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Preliminary report of pear harvesting and storage investigations in Rogue River Valley
No full textby C.I. Lewis, J.R. Magness, C.C. Cate.Cover title."June, 1918."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Addressing potential sources of variation in several non-destructive techniques for measuring firmness in apples
No full textMeasurements of firmness have traditionally been carried out according to the Magness Taylor (MT) procedure; using a texture analyser or penetrometer in reference texture tests. Non-destructive tests like the acoustic impulse response of acoustic firmness sensors (AFSs), a low-mass impact firmness sensor Sinclair International (SIQ-FT) and impact test (Lateral Impact – UPM) have also been used to measure texture and firmness. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the influence of different sources of variation in these three non-destructive tests and to evaluate their respective capabilities of discriminating between fruit maturity at two different harvest dates, turgidity before and after dehydration treatment and ripening after different storage periods. According to our results, fruit studied an unexpected AFS trend with turgidity. Contact measurements (Lateral Impact – UPM and SIQ-FT) appeared highly sensitive to changes in turgidity, but were less able to follow changes in ripening caused by storage period. Contact measurements were suitable for detecting differences between fruits from different harvest dates and showed higher correlation coefficients with reference texture tests than acoustic measurements. The Lateral Impact – UPM test proved better at separating fruits according to turgidity than the SIQ-FT instrumen
Huqoq – 2014: Preliminary Report
No full textDuring the month of June 2014, a fourth season of excavations was conducted at Horbat Huqoq in eastern Galilee (License No. G-16/2014; map ref. 245198/754556; Magness 2012; Magness et al. 2013; Magness et al. 2014). The excavations were undertaken and underwritten by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brigham Young University (Utah), Trinity University (Texas) and the University of Toronto (Canada). Additional funding was provided by Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.), The Foundation for Biblical Archaeology (S. Bishop) and private donors. The excavation was directed by J. Magness, with the assistance of S. Kisilevitz (assistant director), M. Golan (administration), C. Spigel, M. Grey, and B. Gordon (area supervision), T. De’adle (consultant on the modern village), B. Coussens (assistant area supervisor), J. Bucko (surveying), J. Haberman (field photography), M. Robinson-Mohr (registration), D. Schindler (ceramics), K. Britt (mosaics), M. Belmaker (rodent remains), J. George (paleobotany), C. Swan (glass), N. Elkins (numismatics), P. Flesher (computer data and educational program), R. Mohr (drawing), V. Pirsky (drafting), O. Cohen (site conservation) and M. Lavie (cleaning and conservation of artifacts). Most of the volunteers were undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S.A. and Canada
חוקוק – 2014: דוח ראשוני [Huqoq – 2014: Preliminary Report]
No full textDuring the month of June 2014, a fourth season of excavations was conducted at Horbat Huqoq in eastern Galilee (License No. G-16/2014; map ref. 245198/754556; Magness 2012; Magness et al. 2013; Magness et al. 2014). The excavations were undertaken and underwritten by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brigham Young University (Utah), Trinity University (Texas) and the University of Toronto (Canada). Additional funding was provided by Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.), The Foundation for Biblical Archaeology (S. Bishop) and private donors. The excavation was directed by J. Magness, with the assistance of S. Kisilevitz (assistant director), M. Golan (administration), C. Spigel, M. Grey, and B. Gordon (area supervision), T. De’adle (consultant on the modern village), B. Coussens (assistant area supervisor), J. Bucko (surveying), J. Haberman (field photography), M. Robinson-Mohr (registration), D. Schindler (ceramics), K. Britt (mosaics), M. Belmaker (rodent remains), J. George (paleobotany), C. Swan (glass), N. Elkins (numismatics), P. Flesher (computer data and educational program), R. Mohr (drawing), V. Pirsky (drafting), O. Cohen (site conservation) and M. Lavie (cleaning and conservation of artifacts). Most of the volunteers were undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S.A. and Canada
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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.
Abstract
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.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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
Huqoq 2023 : preliminary report
No full textFrom 29 May to 4 July 2023, the eleventh season of excavations was conducted at Horbat Huqoq (henceforth Huqoq) in eastern Galilee (License No. G-1/2023; map ref. 24500–50/75430–65; Magness 2012; Magness et al. 2013; 2014; 2016a; 2016b; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2023). The excavation was undertaken and underwritten by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Austin College (Texas), Brigham Young University (Utah), and the University of Toronto (Canada). Additional funding was provided by the Kenan Charitable Trust; the College of Arts and Sciences and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill; and private donors. The excavation was directed by J. Magness, with D. Mizzi (assistant director and finalizing of plans); M. Golan (administration); M. Grey and J. Burney (area supervision); J. Haberman (field photography); M. Robinson-Mohr (registration); D. Schindler (ceramics); C. Swan (glass); K. Britt and R. Boustan (mosaics); M. Wells (architecture); S. O’Connell (painted plaster); R. Mohr (drawing); V. Pirsky (drafting); C. De Brer (site conservation); M. Lavie (small finds conservation); and Griffin Higher Photography (aerial photography). The volunteers consisted of undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S.A., Canada, Germany and Slovakia.
Excavations this season continued in Area 3000 (Fig. 1), where there are five main occupation phases: (1) a synagogue and an adjacent courtyard to the east dated to the Late Roman period (late fourth–early fifth centuries CE; Fig. 2); (2) a late Medieval (Mamluk; fourteenth–fifteenth centuries CE) public building that we now identify as a synagogue (Mizzi and Magness 2022) and a massive vaulted structure built on top of the Late Roman courtyard (Fig. 3); (3) installations and a few scattered walls built after the late Medieval synagogue and vaulted structure had gone out of use and were pitted and robbed out (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries CE); (4) an open area with numerous tabuns, associated with layers of ash and a few partition walls (eighteenth–nineteenth centuries CE); and (5) houses belonging to the modern village of Yaquq from the late Ottoman–Modern periods (nineteenth century CE up to 1948).peer-reviewe
A 0.12mm<sup>2</sup> Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C
No full text Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (> 0.25 mm 2 ) and have lower operating temperatures (le 125 {circ} {C}) [2]-[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm 2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve 0.1 {circ} {C} (3 sigma) inaccuracy from - 40 {circ} {C} to 180 {circ} {C}. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies 6 × less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range. Session 10.3 Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
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