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Seed introduction and gap creation facilitate restoration of Malcolmia littorea (L.) R.Br.
No full textMalcolmia littorea (L.) R.Br. is a suffruticous chamaephytes belonging to Brassicaceae.
It usually grows between foredunes and fixed dunes, habitats particularly subjected
to human disturb. Nowadays in Italy there are just three small (< 500) populations,
all standing inside disturbed sites near Circeo National Park.
We are carrying out a conservation project involving also its reintroduction inside
the Park to avoid its extinction in Italy, but this could not be possible without
preliminary ecological and reproductive studies to elaborate the better strategy
Population genetics and reproductive biology investigations for the conservation of Malcolmia littorea: introduction to a multidisciplinary approach
No full textMalcolmia littorea (L.) R. Br. is a plant species of the Brassicaceae family (Fig. 1) which occurs exclusively in the sandy coastal habitats and is characterised by a disjoint distribution along the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Algeria and Morocco. The continuous fragmentation and degradation of the coastal dune habitats are threatening the persistence of this species, reducing the abundance of its populations, especially the peripheral ones, with the risk of
affecting their genetic variability and reproductive success. In several European regions, the species is considered as threatened with extinction, especially in Italy. Here, M. littorea is represented by three small (< 500 mature individuals) populations, all standing in the Latium Region, in particular in the littoral portion between Sabaudia and Terracina. Because of the large and continuous decline of both the number of individuals and suitable sites for its colonization in the Italian territory, in this country it is considered as critically endangered (Rossi et al., 2013). Starting from 2010, several studies have been performed to investigate specific biological and ecological attributes of this species, with the general aim of providing data and practical advices useful for the development of a conservation strategy. The present report introduces the study on the conservation of M. littorea as an example of multidisciplinary approach and collaboration among different institutes/structures
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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