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    ALUNITE OCCURRENCES IN GREECE: GEOLOGICAL MINERALOGICAL CONSTRAINTS AND EXPLOITATION

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    In this article, occurrences of alunite in northern Greece (Thrace) and the Aegean Islands (Lesvos, Limnos and Milos) are presented and their geological, mineralogical and depositional characteristics are discussed. All alunite-bearing rocks are part of advanced argillic alteration zones in porphyry-epithermal systems hosted in Neogene magmatic rocks. Evidence for early exploitation of alunite in Sapes, Lesvos and Milos, suggest various uses, especially in medicine, in fabric dying, purification of water, or as pigment from classical until recent times

    MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY OF THE NW TINOS ISLAND OPHICALCITES, CYCLADES, GREECE.

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    Ophicalcites from Tinos Island, Cyclades, Greece, better known as ‘green marble of Tinos’, comprise polygenetic serpentinitic breccias with calcitic matrix and numerous carbonate veins crosscutting the formation. They have undergone intense exploitation for building and decorative purposes since ancient times. Serpentinitic clasts of the ophicalcites are composed mainly of antigorite and they show characteristic mesh textures, while locally pseudomorphic and non-pseudomorphic textures are developed. The carbonate phase consists mostly of calcite, whereas dolomite replaces calcite locally, especially along zones of intense tectonic activity. Calcite, mostly as cement material, presents a strong granoblastic texture that bonds tightly the serpentinitic clasts. Chlorite is present in many samples and seems to be a quite common accessory mineral of the formation whereas talc, spinel, hematite and magnetite can also be found. Meter-sized bodies of chromitites with irregular shapes were also observed in the studied ophicalcites. They consist of aluminian chromite, partially replaced by magnetite, Crchlorite, calcite and base metal sulphides. Mineralogical, textural and field relationships data support the idea of a combined tectonichydrothermal origin of these ophicalcites, while sedimentary mechanisms have played a minor role to their formation

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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