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    Factsheets voor de (eco)toxicologische risicobeoordelingsstrategie van het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu - Deel V

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    This report contains five factsheets describing risk assessment methods used at the Centre for Substances and Integral Risk Assessment (SIR) and the Expert Centre for Substances (SEC) of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). The main aim is to enhance transparency and consistency in the risk assessment methods used at RIVM-SIR and RIVM-SEC. The factsheet on hepatic tumours in mice describes whether or not mouse liver tumours are considered relevant for human risk assessment. The factsheet on historical control data for tumour incidence provides the RIVM strategy on how to use historical control data in the evaluation of carcinogenicity data. The factsheet on Mononuclear Cell Leukaemia in the F344 rat strain discusses the relevance of an increased incidence of mononuclear cell leukaemia (MNCL) in F344 rats for humans and provides an approach to human hazard and risk assessment. In the factsheet on energy and moisture content and assimilation efficiency of bird and mammal food, two large datasets on the energy and water content and assimilation efficiency of various types of bird and mammal food, are merged and analysed. The last factsheet on sorption of dissociating compounds describes the main principles and limitations of QSAR models and the HPLC method for determining the adsorption coefficients of organic ionisable substances. The five factsheets reflect a state-of-the-art approach and are meant to facilitate discussion with other national and international parties involved in risk assessment.Dit rapport bundelt vijf factsheets waarin methodieken worden beschreven die worden gebruikt voor de risicobeoordeling van stoffen bij het Centrum voor Stoffen en Integrale Risicobeoordeling (SIR) en het Stoffen Expertise Centrum (SEC) van het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM). Het voornaamste doel is om de inzichtelijkheid en eenduidigheid van de bij RIVM-SIR en -SEC gevolgde methodieken te vergroten. De vijf factsheets vormen de weerslag van de huidige stand van wetenschap. Ze zijn bedoeld om de discussie met andere (inter)nationale partijen op het gebied van risicobeoordeling te bevorderen. De factsheet over levertumoren in de muis beschrijft onder welke voorwaarden levertumoren in de muis als relevant voor risicobeoordeling in de mens worden beschouwd. In de factsheet over historische controle gegevens van tumorincidentie wordt aangegeven hoe het RIVM bij de evaluatie van carcinogeniteit omgaat met historische controles gegevens. In de factsheet over Mononucleaire Cel Leukemie in de F344 rat wordt de relevantie voor de mens van een toename in de incidentie van mononucleaire cel leukemie (MNCL) in F344 ratten besproken en wordt een strategie voor de gevaar- en risicobeoordeling geleverd. In de factsheet 'Energie- en vochtgehalte en assimilatie-efficientie van voedsel voor vogel- en zoogdieren' zijn twee grote datasets met gegevens over het energie- en watergehalte van verschillende voedselbronnen voor vogels en zoogdieren samengevoegd en geanalyseerd. De laatste factsheet over sorptie van dissocierende stoffen geeft een uiteenzetting van de belangrijkste principes en beperkingen van de QSAR- modellen en HPLC-methoden voor het bepalen van het adsorptiegedrag van een stof

    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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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 Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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