Specialty Literature Research Articles

A Cartographic “Radiography” of Bucovina at the Beginning of the Modern Period (1778) – second part.

“The Plan of Bucovina District in 72 sections drawn up in 1773, 774 and 775 (…) after geometrical survey (...)” belongs to the category of the so-called “Austrian Joseph’s maps”, made during the reign of Joseph the 2nd, who ruled together with the monarch during the period 1765-1780 and then king of Austria (1780-1790). After having studied the volume at the National Archives of Bucharest (number C VII 1), the author makes a general presentation of the map, and then, on the basis of some reasons extracted from the map itself, he comes with the hypothesis that it was finished in 1778, year that is written on the upper left hand corner of the title page of the plan and of each of the 72 sections, while the period mentioned in the title refers only to the time when the survey was done. It is a polychrome map, result of a very meticulous work, with a high aesthetic quality and very easy to read. However, it has been cited only a few times in the specialty literature, unfortunately very little used and never described in detail. The high scale (1:28.800) allowed the representation of numerous elements: landscape, hydrographic system, vegetation, human settlements (up to the level of houses!), ways of communication, borders, toponymy. We therefore, can state that this map is a minute presentation of the general framework of Bucovina at the end of the XVIIIth century, and that it is very useful in geographic, historical and toponymical research.

Internal and international accounting norms concerning the biological assets.

The objective of this paper is to present a retrospect of the norms regulating the accountancy of the agricultural exploitations. The purpose of the paper is also to distinguish the syncope existing in the regulations in force and to propose theirs improvement. We have used methods such as: revising of the specialty literature and studying the accounting documents of different agricultural exploitations. Following our research many consequences and accounting and fiscal effects regarding the agricultural exploitations were formulated.

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Manifestation of research teams in journal literature: A growth model of papers, authors, collaboration, coauthorship, weak ties, and Lotka's law

AbstractThis article introduces a team‐based model of researchers in a specialty and investigates the manifestation of such teams in a specialty's literature. The proposed qualitative behavioral model, with its mathematical expression as a growth model, is significant because it simultaneously describes the two phenomena of collaboration and author productivity (Lotka's law) in a specialty. The model is nested: A team process models the creation of research teams and the success‐breeds‐success process of their production of articles, while at a lower level the productivity of authors within teams is also modeled as a success‐breeds‐success process. Interteam collaboration (weak ties) is modeled as random events. This simple growth model is shown to faithfully mimic six network metrics of bipartite article‐author networks. The model is demonstrated on three example article collections from specialties that have a wide range of degree of collaboration: (a) a distance education collection with low collaboration degree, (b) a complex networks collection with typical collaboration degree, and (c) an atrial ablation collection with heavy collaboration degree.

THE DOWNY OAK (QUERCUS PUBESCENS) IN THE FORESTS OF CLUJ COUNTY

Concerning the Quercus pubescens area in the Cluj County, the specialty literature doesn't mention too much, excepting some articles from Forest magazine. Even in the forest lot descriptions from the forest plannings, in Quercus pubescens's stead is mentioned the Quercus petraea (evergreen oak). But in some cases, in evergreen oak's stead, in the field there is downy oak. So, the purpose of this paper was the identification and description of these areas, knowing that downy oak can build habitats protected by the UE laws. After the trips in the forests, there was identified areas totalizing about 40 ha, situated in the O.S. Cluj and Gherla.

Citation patterns in tropical medicine journals

Selections of most important journals in the field of tropical medicine have previously been identified with the help of resources such as bibliographical and citation databases. This article uses ISI's Journal Citation Reports (JSR) for 2002 to analyse the citation characteristics of the Tropical Medicine category. According to these data, this small but diverse group of 12 journals bestows some 40% more citations than it receives. Its six typical core journals tend to cite one another heavily, but they also refer a lot to multidisciplinary science and general medicine journals, and to infectious diseases and parasitology journals. Looking at the sources from which JCR's tropical medicine journals derive their citations, it is clear that in this reverse direction, the specialty's literature is still more concentrated. Apart from the typical core, this JCR category also contains a number of journals with more idiosyncratic citing patterns, focused on specialties such as paediatrics, a single disease (leprosy) and a representative of Latin American and Francophone biomedical science each. Implications of concentrated citedness and language biases are discussed briefly. This paper features a selection of bibliometric parameters relating to the tropical medicine journals and lists of the 80 journals most citing and cited by them.

APPLICATION OF CASE TEACHING TECHNIQUE IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

In the article a case study method, which is amply used at Harvard Business School in United State of America and also at European Business Schools characterized by top ratings, has been analyzed. A case study method, as teaching tool of business management students and executives, accomplishes and enriches conventional methods of teaching, such as lecturing, assigning of practical tasks, reading of specialty literature etc. Nevertheless, despite popularity of a case study method among prestigious Business Schools, various approaches to definition of a proper for teaching process case could be found, also different emphasizes on process of application of this teaching method have been put. The article deals with following issues: at first, characteristic features of case making it proper for teaching purposes have been considered; the second, detailed a case analysis’ methodic, which enabled to increase efficiency of teaching process of business management in universities, has been presented. The methodic has been drawn up having objective more expressed orientation of teaching process to application of theoretical frameworks to solving real issues in specific business situations and development of concrete business decisions and also to form skills how to predict and evaluate plausible outcomes of alternative decisions. Practical application of a case study method let to accelerate acquisition of practical skills of students and make them better prepared for searching successful business decisions.

Mapping of science by combined co-citation and word analysis. II: Dynamical aspects

Combined analysis of co-citation relations and words is explored to study time-dependent (“dynamical”) aspects of scientific activities, as expressed in research publications. This approach, using words originating from publications citing documents in co-citation clusters, offers an additional and complementary possibility to identify and link specialty literature through time, compared to the exclusive use of citations. Analysis of co-citation relations is used to locate and link groups of publications that share a consensus concerning intellectual base literature. Analysis of word-profile similarity is used to identify and link publication groups that belong to the same subject-matter research specialty. Different types of “content-words” are analyzed, including indexing terms, classification codes, and words from title and abstract of publications. The developed methods and techniques are illustrated using data of a specialty in atomic and molecular physics. For this specialty, it is shown that, over a period of 10 years, continuity in intellectual base was at a lower level than continuity in topics of current research. This finding indicates that a series of interesting new contributions are made in course of time, without vast alteration in general topics of research. However, within this framework, a more detailed analysis based on timeplots of individual cited key-articles and of content-words reveals a change from more rapid succession of new empirical studies to more retrospective, and theoretically oriented studies in later years.

Current Therapy in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

This book, edited by George A. Gates, MD, fills and fulfills a need in our specialty literature. Recognizing a role for critical individual contemporary statements on the state of the art of treatment in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, Gates has wisely edited an excellent compilation of essays devoted to specific therapeutic problems. This strong and directed editorial hand has orchestrated nonreferenced method contributions by more than 100 internationally known contributors into a readable 391 pages. The mandate of each author, in a three- to four-page discourse, is to outline his treatment approach to a specific disorder or a specific symptom; ideally, the rationale for this individual decision-making process is offered. This book is influenced by the successful current therapy series edited by Conn, which has given so much guidance to the internal medicine aspects of our profession since 1949. Conn's mandate has been a renewable current review of medical and

An analytical survey of virology literature reported in two announcement journals

AbstractThe growing science of virology has witnessed a parallel expansion of its literature. This study was undertaken to demonstrate that this specialty literature can be efficiently extracted from the broader data base of general biology in which it is contained. The scope and coverage of virology literature by BIOSIS was reviewed in the study which was based on manual and computer‐supported identification of more than 2300 virology papers announced in Biological Abstracts (BA) and its sister publication over a five‐month period. Papers announced had been drawn from 495 different sources representing 44 different countries and eight fields of science other than microbiology and were printed in 20 sections of BA other than those dealing directly with virology. Nearly two‐thirds of the virology abstracts in BA originally appeared in journals published outside the United States; approximately half of these foreign abstracts were taken from Russian sources. The techniques of retrieval and further results of the study are presented.