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Effects of Macadamia integrifolia husk substrate and Moringa oleifera leaf extract on macro propagation of banana (Musa spp.) using the Plants Isus de Fragments de tiges (plants issued from stem fragments (PIF) technique
No full textMSCAGR (Horticultural Sciences)Department of Plant and Soil SciencesBanana is an essential food crop because of the commercial and nutritional advantages it offers. It provides vital nutrients and has some health benefits. The two main challenges farmers face are high production costs and difficulties in obtaining clean pathogen-free propagules. Propagation of suckers through tissue culture (micropropagation) is expensive and requires high technical skills. Alternatively, the macropropagation technique is affordable, requires basic materials, does not require advanced skills, and has never been practiced in South Africa. Moreover, the technique can be enhanced through growth media and hormone treatment. The current study explored the use of organic substrate macadamia husk and organic additive moringa on macropropagation of bananas in Vhembe District. Two experiments were conducted at the ARC-TSC research farm in Levubu. The first experiment investigated the influence of different substrates on bud initiation and growth of banana suckers propagated through Plants isus de fragments de tiges (plants issued from stem fragments (PIF)) technique. The second experiment examined the effect of moringa leaf extract on bud initiation and growth of banana suckers propagated through the PIF technique. Both experiments were laid out as randomised complete design, replicated 3 times with experiment 1 having 4 treatments (macadamia husk compost (MHC), pure sand, sawdust, and a mixture at a ratio of 1:1:1 of all the substrates). Experiment 2 had 5 treatments of different concentrations of moringa leaf extracts (MLE) (0%, 2%, 4%, 6% and 8%). The data collected for both experiments was the number of corms germinated, the number of days to first sucker emergence, number of sprouted buds per corm, number of roots per corm, number of suckers transplanted, sucker height, sucker diameter, number of leaves per sucker, number of roots per sucker and sucker root length. Data was subjected to analysis of variance using SAS and the means were separated using the least significant difference at 5% probability level. The results for the first experiment showed that MHC substrate recorded short number of days to first sucker emergence. The third transplanting cycle produced suckers with high number of leaves per shoot (NLPS), number of roots per shoot (NRPS), and long shoot root length (SRL), the first transplanting cycle produced tall suckers with thick pseudo-stem diameter (PSD). A highly significant positive correlation was observed between number of roots per shoot (NRPS) and NLPS as well as SRL and NLPS. The study revealed that MHC substrate produced more suckers, especially during the first transplanting cycle and therefore can be recommended as a substrate in the production of banana suckers. The results for the second experiment showed that 4% concentration of MLE produced high number of buds sprouted (NOBS), number of roots per corm (NORPC) and total suckers transplanted per treatment (TSTPT). The first transplanting cycle produced high number of suckers transplanted with high shoot height (SH) while third transplanting cycle produced suckers with long SRL. A weak positive correlation was found between NLPS and PSD, NRPS and NLPS, and SRL and NRPS and NLPS. The study concluded that the concentration of 4% may be recommended in bud initiation of banana
plantlets using PIF technique. Moreover, the first transplant produced large quantity of suckers that were tall in all the two seasons.AGRISET
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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