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Modeling Living Cells Response to Surface Tension and Chemical Patterns
No full textMechanobiology is an important epigenetic factor. It influences cell functioning and bears on gene induction, protein synthesis, cell growth, and differentiation. In the presence of patterned chemical cues, living cells can take shapes that are far from that of a drop of fluid. These shapes are characterized by inward curvatures that are pinned at the points of location of the cues. The mechanochemical interactions that orchestrate cell behavior is simulated and controlled by modeling the cells as made by parcels of fluid. Cells become drops that are then endowed with the presence of additional forces, generated on the fly, that effectively make them active. With the proper choice of the forces, the phenomena that emerge from the dynamics match quantitatively the experiments. A combination of hydrophilic and lipophilic forces acting between the beads of fluid allows the active drop to respond to patterned cues and form squares, pentagons, hexagons, and flowers, just as living cells do
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
‘Implore me not, Dog’. The Dog in the Classical World: An Apotropaic View
Full text linkIn the Classical world, the dog has polysemic meaning, as proved by the analysis of poetic and ethological ancient sources. As a symbol of absolute fidelity to its owner, the dog stands for a fundamental iconographic marker for the aristocratic elfrepresentation,
but it can also be interpreted in a negative sense. The ambiguity gives it a liminal meaning, in which the symbolic value is intensified by its relationship to the gods, connected to the concept of passage from one state to another. This double aspect contributes to project an apotropaic sense onto itself, which remained in the Roman world until Late Antiquity
Méthode informatique utilisée pour l'analyse et la reconstruction graphique du plan cadastral de Carpi (1472)
No full textBocchi Francesca, Lugli Fernando. Méthode informatique utilisée pour l'analyse et la reconstruction graphique du plan cadastral de Carpi (1472). In: Les cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique. Actes de la table ronde de Saint-Cloud, 31 janvier - 2 février 1985. Rome : École Française de Rome, 1989. pp. 229-254. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 120
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
Méthode informatique utilisée pour l'analyse et la reconstruction graphique du plan cadastral de Carpi (1472)
No full textBocchi Francesca, Lugli Fernando. Méthode informatique utilisée pour l'analyse et la reconstruction graphique du plan cadastral de Carpi (1472). In: Les cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique. Actes de la table ronde de Saint-Cloud, 31 janvier - 2 février 1985. Rome : École Française de Rome, 1989. pp. 229-254. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 120
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
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