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Viewing temporal trends of biotic interactions in the light of spatial variation: parasite prevalence in modern northern Adriatic bivalves.
No full textThe Few the Brave, the Marine: taxonomic structure of Neogene benthic associations
No full textMollusk-rich benthic associations dominate the Cenozoic marine fossil record and are a key source of data for studying secular trends in metazoan biodiversity and other marcoevolutionary and macroecological patterns. We evaluate the taxonomic structure of those associations using a geographically extensive, facies-controlled dataset of fossiliferous samples of the Late Cenozoic age (Miocene – Quaternary).
A total of 489 bulk samples, including 8493 occurrences of 379 genera, were processed using a uniform sampling methodology and standardized taxonomy. These samples -- collected from Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene sequences of the U.S. Coastal Plain (western Atlantic), North Sea Basin (eastern Atlantic), central Europe (Paratethys), and Italy (Mediterranean Sea) -- represent fully marine, siliciclastic depositional environments from mid latitudes and are overwhelmingly dominated by benthic gastropods and bivalves.
The genus and family level analyses indicate that (1) the diversity-abundance structure of the pooled data fits closely a log-normal distribution; (2) the same several genera and families consistently dominate all analyzed samples, regardless of their stratigraphic position and geographic location; (3) the dominant genera represent small-sized forms from lower trophic levels (i.e., suspension feeders, grazers, deposit feeders), and all belong to groups often categorized as r-selective strategists; and (4) the persistent dominance of those few genera is unlikely to be the “garbage taxon” effect (the patterns persist at the family level and most genus occurrences are monospecific).
Although samples encompass multiple continents and time intervals, the pooled data fit a classic diversity-abundance model as tightly as the best-behaving ecological datasets from single habitats: either the Neogene marine biosphere was extremely homogenous or the diversity models are impervious to our dataset, which samples primarily common taxa. Despite high diversity captured in our samples, the dominant taxa are not only ecologically uniform, but also limited, through time and space, to repeated occurrences of the same lower taxa. The abundance structure of the Neogene marine benthic associations appears to have been extremely homogeneous both ecologically and taxonomically
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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