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Prvi nalaz fitoplazme zutila astera (Aster yellows, 16SrI) u mrkvi i brokoliju u Srbiji.
Multi-gene analysis for differentiation of aster yellows phytoplasmas infecting carrots in Serbia. Annals of Applied Biology, 154(2): 219-229.
During a survey of large carrot fields in Serbia, plants showing leaf reddening
and/or yellowing, adventitious shoot production and reduction in taproot size
and quality were observed in a low percentage of plants. To verify phytoplasma
association with the described symptoms and to carry out pathogen differentiation,
PCR assays followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)
analyses and/or sequencing of phytoplasma 16Sr DNA and ribosomal protein
genes l22 and s3, tuf, putative aa kinase plus ribosomal recycling factor genes
and DNA helicase gene were carried out. Phytoplasmas belonging to 16SrI-A
and 16SrI-B ribosomal subgroups and to rpI-A and rpI-B ribosomal protein
subgroups, respectively, were identified by RFLP analyses in 13 of 15 symptomatic
plants tested. No amplification was obtained with non-symptomatic
carrot samples. The identification was confirmed by sequence analyses of the
phytoplasma genes studied. In two carrot samples, presence of interoperon
sequence heterogeneity was detected and phytoplasma strains were identified
as belonging to 16SrI group but were not assigned to any 16S rRNA or ribosomal
protein subgroup. This research allowed the first molecular identification
of phytoplasmas infecting carrot in Serbia using several molecular
markers, and it indicates that under field conditions in non-epidemic outbreaks
a certain amount of genetic mutation may occur in conserved genes of
these prokaryotes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
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
Identification of phytoplasmas belonging to aster yellows ribosomal group (16SrI) in vegetables in Serbia.
Leaf and root samples of carrot, and flower samples of broccoli with symptoms referable to phytoplasma presence were collected
and tested for phytoplasma presence. Detection, identification and molecular characterization were performed on 16S rDNA, Tuf,
rpS3, putative aminoacid kinase and putative DNA helicase phytoplasma genes. Analyses of all five DNA fragments showed that
carrot was infected with aster yellows phytoplasmas belonging to ribosomal subgroups 16SrI-A and 16SrI-B and broccoli only
with phytoplasmas belonging to ribosomal subgroup 16SrI-B
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We 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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