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EVIDENCE THAT HUMAN AND PORCINE INSULIN DIFFERENTLY AFFECT THE HUMAN INSULIN-RECEPTOR - STUDIES WITH MONOCLONAL ANTIINSULIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES
No full textBinding studies have been carried out with radioiodinated monoclonal antibodies directed to various epitopes of the insulin receptor in order to detect differences between human and porcine insulin in the interaction with the human insulin receptor. Human insulin was more effective that porcine insulin at inhibiting the binding of I-125-MA-5 to IM-9 cells, Hep-2 human larynx cells and human placenta membranes. On the contrary, human and porcine insulin showed similar inhibitory effect on the binding of two other labeled anti-insulin receptor monoclonal antibodies, thus ruling out the possibility that results were due to experimental artifacts. Although several interpretations are possible, data reported suggest that human insulin and porcine insulin might differently affect the insulin receptor, even if, the biological significance of these findings remains unknown
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
EVIDENCE THAT 2 NATURALLY-OCCURRING HUMAN INSULIN-RECEPTOR ALPHA-SUBUNIT VARIANTS ARE IMMUNOLOGICALLY DISTINCT
No full textThe IgG from a patient (Italy 2 [I-2]) with hypoglycemia, due to autoantibodies to the insulin receptor, was purified on protein A Sepharose into two fractions that were tested in various human tissues and cells. The IgG fraction that bound protein A (absorbed IgG [IgGa]) nearly completely inhibited the binding of I-125-labeled insulin to various cells or tissues (placenta, IM-9, adipocytes, HEp-2-larynx cells, Epstein-Barr virus lymphocytes) but not > 50% of I-125-labeled insulin binding to human liver membranes. Conversely, both the IgG fraction from this patient, which did not bind protein A (flow-through IgG [IgGb]), and the IgGa fraction from a second similar patient (Italy 1 [I-1]) almost completely inhibited the binding of I-125-labeled insulin to liver membranes. The IgGa fraction from patient 1-2 did not change receptor affinity because 50% inhibition of I-125-labeled insulin binding was not affected by either the presence or absence of these IgG fractions. Furthermore, liver binding data were not due to cross-reaction of I-125-labeled insulin to the insulinlike growth factor I receptor, and treatment of liver membranes with neuraminidase did not alter the inhibitory effect of the IgGa fraction from patient I-2 on I-125-labeled insulin binding to liver. Binding inhibition experiments performed with cells transfected with and overexpressing the -12 (human insulin receptor [HIR]-A) or the +12 (HIR-B) variant of HIR revealed that the IgGa fraction from patient I-2 inhibited I-125-labeled insulin binding to the HIR-A receptor but not to the HIR-B receptor. The data reported herein demonstrate that the two naturally occurring insulin-receptor variants are immunologically distinct and indicate that the HIR-B variant is predominantly expressed in liver compared with other human tissues
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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