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    Fluctuating temperatures have a surprising effect on disease transmission

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    Theory predicts that temperature fluctuations should reduce performance near an organism's thermal optimum. A new study in PLOS Biology found fluctuations increased parasite transmission instead, highlighting questions about how climate change will impact infectious diseases. [Abstract copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Marta S. Shocket. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    JULIÁ, Marta S. et al. La investigación jurídica en políticas públicas ambientales.

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    JULIÁ, Marta S. et al. La investigación jurídica en políticaspúblicas ambientales. Unquillo, Narvaja Editor, 2014, pp. 168,ISBN 978-987-530-118-4.</jats:p

    Boron isotopes in tourmaline from hydrothermal ore systems

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    A new compilation of published data on the boron isotope composition of hydrothermal tourmaline is presented here. The database is provided in the excel file (Trumbull_etal_B-isotopes_Tourmaline_OreDeposits.xlsx) and contains ca. 4000 boron isotope analyses of tourmaline gathered from 57 publications (see References.docx), as well as additional information about the deposit, host rocks, age and temperature of the mineralization, particulars of tourmaline occurrence, etc. The file permits filtering based on the data and all other attributes. Some filter options that may be useful are: &ldquo;Publication&rdquo;, &ldquo;Deposit category&rdquo;, &ldquo;Country&rdquo;, &ldquo;Tourmaline host category&rdquo;, &ldquo;Tourmaline origin&rdquo;, &ldquo;Fluid source&rdquo;, &ldquo;Zoning&rdquo;, &ldquo;Mineralization&rdquo;. It is important to note that the article linked to this database (&ldquo;Application of boron isotopes in tourmaline to understanding hydrothermal ore systems&rdquo; by Trumbull et al.; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103682) discusses only tourmaline designated as &ldquo;Hydrothermal&rdquo; or &ldquo;Hydrothermal?&rdquo; in the database and reported in ISI-listed, English-language publications. This selection resulted in a total of 2622 d11B values reported in 49 publications. Cite this dataset Trumbull, Robert B.; Code&ccedil;o, Marta S.; Jiang, Shao-Yong; Palmer, Martin R.; Slack, John F. (2020), &ldquo;Boron isotopes in tourmaline from hydrothermal ore systems&rdquo;, Mendeley Data, V4, doi: 10.17632/tv5y7xt9fb.4 Cite the article: Trumbull, Robert B.; Code&ccedil;o, Marta S.; Jiang, Shao-Yong; Palmer, Martin R.; Slack, John F. (2020), &ldquo;Boron isotope variations in tourmaline from hydrothermal ore deposits: A review of controlling factors and insights for mineralizing systems&rdquo;, Ore Geology Reviews, 125: 103682, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103682 </span

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    JULIÁ, Marta S. et al. La investigación jurídica en políticas públicas ambientales

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    JULIÁ, Marta S. et al. La investigación jurídica en políticaspúblicas ambientales. Unquillo, Narvaja Editor, 2014, pp. 168,ISBN 978-987-530-118-4

    JULIÁ, Marta S. et al. La investigación jurídica en políticas públicas ambientales.

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    JULIÁ, Marta S. et al. La investigación jurídica en políticas públicas ambientales. Unquillo, Narvaja Editor, 2014, pp. 168, ISBN 978-987-530-118-4
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