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Blattisocius capsicum Basha & Yousef 2000
No full textBlattisocius capsicum Basha & Yousef , 2000 Blattisocius capsicum Basha & Yousef, 2000: 400. Blattisocius capsicum.— Britto et al., 2012: 50. TYPE DEPOSITORY: Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt. TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Zagazig, Sharkia, Egypt, in association with immature stages of a psocopterous [Animalia: Psocidae] insect inhabiting stored Capsicum annuum [Plantae: Solanaceae].Published as part of De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-299 in Zootaxa 4112 (1) on page 133, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4112.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/39947
Petrol Boy Yousef
No full textSHERMAN Galleries, Sydney, Australia. Petrol Boy Yousef, 2005, C-type photographic print, 240 X 208 cm, Edition of 10, ©lynneroberts-goodwin. DISAPPEARING ACT, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin Solo Exhibition 2005. Dir. Dr. Gene Sherman, Gallery Deputy. Dir Simeon Kronenberg. DISAPPEARING ACT, Catalogue essay by Victoria Lynn, ‘…Lynne Roberts-Goodwin’s journey through Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria during 2003 and 2004, followed the famous Frankinscense trade route.’ Artist Exhibition Catalogue: cat2005_disappearingact_sherman_sm
Galleries: http://www.shermangalleries.sherman-scaf.org.au/artists/inartists/artist.asp%3Fartist=38&exhibition=88.html
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS New Work Grant_Established .
Roberts-Goodwin, Lynne, Lynn, Victoria and Sherman Galleries Lynne Roberts-Goodwin : Disappearing Act : 10 February – 5 March 2005, Sherman Galleries, Paddington, N.S.W. Includes bibliographical references. Dewey Number 779.9953053 Libraries Australia ID 26677122.
www.trove.nla.gov.au/work/9447318?q=Lynne+RobertsGoodwin&c=book#rtop10959129=tru
Anisotropy of Alfvénic Turbulence in the Solar Wind and Numerical Simulations
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
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Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Robustness of Triple Sampling Inference Procedures to Underlying Distributions
No full textIn this study, the sensitivity of the sequential normal-based triple sampling procedure for estimatingthe population mean to departures from normality is discussed. We assume only that the underlyingpopulation has finite but unknown first six moments. Two main inferential methodologies areconsidered. First point estimation of the unknown population mean is investigated where a squarederror loss function with linear sampling cost is assumed to control the risk of estimating the unknownpopulation mean by the corresponding sample measure. We find that the behaviour of the estimatorsand of the sample size depends asymptotically on both the skewness and kurtosis of the underlyingdistribution and we quantify this dependence. Moreover, the asymptotic regret of using the triplesampling inference instead of the fixed sample size approach, had the nuisance parameter beenknown, is a finite but non-vanishing quantity that depends on the kurtosis of the underlyingdistribution. We also supplement our findings with a simulation experiment to study the performanceof the estimators and the sample size in a range of conditions and compare the asymptotic and finitesample results. The second part of the thesis deals with constructing a triple sampling fixed widthconfidence interval for the unknown population mean with a prescribed width and coverage whileprotecting the interval against Type II error. An account is given of the sensitivity of the normal-basedtriple sampling sequential confidence interval for the population when the first six moments areassumed to exist but are unknown. First, triple sampling sequential confidence intervals for the meanare constructed using Hall’s (1981) methodology. Hence asymptotic characteristics of the constructedinterval are discussed and justified. Then an asymptotic second order approximation of a continuouslydifferentiable and bounded function of the stopping time is given to calculate both asymptoticcoverage based on a second order Edgeworth asymptotic expansion and the Type II error probability.The impact of several parameters on the Type II error probability is explored for various continuousdistributions. Finally, a simulation experiment is performed to investigate the methods in finite samplecases and to compare the finite sample and asymptotic results
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Models for production and inventory systems for deteriorating items with a supply-chain perspective
No full textThis thesis in the field of inventory management for deteriorating items studies the effects of deterioration on optimal policies in inventory and production-inventory models. Four different models are developed and analysed to address some of the gaps identified in this part of the inventory management literature. The first two models have been studied adopting the classic approach towards inventory modelling, where the holding cost is assumed to be proportional to a known exogenous unit holding cost parameter. Taking this approach, first a two-echelon (single-buyer, single-supplier) model is investigated in which the capacity is considered to be limited. In this model also the exact inventory level over time of the supplier is obtained whereas the literature to date has only considered the average inventory level. As the analysis shows, this results in a complex model, and therefore a heuristic is developed. In the second model, a single supplier, multiple buyers system is developed where there is a (in)finite production rate. It has been identified that the literature fails to calculate accurately the average inventory level of the supplier in situations where the production rate is finite. In this model this issue has been addressed, and further analysis reveals the significance of the more accurate modelling approach developed. The literature evaluates inventory models in different ways in terms of objective function. A body of research is identified in the literature that assumes an equivalence between profit maximisation and cost minimisation, and it often seems logical to discard revenues and minimise the cost function. This equivalence, however, is not always easily established when the objective function is to maximise the Net Present Value (NPV) of the profit function. In the third model of this thesis, this equivalence is analysed in detail, and it is shown that taking a cost minimisation model instead of a profit maximisation objective in some cases should be done cautiously and in the best case only adopted after establishing the relevant equivalence conditions using NPV Equivalence Analysis (NPVEA). Finally, in a fourth model a two-echelon supply chain with capacity constrains is developed using the NPV criterion. In this model a modification in the inventory level is suggested which makes the model more practical compared to the existing models in cases that the customers are serviced from the own warehouse
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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