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Isomerizzazioni di alcune 1,6-diidropiridine alchilsostituite modelli dei coenzimi piridinici naturali
No full textUS AND CT FINDINGS OF SMALL BOWEL NEOPLASM
Full text linkSmall bowel (SB) neoplasms are very rare tumours, but are still associated with high mortality rates, since the tumour-related symptoms occur late and are non-specific. In addition, endoscopy is not feasible in most cases, and radiological contrast studies do not reach the high accuracy obtained in the evaluation of upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Cross-sectional imaging, and particularly CT, is becoming increasingly relevant in the diagnosis of these tumours. Both US and CT allow tumour detection, even when performed on an emergency basis, and are capable of showing the lesion as well as possible complications. Moreover, CT offers the possibility of a preoperative staging by evaluating tumour extension through the bowel wall, lymph node involvement and possible metastases. Finally, in most cases a direct correlation between cross-sectional findings and histology can be found, thus permitting tumour characterisation
An Experimental Investigation on Sliding Tuned Liquid Column Damper for Mitigating Vibrations in Short-Period Structural Systems
No full textIn the context of structural control, the Tuned Liquid Column Damper
(TLCD) is among the most popular passive control strategies for mitigating
unwanted vibrations in structures subjected to dynamic loads like wind and earthquakes.
However, being long-period systems, their adaptability is usually constrained
to flexible structures. Therefore, to broaden their application to structures
with shorter periods, earlier research explored a translational spring-connected
variant of TLCD. This device is denoted here as the Sliding TLCD (STLCD).
It comprises a conventional TLCD, which is a U-shaped container filled with
fluid, capable of sliding on a linear guide track and linked to the structure through
a spring-dashpot arrangement. This flexible mounting enables the tuning of the
device to a more extensive array of structural systems. Nevertheless, this configuration
has solely been examined mainly from a theoretical perspective. Hence, in
this work, the dynamics and the efficacy of the proposed device are experimentally
assessed using shake table experiments on a scaled structural system endowed
with the STLCD, with a primary focus on diminishing structural accelerations.
The accuracy of the mathematical formulation is assessed in time and frequency
domains through an experimental campaign performed at the Laboratory of Experimental
Dynamics, University of Palermo (Italy). Finally, a comparative analysis
is conducted aiming at measuring the positive impact deriving from the application
of the STLCD for vibration reduction of short-period structural systems under
resonance conditions with respect to the uncontrolled counterpart and traditional
devices such as TLCDs and Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs)
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
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