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Parallel synthesis of trisubstituted formamidines: a facile and versatile procedure
No full textA focused library of formamidines having several diversity points has been prepared. The use of isocyanate resin as scavenger may offer several practical advantages over conventional procedures, such as the ease of workup and availability. The technique described herein was performed in a parallel synthesis format. The whole protocol has potential use in high throughput synthesis for the preparation and purification of libraries of unsymmetrical formamidines containing sets of different aliphatic substituents
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
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
Land panning for forest management, the Arci Grighine (Sardinia) studycase
No full textSince forest management interacts deeply with the land system, in a
sustainability perspective, it requires a proper planning framework. Different
needs play a role, like 'internal planning', seeking optimal company results, or
the ‘required planning', necessary to take account of society-driven requests and
limitations on forestry activities. Public financial support is generally necessary
and can be very well justified, considering the social interests involved. The
work emphasizes that, in implementation of the regional plan approved in 2007
(PFAR), public investments on land planning at the district level (PFTD)
deserve the highest priority.
PFAR has envisaged a PFTD for each of the 25 districts that make up the
region. The plan for the Arci Grighine District (PFTD-AG) is the first that the
Region has undertaken. A proposal for a fully developed plan has recently been
delivered, the materials of this work are derived from the that plan. The paper
presents the experimental systemic approach to the construction of coherent,
complex and significative district level forest management strategies, created in
the course of the PFTD-AG development.
The complexity of the territorial system is functionally represented by the
diversity of categories of patches, each patch being distinct from adjacent by a
different combination of activity levels. Meaningful disjoint territorial subsystems
have been identified organising, in an appropriate hierarchical
structure, the factors discriminating among activity options. Such sub-systems
are discontinuous territorial entities inherently heterogeneous, that share one or
few characteristics related to forest management. The district planning level,
allowing a broad and deep analysis of the environmental and socio-cultural
structure of the land system provides, through the sub-systems, a dynamic
approach to decision making, (i) promoting the use of production potential, (ii)
allowing the responsible consideration of the necessary limitation of certain
activities and (iii) ensuring that proper care is taken of the existing threats
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