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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
Association entre l’accessibilité géographique aux commerces d’alimentation et la consommation de fruits et légumes chez les adultes québécois : analyse de la banque de données de santé CARTaGENE
Get PDFUne alimentation malsaine compromet la santé et génère des coûts importants sur les plans individuels et sociaux ainsi qu’en services en santé. L’adoption d’une saine alimentation est tributaire de déterminants individuels et environnementaux liés aux caractéristiques des environnements physique, économique, politique et socioculturel. Cette étude transversale a pour objectif d’évaluer l'effet de l’environnement physique, plus précisément l’effet de l'accessibilité géographique de commerces alimentaires, sur l'alimentation. Pour répondre à cet objectif, un échantillon composé de 7783 adultes âgés de 40 à 70 ans résidant dans quatre villes du Québec (Canada) a été utilisé. Des indicateurs de proximité ainsi que des indicateurs absolus et relatifs de densité de commerces alimentaires, de restaurants-minute et de dépanneurs situés aux alentours du domicile des participants ont été associés à la consommation de fruits et légumes (F&L). Les données des analyses de régressions logistiques univariées suggèrent que la consommation du nombre de portions minimales de F&L (5 portions) était associée de façon significative aux sept mesures de l'environnement alimentaire (RC variant entre 0.76 et 1.27). Cependant, ces relations étaient pour la plupart non significatives lorsque des variables confondantes étaient prises en compte. En multivarié, les variables les plus significativement corrélées à la consommation de F&L étaient des variables individuelles du sexe, du revenu et de l'éducation. Notre modèle de régression n'explique que 12,4 % de la variance de consommation de F&L, même en tenant compte de tous les facteurs confondants significatifs. Ces résultats démontrent que des recherches supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour mieux cerner les facteurs d’influence de la consommation de F&L chez cette population.Unhealthy eating habits can compromise one’s health and generate significant individual, social and health services costs. The adoption of healthy eating habits depends on individual and environmental determinants related to the characteristics of the physical, economic, political and socio-cultural environments. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the effect of the physical environment, more precisely the effect of food outlet accessibility, on diet. To meet our objective, a subsample of the CARTaGENE database, composed of 7,783 adults aged 40 to 70 years old residing in four cities in Quebec (Canada) was used. Measures of proximity as well as absolute and relative measures of density of retail food outlets, fast-food outlets and convenience stores near participants’ residences were used to analyze fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake. Univariate logistic regression showed that the minimal recommended portions of F&V intake (5 or more portions) was significantly associated with all seven measures of the retail food environment (OR between 0.76 and 1.27). However, these relations were mostly non-significant when confounding variables were considered in the analysis. Variables most significantly correlated to F&V intake were individual-level confounding variables of sex, income and education. Women were 3.13 (CI 2.85 – 3.45) times more likely than men to eat the recommended number of F&V portions. Only 12.4% of the F&V variance was explained by our regression model when considering all significant confounding factors. These results show that more research is needed to understand factors explaining F&V intake in this population
Proteomic analysis of colorectal cancer cell lines and tissues by mass spectrometry.
No full textRésumé : L’adénocarcinome colorectal est parmi les plus importants cancers au Canada en terme de mortalité et morbidité. Cependant, nous n’en connaissons encore que peu, entres autres sur les voies cellulaires importantes et les protéines présentant un potentiel comme biomarqueur. Cette étude fut divisée en deux sous-projets.
Sous-projet A. Il n’y a présentement aucun biomarqueur permettant de prédire la réponse à la radiothérapie comme modalité de traitement pour le cancer colorectal. Le but de ce sous-projet était de mettre au point les méthodes permettant d’effectuer une étude prospective ou rétrospective par spectrométrie de masse sur la réponse à la radiothérapie en utilisant des échantillons de tissu de patient. Des échantillons de tissu de souris et de tissu humains anonymisés ont été utilisés pour évaluer la faisabilité d’une telle étude. Différentes techniques d’extraction protéique ont été évaluées. Les extraits totaux et fractionnements subcellulaires de tissu frais ont permis une analyse appropriée des protéines cellulaires. Il en était de même pour l’extraction totale de tissus fixés. Cependant, les protéines extraites suite à microdissection au laser de tissu fixé étaient inadéquates et en nombre insuffisant.
Sous-projet B. Afin d’investiguer l’importance de fonctions, voies ou protéines dans différents types de cancer colorectaux, neuf lignées cellulaires de cancer colorectal et de côlon normal ont été fractionnées en quatre compartiments subcellulaires et analysées par spectrométrie de masse. Aucun groupe de recherche n’avait analysé jusqu’à présent plus de cinq lignées et plus d’un compartiment subcellulaire à la fois. Les résultats montraient que certaines voies canoniques et fonctions cellulaires étaient de haute importance dans plusieurs des lignées analysées, dont la voie de signalisation par eIF2. De plus, les régulateurs de transcription TP53, MYC et TGFB1, pouvant être responsables des caractéristiques cellulaires observées, ont été identifiés.
En conclusion, ce projet nous a permis d’améliorer nos connaissances sur les caractéristiques moléculaires d’importance dans le cancer colorectal et de mettre au point des techniques qui pourraient permettre la découverte de nouveaux biomarqueurs.Abstract : Colorectal adenocarcinoma is one of the most important cancers in Canada in terms of mortality and morbidity. However, we still know very little on its molecular features. This study was divided into two sub-projects.
Sub-project A. At this time, no biomarker has the capacity of predicting a patient’s response to radiotherapy, which is a commonly used treatment of colorectal cancer. The goal of this section was to develop the methods to conduct a prospective or retrospective mass spectrometry study on the patient response to radiotherapy, through the use of human tissues. Mouse tissues and tissues of an anonymous patient were obtained in order to evaluate the feasibility of such a study. Different protein extraction techniques were evaluated. Total lysates and subcellular fractionations of fresh tissues allowed for a successful analysis of the samples. The same was true of total lysates of fixed tissues. However, proteins extracted from cells isolated through laser capture microdissection were insufficient in numbers and their types were inconsistent with the expected results.
Sub-project B. In order to study the importance of proteins and cellular functions or pathways in different types of colorectal cancers. nine cell lines originating from colorectal carcinoma and from normal colon were fractionated according to four subcellular compartments and analysed through mass spectrometry. Until now, no research group had analysed, in a single study more than 5 cell lines as well as more than one subcellular compartment at once. Some cellular functions and canonical pathways were shown to be of high importance in many of the studied cell lines, such as the signalling through eIF2 pathway. Furthermore, the transcription regulators TP53, MYC and TGFB1were identified as potentially responsible for the observed proteomic characteristics.
In conclusion, this study allowed for a better understanding of important molecular caracteristics of colorectal cancer and allowed for the optimization of techniques that may serve in the discovery of new biomarkers relative to the use of radiotherapy as a treatment
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
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