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Innovazione in melicoltura: sistemi multiasse a confronto
No full textThe article compares innovative multi-axis apple training systems developed by Fondazione Edmund Mach with the traditional Spindle. Long-term trials on Rosy Glow/M9 T337 showed that while Spindle trees are more precocious, multi-axis and Guyot systems achieve comparable or higher yields and better fruit color in mature orchards. Multi-axis designs simplify canopy management, enhance mechanization efficiency, and support sustainable orchard practices
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
Experience in thinning trial to regulate the fruit load on three apple cultivars
No full textThe regulation of the fruit load is a fundamental practice to obtain quality productions for both commercial and organoleptic characteristics. In addition to this, the regulation of the fruit load through the thinning of flowers and fruits allows to maintain constant and regular crop through the years, avoiding the phenomenon of biannual bearing, with undoubted advantages also in the development of vegetationplant production. For the integrated productions, different molecules are available for the thinning of the fruits, but besides the chemical thinning it is possible to use brushing machines for flower control. The most common is the Darwin model, which works with a rotating central rotor on which are applied plastic wires with the function of tearing flowers. In addition to this model, a prototype machine for mechanical thinning (Florix) has been developed and produced by a local company. During spring 2021, a thinning test was conducted at the Mach Foundation’s experimental farm where a chemical thinning strategy was compared to the mechanical thinning and one untreated plot. The different theses were applied on three cultivars of apple, ‘Gala’, ‘Golden’ and ‘Fuji’, and to assess the effect of the interventions, percentage of fruit set was calculated on selected fruit-bearing branches. Twelve plants for each thesis were then harvested individually and the production was calibrated in the same way. The results have shown a significant effect of the different strategies in relation to the untreated control, both on the production per plant and on the number and size of the fruits for the different cultivars
Fruitlet image dataset for apple phenotyping during early development
No full textThis dataset originates from an experimental study conducted between April 24 and May 29, 2024, aimed at providing agronomists with an automated vision tool to accelerate data collection of apple fruitlets during early development. Excluding corymbs that experienced total fruit abscission, the data acquisition process resulted in 234 video files in .bag format and a total of 1,054 fruitlet measurements. The dataset includes three primary data sources: bag_videos.zip: a collection of videos recorded using the Intel® RealSenseTM Depth Camera D435i. Each video captures target fruitlets from multiple orientations, with an average duration of 10 seconds, at a distance of approximately 30 cm, and a resolution of 640 × 480 pixels; ground_truth_caliper_measurements.csv: the corresponding ground-truth measurements of selected corymbs, collected across 7 monitoring sessions. Measurements were categorized by date and bud type to analyze growth differences over time. Metadata such as the orientation of the vegetative wall and the presence of the king fruit was also recorded; FruitletDetectionDataset.zip: a dataset for model training, validation, and testing, comprising 481 images and corresponding oriented bounding box annotations. The images were obtained through stratified random sampling after RGB frame extraction, ensuring balanced representation across videos. The dataset is split into training (60%), validation (20%), and test (20%) subset
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