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Functional Exploitation of Carob, Oat Flour, and Whey Permeate as Substrates for a Novel Kefir-Like Fermented Beverage: An Optimized Formulation
Get PDFThis study investigated the fortification of a carob-based kefir-like beverage (KLB) with whey permeate (WP) and oat flour (OF). The response surface method was used to show the effect of WP and OF concentrations on lactic acid bacteria and yeast cell densities, pH, total titratable acidity (TTA), total phenolics content (TCP), DPPH radical scavenging activity, and overall acceptability (OA) in KLB. The statistical design provided thirteen formulations where OF concentration varied from 3% to 5% and WP from 10% to 15%. The enrichment of carob pods decoction with WP and OF had a positive effect on biomass production. Overall fermentation was shown to increase TPC of KLB. Furthermore, OF supplementation led to the higher levels of TPC and antiradical activity. WP negatively affected OA at linear and quadratic levels, whereas no effect of OF was observed at the linear level. The optimum point was found by using WP at 11.51% and OF at 4.77%. Optimized KLB resulted in an enrichment of bioavailable phenolics derivatives and highly digestible proteins
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
Le degré de figement des locutions conjonctives dans les relations transphrastiques: le cas de l’hypothèse et de la condition
Get PDFThe present paper asks the question whether conjunctive and prepositional locutions are multilexical units, as it could be gathered from the word “locution”. These units introduce incidental propositions and are equivalent to simple conjunctions. A conjunctive expression bears the same relation to a conjunction as a complex word to a simple word: the only difference lying in multilexicality. We shall rely on the syntactic-semantic description of certain conjunctive expressions coding a hypothetical or conditional relation to show that they can undergo many modifications. As these units correspond to the Prep Det N X structure, e.g. à condition que, we shall see that we can actualize the noun which appears there, that its actualization is very rich and that it can shed light on the categorization of this relation in the language.The present paper asks the question whether conjunctive and prepositional locutions are multilexical units, as it could be gathered from the word “locution”. These units introduce incidental propositions and are equivalent to simple conjunctions. A conjunctive expression bears the same relation to a conjunction as a complex word to a simple word: the only difference lying in multilexicality. We shall rely on the syntactic-semantic description of certain conjunctive expressions coding a hypothetical or conditional relation to show that they can undergo many modifications. As these units correspond to the Prep Det N X structure, e.g. à condition que, we shall see that we can actualize the noun which appears there, that its actualization is very rich and that it can shed light on the categorization of this relation in the language
Multi-user communication systems : from interference management to network coding
No full textCe travail est dédié à l'analyse, la conception et l'évaluation des performances des schémas de codage de réseaux pour les systèmes des communications multi-terminaux. Nous étudions en premier lieu le protocole « compute-and-forward » dans le canal à accès multiples. Nous proposons un critère de construction de codes de réseaux efficaces pour cette stratégie basé sur la résolution d'un problème du vecteur le plus court d'un réseau de points. En addition, nous développons de nouveaux algorithmes de décodage prouvés numériquement plus performants que le décodeur existant du CF. La deuxième partie concerne l'implémentation du protocole CF dans le canal à relais bidirectionnel et le canal à sources et relais multiples. Nous développons des algorithmes de construction de schémas de codage pour le CF et évaluons théoriquement et par simulations numériques leurs performances. La dernière partie concerne le canal MIMO distribué et en particulier une nouvelle architecture de décodeurs « integer forcing » inspirés par le protocole CF. Nous proposons de nouveaux algorithmes de construction des paramètres optimaux de ces décodeurs et montrons par simulations qu'ils apportent un gain significatif par rapport aux récepteurs linéaires existantsThis work is dedicated to the analysis, design and performance evaluation of physical layer network coding strategies in multiuser communication systems. The first part is devoted to study the compute-and-forward protocol in the basic multiple access channel. For this strategy, we propose an optimal solution to design efficient network codes based on solving a lattice shortest vector problem. Moreover, we derive novel bounds on the ergodic rate and the outage probability for the CF operating in fast and slow fading channels respectively. Besides, we develop novel decoding algorithms proved numerically to outperform the traditional decoding scheme for the CF. The second part is dedicated to the design and end-to-end performance evaluation of network codes for the CF and the analog network coding in the two-way relay channel and the multi-source multi-relay channel. For each network model we study the decoding at the relay nodes and the end destination, propose search algorithms for optimal network codes for the CF and evaluate, theoretically and numerically, the end-to-end error rate and achievable transmission rate. In the last part, we study new decoders for the distributed MIMO channel termed integer forcing (if). Inspired by the CF, if receivers take advantage of the interference provided by the wireless medium to decode integer linear combinations of the original codewords. We develop in our work efficient algorithms to select optimal if receivers parameters allowing to outperform existing suboptimal linear receiver
Systèmes de communications multi-utilisateurs : de la gestion d'interférence au codage réseau
No full textThis work is dedicated to the analysis, design and performance evaluation of physical layer network coding strategies in multiuser communication systems. The first part is devoted to study the compute-and-forward protocol in the basic multiple access channel. For this strategy, we propose an optimal solution to design efficient network codes based on solving a lattice shortest vector problem. Moreover, we derive novel bounds on the ergodic rate and the outage probability for the CF operating in fast and slow fading channels respectively. Besides, we develop novel decoding algorithms proved numerically to outperform the traditional decoding scheme for the CF. The second part is dedicated to the design and end-to-end performance evaluation of network codes for the CF and the analog network coding in the two-way relay channel and the multi-source multi-relay channel. For each network model we study the decoding at the relay nodes and the end destination, propose search algorithms for optimal network codes for the CF and evaluate, theoretically and numerically, the end-to-end error rate and achievable transmission rate. In the last part, we study new decoders for the distributed MIMO channel termed integer forcing (if). Inspired by the CF, if receivers take advantage of the interference provided by the wireless medium to decode integer linear combinations of the original codewords. We develop in our work efficient algorithms to select optimal if receivers parameters allowing to outperform existing suboptimal linear receiversCe travail est dédié à l'analyse, la conception et l'évaluation des performances des schémas de codage de réseaux pour les systèmes des communications multi-terminaux. Nous étudions en premier lieu le protocole « compute-and-forward » dans le canal à accès multiples. Nous proposons un critère de construction de codes de réseaux efficaces pour cette stratégie basé sur la résolution d'un problème du vecteur le plus court d'un réseau de points. En addition, nous développons de nouveaux algorithmes de décodage prouvés numériquement plus performants que le décodeur existant du CF. La deuxième partie concerne l'implémentation du protocole CF dans le canal à relais bidirectionnel et le canal à sources et relais multiples. Nous développons des algorithmes de construction de schémas de codage pour le CF et évaluons théoriquement et par simulations numériques leurs performances. La dernière partie concerne le canal MIMO distribué et en particulier une nouvelle architecture de décodeurs « integer forcing » inspirés par le protocole CF. Nous proposons de nouveaux algorithmes de construction des paramètres optimaux de ces décodeurs et montrons par simulations qu'ils apportent un gain significatif par rapport aux récepteurs linéaires existant
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