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Abrupt down-current shift from channelized sandbodies into a hybrid event bed dominated domain: the Bordighera turbidite system (NW Italy)
No full textSedimentological characterization of the Bordighera deep-sea fan: deciphering facies distribution within a sand-rich submarine fan complex deposited in a convergent setting
No full textSedimentological characterization of the Bordighera deep-sea fan: deciphering facies distribution within a sand-rich submarine fan complex deposited in a convergent setting Abstract The Campanian-Maastrichtian Bordighera Sandstone represents a passive margin sourced, sand-rich medium-scale turbidite system deposited in a trench, with estimated depositional dimensions in the range of c. 15 x 45 km (across and along paleoflow, respectively) and roughly 200 m in thickness. Basin-scale quantification of lateral and vertical facies heterogeneities within this basin-floor submarine fan complex offers a case study for predictive analyses of spatial distributions of sedimentary facies in reservoir-analogous sand-bodies. As a consequence of tectonic deformation, limited lateral outcrop accessibility and high degrees of horizontal and vertical facies variations, the integration of stochastic process analyses of facies transitions and cyclical stacking patterns provides a substantial aid in deciphering spatial facies patterns and facies associations distribution. High-resolution facies analysis denotes the deep-sea fan as originating from various types of sediment gravity flows. Proximal depositional sub-environments are constituted by cyclically stacked, amalgamated coarse-grained successions involving bed type proportions dominated by " clean " microconglomerates and sandstones, often organized in lenticular bodies. Unidirectional paleocurrent orientations and low proportions of contiguous intercalations of heterolithic thin-bedded intervals suggest an attribution to low-sinuosity amalgamated channel complexes. Medial successions exhibit "mixed" bed type proportion distributions, defined by a decline in clean bed type proportions and moderate increase in mud-enriched bed types and hybrid event beds (HEBs), implying a less channelized but still proximal environment. More distally, a sudden change in the system character occurring over approximately 5 kilometres marks the onset of deposits dominated by HEBs and which appear to be composed of sheet-like sandstones. This realm can be differentiated in an axial domain prone to HEB development accompanied by less frequent proportions of heterolithic intervals (attributed to frontal fringes of depositional lobes), and marginal depositional sub-environments dominated by alternating mixed clastic and calcareous fine-grained laterally continuous thin layers (representing lobe-fringes / intralobe deposits). These observations illustrate the down-fan evolution from a pronouncedly channelized proximal sand-prone setting into an unconfined, distal zone characterized by HEB development. The complex interplay between siliciclastic sedimentation and Helminthoid-type calcareous San Remo Flysch turbidites is thought to be linked to the system's rapid down-dip transformation. Influences of pre-existing basin floor topography probably resulting in isolated sub-depocenters and fluctuating clastic sediment supply rates are considered as possible causes for enhanced local-to basin-scale heterogeneities in facies distribution and stratigraphic architecture
Determining reservoir heterogeneities in turbidite fans by integrated sedimentological and stochastic analyses – a comprehensive study of the Bordighera deep-sea-fan
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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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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
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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