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In Vitro Evaluation of Plasticizer Activity on the Growth and Metabolism of Chick Embryo Fibroblasts and on the Development of Chick Embryo Lungs
No full textAdministration of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) to primary cultures of chick embryo fibroblasts brought about a decrease in cell proliferation rate after 48 h and an inhibition of both DNA and protein synthesis measured by [3H]thymidine and [3H]leucine, respectively, after 48 h. The growth of chick embryo lung rudiments in vitro was also depressed by DEHP treatment. Lung rudiment were smaller in DEHP-treated embryos after 6 days' treatment. These results indicate that DEHP has a cytostatic effect on embryonic cells and tissues
Una “lunga svolta costantiniana”: tradizione e mutamenti nella prassi epigrafica dei cristiani di Roma prima e dopo Costantino (260-320)
No full textNel seguire il progressivo sviluppo della prassi epigrafica di committenza cristiana si considera l’età di Costantino prevalentemente come il momento -quasi improvviso- dell’emersione finalmente libera di formulari, termini, segni, immagini che esplicitamente e apertamente dichiarano l’identità religiosa dei cristiani. Appare meno evidenziato invece per il medesimo periodo - a dispetto già del semplice dato quantitativo - il peso specifico rilevante della consolidata tradizione epigrafica romana che proprio a partire dall’età di Costantino riconquista tutti i propri spazi, anche e soprattutto tra le fila di chi – quali i membri delle comunità cristiane – aveva pure realizzato nelle proprie generazioni precedenti un modello di espressione epigrafica volutamente alternativo a quello dominante, come esito di una visione del mondo e della morte totalmente opposta a quello della cultura tradizionale. Un modello “eversivo” (la svolta reale) che comunque, pur prevalente tra le iscrizioni dei fratres delle comunità cristiane del secolo III e sicuramente perseguito dai relativi responsabili ecclesiastici, non appare essere stato seguito in modo assoluto. Contemporaneamente ai documenti permeati del cosiddetto “laconismo” compaiono epigrafi riconducibili pienamente nell’alveo della prassi epigrafica romana tradizionale. Già prima della “svolta costantiniana” si manifestano, negli ultimi decenni del secolo III, forme di simbiosi con le forme espressive della tradizione; infine, nei decenni dei Constantinidi, la prassi tradizionale – di fatto mai completamente interrotta - giunge a comprendere con un processo di inclusione attiva nel proprio repertorio espressivo formule, termini e segni espliciti del Cristianesimo, ricevendone un rinnovato impulso vitale
Going 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
Megaesophagus in an asthmatic patient and beta2 stimulant treatment by inhalation
No full textMegaesophagus is a severe esophageal malformation. We report a case of megaesophagus in an asthmatic patient affected by congenital non-haemolytic anaemia and undergoing beta2 stimulant treatment by inhalation. Our case could be due to chronic beta2 receptor stimulation with imbalance of alpha and beta receptor, without any implication of favism
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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