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Structure and dynamic of mobile carbone in soil
No full textLe taux de matière organique (MO) d'un sol influence ses propriétés physico-chimiques et son activité biologique. La dynamique de cette MO, particulaire ou dissoute, influence également la concentration de CO2 atmosphérique et joue ainsi un rôle sur les changements climatiques. Une des réponses à la diminution du stock de carbone dans les sols est l'apport de matière organique exogène. Le carbone organique dissous, intervenant dans les principaux mécanismes de préservation et/ou dégradation de la matière organique du sol (MOS), n'est cependant que peu pris en compte lors de l'étude de ces apports exogènes. Le principal objectif de cette étude est de mieux caractériser les MOD présentes dans les horizons de surface d'un sol. Les eaux collectées par bougies poreuses sur quatre profondeurs (15 à 100 cm) proviennent de parcelles amendées en 2006 (150 t/ha de compost de déchets verts et bio-déchets) et de parcelles témoins sous prairie. Les eaux ont été caractérisées par l'intermédiaire des techniques analytiques globales et moléculaires (spectrofluorimétrie, chromatographie d'exclusion de taille, thermochimiolyse, CG/SM). Les résultats de cette étude ont mis en évidence pour les deux types de parcelles une variabilité de la MOD (taille et polarité) suivant la profondeur et la saison. Le suivi de la MOS/MOD, et plus particulièrement des composés lipidiques, a permis de confirmer la séquestration du carbone organique exogène. La caractérisation de la MOD s'avère ainsi être un indicateur de la qualité des sols.Organic matter (OM) content influences soil physical and chemical properties and its microbial activity. OM, particulate or dissolved, plays a key role on climate changes. Exogenous organic matter amendments are used to tackle the various problems associated with the decrease in soil carbon content. Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC), involved in main mechanisms of preservation and / or degradation of organic matter is however only scarcely taken into account in the study of such amendments. The main objective of this study was to better characterize the DOM present in the surface horizons of a soil. The percolating waters collected from 2006 amended plots (150 t/ha of green waste and bio-waste compost) and reference plots are characterized by global and molecular techniques (fluorescence spectroscopy, size exclusion chromatography, themochemolysis, GC/MS). Size and polarity of DOM molecules change depending on seasons and depths. These analyses reveal exogenous organic carbon sequestration. DOM study is thus part of the quality soil indexes
Data for dynamics analysis of soil dissolved organic matter. Long term amendment effect
No full textInternational audienceThe data presented here are related to the research paper entitled “Spectral characteristics of soil dissolved organic matter: long-term effects of exogenous organic matter on soil organic matter and spatial-temporal changes” (Musadji et al., 2020). Fluorescence Excitation-Emission Matrixes and DOC content of 39 suction cup soil solutions are given for a control and an urban green waste compost amended soil sampled in spring and autumn. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to identify possible spatial-temporal trends and to emphasize the long term effect of organic amendment on soil organic matter quality
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
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