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3D alignment and averaging of quasi equivalent volumes extracted from tomograms
No full textElectron tomographic studies more and more require the averaging of volumes extracted from one or more reconstructions. In case of cryo-tomography, the structures extracted are generally equivalent from both topological and geometrical point of view. In case of room-temperature tomography of native specimen, however, shrinkage and stain in-homogeneities make so that a perfect superimposition is often not possible, even for topologically equivalent complexes. These latter are difficult to align and even more to correctly averaging, often also because of their size.
We have recently developed a method to reconstruct portions of tomograms rotated with respect to the original orientation, starting from patches of the original micrographs and proper orientation parameters. Using this approach and after a coarse alignment of the volumes, the average coming from all the patches of all reconstructions is performed like in “single particle” strategy. The preliminary model is then refined by use of correlation techniques. If the model is obtained by averaging the volumes in direct space, the missing wedges often combine in such a way that a missing volume in Fourier space still remains. When the reconstruction is performed via Radon transform, however, the Fourier space may be almost filled even if only a few volumes are considered.
We applied our strategy to study Intra-Fagellar Transport (IFT) particles in axonemes of Chlamydomonas. Many tomograms were reconstructed in dual-axes geometry, from which 20 quasi-equivalent “short trains” of IFT particles were extracted. They were aligned by use of different strategy: 1) use of gross features, like mass center and inertia axes; 2) 3D correlation; 3) alignment of doublets by means of their coordinates extracted by segmentation. Often a combination of these approaches was used. After a few cycles of refinement, the average of the trains appeared more and more defined and some periodicities ascribable to the trains were identified. Furthermore, some differences between the trains showed a possible subdivision in two families, not previously observed
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
3D alignment and averaging of quasi equivalent volumes extracted from tomograms
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