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Theoretical aspects of physical-chemical parameters for the correct conservation of mummies on display in museums and preserved in storage rooms
No full textThis study is aimed at evaluating physical and chemical parameters which are considered as the most
appropriate for the long-term preservation of mummies, distinguishing between those which are on
display in museums and those which are preserved in storage rooms. The objective of this study is also
to compare and discuss differences among the most widely known guidelines and norms of the field and
to highlight the single phenomena which affect the decay of this kind of cultural asset
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
Measuring Air Humidity
No full text“When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge about is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.” William Thomson (Lord Kelvin, 1886).
The climate-controlled cell that accommodates the Similaun mummy must accurately reproduce the best conditions for its proper preservation. The verification of the performance of the cell control system requires specific investigation techniques and near-state-of-the-art measurement capabilities for the environmental physical quantities (i.e., temperature and humidity). The issues concerning the basic definitions and principles, the air humidity measuring instruments – with emphasis to measurements below 0 °C – and the investigation methods for uncertainty estimation are dealt with in this chapter
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
Life traces: psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria in the Iceman.
No full textTwo strategies were utilized to investigate the presence and diversity of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria in the Iceman (5350-5100 years BP). The first was based on conventional microbiological techniques, i.e. growth of bacterial cells on solid and liquid media. The second was based on the isolation of DNA from small mummy specimens and putative identification of bacteria via DNA sequencing. In addiction, the DNA extracted directly from the Iceman’s tissues was treatedby uracil-N-glycosylase (UNG) to detect repair activity.
Microbial cultivation made it possible to identify several bacterial genera such as Ralstonia, Arthrobacter, Methylobacterium, Bradyrhizobium, Bacillus and Pseudomonas. On the other hand, DNA analysis showed that the mummy tissues contained the DNA of Clostridium at an elevated concentration. Thus, there is a sharp distinction between metabolically-active (cultivable) and non-active bacteria. The current research may assist in establishing optimal conservation conditions for the mummy
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