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Feeding Strategies and Nutritional Quality of Animal Products—Volume II
No full textFeeding strategies play a pivotal role in determining the nutritional composition of animal products. The unique digestive systems of ruminants can efficiently convert fibrous plant material into high-quality protein sources. Monogastric animals necessitate diets that are precisely formulated to meet their nutrient needs. This influences the growth rate, feed efficiency, and nutrient content of their final products. This Special Issue aims to bring together research studies that investigate different feeding strategies, offering insights into optimizing animal diets to improve animal health and production, while enhancing the nutritional value and quality characteristics of animal-derived products. This Special Issue acts as a platform for interdisciplinary studies on animal nutrition, physiology, chemistry, raising technologies, feeding strategies, and product quality. The articles will cover a wide range of topics related to feed quality, as well as the feed’s effect on production, animal health, and product quality
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
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
Use of Phyto-Additives in Poultry Nutrition
No full textThis article presents experimental data on the properties, efficacy and modes of action of phyto-additives that can be used in poultry nutrition. Phyto-additives are a great variety of herbs, spices and products derived from them, as well as essential oils. The content of active substances in these products can vary greatly depending on what part of the plant is used (grains, leaves, roots, bark, flowers, or buds), the harvest season and geographical origin and technique of treatment (cold, steam distillation, extraction or maceration with non-aqueous solvents, etc.). The uses of phyto-additives are still limited in relation to their mode of action and aspects of application in poultry nutrition. Phyto-additives are supposed to improve the palatability of feed and hence improve performance. Although many studies have demonstrated antioxidant and antimicrobial efficacy in vitro, this still remains to be checked in vivo. It is also assumed that phyto-additives improve nutrient absorption and enzymatic activity of poultry digestive tract. However, the limited number of comparative studies between phyto-additives and antibiotics suggests that they can have beneficial effects on the digestive tract by reducing the number of implicit bacteria and metabolites produced by them. Other studies show that phyto-additive use in animal feed improves the secretion of intestinal mucus. Also, a systematic approach to the effectiveness, dose, mode of action and safety of phyto-additives in poultry feed is not yet well established
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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