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A glucose biosensor based on surface active maghemite nanoparticles
No full textA simple carbon paste (CP) electrode, modified with novel maghemite (-Fe2O3) nanoparticles, called SAMNs (suface active maghemite nanoparticles) and characterized by a mean diameter of about 10 nm, has been developed. The electrode catalyzes the electro-reduction of hydrogen peroxide at low applied potentials (-0.1 V vs. SCE). In order to improve the electrocatalytic properties of the modified electrode an ionic liquid, namely 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (BMIM-PF6), was introduced. At -0.1 V, the sensitivity of the SAMN-BMIM-PF6-CP electrode was 206.51 nA μM-1cm-2, with a detection limit (S/N = 3) of 0.8 μM, in the 0 – 1.5 mM H2O2 concentration range. Furthermore, glucose oxidase was immobilized on the surface of maghemite nanoparticles as a monomolecular layer, by a bridge constituted of rhodamine B isothiocyanate, leading to a fluorescent, magnetic drivable nanocatalyst, containing 10 ± 2 enzyme molecules per nanoparticle. The resulting enzyme electrode presents a linear calibration curve toward glucose in solution in the concentration range of 0 – 1.5 mM glucose, characterized by a sensitivity of 45.85 nA μM-1cm-2 and a detection limit (S/N = 3) of 0.9 μM. The storage stability of the system was evaluated and a half-life of 2 months was calculated, if the electrode is stored at 4°C in buffer. The present work demonstrates the feasibility of these surface active maghemite nanoparticles as efficient hydrogen peroxide electro-catalyst, which can be easily coupled to hydrogen peroxide producing enzymes in order to develop oxidase based reagentless biosensor devices
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
Bovine serum amine oxidase and chromate-modified iron oxide nanoparticles for polyamine biosensing
No full textSurface active maghemite nanoparticles (SAMNs) represent a new class of naked maghemite nanoparticles, characterized by peculiar surface properties. A novel hybrid nanomaterial based on SAMNs was developed by coating nanoparticle surface with bichromate, leading to a SAMN@Cr2O7 core–shell nanoconjugate. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and chronoamperometry showed lower charge transfer resistances, higher capacitive currents, better electrochemical performances, as well as more reversible electrochemical behavior with respect to bare SAMNs. Bichromate shell enhanced SAMN electrocatalytic proper- ties toward hydrogen peroxide reduction at neutral pH. Furthermore, bovine serum amino oxidase (BSAO) was immobilized on the surface of SAMN@Cr2O7 by self-assembly, leading to a magnetic drivable nanocatalyst for polyamine oxidation (SAMN@Cr2O7-BSAO). The hybrid bio-nanomaterial was kinetically characterized and compared with the native enzyme. Immobilized BSAO showed a catalytic constant of about 10.2 % with respect to the native enzyme, while the Michaelis constant, Km , was about 3.7 times higher upon enzyme immobilization. Correspondingly, the binding process led to a 2.4 fold decrease of BSAO catalytic efficiency, kcat/Km. The immobilized enzyme (SAMN@Cr2O7-BSAO) was exploited, in a simple carbon paste electrode configuration, for the development of a new reagentless electrochemical biosensor for polyamines
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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