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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
Enzymology of the regulatory mechanism of Peroxiredoxins by hyperoxidation during redox cell signalling
No full textLa suroxydation des peroxyrédoxines (Prx) est un mécanisme post-traductionnel essentiel impliqué dans la régulation et la signalisation cellulaire redox. Les Prx sont des peroxydases à thiol, qui réagissent avec les peroxydes pour former un intermédiaire acide sulfénique. Leur sensibilité à la suroxydation dépend de la compétition entre la réaction de sulfinylation et la formation d’un pont disulfure au cours du cycle peroxydase. Cette compétition est contrôlée par une transition conformationnelle entre deux conformations FF : structurée et LU : localement déstructurée. Dans ce projet, nous abordons le mécanisme de suroxydation de Tsa1, la principale Prx1 cytosolique de S. cerevisiae, par des analyses cinétiques à l'état pré-stationnaire en cinétique rapide, à l'état stationnaire et in vivo. Une phase cinétique correspondant à un changement de conformation associé à la transition FF/LU a été identifiée, montrant que la formation de l’acide sulfénique facilite cette transition. L’utilisation de mutants de sensibilité à la suroxydation altérée et de différents substrats peroxydes a permis de montrer que la sensibilité est découplée de l'étape de formation du pont disulfure et ne dépend que des constantes de vitesse de sulfinylation et de transition conformationnelle FF/LU. A partir de ces deux paramètres, nous pouvons prédire l'indice de sensibilité à la suroxydation CHyp1%, une prédiction démontrée in vitro et in vivo.Peroxiredoxins from the Prx1 subfamily (Prx) are moonlighting peroxidases that operate in peroxide signaling and are regulated by sulfinylation. Prxs offer a major model of protein−thiol oxidative modification. They react with H2O2 to form a sulfenic acid intermediate that either engages into a disulfide bond, committing the enzyme into its peroxidase cycle, or again reacts with peroxide to produce a sulfinic acid that inactivates the enzyme. Sensitivity to sulfinylation depends on the kinetics of these two competing reactions and is critically influenced by a structural transition from a fully folded (FF) to locally unfolded (LU) conformation. Analysis of the reaction of the Tsa1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae Prx with H2O2 by Trp fluorescence-based rapid kinetics revealed a process linked to the FF/LU transition that is kinetically distinct from disulfide formation and suggested that sulfenate formation facilitates local unfolding. Use of mutants of distinctive sensitivities and of different peroxide substrates showed that sulfinylation sensitivity is not coupled to the resolving step kinetics but depends only on the sulfenic acid oxidation and FF-to-LU transition rate constants. From these two parameters, the relative sensitivities of Prxs toward hyperoxidation with different substrates can be predicted, as confirmed by in vitro and in vivo patterns
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
Enzymologie du mécanisme de régulation des Peroxyrédoxines par suroxydation au cours de la signalisation cellulaire redox
No full textPeroxiredoxins from the Prx1 subfamily (Prx) are moonlighting peroxidases that operate in peroxide signaling and are regulated by sulfinylation. Prxs offer a major model of protein−thiol oxidative modification. They react with H2O2 to form a sulfenic acid intermediate that either engages into a disulfide bond, committing the enzyme into its peroxidase cycle, or again reacts with peroxide to produce a sulfinic acid that inactivates the enzyme. Sensitivity to sulfinylation depends on the kinetics of these two competing reactions and is critically influenced by a structural transition from a fully folded (FF) to locally unfolded (LU) conformation. Analysis of the reaction of the Tsa1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae Prx with H2O2 by Trp fluorescence-based rapid kinetics revealed a process linked to the FF/LU transition that is kinetically distinct from disulfide formation and suggested that sulfenate formation facilitates local unfolding. Use of mutants of distinctive sensitivities and of different peroxide substrates showed that sulfinylation sensitivity is not coupled to the resolving step kinetics but depends only on the sulfenic acid oxidation and FF-to-LU transition rate constants. From these two parameters, the relative sensitivities of Prxs toward hyperoxidation with different substrates can be predicted, as confirmed by in vitro and in vivo patterns.La suroxydation des peroxyrédoxines (Prx) est un mécanisme post-traductionnel essentiel impliqué dans la régulation et la signalisation cellulaire redox. Les Prx sont des peroxydases à thiol, qui réagissent avec les peroxydes pour former un intermédiaire acide sulfénique. Leur sensibilité à la suroxydation dépend de la compétition entre la réaction de sulfinylation et la formation d’un pont disulfure au cours du cycle peroxydase. Cette compétition est contrôlée par une transition conformationnelle entre deux conformations FF : structurée et LU : localement déstructurée. Dans ce projet, nous abordons le mécanisme de suroxydation de Tsa1, la principale Prx1 cytosolique de S. cerevisiae, par des analyses cinétiques à l'état pré-stationnaire en cinétique rapide, à l'état stationnaire et in vivo. Une phase cinétique correspondant à un changement de conformation associé à la transition FF/LU a été identifiée, montrant que la formation de l’acide sulfénique facilite cette transition. L’utilisation de mutants de sensibilité à la suroxydation altérée et de différents substrats peroxydes a permis de montrer que la sensibilité est découplée de l'étape de formation du pont disulfure et ne dépend que des constantes de vitesse de sulfinylation et de transition conformationnelle FF/LU. A partir de ces deux paramètres, nous pouvons prédire l'indice de sensibilité à la suroxydation CHyp1%, une prédiction démontrée in vitro et in vivo
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
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