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Morphology of the dinoflagellate genus<i>Atopodinium</i>Drugg emend., senior synonym of<i>Maghrebinia</i>below and<i>Bejuia</i>Stover & Williams
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Sucessão das associações de dinoflagelados (Protista, Pyrrhophyta) ao longo das colunas estratigráficas do cretáceo das bacias da margem continental brasileira : uma análise sob ponto de vista paleoceanográfico e paleobiogeográfico
Get PDFEsta tese constitui uma síntese de dados acerca das associações de dinoflagelados do Cretáceo do Brasil e introduz modelos para interpretações de naturezas paleobiogeográfica e paleoceanográfica para o Atlântico Sul primitivo. Os dinoflagelados, por constituírem o plâncton marinho em sua maioria, tendem a serem considerados como cosmopolitas. Entretanto, o fato que vem sendo constatado nas últimas décadas é de que uma parcela significativa de suas espécies é endêmica ou, senão, intimamente vinculada a um padrão biogeográfico que caracteriza um provincialismo. A evolução do padrão biogeográfico no decorrer do Cretáceo no Brasil, mais precisamente do Aptiano ao Maastrichtiano, relaciona-se ao processo de instalação do Atlântico Sul, intimamente ligado à separação dos continentes América do Sul e África. A diferenciação paleobiogeográfica observada no Aptiano foi ocasionada sobretudo em função das barreiras físicas que então coibiam a livre mistura das águas oceânicas entre o Atlântico Sul meridional e o resto do oceano ao norte. No decorrer do Albiano, houve início da mistura das águas austrais, vindas do sul, com aquelas tetianas, vindas do Atlântico Central. A partir do início do Senoniano (Coniaciano – Santoniano), o padrão de circulação oceânica deve ter adquirido uma feição similar à observada hoje, permitindo instalação de um fluxo marítimo semelhante ao da atual Corrente das Malvinas. Em função da mistura de águas, o provincialismo tendia a esmaecer no final do Cretáceo (Maastrichtiano), mas macrozonas oceânicas latitudinais, ditadas pela diferença de temperatura, persistiram. Além da reconstituição paleooceanográfica, o estudo de provincialismo traz nova luz à bioestratigrafia global, apontando os fósseis-guias adequadas para cada região do planeta.This thesis aims to enhance the understanding and application of Cretaceous dinoflagellate assemblages. Because most dinoflagellates are part of the marine plankton, they are generally regarded as cosmopolitan organisms. Nevertheless, several studies in recent decades demonstrate that a significant proportion of dinoflagellate species are endemic, or at least exhibit some biogeographic distributional patterns akin to provincialism. The evolution of Cretaceous biogeographic patterns in Brazil, especially during the Aptian to Maastrichtian interval, is related to the opening of the South Atlantic caused by the separation of the South American and African continents. The biogeographic differentiation observed in the Aptian is due mainly to the presence of physical barriers that prevented the free circulation and mixing of waters between the southern South Atlantic and that part of the Atlantic Ocean north of the Florianópolis High. The exchange of waters between these two water masses began in Albian; this produced the mixing of Austral waters emanating from southernmost oceans and Tethyan waters coming from the Central and North Atlantic. Oceanic circulation patterns very similar to those of the present day were probably initiated in the Senonian (Coniacian–Santonian); possibly, an early Falkland Current (Malvinas Current) began to circulate at that time. The effective mixing of waters led to reduction of biogeographic differentiation and provincialism at the end of the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), but significant latitudinal oceanic macrozones, reflecting temperature gradients, continued to exist. In addition to their obvious significance in paleooceanographic reconstructions, provincialism studies contribute to refinement of global biostratigraphy through discernment of the most useful regional index fossils in conjunction with those of wider distribution
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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