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75th Anniversary, Battle of Gettysburg [0014] - Chaplain J. L. Methven, Anadarko, Okla.
No full textChaplain J. L. Methven, Anadarko, Okla
Methodological approaches to measure lingual tactile sensitivity in adults and children: association with food neophobia, food texture preferences and consumption
No full textDespite the importance of texture in food product development, few methodological approaches have been developed to measure lingual tactile acuity and little information exists about the comparison between children and adults. The aims of the present study were: to verify the suitability of Von Frey’s filaments and a gratings orientation test in children of different age; to investigate the relationships between lingual tactile sensitivity, preference and eating behavior. 147 children aged 6-13 years and their parents participated in the study, in addition to a separate sample of seventy adults. Participants completed two different tasks: 1) completion of questionnaires 2) lingual tactile assessment using Von Frey’s filaments and a grating orientation test.
The results of the study established that gratings enable a better separation of subjects according to their lingual acuity than Von Frey’s filaments. Filaments were not directly correlated with the gratings tool. This finding suggests that the two tools measure different dimensions of lingual tactile sensitivity and that the mechanoreceptors located close to the lingual surface respond differently to the two different stimuli.
No age-related differences were found in lingual tactile acuity performance among children and adults. A positive but weak (p<0.05) association between food neophobia and lingual tactile sensitivity was found, supported by multivariate analysis which showed a negative association between sensitivity and preference for hard food. This study reveals a possible link between lingual tactile acuity, food texture preference and food neophobia. Thus, we suggest that early life experiences with texture variety are necessary to encourage children’s acceptance and consumption of foods containing particles
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
Assessment of oral tactile sensitivity in adults and children: relationship with texture preference and eating behaviour. A cross-cultural study in UK and Italy
Get PDFFood texture is an important driver of both acceptance and rejection in vulnerable consumer groups (e.g., children and the elderly). Since there is limited literature on methodologies to measure oral tactile acuity, the aims of this study were: to identify suitable methods to measure oral tactile acuity in children and adults; to explore age- and country– related differences in oral tactile acuity; to determine the relationship, if any, between oral tactile acuity, preference and eating behavior.
The study involved 207 individuals: 65 English and 32 Italian children (10-11 years), 50 English and 70 Italian adults (> 18 years). Participants were asked to take part in two activities: 1) compilation of questionnaires to investigate preference for food texture and food neophobia; 2) assessment of oral tactile sensitivity through Von Frey's filaments and a grating orientation test.
Cross-cultural differences were found. Italian children showed significantly higher tactile sensitivity than English ones with filaments (p< 0.001), while no difference was found with gratings. English adults showed a higher preference (p<0.05) for hard food than Italian ones. Age-related differences were found only for the English population (p<0.001), with adults being more sensitive than children. Oral tactile acuity and food neophobia were positively correlated (p<0.05) in both English and Italian children. Moreover, oral tactile acuity correlated negatively with the preference for hard and lumpy food. The present data suggest that, in children but not adults, higher sensitivity to oral tactile stimuli is associated to both food selectivity and preference for soft and uniform texture. Since food neophobia is reported to be an aversive behavior, which reduces the variety of the diet, the present results suggest that neophobia-related differences as well as individual differences in texture perception in children may have implications on diet and therefore potential health repercussions
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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