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    Igneous evolutions across the Ivrea crustal section: the Permian Sesia Magmatic System and the Triassic Finero intrusion and mantle

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    The famous deep crustal section of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone (IVZ, western Alps, Fig. A) has received enormous attention over the last three decades as one of the best examples of continental “magmatic underplating”. Recent investigations, comprising structural, petrochemical and geochronological data, point to the occurrence of a “Sesia-type IVZ” (i.e. central IVZ) and a “Finero-type IVZ” (i.e. northern IVZ), which underwent different magmatic and tectonic evolution. In the Sesia area (box a in Fig. A), the Permian gabbroic pluton known as the mafic complex (reaching thicknesses > 8 km) intruded the deepest rocks of the crustal section, comprising amphibolite to granulite-facies paragneiss and interlayered mantle peridotite bodies, while they were resident in the deep crust. The broader magmatic context of this voluminous intrusion remained unclear until Quick et al. (2009) demonstrated that the emplacement of the mafic complex was coeval to the activity of a mainly silicic volcanic field, including extensive caldera deposits, and to the growth of silicic plutons in the upper crust of the adjacent “Serie dei Laghi”. The Sesia magmatic system constitutes an exposure of the plumbing system of a caldera from the surface to a depth of about 25 km (Quick et al., 2009). In this framework, the mafic complex records processes occurring in the deep crust beneath the caldera. The onset of volcanic activity correlates strictly with the climax of the growth of the upper mafic complex, when the mafic intrusion invaded fertile crustal levels and the crust was pervasively heated. In the upper crust, igneous activity was dominated by hybrid silicic melts produced by anatexis in the deep crust, but including significant amounts of mantle component. During the life of the volcanic activity, the mafic complex grew from a relatively small but continuously fed magma chamber according to the “gabbro glacier” process. The excursion will transect the entire igneous system, starting from the deepest exposures of the mafic complex up to reach the outcrops of megabreccia within the caldera fill. The Finero area (box b in Fig. A) is characterized by the occurrence of a pervasively-metasomatised mantle unit made by phlogopite-bearing ultramafic rocks (i.e. spinel-facies harzburgites, dunites and pyroxenites). These rock types were produced by several episodes of pervasive-to-channeled porous flow migration of K-LILE-Mg-enriched hydrous melts containing large amount of crustal components. The mantle unit is surrounded by a layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion, i.e. the Finero mafic complex, comprising garnet hornblendites, cumulus amphibole peridotites, amphibole gabbros and diorites, with tholeiitic to transitional geochemical affinity. Recent U-Pb zircon data point to a Middle-Triassic intrusion age for the Finero mafic complex, which may thus represent the deep-crustal counterparts of the Middle-Upper Triassic volcanism widespread throughout the Southern Alps. In any case, the Finero mafic complex can no longer be considered as part of the Permian mafic complex exposed in the Sesia area. Instead, U-Pb ages of zircons from massive chromitites of the mantle unit are Lower Jurassic. The marked age span of the Finero mafic complex and the associated mantle unit suggests that they experienced different evolutions until Lower Jurassic, and were subsequently tectonically juxtaposed during the opening of the Jurassic Neo-Tethys or later. The geodynamic setting related to the intrusion of the Finero mafic complex, the sources, the age and geodynamic environment of the metasomatism of the mantle unit and the age of the emplacement of the latter in contact with the crustal rocks are some of the issues that will be discussed in this guide. This excursion aims to illustrate the Sesia-type IVZ as a complete sequence of a section from the mantle to a supervolcano and show the different geochronological, petrographic and geochemical characteristics between the Sesia-type and the Finero-type IVZ in the light of the results of latest research

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Magmatic plumbing of a large Permian caldera exposed to a depth of 25km

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    We report evidence for a ≥13-km-diameter Permian caldera associated with a renowned section through the continental crust comprising the Ivrea-Verbano Zone and Serie dei Laghi of northwest Italy. Correlation of ages of volcanic and middle to deep crustal plutonic rocks suggests that they constitute an unprecedented exposure of a subcaldera magmatic plumbing system to a depth of 25 km, and points to a cause and effect link between intrusion of mantle-derived basalt in the deep crust, and large-scale, silicic volcanism
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