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Tilia platyphyllos Scop. - Tuber brumale Vittad. versus Tilia platyphyllos Scop. - Tuber borchii Vittad. ectomycorrhizal system: a comparison of structural and functional traits
No full text'L'innovazione del sistema produttivo e il trasferimento tecnologico' Presentazione al Convegno 'La Cooperazione Internazionale e le Opportunità di finanziamento Europeo a favore delle Imprese', 22 Settembre 2007, World Trade Center, San Marino
No full textPresentazione al Convegno 'La Cooperazione Internazionale e le Opportunità di finanziamento Europeo a favore delle Imprese' a cui hanno partecipato molte imprese e soggetti del mondo finanziario del territorio sammarinese, con interventi di Francesco Mussoni (Amministratore Delegato World Trade Center San Marino), Aldo Patriciello (Deputato del parlamento Europeo), Matteo Fornara (Commissione Europea), Chiara Pocaterra (APRE), Vilberto Stocchi (prorettore Università di Urbino Carlo Bo), Antonio SfiligoJ (Amministratore Delegato BIC Friuli Venezia Giulia), Cristina Naccarato (ENEA), Giorgio Petroni (Rettore Università di San Marino)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
TWO WEEKLY SESSIONS OF COMBINED AEROBIC AND RESISTANCE EXERCISE ARE SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS IN SUBJECTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS AND METABOLIC SYNDROME
No full textTargeting the Gut Microbiota for Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Full text linkType 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disorder with a heterogeneous etiology encompassing societal and behavioral risk factors in addition to genetic and environmental susceptibility. The cardiovascular consequences of diabetes account for more than two-thirds of mortality among people with T2D. Not only does T2D shorten life expectancy, but it also lowers quality of life and is associated with extremely high health expenditures since diabetic complications raise both direct and indirect healthcare costs. An increasing body of research indicates a connection between T2D and gut microbial traits, as numerous alterations in the intestinal microorganisms have been noted in pre-diabetic and diabetic individuals. These include pro-inflammatory bacterial patterns, increased intestinal permeability, endotoxemia, and hyperglycemia-favoring conditions, such as the alteration of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secretion. Restoring microbial homeostasis can be very beneficial for preventing and co-treating T2D and improving antidiabetic therapy outcomes. This review summarizes the characteristics of a “diabetic” microbiota and the metabolites produced by microbial species that can worsen or ameliorate T2D risk and progression, suggesting gut microbiota-targeted strategies to restore eubiosis and regulate blood glucose. Nutritional supplementation, diet, and physical exercise are known to play important roles in T2D, and here their effects on the gut microbiota are discussed, suggesting non-pharmacological approaches that can greatly help in diabetes management and highlighting the importance of tailoring treatments to individual needs
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Viability and morphology of Tuber aestivum spores after passage through the gut of Sus scrofa
No full textTruffles have hypogeous fruit bodies that are dependent on mycophagous animals for spore dispersal. In our study we assessed the effect of passage through the gut of Sus scrofa on the morphology and viability of Tuber aestivum asci and ascospores. Light and Atomic Force Microscopy showed that passage through the gut freed spores from the asci, eroded the walls of free spores and modified their structure but spores were still viable. We believe this was the reason for the observed improvement in forming mycorrhizas with oak. These results confirm the role of wild boars in long distance dispersal of Tuber and support the theory that pigs play a significant role in truffle survival and territorial expansion during climatic changes
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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