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Digestato su mais ceroso: effetti su emissioni di CO2 e resa.
No full textL’impiego della frazione liquida del digestato per la concimazione del mais ha effetti positivi sulle rese, ma per limitare l’emissione di CO2 è necessario rispettare alcune regole agronomiche, tra cui evitare la distribuzione superficiale su suoli con tessitura franco-sabbiosa
Treatment performance and macrophytes growth in a restored hybrid constructed wetland for municipal wastewater treatment
No full texttThis work evaluated depuration performance and macrophyte plants growth in a full-scale hybrid-constructed wetland (H-CW) (1000 population equivalent) treating municipal wastewater. The plantwas activated in June 2010 after a restoration of an existent H-CW composed of a horizontal subsur-face flow (HSSF) bed vegetated with evergreen xerophile species (Prunus laurocerasus, Pittosporum spp.,Elaeagnus angustifolia), connected with a sedimentation pond vegetated with Lemna spp. To enhancethe depuration performances, in both sections of the plant the original vegetation was removed and theHSSF bed was vegetated with Phragmites australis, whereas in the pond, a floating treatment wetland veg-etated with Iris pseudacorus was installed. The depuration performance in treating total nitrogen (TN),nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N), ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N), total phosphorus (TP), orthophosphate (PO4-P) andchemical oxygen demand (COD) was weekly monitored between August 2010 and August 2011. Resultsindicated median concentration abatements for the entire system of 74.3% for TN, 62.1% for NH4-N, 77.7%for NO3-N, 29.6% for TP, 37.4% for PO4-P, and 46.7% for COD. In addition, at the end of the first growingseason (June 2010–November 2010), good adaption to the system was detected for both P. australis andI. pseudacorus, which produced respectively 3.9 ± 2.2 kg m−2and 3.7 ± 1.0 kg m−2of above-ground drybiomass, with average above-ground N uptakes of 62.4 ± 35.6 g m−2and 69.8 ± 19.0 g m−2and averageabove-ground P uptakes of 4.6 ± 2.6 g m−2and 7.8 ± 2.1 g m−2. The results indicate that a H-CW composedof a sequence of HSSF bed and FTW represents an effective application for abating TN, NH4-N, NO3-N andCOD concentrations from municipal wastewater
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
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