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Materie prime sostenibili nei mangimi per pesci: effetti sul microbiota acquatico, cutaneo e intestinale.
Get PDFMentre la popolazione mondiale si avvicina agli 8,5 miliardi di persone entro il 2030, l'acquacoltura fornirà il 53% dei prodotti ittici mondiali, sottolineando il suo importante ruolo nella sicurezza alimentare globale. Tuttavia, la dipendenza dell'industria dalla farina di pesce (FM) e dall'olio di pesce (FO) come mangime per pesci solleva preoccupazioni ambientali a causa della pesca eccessiva. È urgente trovare delle alternative sostenibili che possano soddisfare i benefici nutrizionali della FM e dell'olio di pesce. La ricerca si concentra sulla sostituzione di FM e FO con fonti proteiche alternative, tra cui farina di larve di insetti, farina di sottoprodotti di pollame (PBM) e farina di policheti, e studia i loro effetti sul microbiota dell'intestino e della pelle dei pesci - componenti importanti per la salute e la produttività dei pesci. Il progetto comprendeva cinque prove sperimentali con tre specie ittiche: trota iridea, orata e branzino. I risultati di queste prove hanno indicato che le fonti proteiche alternative possono sostituire con successo proporzioni significative di FM e FO senza influenzare negativamente la crescita, l'assunzione di mangime o la salute generale dei pesci. Ad esempio, l'inclusione di farine di Tenebrio molitor e Hermetia illucens nella dieta dei pesci ha avuto effetti minimi sulla composizione del microbioma della trota iridea e dell'orata, rispettivamente. Le diete a base di PBM per le spigole hanno promosso una forte crescita e mantenuto la salute dell'intestino, con un cambiamento del microbiota a favore dei batteri benefici. Il progetto ha anche analizzato il potenziale dei mangimi a base di insetti e degli enzimi chitinasi per migliorare il valore nutrizionale di questi ingredienti alternativi. I risultati suggeriscono che queste fonti proteiche sostenibili possono contribuire a pratiche di acquacoltura più rispettose dell'ambiente, promuovendo al contempo la salute e la produttività dei pesci. Fornendo una base scientifica per l'uso di queste proteine alternative nei mangimi per pesci, questa ricerca apre la strada allo sviluppo di soluzioni di acquacoltura efficaci e sostenibili che riducono la dipendenza da FM e FO, attenuando così il loro impatto ambientale.As the world's population approaches 8.5 billion by 2030, aquaculture will supply 53% of the world's seafood, emphasising its important role in global food security. However, the industry's reliance on fishmeal (FM) and fish oil (FO) as fish feed raises environmental concerns due to overfishing. Sustainable alternatives that match the nutritional benefits of FM and FO are urgently needed. The research focuses on the replacement of FM and FO with alternative protein sources, including insect larvae meal, poultry by-product meal (PBM) and polychaetes meal, and investigates their effects on the microbiota of the fish gut and skin — important components for fish health and productivity. The project comprised five experimental trials with three fish species: rainbow trout, gilthead sea bream and sea bass. The results of these trials indicated that alternative protein sources can successfully replace significant proportions of FM and FO without negatively affecting the growth, feed intake or overall health of the fish. For example, the inclusion of meals of Tenebrio molitor and Hermetia illucens in the fish diet had minimal effects on the composition of the microbiome of rainbow trout and gilthead sea bream, respectively. PBM-based diets for sea bass promoted strong growth and maintained gut health, with the microbiota shifting in favour of beneficial bacteria. The project also investigated the potential of insect-based feeds and chitinase enzymes to improve the nutritional value of these alternative ingredients. The results suggest that these sustainable protein sources can contribute to more environmentally friendly aquaculture practises while promoting fish health and productivity. By providing a scientific basis for the use of these alternative proteins in fish feed, this research paves the way for the development of effective, sustainable aquaculture solutions that reduce reliance on FM and FO, thereby mitigating their environmental impact
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
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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