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BHALLA-CLEENEWERCK JOURNAL EFFICIENCY FACTOR, BC-JEF©-A NOVEL AUTHOR-CENTRIC METRIC FOR JOURNAL EFFICIENCY
No full textAccording to English definition, “efficiency” is the state or the quality of being able to accomplish something with the least waste of time and effort. Concerning the Journals, “efficiency” signifies providing the submitting authors with a peer-review decision with a least loss of time and academic value. The “efficiency”, on the journal’s part, also means least delays in academic returns that submitting authors deserve from their own work. The “efficiency”, on the journal’s part, also implies least delays in making available the access to possible benefits to the patients or public from the author’s work. In other words, efficiency is a measurable ability of the journals, whether paid or unpaid, to do their “duties well”, “efficiently”, “successfully”, and “without waste and avoidable loss” to the submitting authors.
It is our vision to make the entire publication process coherent and convenient. At the same time, it is also our vision to guard the rights of submitting authors in having a time-bound, convenient, and efficient service with high customer service values from their service providers, i.e. the journals, whether paid or unpaid. For this, we introduce “Bhalla-Cleenewerck Journal Efficiency Factor (BC-JEF©)”, named in short as JEF©, as a parameter for assessing the functional efficiency of the journals.
We introduce JEF©, an innovative non-profit measure to ensure the “greater good” of all concerned. For the journals, JEF© would help them recognize their duties and obligations for providing an efficient publication service to the authors. Also, JEF© would facilitate the journals in making their publication process more fulfilling and coherent, particularly for the authors, based on whom they thrive. JEF© would also help the journals in their healthy commercial competition. For the authors, JEF© would help them make an informed choice while submitting their work to a journal. For other agencies, JEF© provides them with an alternative metric to track parameters that are not being covered by any of the current existing journal metrics.
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academia and Egnyte and [email protected] information: The Intergovernmental Research and Policy Journal (IRPJ) is a unique interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access Journal. It operates under the authority of the only global and treaty-based intergovernmental university in the world (EUCLID), with other intergovernmental organizations in mind. Currently, there are more than 17,000 universities globally, but less than 15 are multilateral institutions, EUCLID, as IRPJ's sponsor, is the only global and multi-disciplinary UN-registered treaty-based institution.
IRPJ authors can be assured that their research will be widely visible on account of the trusted Internet visibility of its ".int" domain which virtually guarantees first page results on matching keywords (.int domains are only assigned by IANA to vetted treaty-based organizations and are recognized as trusted authorities by search engines). In addition to its ".int" domain, IRPJ is published under an approved ISSN for intergovernmental organizations ("international publisher") status (also used by United Nations, World Bank, European Space Agency, etc.).
IRPJ offers:
United Nations Treaty reference on your published article (PDF)
"Efficiency" driven and "author-focused" workflow
Operates the very unique author-centric metric of "Journal Efficiency Factor"
Minimal processing fee with the possibility of waiver
Dedicated editors to work with graduate and doctoral students
Continuous publication i.e., publication of articles immediately upon acceptance
The expected time frame from submission to publication is up to 40 calendar days
Broad thematic categories
Every published article will receive a DOI from Crossref and is archived by CLOCKSS.
Submit manuscript: [email protected]
EICs: Prof. Charalee GRAYDON, JD; Prof. Devender BHALLA, HDR
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Cite as: Bhalla, D; Cleenewerck, L. Bhalla-Cleenewerck Journal Efficiency Factor (BC-JEF©)-A novel author centric metric for Journal efficiency. Intergovernmental Res Pol J (UN treaty). Vol. 2020, Issue e20, DOI: https://doi.org/10.36964/irpj2355, Article ID: 201, pages 1-5
A EMOTION-FOCUSSED TREATMENT FOR DECREASING CONJUGAL STRESS- A RANDOMIZED REPRESENTATIVE SINGLE-SITE CONTROLLED STUDY
No full textObjective:
Marital life is closely related to physical, social, and mental well-being. The aim of this study was to determine the reduction in chronic marital life stress among exposed subjects through the emotion re-focus approach.
Methods:
The individuals meeting our inclusion criteria were screened with the help of Stockholm Marital Stress Scale. The cognitive assessment was also made with the help of an Abbreviated Mental Test. The subjects were assigned a random number in a double-blind and independent manner, and half of them were provided eight therapeutic sessions lasting 90 minutes for eight weeks. The remaining ones were provided identical service after the entire data collection. All analyses were carried-out in 99.0% confidence interval, 0.01% type-I error and 1.0% type-II error.
Results:
A total of 138 subjects with marital life stress were allocated to both testing and control group. Both groups did not differ in social, statistical, and clinical variables. The between-group mean stress score did not differ statistically at baseline (p=0.1), but did differ at the culmination (p<0.001). For control group, the mean stress score changed from 2.8, 99%CI 2.7-2.9 to 2.7, 99%CI 2.6-2.8, p=0.1 between pre-post assessment. For testing group, the mean stress score changed from 2.9, 99%CI 2.8-3.0 to 2.4, 99%CI 2.3-2.5, p<0.001 (diff=17.2%, ES=1.40, R2=0.32) between pre-post assessment. The within-group improvement in stress score among subjects from their own baseline was 0-3.8% among control group and 1.9-30.6% in testing group. The sample power was 99.1%.
Conclusions:
Within our strengths and limitations, we may conclude that emotion re-focus may help to overcome chronic conjugal life distress with 0.1% false positive error.
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academia and Egnyte and [email protected] information: The Intergovernmental Research and Policy Journal (IRPJ) is a unique interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access Journal. It operates under the authority of the only global and treaty-based intergovernmental university in the world (EUCLID), with other intergovernmental organizations in mind. Currently, there are more than 17,000 universities globally, but less than 15 are multilateral institutions, EUCLID, as IRPJ's sponsor, is the only global and multi-disciplinary UN-registered treaty-based institution.
IRPJ authors can be assured that their research will be widely visible on account of the trusted Internet visibility of its ".int" domain which virtually guarantees first page results on matching keywords (.int domains are only assigned by IANA to vetted treaty-based organizations and are recognized as trusted authorities by search engines). In addition to its ".int" domain, IRPJ is published under an approved ISSN for intergovernmental organizations ("international publisher") status (also used by United Nations, World Bank, European Space Agency, etc.).
IRPJ offers:
1. United Nations Treaty reference on your published article (PDF)
2. "Efficiency" driven and "author-focused" workflow
3. Operates the very unique author-centric metric of "Journal Efficiency Factor"
4. Minimal processing fee with the possibility of waiver
5. Dedicated editors to work with graduate and doctoral students
6. Continuous publication i.e., publication of articles immediately upon acceptance
7. The expected time frame from submission to publication is up to 40 calendar days
8. Broad thematic categories
9. Every published article will receive a DOI from Crossref and is archived by CLOCKSS.
Submit manuscript: [email protected]
EICs: Prof. Charalee GRAYDON, JD; Prof. Devender BHALLA, HD
Performance Analysis of Coal-Fired Boiler and Natural Gas Fired Boiler at Morehead State University
Full text linkA thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Science & Technology at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science by Devender Banne on May 4, 2009
Figure 1 from: Lorence DH, Van Devender TR, Ferguson GM (2018) Chiococca grandiflora (Rubiaceae), a new species from Northern Mexico. PhytoKeys 98: 73-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.98.25170
No full textFigure 1 Chiococca grandiflora Lorence & T.Van Devender. A flowering branch B node showing stipule and petiole bases, glabrous form C node showing stipule and petiole bases, pubescent form D flower in bud E flower at anthesis F flower with corolla removed showing stamens and pistil G immature fruit. A, B, D–F based on P. S. Martin, P. Comtois, C. Lindquist, S. A. Meyer, B. Risner, & D. A. Yetman s.n. sub P. Jenkins 92-135 (ARIZ-383348) C based on S. Walker s.n. (UTC-00263027) G based on T. Walker s.n. (ARIZ-212520)
Astragalus martinii Spellenb., van Devender & Jenkins. Phytoneuron
No full text57. Astragalus martinii Spellenb., van Devender & Jenkins. Phytoneuron 66: 1–8. 2014 Type:— MEXICO, Sonora, Mpio. de Yécora, 1 km W of Puerto de la Cruz on MEX 16, N slope of Mesa del Campanero, 30 March 1997, A.L. Reina-G. 97-458 &, T.R. Van Devender (holotype: ARIZ 419157 digital image!; isotypes: MEXU!, US 01268916 digital image!, US 02036158 digital image!). Perennial. Stems up to 30 cm long, radiating from the root or simple, prostrate, suberect to erect, strigulose, the trichomes 0.2–0.3 mm long, adpressed, straight, white. Stipules 2–3.5 mm long, clasping, triangular to ovate, sparsely strigose adaxially. Levaes 1.5–10 cm long, leaflets 15–23, 2–10 mm long, oblong, elliptic, obovate to to oblongobovate, rounded, truncate to emarginated apically, abaxially strigulose. Peduncles 2–10 cm long, straight to incurved, the racemes 3–15 mm long, dense or loose, subcapitate, 1–11 flowered, the flowers spreading or ascending. Flowers purple, pale lilar with white tones; the calyx 4.5–6.1 × 1.6–2.3 mm, strigulose, the trichomes dense, white, black or mix of both, the tube 2.5–4 mm long, campanulate to subcylindric, the teeth 1.6–2.3 mm long, linear, laceolate to narrowly triangular; the banner 9.7–11.2 × 5–5.5 mm, ovate, narrowly basally for almost 3.6–4.2 mm long, rounded to notched apically; the wings 8.5–10.5 × 1.6–2.5 mm, the claw 3.5–4.9 mm long, the blade 5–5.6 mm long, oblong-ovoid to obliquely-ovoid, incurved, rounded apically; the keel 6.5–8.2 × 1.9 mm, the claw 3.4–4 m long, the blade 3.4–4.2 mm long, oblong-ovate, incurved, apically triangular-rounded. Pod sessile, 9–12 × 4.4–6.5 mm, tiquetrous, oblongovoid, slightly incurved, basally rounded, distally ending in a short beak, ventrally carinate, laterally convex, dorsally wide-sulcate, the valves stiff to sub-coriaceous, tan turning black with age, strigulose, transversely reticulated, septum complete; seeds 1.3–1.7 mm long, mitten shaped, brown, dull or semi-shiny. Distribution:— Endemic to Mexico, regionally distributed along the central political border of Sonora and Chihuahua (Fig. 17). Habitat:— Inhabiting oak-pine forest, 1840 m. Specimens examined:— SONORA: 7-X-2007, Barranca El Salto, Mesa del Campanero; pine-oak forest, T. R. Van Devender 2007-1020, A. L. Reina, G. R. Gwiazdowski (MEXU); 10 March 1996, Between El Llano and Campanero, Mesa del Campanero, W of Yécora, A. L. Reina G 96-32, T. R. Van Devender, S. L. Friedman (MEXU); 30 March 1997, Mpio. de Yécora, 1 km W of Puerto de la Cruz on MEX 16, N slope of Mesa del Campanero, A. L. Reina G. 97-458, T. R. Van Devender (MEXU)Published as part of Castillón, Eduardo Estrada, Quintanilla, José Ángel Villarreal, Delgado-Salinas, Alfonso & Rebman, Jon P., 2023, The genus Astragalus (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Galegeae) in Mexico, pp. 1921-1935 in Phytotaxa 586 (1) on pages 1921-1935, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.586.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/770399
HIGH IMPACT FACTOR, HIGH CITE SCORE, LISTING IN MEDLINE, BUT WHAT ABOUT EFFICIENCY? PART-1
No full textObjective:
Our primary objective was to determine the journal efficiency by measuring the timelag in the acceptance and publication of scientific findings by a journal on behalf of the authors upon submission.
Methods:
This paper is a part of an ongoing series that is aimed to address the journal efficiency of all journals in the general medical, neurology, mental health, and public health domains. For this part, we selected the annals of Indian academy of neurology. To collect necessary efficiency parameters, we assessed the latest issue of the journal, and collected details about the dates of submission, acceptance, and publication of original research articles. All data was entered in MS-Excel and, after that, the time lag between each step was calculated by using simple mathematical formulae.
Results:
The journal published a total of 11 original research articles in its latest May-June 2020 issue. The average timelag from submisson to acceptance (step-1) was 40.1 (95%CI 14.6-65.5, range 2-126) days, while the timelag between article submission and its publication (step-2) was 283.3 (95%CI 173.4-393.2, range 37-522) days. The percent difference in the delay from article acceptance to its publication was 150.4% higher than for acceptance alone of the article.
Conclusions:
We affirm that the journal had a reasonable average timelag between article submission and its acceptance; although it varied upto 126 days. Moreover, the journal fails grossly in efficiency parameters by having a timelag of 150.4% more for final publication after acceptance, and an average delay of 283.3 (95%CI 173.4-393.2) days for publication, and took upto 522 days for publishing the accepted articles. Such unethical timelag disadvantages the authors alone, corrupts the entire publication ecosystem, and, also, brings up many questions regarding the possible repurcussions of such delays on the author’s profession, mental health, and academic returns, etc. due to journal inefficiency. We consider that it is a high time that the journals start to realize their duties and obligations towards their authors pertaining to their efficiency.
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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
Sphenomorphus sheai Nguyen, Nguyen, Devender, Bonkowski & Ziegler, 2013, sp. nov.
No full textSphenomorphus sheai sp. nov. (Figs. 1, 2) Holotype. IEBR A. 2013.22 (Field number ASU 10715), adult female, collected on 4 June 2012 by K. V. Nguyen and R. W. Van Devender near Camp 1 (14 o 37.098 ’N, 108 o 30.177 ’E, elevation 1,025 m; datum WGS 84) from Kon Tum Plateau in the border area between Quang Ngai and Kon Tum provinces, southern Central Vietnam. Diagnosis. Size small (SVL 35.2 mm); prefrontals separated from each other; supraoculars four; enlarged nuchals in two pairs; lower eyelid scaly; supralabials six, first fused with nasal; primary temporals two; external ear openings absent; midbody scales in 20 rows; dorsal scales smooth, paravertebral scales 53, not widened; limbs short, pentadactyl; scales on dorsal surface of base of fourth toe in three rows; lamellae under fourth toe six; free margins of upper and lower eyelids not edged in white; dorsum and tail base bronze brown with dark dots; dorsolateral light stripe present on neck, shoulder and anterior part of dorsum; upper zone of lateral head and flank with a narrow black stripe. Description of holotype. Size small (SVL 35.2 mm), tail complete (TaL 58.5 mm), head longer than wide (HL 6.0 mm, HW 4.2 mm), SL 2.6 mm, SFlL 10.8 mm, AG 21.2 mm, limbs short (FlL 5.1 mm, HlL 7.5 mm); proportions: TaL/SVL 1.66, HL/SVL 0.17, FlL/SVL 0.14, HlL/SVL 0.21. Snout obtuse, rounded anteriorly; rostral wider than high, distinctly visible from above; supranasals absent; frontonasal wider than long, in contact with rostral, nasals, anterior loreals, and prefrontals; prefrontals separated from each other; frontal narrowing posteriorly, longer than the distance to the tip of snout, in contact with frontonasal, prefrontals, first and second supraoculars, and frontoparietals; frontoparietals in contact with each other anteriorly, and bordered by frontal, three posterior supraoculars, parietals, and interparietal; interparietal lozenge-shaped with a small transparent spot in posterior angle; parietals in contact posteriorly, posterolateral border surrounded by three scales on each side; enlarged nuchal scales in two pairs. Nostril in center of nasal; postnasals absent; loreals two, anterior larger than posterior; preocular single; presubocular single; supraciliaries seven, first largest, first to third in contact with first supraocular; supraoculars four, second widest, fourth supraocular followed by a small scale; postocular single; postsuboculars three, lower one in contact with fifth supralabial; primary temporals two, lower one in contact with sixth supralabial; secondary temporals two, upper one very large, in contact with parietal, overlapped by lower one; lower eyelid moveable, scaly, separated from supralabials by one row of small scales; supralabials six, anterior first fused with nasal, fifth and sixth enlarged, fourth below the eye; external ear openings absent. Mental wider than long, rounded anteriorly, in contact with anterior infralabial on each side and postmental; infralabials five; postmental undivided, in contact with mental, first infralabial and anterior pair of chinshields; three pairs of chinshields, anterior pair in contact with each other anteriorly, second pair separated from each other by a gular scale, and posterior pair separated from each other by three scales. Midbody scales in 20 rows; dorsal scales smooth, subequal to lateral and ventral scales, four scale rows between dark stripes on upper lateral zones; paravertebral scales 53, not widened; ventrals smooth, in 54 rows; precloacals four, inner scales overlapping outer ones, medial two enlarged, right scale overlapped by left scale; tail thick at base, median subcaudals widened. Limbs short, pentadactyl; second and fourth fingers equal in length, third longest; fore and hind limbs distinctly separated when adpressed along body wall; scales on dorsal surface of base of fourth toe in three rows, reducing to two at third or fourth scale and with terminal two scales single; subdigital lamellae smooth, numbering five under fourth finger and six under fourth toe Coloration in alcohol. Free margins of upper and lower eyelids not edged in white; dorsum and tail base bronze brown with fine dark dots; dorsal tail tip dark brown; upper lateral head and flank with narrow black stripe, one scale wide, running from nostril to anterior corner of eye and from behind the eye through hindlimb to tail base, interrupted by small light spots from posterior half of body; dorsolateral light stripe present on neck, shoulder and anterior part of dorsum; supralabials and infralabials with dark bars on sutures; arms and legs dark brown with light spots; chin and throat cream; venter and tail base cream; underside of tail tip with very small dark brown dots. Distribution. Sphenomorphus sheai sp. nov. is known only from the type locality in the border area between Quang Ngai and Kon Tumprovince, southern Central Vietnam (Fig. 3). Natural history. The holotype was collected about two hours after dark among leaf litter on a steep slope about three meters above a small stream surrounded by secondary forest at an elevation of 1025 m. The holotype contained four small white follicles in each ovary. Etymology. The new species is named in honour of Dr. Glenn Shea from the University of Sydney, Australia, in recognition of his outstanding contributions towards the systematics of scincid lizards. For the common names we suggest Shea’s Forest Skink (English), Thằn lằn phê-nô shea (Vietnamese), and Sheas Bodenskink (German). Comparisons. Based on specimen examination (Appendix) and data from the literature (e.g., Boulenger 1887; Smith 1935; Bourret 1939, 2009; Taylor 1963; Darevsky & Orlov 2005; Nguyen et al. 2011; Luu et al. 2013; Roy et al. 2013), we compare Sphenomorphus sheai with the following species of Sphenomorphus from China and mainland Southeast Asia which have midbody scale counts fewer than 26 rows: Sphenomorphus stellatus (Boulenger) (22–24 rows), S. tridigitus (Bourret) (18–20 rows), S. tetradactylus (Darevsky & Orlov) (20 rows). Sphenomorphus sheai can be distinguished from S. stellatus by having a smaller size (SVL 35.2 mm vs. 57–80 mm in S. stellatus), fewer lamellae under fourth toe (six vs. 18–23 in S. stellatus), fore and hind limbs distinctly separated when adpressed along body wall (vs. overlapped), and by the absence of dorsal large dark blotches (vs. presence). The new species differs from S. tridigitus and S. tetradactylus by having forelimbs pentydactyl (versus three and four in S. tridigitus and S. tetradactylus, respectively) and two primary temporals (vs. one in S. tridigitus and S. tetradactylus). Sphenomorphus sheai could be mistaken for several skink species of the genus Lygosoma, which also have short limbs and midbody scale rows fewer than 26, including L. anguinum (Theobald) (22), L. lineolatum (Stolizcka) (22), L. popae (Shreve) (24), L. punctata (Gmelin) (24–28), L. quadrupes (Linnaeus) (24–28), and L. veunsaiensis Geissler, Hartmann & Neang (22). However, Sphenomorphus sheai differs from all aforementioned species by the absence of supranasals (present in Lygosoma) and having the first supralabial fused with nasal (not fused in Lygosma) (see Geissler et al. 2012). Sphenomorphus sheai also resembles Scincella apraefrontalis Nguyen, Nguyen, Böhme & Ziegler by having a low midbody scale count, no ear openings, and first supralabial fused with nasal; however, the new species can be distinguished from latter by the presence of prefrontals and opaque window on lower eyelid which are absent in Scincella apraefrontalis (Nguyen et al. 2010).Published as part of Nguyen, Truong Quang, Nguyen, Khoi Vu, Devender, Robert Wayne Van, Bonkowski, Michael & Ziegler, Thomas, 2013, A new species of Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam in Zootaxa 3734 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/22367
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
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