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Rethinking the Absence of Post-Western IR Theory in India: ‘Advaitic Monism’ as an Alternative Epistemological Resource
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Tuneable anion recognition at the lower rim of resorcin[4]arenes: strength, selectivity, and transport
No full textAnions are involved in nearly all biological processes and play a cardinal role in various industrial environments. The study of anion complexation is of significant academic interest, forming a fundamental pillar of supramolecular chemistry and finding applications in multiple areas such as sensing, catalysis, transport, etc. Furthermore, the sequestration of ecologically relevant anions such as chlorides, bisulfates, and nitrates from the environment would pose a huge benefit to the sustainable reprocessing of these anions. We recently discovered that resorcin[4]arenes, polyphenolic macrocyclic compounds traditionally known as cation receptors, can also bind anions when strong electron-withdrawing substituents are introduced at the upper rim with high apparent binding affinities. In the current study, we focus on the synthesis and binding properties of other derivatives with electron-withdrawing substituents (-CN, -CHO, -Br) at the upper rim, along with modifications at the lower rim of resorcin[4]arenes. We found a substantial increase in the binding affinity, which is attributed to the -CN group providing a strong electron-withdrawing effect through resonance and inductive effect, hence polarising the C-H hydrogen bond strongly enough to bind anions. Although the Hammett parameters state the opposite, this effect is more pronounced than the presence of -the NO2 substituent, at the same position, studied earlier. This makes macrocycle 4 the most effective anion receptor in the family of resorcinarenes, as per our knowledge. The log K values correlate well with the theoretically predicted ESP values for the receptors.Furthermore, the modifications at the lower rim enabled us to present a conclusive study regarding the changes in modes of binding affinity and selectivity of the receptors, as achieved in macrocycle 6, which was found to bind HSO4- exclusively, with a selectivity factor of 17 over similar tetrahedral oxyanions in THF/10% D2O. The advantages of using DFT calculations for the engineering of the receptor and prediction of binding properties are also stressed. </p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X221076566 - Supplemental material for Changes in neurovascular coupling with cerebral perfusion pressure indicate a link to cerebral autoregulation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X221076566 for Changes in neurovascular coupling with cerebral perfusion pressure indicate a link to cerebral autoregulation by Deepshikha Acharya, Alexander Ruesch, Samantha Schmitt, Jason Yang, Matthew A Smith and Jana M Kainerstorfer in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism</p
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