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    Notas sobre cirujía [sic] : Tesis inaugural

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    Fil: Castro, Alejandro. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.64 p. : 8 cuadros ; 23 cm.A la cabeza de portada: Universidad de Buenos Aires. - Incluye nómina de Catedráticos y Asignaturas. Tesis con dedicatori

    Effects of increasing temperatures on reproduction in the Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) and its conservation implications

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    In the next two decades anthropogenic-induced climate change is expected to cause an increase in average global temperatures reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and may further accelerate under a business-as-usual CO2 emissions scenario. Alongside these increases in the average temperature, climate change is projected to increment the frequency and extent of extreme heat events (i.e. heatwaves). These events will significantly impact land surfaces, placing a considerable pressure on organisms living close to their thermal limits. Climate change trends are not geographically uniform. For example, the Mediterranean, a transition zone between arid and temperate climates, is forecasted to experience strong climate shifts towards increasing average temperatures compared to other parts of the world. At the same time, the Mediterranean region is a hotspot of biodiversity, and therefore represents a natural laboratory for studying wildlife responses to climate warming. This thesis sheds light on the influence of nest temperature (and thus, nest microclimate) on different aspects of reproduction, directly and indirectly influencing offspring condition andxiii survival; the role of nest temperature on temporal phenotypic changes observed in many bird populations in response to climate warming; and assesses whether selection for heterozygosity may ameliorate population resilience in case of numerical declines associated with extreme heat events. Given the widespread use of nest boxes in bird conservation policies, and the forecasted changes in climate in the upcoming decades, our results also highlight the need to properly design nest box characteristics to mitigate the negative effects of heatwaves on nest microclimate, and hence on reproductive success, in bird species whose conservation strongly depends on the availability of artificial nesting sites

    CLÓVIS SORMUS DE CASTRO, ALEJANDRO ZALDÍVAR-RIVERÓN, ROSA BRICEÑO-G. & ANGÉLICA MARIA PENTEADO-DIAS (2013) The genus Hecabolus Curtis 1834 (Braconidae:

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    Castro, Clóvis Sormus De, Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, Briceño-G, Rosa, Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria (2013): CLÓVIS SORMUS DE CASTRO, ALEJANDRO ZALDÍVAR-RIVERÓN, ROSA BRICEÑO-G. & ANGÉLICA MARIA PENTEADO-DIAS (2013) The genus Hecabolus Curtis 1834 (Braconidae:. Zootaxa 3670 (2): 300-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.2.1

    Déficit atencional con o sin hiperactividad (ADD- TDHA)

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    Fil: Castro, Alejandro Marina. Universidad Nacional de Luján; Argentina.El iniciarme en la docencia como profesora de informática, me permitió desempeñarme en diferentes grados y niveles del sistema educativo. Desde entonces, ha comenzado mi interés en los niños que son diferentes; aquellos que por una u otra razón son discriminados por sus pares, sus docentes, el sistema educativo, inclusive por sus familias. Luego de varios años de ejercer la actividad antes mencionada, me surgió la posibilidad de desempeñarme como maestra de grado. Por tal motivo, desde hace tres años, estoy trabajando en primer año de E.G.B. Como docente de grado, al estar continuamente con los nenes; uno comienza a tener una mirada más atenta hacia aquellos niños que, como mencioné anteriormente, manifiestan dificultades, que de una u otra manera obstaculizan su aprendizaje

    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

    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

    Author Index

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