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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
A Herbal Remedy for Herpes Simplex Virus Infection
No full textHerpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection has emerged as a major
opportunistic infection particularly in immunosuppressed persons and therefore a serious disease ill high Human Immunodeficiency Virus!Aquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) prevalence areas as seen in sub-Saharan Africa. Present drugs for HSV management, such as the nucleoside analogue acyclovir, are experiencing resistance from the re-emerging strains of HSV. In this study, aqueous extracts from 12 medicinal plants were investigated for anti-HSV activity. The plants were collected within Kenya from medicinal plants used widely for the management of various diseases using information obtained from literature search and ethnomedical use. Plaque reduction assay was used to determine the in vitro anti-HSV activity for the extracts by evaluating the ability ofthe extracts to inhibit the formation of plaques in Vero E6 cells infected with 100 Plaque Forming Unit (PFU) of HSV. A 50% inhibition at 50~g/m1 extract concentration was registered as active. A murine model, in which BALB/c mice were cutaneously infected with HSV and treated with extract, was used for in vivo determinations of therapeutic efficacy for the extract showing the best antiviral activity in vitro. Acyclovir was used as a reference drug for both in vitro and in vivo investigations. In vitro and in vivo cytotoxicity of the extracts was determined by cell lysis and weight lose or death respectively. Of the 12 plants tested, three extracts from Carissa edulis (Forssk.) Vahl (Apocynaceae), May tenus heterophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Robson (Celastraceae) and Periploca linearifolia Dill & A. Rich. (Asclepiadaceae) exhibited remarkable anti-HSV activity in vitro for both the wild type (HSV-1, HSV-2) and the resistant strains
(TK- HSV-1, APTHSV-1) with an EC50 of 15-60Jlg/ml with no cell cytotoxicity (CC50 300-480 ug/ml). Carrisa edulis root-bark extract had the best activity in vitro, with a therapeutic index of between 31.8 and 69.6 for both susceptible and resistant HSV strains. The therapeutic efficacy of C. edulis extract was demonstrated in mice infected with wild type or resistant strains ofHSV since an oral dose of 250mg/kg significantly delayed the onset of HSV infections by over 50% and increased the mean survival time by 28% to 35% relative to the infected untreated mice (p < 0.05 Vs control by Student's t-test). The mortality rate for mice treated with extract was also reduced by between 70% and 90% as opposed to the infected untreated mice which had 100% mortality {p < 0.05 Vs control by repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA)}. No acute toxicity was observed in mice at the oral dose of 250mglkg. The anti-HSV activity seemed to arise from terpenoidal and phenolic compounds detected in these extracts. These results show that the water extracts from C. edulis, M heterophylla and P. linearifolia have anti-HSV activity. C. edulis root bark extract has both in vitro and in vivo activity and therefore can be exploited as an alternative herbal remedy for HSV infections
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn 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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