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Stable with Horses and Terrier, undated, Illustration by Diana Thorne
No full textIllustration by Diana Thorne, Parts A & B
Thorne and Crewmates
No full textMaurice Thorne of the 432nd Bomb Squadron poses with his crew mates in front of a tent. From left to right: Donald Gibson, Clark Aylesworth, Maurice Thorne, Martin Grossman, and Sam Hall
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Eastern Europe's experience with banking reform : is there a role for banks in the transition?
No full textAre there lessons to be learned about how Eastern European countries have dealt with problems in their banking systems? What role have these countries assigned to banks during the transition? How have they used banks in dealing with the enterprise problem? The author addresses these questions by analyzing experience in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Most of these countries have made substantial progress in restructuring their banking systems, but few have used their banking systems to improve the allocation of credit and hence stimulate the supply response. The author finds the following. The problem is not whether banks hold nonperforming loans but how banks can avoid accumulating more nonperforming loans. The underlying problem is how to close loss-making and nonviable enterprises. The countries that have encouraged the establishment of new private banks, that have introduced regulation and supervision, and that have tried to make banks more competitive have been more successful at improving the allocation of credit and achieving more control over loss-making enterprises. Banks must focus on assessing risk - and for this, capital, private ownership, and adequate regulation are crucial. How quickly banks achieve independence in credit decisions depends on how fast new governance structures can be introduced. In this, the five countries have been less successful. The objectives of bank recapitulation should be to prevent banks from accumulating more nonperforming loans (that is, dealing with the enterprise problem) and to give them the governance structure that would prevent them from incurring new nonperforming loans. This requires introducing a system of risk and reward - by making banks comply with capital adequacy requirements, by privatizing a critical number of banks, and by introducing strong regulation and supervision. Government should see that banks provide efficient payment systems, the basis for trust in banking systems. Introducing adequate regulation and supervision has been difficult as it requires knowing what the banks'role should be. Evidence strongly supports the need to recapitalize and privatize a critical number of banks. Authorities cannot rely on banks to exert control on enterprises early in the transition. In the early stages, control over state-owned enterprises should be exercised by a semipublic institution.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Municipal Financial Management,Banking Law
Carlestone Thorne
No full text30Address on enlistment Club Hotel, Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Mother, Jane Thorne, living at 10th Avenue, Maylands, W.A.Embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT A73 'Commonwealth' with Machine Gun Company 7, Reinforcement 5 on 19 September 1916. He was gassed in 1917 and transferred to the 12th Machine Gun Company, 4th MG BN in 1918. Struck behind the ear with a piece of shell.Cook and bakerAustralian Imperial Force4th Machine Gun Battalio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Thomas Thorne portrait
No full textPortrait of Thomas Thorne (b. 1809), who worked with his wife Mary C. Thorne to aid fugitive slaves to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history
Genealogical record of John Thorne : also the direct descendants of James Thorne and Hannah Brown of Salisbury, Mass. and Kingston, N.H., also the families connected by marriage /
No full textIncludes index.Mode of access: Internet
Dorylaimus varicaudatus Thorne 1929, n. sp.
No full text<p>Dorylaimus varicaudatus n. sp.</p> <p>Diagnosis:</p> <p> Characters probably nearest to <i>Dorylaimus obtusicaudatus</i> Bastian but with these differences: Esophagus shorter. Ovaries about twice as long; eggs smaller and present in the uterus in greater numbers. Terminus of female tail variably elongated. Male preanal supplements larger but only 24-30 in number compared to about 40 in obtusicaudaíus. Spicula conspicuously long and rather slender. Males numerous while in <i>obtusicaudatns</i> they are rare.</p> <p>The normal form of the female terminus is as shown in Fig. 3 b but occasional specimens will be found with extremes as shown in Figs. 3 c and 3 d. Immature specimens frequently are like 3 d. Posterior half of esophagus enlarged. Front ovary on the left, the rear on the right side of the body. Eggs small, only two-thirds as long as the vulva body diameter and twice as long as wide. As many as twelve may occur in the body at one time. Prerectum about equal in length to rectum. Fig. 3 a-e.</p>Published as part of <i>Thorne, Gerald, 1929, Nematodes from the Summit of Long's Peak, Colorado, pp. 181 in Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 48 (2)</i> on pages 183-184, DOI: 10.2307/3222211, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10797374">http://zenodo.org/record/10797374</a>
Tylolaimophorus minor Thorne 1939
No full textTylolaimophorus minor (Thorne, 1939) Goodey, 1963 After Thorne (1939) After Thorne (1974) After Eroshenko & Tepljakov (1977) After Brzeski (1994) MEASUREMENTS Holotype female: L = 0.6 mm; a = 17; b = 6.3; body width = (35) µm; spear =? µm; pharynx = (95) µm; tail = (30) µm; c = 20; c’ = (1.3); V = 50. ? females: L = 0.4-0.7 mm; a = 16; b = 6.1; c = 18; V = 52. 19 females: L = 0.34-0.60 mm; a = 10-23; b = 3.7-6.1; spear = 12-15 µm; c = 12-18; V = 53-64. 77 females: L = 0.38-0.58 mm; a = 13-23; b = 3.9-7.0; spear = 9-12 µm; pharynx = 79-112 µm; tail = 20-33 µm; c = 15-23; c’ = 0.9-1.7; V = 43-61. DESCRIPTION Female. Body arcuate ventrad to C shaped. Cuticle up to 1 µm thick, striation only visible on younger specimens and then striae very shallow. Some body pores seen on dorsal and ventral sides. Lip region separated by a shallow depression that may not be observable in older, thickened specimens. Amphidial opening about 3 µm wide or 27-37 % of lip region width. Pharynx with fusiform median swelling and short pyriform basal bulb. Body width at pharynx base 2.2-2.9 times lip region width. Vulva a minute transverse slit. Vagina extending 27-30 % into body. Ovaries symmetrical, reflexed about halfway back to the vulva. Rectum 6-8 µm long or about one-third the anal body diameter. Post-anal intestinal sac extends into tail to varying lengths in most of the examined specimens. Body tapering from a short distance posterior to the anus. Tail dorsally convex-conoid, bluntly rounded at the terminus. Male. Never described. DIAGNOSIS AND RELATIONSHIPS Tylolaimophorus minor has been differentiated from T. cylindricus by its smaller size (0.4-0.6 vs 1.2-2.1 mm) and more tapering tail. It also should be compared with other species which have small body sizes: T. tegmentum differs by a longer spear (15-17 vs 10-12 µm) and the presence of males, and both T. digitatus and T. indicus are bisexual species, have a distended cuticle, rectum with thin walls, and more pointed tails. Thorne (1974) reported a population with the name Triplonchium parvum Thorne, 1939. Brzeski (1994) suggested that this is, in fact, a population of T. minor, and the error is evident from the reproduction of the tail drawing from the original description of T. minor. Brzeski further noted that Thorne (1939) didn’t use the name T. parvum. DISTRIBUTION Described from foothill soil near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (Thorne 1939). Recovered in the forests of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, the USA (Johnson et al. 1972). Also reported from several other localities in the USA: from native sod, windbreaks and forest shrubs and trees in South Dakota, North Dakota and Iowa (Thorne 1974). It has been recovered from three localities in Russia: in soil and forest litter in the Dalnegorsky region, in forest soil at the edge of the city of Khabarovsk, and in the rhizosphere of Scots pine in Korsakovo on Sakhalin Island (Eroshenko & Tepljakov 1977), and also from Slovakia: in forests of the Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area (Hánĕl & Čerevková 2010). Two populations were reported in association with forests (Quercus dalechampii Ten.) in Rhodopes, Bulgaria (Peneva et al. 2011). Two other populations of the species were found during the present study from the rhizosphere of alder and hawthorn trees in Gilan, Northern Iran (see below).Published as part of Ghaderi, Reza, Asghari, Ramezan & Eskandari, Ali, 2020, Systematics of the genus Tylolaimophorus de Man, 1880 (Nematoda Diphtherophoridae), with description of T. minor (Thorne, 1939) Goodey, 1963 from Iran, pp. 322-340 in Zootaxa 4755 (2) on pages 331-332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/373363
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