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Preliminary study on the reduced pressure cold plasma processing of fresh cut salads: rheological assessment of modifications in the plant tissue structure
Full text linkCold plasma is a novel nonthermal food processing technology that uses energetic, reactive gases to inactivate contaminating microbes and to achieve an enzymatic depletion on foods. The primary modes of action are due to UV light and reactive chemical products of the cold plasma ionization process. A wide array of cold plasma systems that operate at atmospheric pressures or in low-pressure treatment chambers are under development. Optimization and scale up to commercial treatment levels require a more complete understanding of plasma interaction modes with food. In particular, little attention to date has been paid to structural and textural modification induced by plasma in food matrices. Results that are presented in this paper refer to the study of low pressure cold plasma treatment of fresh vegetable, precisely fresh cut salad leaves (Valerianella locusta Laterr). Throughout dynamic rheology tests, it has been evaluated the impact of the non-thermal plasma treatment on the structural modifications occurring in the salad tissue at a mesoscopic scale-length where cell wall materials (CWM) account for the perceived texture of the salad. The rheological behaviour of CWM water dispersions in steady-state regime proved that plasma treatment is able to induce an immediate modification in flow behaviour, which persists during the shelf-life period. CWM dispersions behave as weak gels. Specifically, cold plasma treatment of salad leaves generates CWM gels with higher coordination of the gel polymers network, as quantified by means of the Bohlin's theory on week gels. Moreover, it has been proved that the relaxation time distribution spectrum may provide useful information on understanding the underlying stress relaxation mechanisms in gels. An in-depth investigation of physical events could be of help in view of the optimization of the cold plasma technology application in plant foods preservation
La finanza delle cooperative
No full textIl lavoro analizza i profili economici e giuridici degli strumenti finanziari per le imprese cooperative, compatibili con la governance partecipativa che caratterizza le imprese cooperative e alla luce della letteratura economica sul design organizzativo dell'impres
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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