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Effect of water diffusion limitations on the thermostability of enzymes in non-aqueous environments
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Effect of water diffusion limitations on the thermostability of enzymes in non-aqueous environments
No full textEffect of water diffusion limitations on the thermostability of enzymes in non-aqueous environments
No full textSyntactical heuristics for the open data quality assessment and their applications
No full textOpen Government Data are valuable initiatives in favour of transparency, accountability, and openness. The expectation is to increase participation by engaging citizens, non-profit organisations, and companies in reusing Open Data (OD). A potential barrier in the exploitation of OD and engagement of the target audience is the low quality of available datasets [3, 14, 16]. Non-technical consumers are often unaware that data could have potential quality issues, taking for grant that datasets can be used immediately without any further manipulation. In reality, in order to reuse data, for instance to create visualisations, they need to perform a data clean, which requires time, resources, and proper skills. This leads to a reduced chance to involve citizens. This paper tackles the quality barrier of raw tabular datasets (i.e. CSV), a popular format (Tim-Berners Lee tree-stars) for Governmental Open Data. The objective is to increase awareness and provide support in data cleaning operations to both PAs to produce better quality Open Data and non-technical data consumers to reuse datasets. DataChecker is an open source and modular JavaScript library shared with community and available on GitHub that takes in input a tabular dataset and generate a machine-readable report based on the data type inferencing (a data profiling technique). Based on it the Social Platform for Open Data (SPOD) provides quality cleaning suggestions to both PAs and end-users
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
Financial sustainability of biogas technology: Barriers, opportunities, and solutions
No full textBiogas technology, which converts biological waste into energy, is considered as an excellent tool to improve the lives, livelihoods, health, and ecosystem. The demand and prospect of biogas technology as a renewable energy source in terms of market value have not been adequately addressed, although it offers a large revenue opportunity that supports the socioeconomic development in rural areas. For more sustainable development of this technology, policy-makers should reform the existing institutional framework by reorganizing subsidies, motivating and attracting investors with flexible financial conditions, liberalizing the management of gas grids, and involving farmers in local projects. Therefore, it is a great challenge to find a proper mode of marketing policy, business models, and multi-profit options and a sustainable financing mechanism. This paper covers the state-of-the-art enlargements and future consequences of the hastily emerging biogas market, starting with a universal viewpoint and going through special market characteristics of Europe, USA, Africa, and Asia Pacific
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
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