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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
Proteomic study of wood formation in maritime pine
No full textLes propriétés du bois de pin maritime varient aux niveaux chimique, anatomique et mécanique. Six types de bois peuvent être trouvés au sein d’un même arbre : bois précoce, bois tardif, bois de couronne, bois de base, bois de compression et bois opposé. Au cours de cette thèse, nous avons testé l’hypothèse selon laquelle la variabilité phénotypique des propriétés de bois, serait liée à l’expression différentielle des protéines lors de la xylogénèse. Par une approche protéomique basée sur l’électrophorèse bidimensionnelle et la spectrométrie de masse en tandem (LC ESI MS/MS), nous avons identifié 165 protéines différentiellement exprimées le long d’un gradient d’âge cambial (bois juvénile vs. bois mature) ainsi que 93 protéines différentiellement exprimées au cours de la saison de végétation (bois de printemps vs. bois d’été) chez le pin maritime. Une analyse chimique complémentaire des échantillons a été réalisée par pyrolyse analytique. Nos résultats montrent que le xylème secondaire formé en début de saison ainsi que celui qui est initié par un cambium jeune présentent une sur-expression de protéines participant à la division cellulaire. Dans le xylème issu d’un cambium âgé ou formé à la fin de l’été nous avons mis en évidence des protéines impliquées dans la défense cellulaire (dont le rôle serait de retarder la mort cellulaire programmée), ainsi que des protéines impliqués dans la biosynthèse des éléments constitutifs de la paroi. Cette étude contribue à renforcer nos connaissances sur les acteurs moléculaires intervenant lors de la xylogénèse. Elle ouvre par ailleurs des pistes de recherche sur la détection de gènes impliqués dans le contrôle génétique des propriétés du bois dans un objectif de sélection assisté par marqueurs.Wood properties in maritime pine are highly variable at chemical, anatomical and mechanical levels. Six types of wood can be found in a single tree, early wood, late wood, crown wood, base wood, compression wood and opposite wood. In this thesis report, we tested the hypothesis that the observed variability at the phenotypic level, can be bound to the differential expression of proteins during the process of wood formation. We use the tools of proteomics, Bidimensional electrophoresis and LC ESI MS/MS for the discovery of 165 proteins differentially expressed in a cambial age gradient, (from base wood to crown wood), an 93 overexpressed proteins in a seasonal gradient (from early wood collected at the beginning of the growing season, to late wood, collected at summer) Complementary, chemical characterization of the samples was performed using analitycal pyrolisis. Our results showed that the secondary xylem formed at the beginning of the growing season, and the xylem formed by a young cambium, present a overexpression of proteins participating in the intense cell division, characteristical of those tissues, e.g. Biogenesis of cytoskeleton and hemicelluloses, RNA transcription, synthesis, folding and modification of proteins. In the xylem formed at the base of the trunk and at the end of the growing season we have found an over-expression of proteins from cell defense (they role will be to delay programmed cell death) and cell wall formation related proteins e.g. lignin biosynthesis. This study contributes to reinforce our knowledge over the molecular actors involved in the xylogenesis process. It opens, in another hand , research guides for the detection of genes involved in the genetic control of wood properties towards an objecive of marker assisted selection
Proteomic study of wood formation in maritime pine
No full textWood properties in maritime pine are highly variable at chemical, anatomical and mechanical levels. Six types of wood can be found in a single tree, early wood, late wood, crown wood, base wood, compression wood and opposite wood. In this thesis report, we tested the hypothesis that the observed variability at the phenotypic level, can be bound to the differential expression of proteins during the process of wood formation. We use the tools of proteomics, Bidimensional electrophoresis and LC ESI MS/MS for the discovery of 165 proteins differentially expressed in a cambial age gradient, (from base wood to crown wood), an 93 overexpressed proteins in a seasonal gradient (from early wood collected at the beginning of the growing season, to late wood, collected at summer) Complementary, chemical characterization of the samples was performed using analitycal pyrolisis. Our results showed that the secondary xylem formed at the beginning of the growing season, and the xylem formed by a young cambium, present a overexpression of proteins participating in the intense cell division, characteristical of those tissues, e.g. Biogenesis of cytoskeleton and hemicelluloses, RNA transcription, synthesis, folding and modification of proteins. In the xylem formed at the base of the trunk and at the end of the growing season we have found an over-expression of proteins from cell defense (they role will be to delay programmed cell death) and cell wall formation related proteins e.g. lignin biosynthesis. This study contributes to reinforce our knowledge over the molecular actors involved in the xylogenesis process. It opens, in another hand , research guides for the detection of genes involved in the genetic control of wood properties towards an objecive of marker assisted selection.Les propriétés du bois de pin maritime varient aux niveaux chimique, anatomique et mécanique. Six types de bois peuvent être trouvés au sein d’un même arbre : bois précoce, bois tardif, bois de couronne, bois de base, bois de compression et bois opposé. Au cours de cette thèse, nous avons testé l’hypothèse selon laquelle la variabilité phénotypique des propriétés de bois, serait liée à l’expression différentielle des protéines lors de la xylogénèse. Par une approche protéomique basée sur l’électrophorèse bidimensionnelle et la spectrométrie de masse en tandem (LC ESI MS/MS), nous avons identifié 165 protéines différentiellement exprimées le long d’un gradient d’âge cambial (bois juvénile vs. bois mature) ainsi que 93 protéines différentiellement exprimées au cours de la saison de végétation (bois de printemps vs. bois d’été) chez le pin maritime. Une analyse chimique complémentaire des échantillons a été réalisée par pyrolyse analytique. Nos résultats montrent que le xylème secondaire formé en début de saison ainsi que celui qui est initié par un cambium jeune présentent une sur-expression de protéines participant à la division cellulaire. Dans le xylème issu d’un cambium âgé ou formé à la fin de l’été nous avons mis en évidence des protéines impliquées dans la défense cellulaire (dont le rôle serait de retarder la mort cellulaire programmée), ainsi que des protéines impliqués dans la biosynthèse des éléments constitutifs de la paroi. Cette étude contribue à renforcer nos connaissances sur les acteurs moléculaires intervenant lors de la xylogénèse. Elle ouvre par ailleurs des pistes de recherche sur la détection de gènes impliqués dans le contrôle génétique des propriétés du bois dans un objectif de sélection assisté par marqueurs
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
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