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Non-Profit Law & Policy in Moldova
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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
Umbra krameri populations of the eastern edge of its areal: occurrence, state and eukaryotic symbionts
No full textThe European mudminnow, Umbra krameri, was a widespread fish in the lower reaches of the Dniester and Danube rivers in the first half of the 20th century. In the Dniester River, it was recorded from the junction of the Dniester and its Turunciuc branch to the estuary. Usually, now this endemic fish is found together with the weather loach Misgurnus fossilis and gibel carp Carassius gibelio. The factors that reduced its population were the construction of the Dubasari hydropower plant upstream in the 1950s and the embankment of the Lower Dniester wetlands to develop irrigated agriculture in the lower reaches of the river. After 1980, the hydrological regime of the Dniester in the spring was influenced by the Dniester hydropower complex in Ukraine, whose regime shapes the hydrology of the lower reaches of the river. Due to this, over the past 25 years, only small populations of this species have remained, recorded in the ditches of the Turunciuc branch near the Cuciurgan lake in the area of the village of Nezavertailovca, and water bodies connected to the Dniester on the border of Moldova and Ukraine south of the village of Palanca. Today, it is not easy to find it. Attempts to populate other suitable biotopes with fry obtained as a result of reproduction in aquariums were unsuccessful. Currently, U. krameri is listed in the Red Data Books of the region as most endangered (Moldova) and vulnerable (Ukraine), respectively. In the parasitologically surveyed individuals, inhabiting the lowers Dniester and Danube rivers basins, 176 species of the eukaryotic commensal/parasitic symbionts were revealed: The diversity of parasites of the Lower Dniester populations is much richer and different, compared with those of the Danube basin: although the populations from the Dniester have a rich community of parasites, some typical „Dniester species” are absent or very rare. Almost all identified species present a novelty for this fish-host and 12 of them were described as previously unknown. The parasite fauna of the examined U. krameri includes 18 host-specific species, one species common with U. limi and 12 species common with Esox lucius. The total prevalence of invasion of fishes was 100%. The maximum number of parasite species for one fish reached 18, and usually 4 - 8. Males were slightly more infested than females. The diversity and abundance of parasites adequately reflect the ecological state of the biotopes, their hydrobiocenosis, as well as the impact of the water hydrologic regime, i.e., the intensity of hydropower plants' water discharges. The infestation of U. krameri with symbionts wasn’t accompanied by fish morbidity or mortality. The parasitological situation of U. krameri populations inhabiting the eastern edge area is unfavourable and tense. The prevalence rate of U. krameri parasites is alarming; it is difficult to assume that such high values of infestation did not cause severe damage and even mortalities among fish. The carriage of many pathogenic parasites by this fish, under certain circumstances, may pose a potential threat to the survival of its unique populations of the Dniester River basin
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
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