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    Fast Screening and Confirmation of Multiple Control Drugs Using Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry

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    藥物濫用造成社會問題由來已久,尤其是未納入管制的新興濫用藥物諸如色胺類與苯乙胺等,使得藥物濫用問題日益複雜。本研究針對61種藥物包括管制藥物、新興濫用藥物與常見併用藥物,利用極致液相層析串聯三段式四極柱質譜儀開發快篩與確認方法。本研究選用Ascentis Express RP-Amide管柱 (50 * 2.1 mm, 2.7 μm) 搭配由乙腈與10 mM 醋酸胺溶液所組成之移動相,針對其中53種易於形成正離子之藥物進行層析,層析時間包括管柱再平衡共費時8.5分鐘;其餘8種易形成負離子之藥物,則使用Fortis H2o管柱 (30 * 2.1 mm, 1.7 μm) 並利用甲醇與0.5%乙酸組合作為移動相進行層析,層析時間包括管柱再平衡僅需時6.6分鐘。本研究使用胃乳片與amoxicillin粉末作為模擬基質,利用甲醇進行超音波萃取後,經高速離心並過濾再行上機分析。其中51種藥物在游離化的過程中,其訊號受到基質干擾之比率小於30%。本研究針對偵測極限與基質效應,比較電灑游離法與大氣壓光游離法二種游離源之表現,其結果顯示電灑游離法在二方面皆優於大氣壓光游離法。本研究並使用Chromalynx軟體建立濫用藥物資料庫;Chromalynx軟體原設計用於液相層析串聯飛行時間質譜儀,針對未知化合物進行快篩,本研究將之用於液相層析串聯三段式四極柱質譜儀,結果顯示成功的資料庫比對主要受到層析滯留時間、待測物分子量與待測物碎片形式所影響。The problem of drug abuse has been a long-term concern by societies, especially the increasing use on emerging drugs like tryptamines and psychedelic phenethylamines, which have not been included as control drugs. We developed a screening and confirmatory method for detecting 61 drugs including control drugs, emerging abused drugs and common combined-use drugs, with an ultra-high performance chromatography/triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer (UHPLC-QqQMS). Fifty three drugs forming positive ions were separated on an Ascentis Express RP-Amide column (50 * 2.1 mm, 2.7 μm) within 8.5 min including re-equilibrium with the mobile phase composed of acetonitrile and 10 mM ammonium acetate. The separation of eight drugs forming negative ions was achieved on a Fortis H2o column (30 * 2.1 mm, 1.7 μm) and took only 6.6 min with the mobile phase containing methanol and 0.5% acetic acid. In this study, we use antacid tablets and amoxicillin powder as the simulated matrixes; samples were extracted with sonication in methanol, then were centrifuged and filtered before injecting onto the instrument. The influence of matrix components to the ionization efficiency on 51 analytes was lower than 30%. We also compared the detection sensitivity and matrix effect between electrospray ionization (ESI) and atmospheric photoionization (APPI), and ESI was found to be better than APPI. The Chromalynx software, which was designed for fast screening of unknown compounds on a LC-time of flight-MS, was studied on the LC-QqQMS for this purpose. Retention time, analyte molecular weight, and patterns of fragmentation played crucial roles in a successful matching of library search

    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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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 Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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