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Present Status, Strategies, and Applications of Legume Engineering
No full textLegume engineering is the use of genomic tools to transfer or reshuffle genes or a combination of both to alter the naturally occurring genes to improve the qualitative and quantitative traits. In recent years, significant progress has been achieved in improving both the quality and yield of legumes. This chapter reviews the latest development tools in molecular genetics of legumes for engineering approaches leading to modification of the genome associated with agronomically important traits such as stress tolerance, efficiency in nodulation and nitrogen fixation, pest and disease resistance, and improvement of nutritional content. Notably, the authors discuss genome editing by CRISPR coupled with CAS enzymes, which is a revolutionary achievement. In addition, TALEN and ZFN are essential tools in editing the genome, while RNAi regulates target gene expression; this chapter highlights the example of each technology in the legume field. The chapter highlights examples of artificial intelligence applications that enlighten the prospects of legume engineering to address complicated challenges such as growth and yield under different conditional environments. Given the challenges of climate change, reducing excessive use of chemical fertilizers by the application of engineered legumes possessing enhanced nitrogen-fixing ability is discussed. Advances in legume genomics have paved the way for innovative approaches to overcome persistent challenges in legume cultivation. An extensive pool of genomic data is now available for Fabaceae species, including linkage maps, expressed sequence tags, DNA chips, and bioinformatics platforms like “The Legume Information System.” Despite ongoing challenges, breakthroughs in molecular techniques are transforming traditional breeding methods. The most promising technology is CRISPR/Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that offers precision and efficiency in modifying plant genomes.
Enhancing Sustainability:Genetic Engineering of Legumes, Consumer Acceptance, and Environmental Impact Analysis
No full textGoing 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
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
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