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Krishna P. Thomas
No full textKrishna P. Thomas, 10 years of service, with President David Glassman and Jay Gatrell, Vice President for Academic Affairshttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/years_of_service_2018/1059/thumbnail.jp
Variation of pomelo (Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck) in Nepal and participatory selection of strains for further improvement
No full textA farmers’ participatory survey was carried out in the mid-hill and plain (Terai) regions of Nepal to assess the diversity, consumers’ preference for fruit quality and for thus the selection of potential elite clones of pummelo. A wide variation of morphological characters of tree, fruit, leaf and seed was identified from farmers’
information and laboratory analysis. The multivariate analysis of the data produced
5 descrete groups, which were represented by plants from different agro-ecological regions and soil types. The groups differed significantly in yield efficiency, fruit shape and size, pulp, juice, total soluble solids and acid content, seed number, leaf shape and size. The fruit characters, such as yield, size and acid content were found to be affected by environment and genotypes whereas other characters such as fruit shape, pulp colour, seed number, bitterness, leaf shape and petiole wing shape were not affected by environment. Farmers were more sensitive to quality than to yield. Six elite types were identified from farmers’ participatory survey and laboratory analysis and among them farmers considered four to be the best types for their respective localities.Although, pummelo cultivation in Nepal was observed from 65 m to 1340 m altitude the present study suggests that the plain area (below 300 m) is the most suitable for quality pummelo production
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
White light-emitting LED using electrospun Alq3/P3BT composite microfibers
No full textWe prepared a white light-emitting LED by electrospinning small organic molecules (Alq3) and polymer (P3BT) composite microfibers directly onto a blue LED. The formation of the composite microfiber was optically characterized using the photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy at the single strand level. We found that the 23:1 weight ratio of Alq3 and P3BT produced optimized white emission when combined with the intrinsic blue emission from the LED due to the fluorescence resonance energy transfer from the Alq3 to the P3BT. The environmentally friendly Alq3/P3BT organic composite microfibers efficiently demonstrated the photo conversion of blue LED into pure white LED. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.1561sciescopu
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
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