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No full textNot AvailableMoulting (shedding of exoskeleton for growth) and reproduction (production of gametes) are the two major important events in the life of Crustacea. Reproduction in this Class of invertebrates is under the dual control of inhibitory action by eyestalk hormone (GIH/VIH) and stimulatory control by brain and thoracic ganglia (GSH/VSH). Moulting is controlled by the inhibitory hormone (MIH) from eyestalk (sinus gland complex) and moulting hormone (ecdysone) elaborated from Y-organ. Both the events employ complex interactions of the various hormones, neuropeptides, biogenic amines, enkephalins etc. The most critical input in the rapidly expanding aquaculture industry is the availability of good quality seed for which proper understanding of reproductive physiology of the candidate species is essential. An attempt has been made to document the recent advances in the neuroendocrinology of ovarian maturation in the commercially important species of Crustacea which are having potential role in development and expansion of aquaculture. Different types of neurosecretory cells in the eyestalk, brain (supraoesophageal) and thoracic ganglia of the female M. rosenbergii were mapped and the correlative changes in the neurosecretory cells during ovarian maturation recorded. Effect of unilateral eyestalk ablation on ovarian development as well as the neurosecretory cells of brain and thoracic ganglia of the female giant freshwater prawn were recorded to judge their secretory activity. The active state of neurosecretory cells was characterized by hypertrophy, increase in number of nucleolus, staining intensity, granulation and migration of secretory material towards the axons. Histochemical tests indicated that the neurosecretory cells were strongly positive to acid fuchsin, paraldehyde fuchsin but also exhibited feeble reaction in Sudan black B and periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reagent.Not Availabl
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
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