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AVALIAÇÃO DA ACÇÃO DE LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA EM PARASITAS GASTROINTESTINAIS E PULMONARES DE CABRAS DA REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE
Full text linkEVALUATION OF THE ACTION OF LEUCAENA LEUCEPHALA ON
GASTROINTESTINAL AND PULMONARY PARASITES IN GOATS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF SÃO TOME AND PRINCIPE
The health problems, namely the presence of gastrointestinal and pulmonary parasites, are the
major obstacles to animal production in the islands of São Tomé and Principe. Due to its
geographical situation and its economic situation makes it difficult to get antiparasitic drugs.
Thus, it was intended to find an inexpensive viable solution: the use of the Leucaena leucocephala
plant, which grows wild, being part of the natural grazing of goats and sheep. For 78 days, the
effects of this plant in the reduction of infection by gastrointestinal and lung parasites were
evaluated. For this, three groups of goats were fed with different concentration levels of L.
leucocephala administered daily (0%, 15% and 30%). From each group, every 15 days, faeces
and blood were collected and laboratorial techniques were carried out to identify the forms of
parasites eliminated, followed by a comparison of the results obtained in the different groups. The
administration of 15% and 30% of this plant had effects on reducing the number of parasitic forms
excreted, namely, gastrointestinal strongilides eggs and infective larvae and pulmonary
strongilides larvae. The use of L. leucocephala has proven to be a possible alternative as a natural
strategy for parasitic control in goats at STP
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
David Ramilo, Claire Garros, Bruno Mathieu, Christophe Benedet, Xavier Allène, Elisabete Silva, Graça Alexandre-Pires, Isabel Pereira Da Fonseca
No full textRamilo, David, Garros, Claire, Mathieu, Bruno, Benedet, Christophe, Allène, Xavier, Silva, Elisabete, Alexandre-Pires, Graça, Fonseca, Isabel Pereira Da, Carpenter, Simon, Rádrová, Jana, Delécolle, Jean-Claude (2014): David Ramilo, Claire Garros, Bruno Mathieu, Christophe Benedet, Xavier Allène, Elisabete Silva, Graça Alexandre-Pires, Isabel Pereira Da Fonseca. Zootaxa 3753 (3): 300-300, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3753.3.1
Fig. 1 in An Association between the Featherwing Beetle Ptiliolum fuscum (Erichson) (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) and the Eurasian Griffon Gyps fulvus (Hablizi) (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) – First Report of a Phoretic Interaction between Beetles and Birds?
No full textFig. 1. Ptiliolum fuscum, dorsal view, collected from feathers of Gyps fulvus. Photograph by Michael Darby.Published as part of Tomás, André, Rebelo, Maria Teresa, Valkenburg, Thijs, Darby, Michael & Fonseca, Isabel Pereira da, 2018, An Association between the Featherwing Beetle Ptiliolum fuscum (Erichson) (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) and the Eurasian Griffon Gyps fulvus (Hablizi) (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) – First Report of a Phoretic Interaction between Beetles and Birds?, pp. 662-664 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (4) on page 663, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-72.4.662, http://zenodo.org/record/478970
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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