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Uranalysis as a means of diagnosis in veterinary diseases
Full text linkCitation: Cheney, James Hamilton. Uranalysis as a means of diagnosis in veterinary diseases. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1907.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Since uranalysis has come to be a very important factor in the diagnosis of human diseases, it seems reasonable that it might be of some aid in veterinary practice. While it may not be practical for the veterinarian to be so precise or accurate in his calculations as is the human physician, it seems reasonable that he make some use of the subject. For example, it is a comparatively easy matter in the human practice to collect all the urine excreted in twenty-four hours, while in veterinary practice this would be attended with more difficulty. This difficulty:, however, may be remedied somewhat by taking the sample the first thing in the morning. If the composition of the urine is an index of what is going on in the tissues it remains only for us to be able to recognize healthy and diseased conditions and to be able to make the tests fairly accurately. If one becomes familiar with uranalysis and its significance it can be made as valuable a means of diagnosing many diseases as any of the other methods at our disposal
Corn planting
Full text linkCitation: Cheney, James Hamilton. Corn planting. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1906.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: In the raising of corn too much importance cannot be laid upon the selection of seed. The question often arises with farmers as to whether to select from their own fields or from those of a neighbor or whether to buy seed which has grown in some other section of the country. As a general proposition it may be said that unless the corn of a community is very poor it would be better to select home grown seed rather than to buy seed which was grown in a different climate or soil. In buying seed corn care should be taken to procure that which has come from a locality of similar climate, soil, and general conditions, such as length of season, rainfall, etc., to that in which it is to be grown. Importance of stalk, ear, and kernel in seed selection. The year book of the Department of Agriculture for 1902 contains an excellent discussion on this subject, from which I have made notes. In testing the advisability of considering the stalk, ear, and kernel in seed selection several experiments were performed. I. One stalk of 'Perfect Golden Beauty" variety was noticed to have very broad leaves. The ear of this stalk was hand-pollinated from the same stalk. The corn from this plant was planted and the resulting plants showed the same characteristics as did the parent plant. This was also the case with the second year's selection. A few short and very leafy plants were found in a field of tall growing white dent corn. These stalks were from 4-5 feet high, while the normal height of the variety was about 10 feet. A few of these short stalks were selected and cross-pollinated one with another. The resulting seed was planted in a row next to the normal stalks of the variety, The contrast between the normal and selected corn was very noticeable
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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