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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Role of calcium signaling in sensitization of chemoresistant ovarian cancer to anti-Bcl-xL strategies
No full textLes cancers de l’ovaire représentent la première cause de décès par cancer gynécologique. L’échec des traitements, lié à l’apparition d’une chimiorésistance, implique de trouver de nouvelles stratégies thérapeutiques. Dans ce cadre, le laboratoire a mis en évidence la coopération de deux molécules anti-apoptotiques surexprimées dans les cancers de l’ovaire, Mcl-1 et Bcl-xL, qui empêchent alors le déclenchement de la mort cellulaire par apoptose. L’inhibition de ces cibles est alors mise en place. Un BH3-mimétique inhibiteur de Bcl-xL a été développé par la société Abbvie, l’ABT-737, qui possède un dérivé administrable par voie orale l’ABT-263 en essai clinique. En revanche, aucun inhibiteur de Mcl-1 n’est actuellement en clinique. L’inhibition de cet anti-apoptotique est donc l’un des objectifs du laboratoire. Sachant que Mcl-1 est extrêmement régulée, que l’inhibition de la voie de signalisation PI3K/Akt/mTOR conduit à l’inhibition de cet anti-apoptotique, et que le calcium est capable de moduler cette voie, nous nous sommes demandés si la modulation des flux calciques permettait l’inhibition de Mcl-1 dans nos cellules. Ces travaux de thèse ont pu montrer dans un premier temps que la chélation calcique par le BAPTA-AM permettait d’inhiber Mcl-1 via la voie mTORC1 et de sensibiliser les cellules à l’ABT-737. Dans un second temps, l’étude de l’effet d’un inhibiteur des flux calciques en essais cliniques, le carboxyamidotriazole a permis de mettre en évidence que l’inhibition des canaux calciques capacitifs pouvait entraîner l’inhibition de Mcl-1 de nouveau en inhibant mTORC1 et induire la mort cellulaire en combinaison avec l’ABT-737. Enfin des observations morphologiques ont montré que le CAI induisait un changement morphologique aboutissant à la mort des cellules. Ce type de mort semble être lié à une perturbation du métabolisme des cellules cancéreuses IGROV1-R10 et se rapprocherait d’une mort récemmement décrite dans la littérature : l’autosis.Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer. There is an urgent need to find new therapeutic strategies due to failure of treatments associated to development of chemoresistance. In this context, the laboratory has shown the cooperation of two anti-apoptotic proteins overexpressed in ovarian cancer, Mcl-1 and Bcl-xL, for preventing apoptotic cell death. ABT-737, a Bcl-xL inhibitor BH3-mimetic, was developed by Abbvie and has a clinically derivative named ABT-263. In contrast, no Mcl-1 inhibitor is currently available in clinic. The inhibition of this anti-apoptotic protein is therefore one of the objectives of the laboratory. Since inhibition of PI3K / Akt / mTOR signaling pathway leads to inhibition of Mcl-1 expression and calcium is able to modulate this pathway, we wondered if the modulation of calcium fluxes allowed the inhibition of Mcl-1 in ovarian cancer cells. First we were able to show that calcium chelation by BAPTA-AM allowed to inhibit Mcl-1 expression via mTORC1 pathway and to sensitize the cells to ABT-737. In a second step, we investigated the effect of an inhibitor of calcium fluxes that is evaluated in clinical studies, carboxyamidotriazole. We show that the inhibition of capacitive calcium channels could lead to Mcl-1 down-expression via inhibition of mTORC1 and promote apoptosis in combination with ABT-737. Finally, we observed that CAI induces a morphological change resulting in cell death. This type of death seems to be related to disruption of metabolism in IGROV1-R10 cancer cells and would be close to a cell death recently described in the literature: autosis
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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