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Reduction of metal bioavailability in heavily polluted soils by occlusion in iron oxides
No full textUtilizzo di piante agrarie nel fitorisanamento di suoli contaminati da metalli pesanti: (ii) primi risultati della sperimentazione in situ di Torviscosa (Udine)
No full textDue colture annuali da biomassa – Sorghum bicolor e Helianthus annuus – sono state allevate in un suolo inquinato
da ceneri di pirite. Lo scopo di questo lavoro era quello di osservare l’accumulo di metalli pesanti durante il
ciclo vegetativo e la loro asportazione dal sito inquinato mediante la raccolta della biomassa prodotta.
Two annual high biomass yield crops – Sorghum bicolor and Helianthus annuus – were grown in a soil p
La prova in situ è stata organizzata secondo uno schema a blocchi randomizzati. La concentrazione dei metalli pesanti
nel suolo era la seguente: As 309, Cd 4.90, Co 50.9, Cu 1527, Pb 233 e Zn 980 mg kg-1. I trattamenti imposti
prevedevano la fertilizzazione minerale e la concimazione organica, mentre le piante di controllo sono state allevate
sul terreno tal quale. Il potenziale di fitoestrazione di S. bicolor e H. annuus è stato osservato per tutta la durata
del ciclo mediante prelievi di biomassa e successive analisi ICP. Vengono riportate le concentrazioni di metalli
pesanti rilevate nelle frazioni vegetali e due fattori di bioconcentrazione. Il miglioramento delle condizioni nutrizionali
delle piante si è dimostrato efficace consentendo un incremento della produzione di biomassa, ma non ha
avuto effetti sulla concentrazione dei metalli pesanti assimilati dalle piante. Le asportazioni di metalli pesanti dal
suolo inquinato sono state confrontate con dati di letteratura. S. bicolor si è dimostrato più efficace di H. annuus;
la raccolta della biomassa epigea del sorgo ha consentito l’asportazione di 220 g ha-1 di As, 5.6 g ha-1 di Cd, 30.2 g
ha-1 di Co, 820 g ha-1 di Cu, 107 g ha-1 di Pb e 1944 g ha-1 di Zn
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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