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    Cancro batterico dell’albicocco: dalla diagnosi alla difesa

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    Le infezioni di Pseudomonas syringae pv. su albicocco causano dapprima deprezzamento della produzione e successivamente il deperimento dell’intera pianta. Scelta varietale, materiale vivaistico sano e ambienti con limitata frequenza di gelate sono i principi alla base di una corretta prevenzione della malattia, mentre a oggi il rame resta l’unico agrofarmaco ammesso in grado di garantire effi cacia battericid

    Molecular and Morphological Insights into Emerging Colletotrichum Species Causing Apple Bitter Rot and Glomerella Leaf Spot in Northern Italy

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    : Colletotrichum species from the Acutatum complex are well-known pathogens responsible for Apple Bitter Rot in post-harvest apples across Europe, including Italy. In recent years, however, Apple Bitter Rot has become a significant pre-harvest issue, affecting both fruit and leaves. This is concerning, as Colletotrichum species also cause Glomerella Leaf Spot, a damaging foliar disease. The emergence of Colletotrichum species from the Gloeosporioides complex, previously rare in Europe, has further raised concerns about disease management. This study investigates the diversity and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species in apple orchards across Northern Italy. From 2021 to 2023, isolates were collected from apple fruits and leaves in Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, and Trentino-Alto Adige. Multi-locus analyses revealed several species, with C. chrysophilum (22/45 colonies) being the most prevalent, followed by C. fioriniae (12/45 colonies) and C. siamense (6/45 colonies). C. grossum (2/45 colonies) and C. sojae (3/45 colonies) were less common. These species belong to different complexes: C. chrysophilum, C. siamense, and C. grossum in the Gloeosporioides complex, C. fioriniae in the Acutatum complex, and C. sojae in the Orchidearum complex. Pathogenicity assays on wounded and unwounded Gala apple fruits and leaves showed that C. siamense was the most aggressive, followed by C. grossum. C. sojae was non-pathogenic on fruits and caused lesions only on wounded leaves. This study provides an updated overview of Colletotrichum diversity in Italy and highlights the emergence of new species, including C. siamense and C. sojae, which are reported for the first time in the country. These findings may help explain recent changes in disease dynamics

    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

    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

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

    Strategie per contenere la batteriosi delle drupacee

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    CONTRO XANTHOMONAS arboricola pv pruni sono stati provati tra il 2012 e il 2019 non solo diversi agrofarmaci, ma anche concimi fogliari e un corroborante che agiscono positivamente contro la batteriosi. Il rame resta l’elemento che garantisce maggiori risultati. È comunque necessaria una strategia più ampia che comprenda non solo il rame, che può dare fenomeni di fitotossicità, ma anche altri formulati, valutando però se sono accessibili all’impiego (mancanza di una etichetta specifica) o quanto meno utilizzabili in qualità di agrofarmaci

    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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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