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Correction:Microbiome-driven breeding strategy potentially improves beef fatty acid profile benefiting human health and reduces methane emissions
Full text linkFollowing the publication of the original article [1], the author reported that Prof. Rainer Roehe was not captured as co-corresponding author. This has been corrected in this article and the original article has been updated.</p
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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Full text linkBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
KOunt : A reproducible KEGG orthologue abundance workflow
Full text link[EN] Accurate gene prediction is essential for successful metagenome analysis. We present KOunt, a Snakemake pipeline, that precisely
quantifies KEGG orthologue abundance.This work was supported by grants from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/S006567/1 and BB/S006680/1].Mattock, J.; Martínez-Álvaro, M.; Cleveland, M.; Roehe, R.; Watson, M. (2023). KOunt : A reproducible KEGG orthologue abundance workflow. Bioinformatics. 39(8). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.27.538265S39
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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Hansen, Lee (Lee R.). Union, non-union, and managerial pay plan state employees, 2008-2019
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"July 1, 2021."Provides the number of union and non-union state employees in each of the last 14 years. Also provides the number of state employees paid under the state's managerial pay plan during each of those years. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-011
Evaluation of a video image analysis system for the prediction of carcass and meat quality in genetic improvement programmes
Full text linkVideo Image Analysis (VIA) is a digital camera based technology that extracts
relevant information from images using purpose tailored image processing software.
In the present work, the VSS2000 image analysis system from E+V Technology
GmbH has been used in a large lamb abattoir to determine the value of carcasses in
an objective, consistent and automated way. In this thesis results are reported of
several experiments conducted within the framework of two UK-funded projects.
The aims of the research were (i) the calibration and validation of the VIAtechnique
for the evaluation of lamb carcasses under UK abattoir conditions, with the
view to scientifically examine the accuracy and precision of information from the
VIA systems as the basis for a value-based marketing system, (ii) to investigate the
use of VIA measurements (weights of primal meat yields and carcass dimensional
measurements) in sheep breeding programmes to improve carcass and meat quality
and (iii) to evaluate the potential of this technology to reward increased carcass
quality associated with the use of breeding strategies based on the inclusion of a
quantitative trait locus (QTL) for improved muscularity.
Accuracy, precision and consistency of The Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC)
carcass classification scheme, currently used in UK abattoirs to evaluate carcass
quality, was compared against the VIA system in the prediction of various primal
joint weights. The results highlighted the advantage of the VIA system being on
average 2% more accurate (measured as coefficient of determination: R2) and 12%
more precise (measured as root meat squared error: RMSE) in predicting weight of
primal meat yields (leg, chump, loin, breast and shoulder) of the lamb carcasses than
the MLC carcass classification scheme.
The genetic analysis of VIA-based predicted primal joint weights showed substantial
additive genetic variance, suggesting that their use in sheep breeding programmes
could improve carcass quality either by an improvement of conformation or by an
increased weight of the most valuable primal cuts, without an increase in fatness.
Favourable associations between VIA primal weights and performance traits indicate that selection based on VIA traits is possible without a negative effect on average
daily gain, live weight and cold carcass weight.
Although computer tomography (CT) and dissection found in related studies
significant effects of a Texel muscling-QTL (TM-QTL) for increased muscularity in
the loin region, in the present study they could not be identified by both, the current
industry carcass evaluation system for conformation and fatness and the VIA
system. A calibration of the VIA system against CT measurements resulted in
improved VIA prediction equations for primal meat yields and also showed a
moderate potential to estimate loin muscle traits measured by CT and to detect
partially the effect of the TM-QTL on these traits.
The results of the research demonstrated that VIA is a consistent method to measure
carcass composition and that it improved the prediction (accuracy and precision) of
primal meat yields compared to the present MLC scoring system. The estimated
genetic parameters for VIA primal meat yields suggested that selection for increased
lean meat yield from lamb carcass measured using VIA can contribute to genetic
improvement of carcass quality without increasing carcass fatness. The results
suggest that VIA technology installed in abattoirs could provide the means for the
development of a value-based marketing system by paying for weights of the most
valuable primal cuts measured using VIA
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