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Stratigraphy and sedimentary evolution: The lower Rhine-Meuse system during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (southern North Sea Basin)
Full text linkVandenberghe, J.F. [Promotor]Gibbard, P.L. [Copromotor]Kasse, C. [Copromotor]Weerts, H.J.T. [Copromotor
Militair-Wittwen-Kasse
No full textMILITAIR-WITTWEN-KASSE
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Beilage A. Vorschrift zum Gesundheits- Atteste (35)
Beilage B. Vorschrift zum Wechsel (37)
Beilage C. Vorschriften über die Bescheinigung des Empfanges der halbjährlichen Pensionen aus der Königlichen Militair-Wittwen-Kasse (38
Sensitivity of floodplain geocology to human impact in the dijle catchment
Full text linkVerstraeten, G. [Promotor]Vandenberghe, J.F. [Promotor]Bohncke, S.J.P. [Copromotor]Kasse, C. [Copromotor
Climatic change and fluvial dynamics of the Maas during the Late Weichselian and Early Holocene.
Full text linkHuman impact on Holocene catchment development and fluvial processes - the Geul River catchment, SE Netherlands
Full text linkDe ontwikkeling van het stroomgebied van de Geul in Zuid-Limburg wordt gekenmerkt door een sterke impact van menselijke invloeden. Sedimentatie in het dal vond vooral plaats tijdens en na grootschalige ontbossingen in de Romeinse Tijd en de Middeleeuwen. Meer recentelijk heeft de mens vooral het natuurlijke karakter van de Geul aan banden gelegd door middel van het verstevigen van oevers en door het rechttrekken van de beek. Het huidige en toekomstige beleid in het gebied is sterk gericht op het herstel van de natuurlijke beek met bijbehorende erosie en sedimentatieprocesses. Als gevolg hiervan zal de ecologische diversiteit toenemen en zal het dal betere mogelijkheden bieden voor waterberging tijdens perioden van hoge afvoer.Vandenberghe, J.F. [Promotor]Kasse, C. [Copromotor]Balen, R.T. van [Copromotor
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
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
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PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
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Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
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
Sandy aeolian deposits and environments and their relation to climate during the Last Glacial Maximum and Lateglacial in northwest and central Europe
No full textPeriglacial aeolian sand sheets and dunes of the last glacial cover extensive areas of northwest and central Europe. Four sedimentary facies have been described that could be related to fluvio-aeolian and cryogenic processes, moisture content of the depositional surface and surface morphology. Factors that favoured sand-sheet and low-dune formation were the abundance of unconsolidated sediments, absence of topographic barriers, sparseness of vegetation cover and the high ratio of wind energy to sand availability. Three phases of prominent aeolian sand deposition have been distinguished from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Phase I (c. 28-18 ka cal B.P.) with predominant fluvio-aeolian deposition was related to permafrost conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum. Phase II (c. 18-14 cal B.P.) represents the major period of sand-sheet or coversand formation at the waning stage of the last glacial (Late Pleniglacial and early Lateglacial). Phase III (c. 13-10 cal B.P.) with more localized deposition occurred in the later part of the Younger Dryas and early Holocene. It is stressed that the aeolian phases do not strictly coincide with glacial or stadial conditions. Climatic aridity, limited vegetation cover and delayed responses of the aeolian environment to climate change determine the timing of the aeolian phases
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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