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Abatement efficiency of municipal wastewater treatment plants using different technologies (Orbetello Lagoon, Italy)
No full textTwo small-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants (Neghelli
and Terrarossa) discharging effluents into a lagoon of great environmental
interest and highly stressed by tourism (Orbetello, Italy) were monitored
over the year 2001. We evaluated plants’ performances developing a
general efficiency indicator of removal to select the suitable purification
technology (activated sludge, Neghelli vs. rotating biodisc reactor, Terrarossa).
Unexpected, conventional technologies (activated sludge) had best
performances (84% vs. 62%) with higher removal efficiencies for dissolved
nutrients producing, on average, better final effluents. Even if Terrarossa
showed a great improvement in summertime, during winter it seemed to be
considerably affected by sea aerosol. Before the final discharge in lagoon,
effluents were phytodepurated in a pond to reduce their nutrient load. Although
data showed that the pond had further abatement efficiency over 80%, final
outlet water represented a dangerous input for the lagoon ecosystem
Chlorinated contaminants in extra virgin olive oil from central Italy
No full textSynthetic chemical compounds, such as organochlorines, are known for
their persistence and toxicity. The diet represents, for the general population,
the main route of exposure to these contaminants, because organochlorines
in food constitute a significant health risk, and olive oil has a high consumption
rate among people of the producing countries; the control of residues in
olive oil is of great importance. In this study, the presence of residues of
hexachlorobenzene (HCB), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) was assessed in samples of extra-virgin olive
oil from Tuscany (central Italy). The analyses revealed the presence of HCB
in concentrations below the detection limit; DDT and PCBs were instead
present in all samples tested, and PCB concentrations were always higher
than those of DDT, from 1.24 to 29.35, and from 0.01 to 1.83 ng/g wet
weight, respectively
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
Comparative study based on sediment characteristics and macrobenthic communities in two Italian lagoons
No full textkoamabayili/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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