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Basilis Gonzales
No full textSeries 328 | Board of Pardons | Prisoners' pardon application case files | Basilis GonzalesCase files consist of letters to the Governor, a formal application for a pardon, petitions and letters of support from the public and officials connected to the case. Cases illustrate the process of review by the board of cases of prisoners incarcerated in the Utah prison system to determine if they should be released before their regular sentence ended
Basilis Gatos: Hard Tasks in the Background. Layout analysis
No full textBasilis Gatos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, GR) Basilis Gatos worked as Director of the Research Division in the field of digital preservation of old newspapers at Lambrakis Press Archives and as Managing Director of R&D Division in the field of document management and recognition at BSI S.A. in Greece. He is currently working as a Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Tel..
Latrunculia (Latrunculia) basilis Kirkpatrick. We 1908
No full textLatrunculia (Latrunculia) basilis Kirkpatrick, 1908 (Figs 1E, 2, 4D; Tables 2 & 3) Latrunculia apicalis var. basilis Kirkpatrick, 1908: 57; Latrunculia antarctica Tanita, 1959, P.7, FIG 7, 8; Latrunculia lendenfeldi; Koltun, 1964, pg. 23; Latrunculia brevis; Uriz, 1988, pg. 49, FIG. 25. Latrunculia lendenfeldi Hentschel, 1914, PG. 44, PL. V, FIG. 1 Holotype material. BMNH 1908.2.5.72, labeled Latrunculia apicalis var. basilis identified by Kirkpatrick, 1908, ethanol preserved sample (light brownbeige subsample of specimen, 10 x 10 x 2 mm in diameter) and microscopeslides, dredged off Balleney Island, Antarctic; depth 462 m, National Antarctic expedition, HMN Discovery 190104. Other material examined. ZMB 4812 (holotype), Labeled Latrunculia lendenfeldi Hentschel, 1914, seven microscopeslides, Wilhelm II Coast, Antarctica, 66º 2' 9''S; 89º 38'E, depth 385 m Description. Small encrusting sponge, 30 x 20 x 6 mm diameter. Surface smooth, but sandpapery with one volcanoshaped or conical osculum at the apex (recorded by Kirkpatrick), but not visible in the preserved type specimen, and mammiform areolate porefields 0.5 x 0.5 mm in diameter. Ectosome thin and transparent, easily separable from underlying choanosome. Colour in life light brown; in preservative light beigebrown. Skeleton. The choanosomal skeleton is a loose irregular polygonalmeshed reticulation formed by wispy tracts of smooth styles (Fig. 4D). These tracts range in width from 45–100 µm in thickness, forming meshes that are 273 µm wide. There is no distinction between the primary and secondary fibres. Towards the surface the spicules tend to be vertically arranged. The surface of the ectosome is lined with an erect layer of single anisodiscorhabds. Beneath the discorhabds in the ectosome is a thin paratangential layer of densely interlocking megascleres, approximately 227 µm wide. Spicules. Megascleres: styles are smooth, centrally thickened, fusiform and slightly sinuous, resembling strongyloxeas in appearance 554 (500–592) x 16 (16) m, n=20. Microscleres (Fig. 1E): leafy anisodiscorhabds, the manubrium is a vertically arranged spinose base armoured with a basal whorl with two short horizontally arranged whorls of spines followed by a smooth slender shaft 11 m long and 7 m wide. The median whorl is circular, broad, flat, and horizontally arranged, 48 m in diameter, larger in diameter than the subsidiary and apical whorls. The median whorl is divided into four distinct segments each possessing eight denticulate margins or spines. The subsidiary whorl is slanted upwards and situated closer to the apical whorl. The subsidiary whorl is divided into three cupshaped segments fused with seven to eight denticulate margins. The spines of the apical whorl are the smallest, convex and slanted upwards to end in a tridentlike tuft of acute spined projections. Anisodiscorhabd length, 69 m, n=20. Substratum, depth range, and ecology. Substrate and ecology unknown with a depth range from 81– 700 m. Geographic distribution (Fig. 2). Balleney Island, Cape Cook and Oates coast, Antarctica; Falklands Islands; Namibia. Remarks. Kirkpatrick (1908) described this specimen as a variant of Latrunculia apicalis. As he was clear in stating the subspecific rank of this specimen ("var."), the name basilis under article 45g, 46b and 72a of the ICZN is elevated to species status and will subsequently be referred to as L. basilis. In his description Kirkpatrick (1908) states that the anisodiscorhabds vary somewhat from the typical form (as for Latrunculia brevis) (62 m in length) having a small spike at the base, and a still smaller one at the apex. Upon examination of the type species no basal or apical spike were observed, but this appearance is due to the angle the discorhabds was observed due to the vertical arrangement of the expanded spinose base of the manubrium. The small spike on the apical whorl is that of the vertical arrangement of the crown. On close examination the morphology of the discorhabd closely resembles that of L. bocagei, but differs from the anisodiscorhabd of L. bocagei in having apical spines as opposed to the spined conules. The specimen collected on the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (Type data unknownno collection data on label, but examined) and identified by Koltun as a species of L. lendenfeldi, is considered a specimen on L. basilis, base on the anisodiscorhabd morphology, apical structures, spicule measurements and locality (specimen examined by authors) (see Tables 2 and 3). The specimen of L. brevis identified by Uriz (1988) from Namibia (not examined by authors) is considered a specimen of L. basilis based solely on the geometry and structure of the anisodiscorhabd and structure of the styles, which resembles strongyloxeas in appearance (Table 3). Although Tanita's type specimen was not examined [Latrunculia antarctica (holotype whereabouts unknownHooper and Wiedenmayer 1994)] the similarities in morphology and spiculation (see Table 3) as well as the specimens geographic position (Table 2) strongly suggest that it is the same as Latrunculia basilis from Balleney Island in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. L. lendenfeldi Hentschel (1914), after examination of the type species (ZMB 4812) (see FIG 12 C in Alvarez et al. 2002), is not a valid species but conspecific with L. basilis and therefore a synonym of the latter species. This validation is based on the gross morphology, apical structure and spicule length (see Table 2) of the anisodiscorhabd morphology and the locality of the species (see Table 3) (specimen examined by authors). Based on these similarities in spiculation the authors consider L. antarctica (sensu Tanita 1959), L. brevis (sensu Uriz 1988), L. lendenfeldi (sensu Koltun 1959) and the type species of L. lendenfeldi Hentschel (1914) as synonyms of L. basilis Kirkpatrick. We consider that the morphology and ornamentation of the discorhabd is stable within any given sample and justifies species distinction.Published as part of Samaai, Toufiek, Gibbons, Mark J. & Kelly, Michelle, 2006, Revision of the genus Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869 Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific (, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 1127 (1) on pages 31-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1127.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/505782
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
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
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
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