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    Chemical analysis and biological activities of fatty acids from the liver of x-ray irradiated rabbit, the antitumor agent so-called OX

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    Chemical and biological characteristics of the unsaturated fatty acids from the liver of irradiated and non-irradiated animals and some unsaturated fatty acids in sale have been described. The unsaturated fatty acid fractions from the rabbit liver taken after irradiating animal with x-ray show hardly any difference from those of non-irradiated animal in each component. But the former were distinguished from the latter in the increased rate of velocity of autoxidation. Similar characteristics were observed on the unsaturated fatty acids irradiated in vitro. They developed less labile free radicals with the shift of the double bonds to the carboxylic group and the conjugated double bonds, dienoic and trienoic acids. Biologically, the fatty acids from the irradiated animal suppressed the growth of bacteria requiring unsatturated fatty acid. And they are slightly stronger in the activity of uncoupling effect for the oxidative phosphorylation and the swelling of mitochondria comparing to those of general fatty acids, oleic and linoleic acids. They showed a strong lytic activity on the cell membrane as in the case of general fatty acids, linoleic, oleic, and some long chain unsaturated fatty acids. Tumor cells surviving through the treatment with unsaturated fatty acids changed the cell characteristics temporarily, with a slow-down of the ascites development and the cell growth.</p

    An electron microscope study of liver cell in carbon tetrachloride intoxication, significance of "opaque area"

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    Electron microscope study on the rat liver cells of carbon tetrachloride poisoning has been reported. Observations have been made on the osmic fixed tissue sections obtained from the liver at early stages of poisoning, 5 to 22 hours after carbon tetrachloride oral administration, 0.25ml. per 100g. body weight. Special attention is paid on the appearance of electron dense area, opaque area, in cytoplasm, which is compased of fibrous components, probably originated from endoplasmic reticulum. This will be an important sign of cell degeneration. Toluidine blue, PAS and methyl green-pyronin stainings of the thicker sections from the same samples as used for electron microscopy revealed that the opaque area is stained by toluidine blue and pyronin but not by PAS. The opaque areas appear already five hours after the carbon tetrachloride administration and show some continuity with elongated filaments of endoplasmic reticulum. At an advanced stage of paisoning the opaque area increases in its number and size, but some of them are shrunk as a mass, being separated from the surrounding cytoplasm with scanty area. Often they form denser masses in the center and loak like the lipid deposition. The picture suggests formation of lipid droplets in the case of fatty degeneration of the liver cell.</p

    An electron microscope study of liver cell in carbon tetrachloride intoxication, significance of "opaque area"

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    Electron microscope study on the rat liver cells of carbon tetrachloride poisoning has been reported. Observations have been made on the osmic fixed tissue sections obtained from the liver at early stages of poisoning, 5 to 22 hours after carbon tetrachloride oral administration, 0.25ml. per 100g. body weight. Special attention is paid on the appearance of electron dense area, opaque area, in cytoplasm, which is compased of fibrous components, probably originated from endoplasmic reticulum. This will be an important sign of cell degeneration. Toluidine blue, PAS and methyl green-pyronin stainings of the thicker sections from the same samples as used for electron microscopy revealed that the opaque area is stained by toluidine blue and pyronin but not by PAS. The opaque areas appear already five hours after the carbon tetrachloride administration and show some continuity with elongated filaments of endoplasmic reticulum. At an advanced stage of paisoning the opaque area increases in its number and size, but some of them are shrunk as a mass, being separated from the surrounding cytoplasm with scanty area. Often they form denser masses in the center and loak like the lipid deposition. The picture suggests formation of lipid droplets in the case of fatty degeneration of the liver cell.</p

    Chemical analysis and biological activities of fatty acids from the liver of x-ray irradiated rabbit, the antitumor agent so-called OX

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    Chemical and biological characteristics of the unsaturated fatty acids from the liver of irradiated and non-irradiated animals and some unsaturated fatty acids in sale have been described. The unsaturated fatty acid fractions from the rabbit liver taken after irradiating animal with x-ray show hardly any difference from those of non-irradiated animal in each component. But the former were distinguished from the latter in the increased rate of velocity of autoxidation. Similar characteristics were observed on the unsaturated fatty acids irradiated in vitro. They developed less labile free radicals with the shift of the double bonds to the carboxylic group and the conjugated double bonds, dienoic and trienoic acids. Biologically, the fatty acids from the irradiated animal suppressed the growth of bacteria requiring unsatturated fatty acid. And they are slightly stronger in the activity of uncoupling effect for the oxidative phosphorylation and the swelling of mitochondria comparing to those of general fatty acids, oleic and linoleic acids. They showed a strong lytic activity on the cell membrane as in the case of general fatty acids, linoleic, oleic, and some long chain unsaturated fatty acids. Tumor cells surviving through the treatment with unsaturated fatty acids changed the cell characteristics temporarily, with a slow-down of the ascites development and the cell growth.</p

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

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