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Batista, Vincent, March 15, 2007 [Interview]
No full textVincent Batista was interviewed on March 15, 2007, by Brian Matthew Jordan about his experiences during World War II.Grashio, SamuelWorld War I
Response and regulation of cell-surface hydrolases to nutrient stress in river-influenced coastal areas
No full textConceptually, the hydrolysis product of ectoenzyme activity is used to relieve nutrient stress or acquire a type of molecule not immediately accessible in the environment. When properly characterized, ectoenzyme activities can offer greater insight into the nutrient requirements of organisms and how they use organic matter. This dissertation analyzes enzyme activity data from two river-influenced coastal regions, locations of variable inorganic nutrient concentrations, dissolved organic matter concentrations, and biomass. It is the ultimate goal of this dissertation to provide a quantitative means of interpreting ectoenzyme activity or, at the very least, to provide possible interpretations of activity that go beyond the overly-simplistic and qualitative views currently dominant in the ectoenzyme literature. In addition, it highlights the advantages of automated biological measurements, and promotes their use in future work. The first section explores the role of nitrate on LAP expression, and how LAP activities can reflect (and participate in) different biogeochemical regimes within the Hudson River outflow. The second section describes a simple model predicting the influence of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) activity on a nitrate-limited phytoplankton population. The model includes predictions of the strength of nitrate limitation, ability of LAP to overcome the limitation, coupling strength between hydrolysis and uptake, and a phytoplankton nitrate requirement. The third section expands upon current research in alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity in the Louisiana shelf. This work provides a first look at high resolution time-series of AP activity and other environmental variables, and how the interpretation of AP activity measurements may be improved by considering a time lag between variables and a temporal control on AP expression.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Brian Matthew Gaa
Toward a Clearer Democracy: The Readability of Idaho Supreme Court Opinions as a Measure of the Court’s Democratic Legitimacy
No full textThis study analyzes the quantitative and qualitative readability of Idaho Supreme Court opinions from 1891 to the present. It does so using a statistically relevant sample of 371 court opinions. First, it examines the readability of court opinions using the Flesch readability tests results and compares them with the more qualitatively relevant Style test results. The study also performs and examines several linear regression tests to confirm its earlier correlation findings and to see if certain variables further affect readability out-comes. Next, this study examines the issue of opinion readability using two textual analysis models from political science literature. First, it applies Donald Lutz’s textual completeness model of analysis. Second, it applies Martin Landau’s system redundancy model. Citing to illustrations from the Court opinions, it uses these models to demonstrate how text com-pleteness and textual redundancy are superior assessment models for readability. Based on these analyses, this study concludes that Idaho Supreme Court opinions are becoming more readable over time.doctoral, Ph.D., Political Science -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 201
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Perlindungan hukum terhadap pelaku usaha terkait bagasi tercatat yang hilang / Brian Matthew Gunawan
No full textZaman modern seperti sekarang ini semakin banyak maskapai penerbangan yang menyediakan layanan jasa penerbangan dalam kegiatan usahanya, contohnya adalah Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air, Citilink, Batik Air dan maskapai penerbangan lainnya. Kegiatan ini dilakukan sebagai salah satu fasilitas yang ditawarkan oleh para pelaku usaha guna menunjang kehidupan manusia pada zaman modern yang serba cepat dan memiliki mobilitas tinggi. Namun tidak hanya kecepatan dan ketepatan waktu untuk berpindah tempat, melainkan juga seringkali kita mendengar bahwa bagasi tercatat yang dititipkan hilang dan mengakibatkan pelaku usaha juga membutuhkan perlindungan hukum jika terjadi hilangnya bagasi tercatat. Peraturan Menteri Perhubungan Nomor 77 Tahun 2011 tentang Tanggung Jawab Pengangkut Angkutan Udara telah menentukan besaran nominal ganti rugi yang harus dipertanggung jawabkan dan pelaku usaha dibebaskan dari ganti rugi jika konsumen menyimpan barang berharga di dalam bagasi tercatat dan tidak melaporkan kepada pihak maskapai penerbangan atau pelaku usaha. Masalahnya adalah bagaimana perlindungan hukum terhadap pelaku usaha terkait bagasi tercatat yang hilang? Untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut, penulis menggunakan metode penelitian hukum normatif dengan studi kepustakaan. Meskipun telah dilarang menyimpan barang berharga di dalam bagasi tercatat masih banyak penumpang yang menyimpan di dalam bagasi tercatat miliknya. Hal ini dapat menimbulkan kerugian bagi pelaku usaha yang menyediakan jasa penerbangan tersebut. Guna agar tidak mengalami kerugian yang besar bagi konsumen harus sadar bahwa jika membawa barang berharga di dalam bagasi tercatat harus dilaporkan dan jika tidak dilaporkan pelaku usaha memiliki hak untuk dibebaskan dari ganti rugi tersebut. BPSK dan Hakim yang mengadili juga dapat memutuskan seadil-adilnya. Hal ini diharapkan agar adanya rasa adil bagi pelaku usaha dan konsumen dalam ganti rugi jika terjadi kehilangan bagasi tercatat tersebut
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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