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    Composición florística y variación estacional de la lluvia de esporas de helechos en el Bosque Mesófilo de Río Malila, municipio de Molango, Hidalgo

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    Existen pocos estudios sobre la aerobiología de esporas de helechos en ambientes naturales y prácticamente es un tema inédito para México, país en donde se tienen registrados 1024 taxa de pteridofitas (Mickel & Smith, 2004), la mayoría de las cuales habita el ecosistema de bosque mesófilo de montaña; ambiente que se encuentra en riesgo por factores antropogénicos (Rzedowski, 1978). En un bosque mesófilo ubicado en la Sierra Madre Oriental, subprovincia Carso- Huasteco, en las montañas de Hidalgo, se llevó a cabo un estudio cuyo objetivo fue determinar la composición y variación estacional de la lluvia de esporas de helechos, contrastar su composición con la pteridoflora registrada en la localidad y comparar la lluvia de esporas entre dos sitios con diferentes tipos de vegetación. El material biológico (esporas y ejemplares de respaldo) se recolectó para elaborar una clave de identificación para las esporas. El muestreo se realizó durante un año, desde marzo de 2009 a febrero del 2010, con tres trampas gravitacionales colocadas en dos sitios; en un fragmento de bosque conservado con estratificación arbórea y pendiente mayor a 20°; y en otro sitio carente de árboles y con pendiente menor a 10°. Mensualmente se elaboraron 3 laminillas semipermanentes que se observaron al microscopio óptico para identificar las esporas de helechos. Las 2462 esporas de helechos encontradas pertenecen a 158 morfoespecies de las cuales sólo 78 pudieron ser identificadas a especie; de estas 38 se encontraron exclusivamente en la lluvia de esporas y 40 se encontraron tanto en la lluvia, como en la vegetación circundante. La mayor cantidad de esporas fue recolectada en primavera (1,184 esporas) seguida por las estaciones de verano (621), invierno (379), y otoño (278). Se determinaron patrones estacionales de esporulación para 22 taxa y para 17 se encontraron preferencias de esporulación en función de la precipitación. La mayor cantidad de esporas se encontró en el sitio conservado (70 morfoespecies y 1,856 esporas), de las cuales 39 (1,482 esporas) corresponden al componente local. Este sitio comparte 55 taxa con el área perturbada, donde se encontraron 605 esporas de 64 especies. El índice de Sorensen fue de 0.8358 y el de Czekanowsky de 0.008529. Existen diferencias significativas entre la cantidad de esporas captadas entre ambos sitios (H=26.53 P<0.001), no así para la cantidad de precipitación. La diferente deposición del componente alóctono entre las zonas, aunado a las diferencias significativas encontradas y al índice de Czekanowzky, muestran que la cobertura vegetal juega un papel fundamental en la captación de esporas aerotransportadas, actuando como “trampa natural”. El follaje y enramado de los árboles incrementan la superficie de captación en donde las partículas aerotransportadas pueden impactarse y depositarse, aumentando la posibilidad de que diversas especies puedan establecerse; después que la precipitación lave el follaje y enramado, transportando verticalmente las esporas hacia el suelo. La estacionalidad de la liberación de esporas parece estar influenciada por la disponibilidad de agua, la lluvia de esporas mantiene la flora local, promueve el flujo génico hacia otras poblaciones y la colonización de nuevos hábitats

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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