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Decoding the role of the lncRNA HOTAIRM1 in human motor neurons
Full text linkThe mammalian genome produces thousands of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which have been demonstrated to be fundamental in the control of many biological processes. These molecules play a crucial role in the multilayered regulation of physiological and disease-related gene expression programs, having significant implications in shaping central nervous system (CNS) complexity.
Neuronal differentiation is a timely and spatially regulated process, relying on precisely orchestrated gene expression control. The coordinated activity of transcription factors and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), organized in intricate regulatory networks, drives cell fate specification ensuring correct and specific neuronal functions. We previously described,1 at both the molecular and functional level, the lncRNA nHOTAIRM1 as a neuronal-enriched transcript, which is upregulated during in vitro neuronal differentiation and highly expressed in post-mitotic motor neurons (MNs). We demonstrated that the nuclear nHOTAIRM1, even if much less abundant than its cytoplasmic counterpart, it is involved in the achievement of correct neuronal differentiation timing as an epigenetic regulator of NEUROG2 expression.1 Remarkably, among all human brain tissues, nHOTAIRM1 is specifically expressed in the spinal cord. Consistently, we found that nHOTAIRM1 accumulates in MN-enriched ventral spinal cord lineages differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).1 All this evidence prompted us to further investigate the role of the highly expressed nHOTAIRM1 specifically on MN generation and/or function, to ultimately determine whether its deregulation affects MN differentiation and activity. To experimentally address these questions, here we applied a genome editing-based loss-of-function approach to a model system that efficiently recapitulates spinal MN differentiation, and we identified key nHOTAIRM1 target genes implicated in MN maturation, morphology and activity. Our findings allowed us to conclude that nHOTAIRM1 directs multiple crucial aspects of MN physiology, from their development to the acquisition of appropriate morphological features and motor function
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
Flavonoids in leaves of black cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. acephala DC. subvar. viridis forma serotina) grown on different soils and at different elevations
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