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Rye flour extraction rate affects Maillard reaction development, antioxidant activity and Acrylamide formation in bread crisps.
No full textThe therapy of the allergic asthma with acupuncture
No full textThe aim of the present study was to verify the effectiveness of the Acupuncture,
a low-cost and lacking in hyatrogenicity therapy, in the treatment
of the allergic asthma. A sample of 60 patients have been selected, suffering
from seasonal allergic asthma, showing little or no response to the common
therapies. Everybody were treated with a cycle of weekly treatments of Acupuncture,
lasting 30 minutes each, until the resolution of the symptoms. All
the patients reached the resolution of the symptoms after 5 to 15 sessions;
within the third/fourth session all of them showed a significant reduction in
the intake of the pharmacologic therapy.
Moreover, the 75% of the patients who presented high levels of IgE, after
the first cycle returned in the normality range
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
La gestione del lavoratore "over 55": risultati del progetto europeo "Fit-4-work"
No full textThe educational program of fit for wor project is adressed to workers, managers and coordinators, to increase the integration of ageing employees and their knoledge about work ability. Durig 2007,31 companies of our region (26 factories and 5 public companies)have been selected: 3 of them (private secotr participated to the project and they were submitted to three different trainig programs:a) information concerning training of ageing workers; b) method to improve the work ability in case of disability;c) health and safety awareness.In addiction, two questionnaire concerning WAI and satisfaction of the working activity were administered. The rewults provided a good category of WAI, so tha aim was to sustain workig ability of ageing employees. WAI indexidecreased in task at higher psychophysical load where major attention to accident is required, and increases in presence of diseases. Team building created a good feeling and reciprocal support,independentely of participant age.The work satisfation degree was good. FInally, in relation to coping style, no differeces statstically emerged. Employeees of all age were very interested and required a continuous training for better integration of ageing worker
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