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BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF OLEASTER (OLEA EUROPAEA L. SUBSP. EUROPAEA VAR. SYLVESTRIS) IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
No full textOlive (Olea europaea L.) is one of the most iconic trees of the
Mediterranean Basin, with important implications from a social, economic,
and ecological point of view. Six subspecies are currently recognized in
the olive species based on morphological traits and geographical
distribution. The subsp. europaea is the only one divided into two
botanical varieties: cultivated olive (var. europaea) and wild olive or
oleaster (var. sylvestris). Oleaster is considered the ancestor of
cultivated olive and they both show a uniform distribution across the whole
Mediterranean Basin.
Climate change and new emerging diseases are expected to severely affect
the cultivation of olive leading to serious economic and ecological
consequences in the future. Oleaster presents a higher genetic variability
compared to the cultivated olive and some wild trees were found adapted to
particularly harsh conditions; therefore, the availability of wild olive
germplasm resources suitable for breeding programs and the preservation of
this great source of genetic diversity is crucially important. Despite the
great potential, only recently the need to deeply characterize and
adequately preserve the wild olive resources drew the attention of
researchers.
In our work, we gave an outline of the most important morphological and
genetic studies performed on oleaster trees collected in different
countries of the Mediterranean Basin summarizing their principal findings.
Moreover, we performed a meta-analysis with the purpose of comparing the
genetic differentiation found in different oleaster populations and their
country of origin. Finally, we analyzed the strategies introduced so far to
preserve and manage the oleaster germplasm collections, giving a future
perspective on how the wild olive genetic resources would be important to
face the future agricultural challenges posed by the evolving climatic
conditions and emerging diseases
Current Status of Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation of Wild Olive (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. sylvestris)
Full text linkOleaster (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. sylvestris) is the ancestor of cultivated olive (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. europaea) and it is spread through the whole Mediterranean Basin, showing an overlapping distribution with cultivated olive trees. Climate change and new emerging diseases are expected to severely affect the cultivations of olive in the future. Oleaster presents a higher genetic variability compared to the cultivated olive and some wild trees were found adapted to particularly harsh conditions; therefore, the role of oleaster in the future of olive cultivation may be crucial. Despite the great potential, only recently the need to deeply characterize and adequately preserve the wild olive resources drew the attention of researchers. In this review, we summarized the most important morphological and genetic studies performed on oleaster trees collected in different countries of the Mediterranean Basin. Moreover, we reviewed the strategies introduced so far to preserve and manage the oleaster germplasm collections, giving a future per-spective on their role in facing the future agricultural challenges posed by climatic changes and new emerging diseases
Ocena efektywności transformacji falkowych i falek w zastosowaniu do lokalizacji uszkodzeń w belkach z wykorzystaniem shearografii
No full textNon-destructive testing of engineering structures and elements in operation is one of the crucial steps in recently introduced design philosophies: damage tolerance and condition-based maintenance. Therefore, it is important to provide effective non-destructive testing methods, which are able to detect and identify a possible damage in early stage of its development. One effective testing method, which still gains its popularity in various industrial applications, is shearography. Although, shearography is sensitive to various types of structural damage and flaws, this sensitivity can be significantly improved by applying advanced post-processing algorithms to raw data obtained from measurements. An excellent candidate for such an improvement is the wavelet analysis, due to its very high sensitivity to smallest signal disturbances. This study presents results of comparative analysis of various wavelet transforms and various wavelets in order to analyse their sensitivity to damage. The improvement in damage detectability is verified using experimental data.Badania nieniszczące inżynierskich struktur i elementów będących w eksploatacji są jednym z najważniejszych kroków w obecnie zapoczątkowanych filozofii projektowania: tolerancji uszkodzenia oraz eksploatacji na podstawie stanu. Dlatego ważnym jest wykorzystanie efektywnych metod badań nieniszczących, które są zdolne do detekcji i identyfikacji możliwego uszkodzenia we wczesnej fazie jego rozwoju. Jedną z efektywnych metod badawczych, która wciąż zyskuje na popularności w różnych zastosowaniach przemysłowych, jest shearografia. Mimo że shearografia jest wrażliwa na różne rodzaje uszkodzeń i wad w strukturach, jej wrażliwość może być znacząco ulepszona poprzez zastosowanie zaawansowanych algorytmów przetwarzania do surowych danych wynikowych otrzymanych z pomiarów. Doskonałym kandydatem dla takiego polepszenia jest analiza falkowa ze względu na jej bardzo dużą wrażliwość na najmniejsze zaburzenia w sygnale. Niniejsza praca przedstawia wyniki analizy porównawczej różnych transformacji falkowych oraz różnych falek w celu analizy ich wrażliwości na uszkodzenia. Polepszenie wykrywalności uszkodzeń zostało zweryfikowane z wykorzystaniem danych eksperymentalnych
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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