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Effects of reproductive season on embryo development in the buffalo
No full textInterest in buffalo farming is increasing worldwide due to the critical role played by buffaloes as sources of
animal protein in tropical and subtropical environments. However, reproductive seasonality negatively affects the
profitability of buffalo farming. Buffaloes tend to be short-day breeders, with seasonality patterns increasing with greater
distances from the Equator. Although ovarian cyclic activity may occur throughout the year, seasonal anoestrus and cycles
in calving and milk production are recorded. When buffaloes are forced to mate during the unfavourable season, to meet
market demand, they may undergo a higher incidence of embryo mortality. This review addresses the effects of the
reproductive season on embryo development in the buffalo, analysing the different factors involved in determining embryo
mortality during the unfavourable season, such as impaired luteal function, oocyte competence and sperm quality. The
review then focuses on strategies to control the photoperiod-dependent annual fluctuations in conception and embryo
mortality in the female buffalo
Applied reproductive technologies in the buffalo species in : The buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) production and research
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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
EFFECT OF SEASON ON REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCES IN BUFFALO SPECIES (BUBALUS BUBALIS)
No full textThe importance and competitiveness of buffalo breeding in Italy, compared with the other more established forms of livestock rearing, is demonstrated by the increase
in the national and world buffalo population. The ever-growing trend of milk request and the necessity to cut down fixed production costs make necessary the use of biotechnologies of reproduction, such as artificial insemination (AI) and in vitro embryo production associated to ovum pick-up (OPU), that consent to plan selective directions in short time. A major limiting factor that affect the efficiency of innovative reproductive technologies in buffalo is the seasonality of the species which results in a high incidence of embryonic mortality. This study provides an overview on the effects of season on reproductive performances in Mediterranean Italian buffalo at Italian latitudes
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
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