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Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
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
Seal Molt Model
No full text<p>Programs for fitting progress of molt in elephant seals, written in C++. THe program should work on a Linux system as is, using the data included, but knowledge of C++ and Bayesian statistics are necessary to understand the output or adapt the code. The program fits a logistic curve to observations that increase from 0 to 100% molt for multiple individuals across multiple years. Individual logistic parameters are fitted to a hyperdistribution across years and animals. </p>
<p>Files with extension .h or .cpp contain the code:<br>1) modelMolt.h defines the molt class and runs all calculations, and includes subroutines in header files<br>2) utilities.cpp has commonly used subroutines<br>3) util.h has commonly used subroutines<br>4) Array2D.h is used within subroutines<br>5) likelihood.h has common likelihood functions for statistical calculations<br>6) statistics.h has common statistical functions<br>7) randomgenerator.h has a random number generator<br>8) modelMolt.cpp has the main function, accepting command-line parameters and executing a complete run</p>
<p><br>The file FemaleMolt.csv has sample data. It includes 4 tab-delimited columns:<br>1) animalID is an arbitrary identifier of individuals, always an integer<br>2) year is an integer<br>3) yday is day of the year, with 1=1Jan, treated as a double<br>4) molt is observation of the molt status of the given animal on the given day, always in [0,100], a double</p>
<p>The first 7 rows of data showing observed molt progress in animal 44168 in year 2016:<br>animalID year yday molt<br>44168 2016 126 0<br>44168 2016 129 0<br>44168 2016 130 0<br>44168 2016 137 0<br>44168 2016 139 5<br>44168 2016 146 15<br>44168 2016 171 100</p>
<p><br>To illustrate compilation, assume file #8 and the data file are in a folder FOLDERNAME. The following creates an executable program in FOLDERNAME:<br>> cd FOLDERNAME<br>> g++ -Wall modelMolt.cpp -o modelMolt.exe</p>
<p>Before compiling, edit lines 103-104 in modelMolt.h. They identify the folder to which results will be written. Those should be renamed as needed, and both folders must be created before executing. Then, to execute a run for 4000 steps, showing results every 500 steps, with output files named OUTPUT within those folders:<br>> ./modelMolt.exe FOLDERNAME FemaleMolt 4000 500 1 OUTPUT</p>
<p>There is one output file showing all parameter estimates of the Gibbs chain for every individual animal within the folder named 'pathFemale' (line 104). There are files of parameters for each year and grand hyperparameters within the folder named 'path' (line 103). Each file has 4000 rows for the 4000 steps chosen at run time.</p>
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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
A Cultivar Attribute Database Derived from Ira J. Condit (1955): “Fig Varieties: A Monograph”
No full textDuring California’s broad experiment with fig cultivation, Ira J. Condit became known as the “High Priest of the Fig.” Herein is a large set of fig attributes deemed agriculturally important by Ira J. Condit in his 1955 monograph. The attributes are divided into five categories and distributed across 717 cultivars. All data and software source code have been made available publicly on Figshare
Marker rescue mapping of the combined Condit/Dales collection of temperature-sensitive vaccinia virus mutants
No full textAbstractComplementation analysis of the combined Condit/Dales collection of vaccinia virus temperature-sensitive mutants has been reported (Lackner, C.A., D'Costa, S.M., Buck, C., Condit, R.C., 2003. Complementation analysis of the Dales collection of vaccinia virus temperature-sensitive mutants. Virology 305, 240–259), however not all complementation groups have previously been assigned to single genes on the viral genome. We have used marker rescue to map at least one representative of each complementation group to a unique viral gene. The final combined collection contains 124 temperature-sensitive mutants affecting 38 viral genes, plus five double mutants
Soil chemistry and dry season intensity, Panama Canal Area
No full textWoody plant species were surveyed at 72 locations near the Panama Canal, spanning geological formations and a rainfall gradient. Soil chemistry, and dry season intensity at all the sites. Response of tree species to environmental gradients was estimated. The soil and climate data are provided in a single table here. Tree distributions are published at Condit et al. (2013a), including a data archive in Condit et al. (2013b). Note that the PNAS article incorrectly cites the data archive; the link below is correct.Data are in a tab-delimited ascii file. There are 77 locations with latitude, longitude, and elevation given. See README file.
References
Condit, R., B. M. J. Engelbrecht, D. Pino, R. Perez, and B. L. Turner. 2013a. Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:5064–5068.
Condit, R.; Engelbrecht, B.; Pino, D.; Turner, B.; Pérez, R. 2013b. Panama Tree Distribution Database. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/19529.
Mirabello, M. J., J. B. Yavitt, M. Garcia, K. E. Harms, B. L. Turner, and S. J. Wright. 2013. Soil phosphorus responses to chronic nutrient fertilisation and seasonal drought in a humid lowland forest, Panama. Soil Research 51:215.
Turner, B. L., T. Brenes-Arguedas, and R. Condit. 2018. Pervasive phosphorus limitation of tree species but not communities in tropical forests. Nature 555:367–370.
Turner, B. L., and S. Joseph Wright. 2014. The response of microbial biomass and hydrolytic enzymes to a decade of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium addition in a lowland tropical rain forest. Biogeochemistry 117:115–130.
Turner, B. L., J. B. Yavitt, K. E. Harms, M. N. Garcia, T. E. Romero, and S. J. Wright. 2013. Seasonal Changes and Treatment Effects on Soil Inorganic Nutrients Following a Decade of Fertilizer Addition in a Lowland Tropical Forest. Soil Science Society of America Journal 77:1357–1369.
Turner, B. L., J. B. Yavitt, K. E. Harms, M. N. Garcia, and S. J. Wright. 2015. Seasonal changes in soil organic matter after a decade of nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest. Biogeochemistry 123:221–235.
Turner, B. L., P. Zalamea, R. Condit, K. Winter, S. J. Wright, and J. W. Dalling. 2017. No evidence that boron influences tree species distributions in lowland tropical forests of Panama. New Phytologist 214:108–119.Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001Award Number: 0948585Funding provided by: U.S. Department of DefenseCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000005Award Number: Funding provided by: United States Agency for International DevelopmentCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000200Award Number:The README file includes descriptions of columns in the data table. Details on methods for soil chemistry are given in references listed below. The Condit et al. (2013a) paper in PNAS has an accompanying data archive (Condit et al. 2013b), referred to below as PNAS archive
Books piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will b
No full textBooks piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will be presented at Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, on March 5
I Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s disco
No full textI Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s discovery of abundant wild blueberries growing near Rocky Pond in Osborne Plantation
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