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    Pupinidius melinostoma subsp. subcylindricus Moellendorff 1901

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    6. Pupinidius melinostoma subcylindricus (Moellendorff, 1901) Fig. 1 Buliminus (Subzebrinus) melinostoma subcylindricus Moellendorff, 1901: 341.Published as part of Wu, Min & Zheng, Wei, 2009, A review of Chinese Pupinidius Moellendorff (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora: Enidae), with the description of a new species, pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2053 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18664

    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

    Ponsadenia Schileyko 1978

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    Subgenus Ponsadenia Schileyko, 1978 Diagnosis: Shell medium­sized or small, flattened, with rounded periphery, unicolored. Other as same as the genus.Published as part of Wu, Min & Guo, Jian-Ying, 2006, Revision of the Chinese species of Ponsadenia (Gastropoda: Helicoidea, Bradybaenidae), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 1316 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17395

    FIGURE 1 in Serina Gredler (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora: Enidae), the continuous-peristomed mountain snails endemic to the eastern slope of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

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    FIGURE 1. Distribution of Serina species. S. soluta inflata Yen, 1939 is also indicated although synonymized in this paper. S. soluta stenochila (Möllendorff, 1901) is not mapped due to imprecise locality information.Published as part of Wu, Min & Xu, Qin, 2013, Serina Gredler (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora: Enidae), the continuous-peristomed mountain snails endemic to the eastern slope of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, pp. 43-66 in Zootaxa 3620 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28340

    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

    Coordinated Sensor Deployment for Improving Secure Communications and Sensing Coverage

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    Sensor network has a great potential in applications such as habitat monitoring, wildlife tracking, building surveillance, and military combat. The design of a sensor network system involves several important issues, including the sensing coverage, node-to-node or node-to-base-station communications, and the security in information gathering and relay by the sensors. In this paper, we show that the system performance on these aspects depends closely on how the sensors are deployed in the field, and on how the sensor locations can be adjusted after the initial deployment. For static sensor deployment, we investigate the hexagon and square lattice topology and analyze their impact on secure connectivity and sensing coverage. For advanced sensing devices that allow for location adjustment after deployment, we have established a new framework for coordinated updates of sensor locations. We propose two new sensor location updating algorithms, the VFSec and the Weighted Centroid algorithm, to jointly optimize sensing coverage and secure connectivity. Simulation results show that these new algorithms provide superior tradeoff over the existing approaches that do not take security into considerations

    Design, synthesis and characterization of novel semiconducting metal chalcogenides with multifunctional properties

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    Metal chalcogenides possess a wide range of interesting chemical and physical properties, including low-temperature superconductivity, semiconductivity, ionic conductivity, intercalation, and optical properties. To expand chalcogenides beyond their traditional applications, it is desirable to generate novel chalcogenide materials with multifunctionality for uses in the areas of catalysis, separation, ion exchange, and gas storage by modifying the framework architectures and tuning the chemical components. The primary focus of my Ph. D. study is to design and synthesize chalcogenide materials with new structures and interesting multifunctional properties. The large variety of chemical compositions and structures make it possible to tune the properties, such as band gap, luminescence, pore size, surface area, and thermal stability. Most of the synthesis has been carried out using solvothermal reactions refs in pyrex tube or teflon lined autoclaves. Novel three-dimensional (3D) microporous chalcogenides constructed on building units [M-Sn-Q]n- (M=Zn, Cd, Mn; Q=S, Se) have been obtained. Their structures have been characterized by both single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction methods. Optical diffuse reflectance experiments have indicated that these compounds are semiconductors with intermediate band gaps between 1.5~2.9eV. The successful doping/substitution of 5%~20% Mn and Se in the [Zn-Sn-S]n- structure allows systematic tuning of the band gap and optical properties of this semiconductor compound. All compounds show a high thermal stability over 400°C. Our studies also show that the guest molecules and cations residing in the open frameworks are exchangeable. Another novel two dimentional ion sulfide [Fe(en)3]·[Fe16S20]·en compound was synthesized as well. UV-Vis reflectance spectroscopy showed a very low absorption coefficient and small band gap ~0.5eV. Doping/substitution experiments with Co and Mn replacing Fe were carried out and the properties will be discussed. In summary, this work has provided examples of rational synthesis and property tuning of new functional materials with new structure types, and demonstrated structure-property correlation in metal chalcogenide based compounds. It has provided useful information for the future developments of material synthesis with desired multifunctionality.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-80)

    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

    FIGURE 1. A in Revision of the Chinese species of Ponsadenia (Gastropoda: Helicoidea, Bradybaenidae)

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    FIGURE 1. A. Ponsadenia (Mesasiata) duplocincta (Martens, 1879), HBUMM01116E­ specimen 1; B. Ponsadenia (Ponsadenia) semenovi (Martens, 1864), HBUMM01097E­ specimen 3.Published as part of Wu, Min & Guo, Jian-Ying, 2006, Revision of the Chinese species of Ponsadenia (Gastropoda: Helicoidea, Bradybaenidae), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 1316 on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17395
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