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Effects of thyroid-stimulating hormone on the replicative cycle of vesicular stomatitis virus in primary cultured sheep thyroid cells.
No full textToxic metals leaching from columns of mine tailings amended with compost.
No full textMobilization of toxic metals should be a primary concern in the implementation of mine tailings reclamation with compost or other organic amendments. In fact, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a key component involved in metals solubilisation and mobility.
In this study we investigated the effect of compost addition to a mine tailing from washing deposits of a sphalerite (ZnS) and galena (PbS) dismissed mine site in repacked columns. The native mine tailings were collected from the Raibl mine (Cave del Predil, Italy) and contained 373 g As g-1, 1935 g Pb g-1, 521 g g-1 Tl and 7180 g Zn g-1 . They were compared with a single profile of compost amended tailings and with a two layer profile: the 10 cm top layer made by compost amended tailings and the 10 cm bottom layer made of native tailings. Columns were irrigated with deionized water simulating average local precipitation events for 100 days and leachates collected by gravity. Leacheates were analyzed for pH, for As, Tl, Pb and Zn by ICP-OES and for DOC by dry oxidation (Shimadzu TOC). Microbial respiration in compost amended tailing was measured in closed jars by CO2 absorption to 0.5 M NaOH solution. Monitored trace elements showed different leaching patterns: significantly more Zn and Tl leached from the composite profile (amended tailings + native tailings) while Pb and As showed a much larger mobility in the amended tailings (single profile). The lower horizon of native tailings was able to drastically reduce metals leaching from the top horizon. This different behaviour is coherent with the fundamental role of DOC in the mobilization of Pb and As and with its much lower influence on that Zn and Tl. Mobilization of Zn and Tl was governed by S oxidation and to a lesser extent by carbonates.
These results highlight the need of an appropriate assessment of metals mobilization risks before performing any amendment application to highly contaminated tailings
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
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