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Traditional Foods
No full textThe semantic meaning of ‘traditional food’ should be clear: a
food in which broad-sense knowledge (ingredients, way of
preparation, role, etc.) is transmitted from generation to generation.
Although not encompassing explicit reference to the
way the knowledge is transmitted, common interpretations of
this definition are the following:
• ‘Traditional’ knowledge is the complex of information and
skills belonging to communities, as a result of the interaction
with the environment in which they live and the
available resources.
• The transmission of ‘traditional’ knowledge generally
occurs through informal means, often orally.
Recent debates indicate that people have no difficulty to independently
interpret tradition, in connection to food, attaching
personal facets to this term, such as old-fashioned, consumed
often in daily life, linked to special events, folkloric, belonging to
a specific place, homemade, not elaborated, tasty, and natural.
For sure, ‘traditional’ is not a technical term and does not
indicate precisely defined attributes; it is rather routinely used as
a broadly agreed concept, with a not surprising share of subjective
interpretation. The term ‘traditional food’ encompasses a
series of different, overlapping, sometimes contrasting attributes,
with relation to the sociocultural and economic context.
Nevertheless, reaching a so-called objective definition of
traditional foods has been central in contemporary discussions,
even since traditional foods recently attracted the interest
of both industry and consumers, for different and, also in
this case, partially contrasting reasons.
These aspects will be shortly treated in this presentatio
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
Yeasts
No full textYeasts are present in several ecological niches, including aquatic, marine, atmospheric, and terrestrial habitats. They can be considered as a sort of cell factory for the production of fermented foods and beverages and several compounds useful for human health and for industrial purposes. They are also used in livestock feeding and veterinary practices. Unfortunately, there are some drawbacks to yeast activity, because they can cause spoilage of many commodities, while pathogenic infections do occur, albeit rare, in immunocompromised persons. Also, they can lead to allergic reactions
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
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