and pronotum without distinct longitudinal banding pattern (43A2), aedeagus in lateral view with apex rounded (43H), and ventral processes of aedeagus projecting caudad from ventral side of aedeagal base (43H)............................................................ 2 1’. Female 7.0 mm or less (44A1,B1); female head length 1.3x or less interocular width (44A1); male forewings with brown shading along vein margins (44A2,B2), head and pronotum with distinct longitudinal banding pattern (44A2), aedeagus in lateral view with apex attenuated to sharp apex (44H), and ventral processes not projecting caudad and closely following curvature of aedeagus (44H)............................................................................ H. bracteatus 2. Female head length 2.0x or more interocular width (43A1); face without distinct broad brown bands or other distinct brown markings (43B1)................................................................................ H. balli 2’. Female head length 1.7–1.8x interocular width (48A); face with broad brown to dark brown band along anterolateral portion of frontoclypeus, continuing beneath eye and onto ventral side of thorax (48B,C,Q); face with brown mark from basolateral corner of clypellus to medial margin of lorum, widening along lorum margin toward apex (48C).................. H. mexicanusPublished as part of Zahniser, James N., 2021, Revision of the New World leafhopper tribe Faltalini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) and the evolution of brachyptery, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4954 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4954.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/469077
International Income Risk-Sharing and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008--2009
No full textWe examine the impact of the global financial crisis on the degree of international income and consumption risk-sharing among industrial economies using returns on cross-border portfolio holdings (e.g., debt, equity, fdi). We split the returns from the net foreign holdings as receipts (inflows) and payments (outflows) to investigate which of the two sides exhibited the greater resilience for income risk-sharing during the recent crisis. First, we find that debt delivered better risk-sharing than equity, mainly reflecting the deficit deterioration in EMU countries during the post-crisis period. FDI, by contrast, did not correspond to noticeable risk diversification. Second, separating output shocks into positive and negative components reveals that debt holding receipts (equity liability payments) performed better under negative (positive) realizations of the shock variable. Third, the unwinding of capital flows resulted in a sharp fall in income dis-smoothing via the debt liability channel in the new EU countries
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Familial Hypobetalipoproteinemia Due to a Novel Mutation of Apolipoprotein B Gene " - Horm Res 2004;
No full textSince in most of the introns of the human gene A is present in this position it is likely that the presence of a G in this position, like in our patient, disrupts the splicing process.This hypothesis is supported by the observation that proband’s sister who has also hypobetalipoproteinemia was carrier of the same mutation in intron 8. This mutation has not yet been found in normal subjects and in more than 30 FHBL individuals investigated by our group.In FHBL the variability in symptoms was related to the length of the truncated apoB and its ability to form chylomicrons and absorb fat-soluble vitamins and essential fatty acids rather than the levels of LDL-C). Our patient belongs to our series of “symptomatic” heterozygous FHBL subjects with no truncated apoBs detectable in plasma. This finding raises the question as to whether, in a specific FHBL patient/pedegree, hypobetalipoproteinemia is due to mutation in the APOB gene or in other genes (yet to be identified) affecting apoB metabolism. Probably, hypobetalipoproteinemia explains the presence of liver steatosis already at this age, even if it cannot be excluded that obesity should play a role in this alteration
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B0→K∗0γ )/B(B0s→φγ ) and the directCP asymmetry inB 0→K∗0γ
No full textThe 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
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