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Scientific Writing
Writing High Impact Papers

Module 2

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

zuco@ifsc.usp.br
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Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology - Associate Editor
Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology Group - Coordinator
Physics Institute of São Paulo, University of São Paulo

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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Module 1: Literary Genre

Module 2: Structure 1: Abstract
Module 3: Structure 2: Introduction
Module 4: Structure 3: Results and Discussion, Conclusion
Module 5: Style, Language 1: Complexity Problems 1
Module 6: Language 2: Complexity Problems 2, Rhythm
Module 7: Language 3: Plain English and Topic Sentences
Module 8: Manuscript Submission, The Editorial Process

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Module 2

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Title, Authors and Affiliations

Abstract
General
Introduction

Methodology
Specific
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
General
References

Adapted from: Hill et al., Teaching ESL students to read and write
experimental papers, TESOL Quarterly, 16: 333, 1982:
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Abstract

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An abstract summarizes the major aspects of the

paper

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-A well-written abstract allows the reader to quickly

identify the major contributions of the paper to
the area.

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For Education, Law, Geo, His, Mus, Social

Areas

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Contextualization
Gap
Purpose
Methodology
Results
Conclusions

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“Student teachers consider cooperating teachers to be one of the most

important contributors to their teacher preparation program. Therefore, the ways
in which cooperating teachers participate in teacher education are significant.
This review seeks to move conceptions of that participation beyond commonly
held beliefs to empirically supported claims. The analysis draws on Brodie,
Cowling, and Nissen's notion of categories of participation to generate 11
different ways that cooperating teachers participate in teacher education: as
Providers of Feedback, Gatekeepers of the Profession, Modelers of Practice,
Supporters of Reflection, Gleaners of Knowledge, Purveyors of Context,
Conveners of Relation, Agents of Socialization, Advocates of the Practical,
Abiders of Change, and Teachers of Children. When set against Gaventa's
typology of participation, the resultant grid highlights the importance of
negotiated or invited spaces for cooperating teacher participation and provides
a new way of thinking about, planning professional development for, and
working with cooperating teachers.”

SOURCE: REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 84 (2), 163-202, 2014

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1. Context: Student teachers consider cooperating teachers to be one of the most
important contributors to their teacher preparation program.
2. Gap: Therefore, the ways in which cooperating teachers participate in teacher
education are significant.
3. Propose: This review seeks to move conceptions of that participation beyond
commonly held beliefs to empirically supported claims.
4. Methods: The analysis draws on Brodie, Cowling, and Nissen's notion of
categories of participation to generate 11 different ways that cooperating
teachers participate in teacher education: as Providers of Feedback,
Gatekeepers of the Profession, Modelers of Practice, Supporters of Reflection,
Gleaners of Knowledge, Purveyors of Context, Conveners of Relation, Agents of
Socialization, Advocates of the Practical, Abiders of Change, and Teachers of
Children.
5. Results: When set against Gaventa's typology of participation, the resultant grid
highlights the importance of negotiated or invited spaces for cooperating teacher
participation and provides a new way of thinking about, planning professional
development for, and working with cooperating teachers.
6. Conclusion:
SOURCE: REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 84 (2), 163-202, 2014
Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto
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“Traditionally, average causal effects from multiple-baseline data are estimated by
aggregating individual causal effect estimates obtained through within-series
comparisons of treatment phase trajectories to baseline extrapolations. Concern
that these estimates may be biased due to event effects, such as history and
maturation, motivates our proposal of a between-series estimator that contrasts
participants in the treatment to those in the baseline phase. Accuracy of the new
method was assessed and compared in a series of simulation studies where
participants were randomly assigned to intervention start points. The within-series
estimator was found to have greater power to detect treatment effects but also to be
biased due to event effects, leading to faulty causal inferences. The between-series
estimator remained unbiased and controlled the Type I error rate independent of
event effects. Because the between-series estimator is unbiased under different
assumptions, the 2 estimates complement each other, and the difference between
them can be used to detect inaccuracies in the modeling assumptions. The power
to detect inaccuracies associated with event effects was found to depend on the
size and type of event effect. We empirically illustrate the methods using a real data
set and then discuss implications for researchers planning multiple-baseline
studies.”
SOURCE: PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS, 19 (4), 493-510, 2014
Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto
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“International trade law under WTO is a mature field of international economic law
(IEL). In contrast, international monetary and financial law is still emerging as a
discipline within IEL. With the exception of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
international monetary and financial law is still characterized by the predominance
of soft law, soft obligations, and an informal institutional structure. Financial markets
have become much more international in recent decades, while their regulation,
supervision and—if necessary—resolution remain constrained by the domain of
domestic jurisdictions. The global financial crisis has taught us several lessons. One
of them is that banking crises often lead to sovereign debt crises because of the
vicious link between bank debt and sovereign debt (the so-called ‘doom loop’, the
catalyst for the adoption of banking union in the EU). Another lesson is that financial
institutions retrench to national frontiers when things turn sour (they live globally, but
die nationally). This state of affairs has to change if financial institutions and
markets can remain credibly global. It is urgent and important to devise adequate
international structures and international norms to govern financial markets and to
control systemic risk in finance. The debate about the need for a World Financial
Organization ought to be understood in this context.”

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW, 17 (4), 787-805, 2014

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto
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“Policy makers are increasingly turning to regulation to reduce hidden or non salient
fees. Yet the overall consumer benefits from these policies are uncertain because
firms may increase other prices to offset lost fee revenue. We show that the extent
to which firms offset reduced hidden-fee revenue is determined by a simple
equation that combines two sufficient statistics, which can be estimated or
calibrated in a wide range of settings: a parameter that captures the degree of
market competitiveness and a parameter that captures the salience of the hidden
fee. We provide corroborating evidence for this approach by drawing upon evidence
on the effect of fee regulation under the 2009 Credit Card Accountability
Responsibility and Disclosure Act. We also illustrate the applicability of our
approach by using the framework to assess a hypothetical regulation of airline
baggage fees.”

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES , 43 (2), S239-S252, 2014

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“Legal cases are won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but
workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior are important for understanding
labor supply decisions. Workers who believe that they have been discriminated
against are more likely to leave their employers, and workers' perceptions of
discrimination likely drive formal complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. Yet the relationship between statistical and self-assessed measures of
discrimination is far from obvious. We expand on the previous literature by using
data from the After the J.D. study to compare standard Blinder-Oaxaca measures of
earnings discrimination to self-reported measures of client discrimination, other
work-related discrimination, and harassment. Our results indicate that conventional
measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender
bias that new lawyers believe they have experienced on the job. Moreover,
statistical earnings discrimination does not explain the disparity in self-assessed
bias across gender and racial groups.”

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES, 43 (2), 323-357, 2014

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“Global production networks (GPN) are organizational platforms through which actors in
different regional and national economies compete and cooperate for a greater share of value
creation, transformation, and capture through geographically dispersed economic activity.
Existing conceptual frameworks on global value chains (GVC) and what we term GPN 1.0
tend to under-theorize the origins and dynamics of these organizational platforms and to
overemphasize their governance typologies (e.g., modular, relational, and captive modes in
GVC theory) or analytical categories (e.g., power and embeddedness in GPN 1.0). Building on
this expanding literature, our article aims to contribute toward the reframing of existing GPN-
GVC debates and the development of a more dynamic theory of global production networks
that can better explain the emergence of different firm-specific activities, strategic network
effects, and territorial outcomes in the global economy. It is part of a wider initiativeGPN 2.0 in
shortthat seeks to offer novel theoretical insights into why and how the organization and
coordination of global production networks varies significantly within and across different
industries, sectors, and economies. Taking an actor-centered focus toward theory
development, we tackle a significant gap in existing work by systematically conceptualizing the
causal drivers of global production networks in terms of their competitive dynamics (optimizing
cost-capability ratios, market imperatives, and financial discipline) and risk environments.
These capitalist dynamics are theorized as critical independent variables that shape the four
main strategies adopted by economic actors in (re)configuring their global production networks
and, ultimately, the developmental outcomes in different industries, regions, and countries.”

SOURCE: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, 91 (1), 29-58, 2015

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto
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“Research on intergenerational economic mobility often ignores the geographic context of

childhood, including neighborhood quality and local purchasing power. We hypothesize that
individual variation in intergenerational mobility is partly attributable to regional and
neighborhood conditionsmost notably access to high-quality schools. Using restricted Panel
Study of Income Dynamics and census data, we find that neighborhood income has roughly
half the effect on future earnings as parental income. We estimate that lifetime household
income would be $635,000 dollars higher if people born into a bottom-quartile neighborhood
would have been raised in a top-quartile neighborhood. When incomes are adjusted to
regional purchasing power, these effects become even larger. The neighborhood effect is two-
thirds as large as the parental income effect, and the lifetime earnings difference increases to
$910,000. We test the robustness of these findings to various assumptions and alternative
models, and replicate the basic results using aggregated metropolitan-level statistics of
intergenerational income elasticities based on millions of Internal Revenue Service records.”

SOURCE: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, 91, (1), 83-106, 2015

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“A better understanding about the factors associated with cervical cancer survival disparities is
an important step in developing more effective cervical cancer intervention strategies. This
study investigates cervical cancer survival disparities from three different perspectives based
on data from the Texas Cancer Registry from 1995 to 2005. These perspectives are
race/ethnicity, area socioeconomic status (SES), and geographic locations. We examined the
role of both individual- and contextual-level factors in cervical cancer survival disparities using
a multilevel survival analysis. Individual-level factors included race/ethnicity, age at diagnosis,
year of diagnosis, tumor grade, stage at diagnosis, and type of treatment received.
Contextual-level factors are census-tract-level variables, including demographic
characteristics, health insurance expenditure, behavioral factors, extent of urbanization, and
spatial access to primary care physicians. This study reveals that African-Americans had a
higher mortality risk (HR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.03-1.38) especially if stage was unknown (HR, 1.72;
95% CI, 1.08-2.75) compared with non-Hispanic whites. Among women diagnosed at regional
or distant stage, Hispanics had a survival advantage over their non-Hispanic white
counterparts (HR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.69-0.94). We also identified geographic areas where
longer-than-expected or shorter-than-expected cervical cancer survival was statistically
significant. Only a small portion of these disparities were explained by individual- and
contextual-level factors. This study suggests that Race/Ethnicity, SES, and geography are
associated with cervical cancer survival in Texas.”

SOURCE: APPLIED GEOGRAPHY, 56, 21-28, 2015

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“It is widely accepted that environmental change can influence human migration. In particular,
the environment plays a role in migration processes in drylands, in which environmental
change including increasing variability of rainfall, increasing frequency of droughts, chronic
water shortage, and land degradation-can heavily influence migration. However, systematic
large-scale studies of the relationship between environmental factors and human migration are
rare, and a global, consistent picture of environmental drivers of migration is lacking. In this
study, we sought to fill this gap by analysing spatial patterns of environmental drivers of
migration in drylands by performing a cluster analysis on spatially explicit global data. In this
analysis, we focused explicitly on precipitation, aridity, drought, land degradation, soil
constraints, and availability of cropland and pastures as potential environmental drivers of
migration in drylands. In addition, we linked the identified clusters to two observed hotspots of
out-migration-Burkina Faso and Northeast Brazil to gauge the cluster results. Our results show
that environmental drivers can be grouped into eight distinct clusters, and we identified the
most severe environmental constraints for each cluster. These results suggest that out-
migration-both in absolute and relative terms-occurs most frequently in a cluster that is
constrained primarily by land degradation rather than water availability.”

SOURCE: APPLIED GEOGRAPHY, 56, 116-126, 2015

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“This article examines the diffusion of evaporation technology along multi-

centred and overlapping scientific, industrial, and commercial knowledge
networks. It follows the circulation of vacuum pan (steam evaporator) technology
in the Greater Caribbean, the North Atlantic, and the East Indies in order to
understand the dual processes of invention and globalization. The article
demonstrates that the tropical sugar plantation served as an experimental
laboratory and, as such, vital inventions and engineering developments that took
place in this space were subsequently incorporated into manufacturing designs
in the North Atlantic, helping to modernize European industries in the process.
As transient intermediaries, scientists, industrialists, and engineers modified and
adapted vacuum pan technologies to meet the local demands of planters in the
Greater Caribbean, thereby integrating this area into an increasingly globalized
economy.”

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY, 9, (1), 1-25, 2014

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural

capital across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital
yields a higher returns in high-achieving environments than in low-achieving
ones) and cultural mobility (cultural capital yields higher returns in low-achieving
environments). Using multilevel mixture models, empirical results from analyses
based on PISA data from three countries (Canada, Germany, and Sweden)
show that returns to cultural capital tend to be higher in low-achieving schooling
environments than in high-achieving ones. These results principally support the
cultural mobility explanation and suggest that research should pay explicit
attention to the institutional contexts in which cultural capital is converted into
educational success.”

SOURCE: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, 50, 177-188, 2015

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“Multi-disciplinary studies of consumption have proliferated in the last two decades. Heavily influenced
by notions of the consumer' and tenets of the cultural turn', explanations have relied preponderantly
upon models of voluntary action contextualised by webs of cultural meanings which constitute symbolic
resources for individual choice. Arguably, the cultural turn has run its course and is beginning to unwind,
a consequence of internal inconsistencies, misplaced emphases and the cycle of generational
succession in theory development in the social sciences. Theories of practice provide a competing
alternative approach which contests the colonisation of consumption by models of individual choice and
cultural expressivism. To that end, this article explores the use of theories of practice as a lens to
magnify aspects of common social processes which generate observable patterns of consumption. It is
suggested that theories of practice might provide a general analytic framework for understanding
consumption, one whose particular emphases capture important and relevant aspects overlooked by
previously dominant approaches to consumption as culture. This article reviews reasons for the
emergence of theories of practice and isolates some of their distinctive emphases. Strengths and
weaknesses of the theory of practice as an approach to consumption are discussed.”

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE, 14 (3), 279-303, 2014

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“This article provides a conceptual overview of a self-determination theory approach to motivation in

music education. Research on motivation in music learning is active and has influenced the field
considerably, but it remains theoretically patchy, with a vast array of theoretical perspectives that are
relatively disconnected. Reflecting motivation research more generally, music education still lacks a
parsimonious, unified theoretical approach to motivation. Self-determination theory offers a way to
address this issue, because it is a broad theory of motivation that examines the nature and sources of
motivational quality. This article describes two key components of self-determination theory. First, the
tendency towards personal growth and a more unified sense of self is supported through the fulfilment
of the basic psychological needs of competence, relatedness, and autonomy. Second, behaviour is
more enjoyable and contributes more to personal wellbeing when motivation is internalized and more
closely aligned with the self. These two features of self-determination theory are related, such that
motivation is internalized to the extent that basic psychological needs are fulfilled. These processes are
supported by recent self-determination theory research in music education. Previous research on
motivation from other theoretical perspectives also lends support to the self-determination theory
approach. The approach therefore provides a means of theoretically unifying previous research. An
integrated model is presented as the basis for future research on motivation for music learning in the
context of psychological wellbeing more broadly.”

SOURCE: MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, 19 (1), 65-83, 2015

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“Songs that convey sorrowful emotions enjoy widespread popularity. The expressions and effects of
negative emotions vary considerably across cultures and musical forms. This study explores the
physiological responses to five popular heartbreak songs, focusing on the relationships between the
temporal dynamics of emotion and the verse-chorus form. Listeners' skin conductance and finger
temperature were used to infer levels of arousal and relaxation, and the analysis of these time-series
data was guided by a priori knowledge of the musical form. We found that two particular time periods in
these songs, the passage preceding the chorus and the entrance of the chorus, evoked significant skin
conductance responses. Given that the chorus is usually the most favorite element of a popular song,
these two responses may reflect the elevated arousal associated with the feelings of wanting and liking,
respectively. Moreover, the average finger temperature exhibited a U-shaped curve across each song.
The significant decreases of finger temperature within the first part of songs revealed an accumulation
of negative emotions in listeners, whereas the significant increases of finger temperature within the
second part may reflect a release, resolution, or regulation of negative emotions. Our findings shed new
light on the rewarding nature of the chorus and the cathartic effects associated with the verse-chorus
form of heartbreak songs.”

SOURCE: MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, 18 (4), 410-422, 2014

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“The way a song sounds depends on, among other things, what instruments are audible to the listener.
We document the systematic relationship between instrumentation, or the particular combination of
instruments audible in a hit song, and its relative market appeal vis-a-vis its place on the charts. This is
accomplished using mixed analytical methods under ecologically valid conditions. The data come from
Billboard's Hot 100 weekly popularity rankings from the past 55 years. We compare number 1 singles
with songs that never climbed above number 90. First, using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA),
we identify two configurations of core instruments that result in a song being more popular such that
these configurations are present far more consistently among the set of number 1 hit songs. We also
identify three configurations of core instruments that result in a song being less popular such that these
configurations are present far more consistently among songs that stagnate at the bottom of the charts.
What stands out is popular (less popular) configurations always include (exclude) background vocals.
Further, our qualitative results reveal number 1 songs tend to include a greater number of instruments.
Second, we utilize logit regression to document how the absolute number of distinct instrument types
perceptible in a song affects the chances it will be a number 1 hit as opposed to stay at or below
number 90. Our results suggest songs that do not follow conventional instrumentation and instead
include an atypically low or high number of instruments are more likely to stand out, becoming number 1
hits. Looking across time, a greater number of instruments increased the chances of being a number1
song during mid-1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s, while fewer instruments increased the chances during
the 1960s and in the late 2000s.”

SOURCE: MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, 18 (4), 392-409, 2014

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“SINGING REQUIRES EFFORTLESS AND EFFICIENT USE of auditory and motor systems that
center around the perception and production of the human voice. Although perception and
production are usually tightly coupled functions, occasional mismatches between the two
systems inform us of dissociable pathways in the brain systems that enable singing. Here I
review the literature on perception and production in the auditory modality, and propose a dual-
stream neuroanatomical model that subserves singing. I will discuss studies surrounding the
neural functions of feedforward, feedback, and efference systems that control vocal monitoring,
as well as the white matter pathways that connect frontal and temporal regions that are involved
in perception and production. I will also consider disruptions of the perception-production
network that are evident in tone-deaf individuals and poor pitch singers. Finally, by comparing
expert singers against other musicians and nonmusicians, I will evaluate the possibility that
singing training might offer rehabilitation from these disruptions through neuroplasticity of the
perception-production network. Taken together, the best available evidence supports a model of
dorsal and ventral pathways in auditory-motor integration that enables singing and is shared with
language, music, speech, and human interactions in the auditory environment.”

SOURCE: MUSIC PERCEPTION, 32 (3), 232-241, 2015

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“HIS STUDY COMPARED THE EMOTIONAL INTENSITIES of a conductor and

audience during a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The affective state
of the conductor was estimated unobtrusively with a wearable electrocardiogram,
and audience participants self-reported their affective states with manual slider
boxes. Results indicated that: 1) the conductor's heart rate variations were
temporally aligned with structural patterns in the musical scores; and 2) these
variations strongly correlated with the average emotional intensity measurement of
the audience. Four consecutive musical selections yielded significant positive
correlations (p < .001; r = .86, .84, .48, .61), demonstrating a temporally related
emotional intensity shared between the conductor and audience during the
performance. Although a causal relationship was not determined, some evidence
supported induction as the mechanism of emotional communication. These results
suggest possible methods for better understanding the affective experiences of
conductors, the reactions of listeners to various stimuli, and the interactions
between audiences and musicians during concerts.”

SOURCE: MUSIC PERCEPTION, 32 (2), 109-124, 2014

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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“The term biochar refers to materials with diverse chemical, physical and physicochemical
characteristics that have potential as a soil amendment. The purpose of this study was to
investigate the P sorption/desorption properties of various slow biochars and one fast
pyrolysis biochar and to determine how a fast pyrolysis biochar influences these properties
in a degraded tropical soil. The fast pyrolysis biochar was a mixture of three separate
biochars: sawdust, elephant grass and sugar cane leaves. Three other biochars were
made by slow pyrolysis from three Amazonian tree species (Lacre, Inga and Embauba) at
three temperatures of formation (400 °C, 500 °C, 600 °C). Inorganic P was added to
develop sorption curves and then desorbed to develop desorption curves for all biochar
situations. For the slow pyrolysis, the 600 ºC biochar had a reduced capacity to sorb P (4–
10 times less) relative to those biochars formed at 400 °C and 500 °C. Conversely, biochar
from Inga desorbed the most P. The fast pyrolysis biochar, when mixed with degraded
tropical mineral soil, decreased the soil’s P sorption capacity by 55% presumably because
of the high soluble, inorganic P prevalent in this biochar (909 mg P/kg of biochar).
Phosphorus desorption from the fast pyrolysis biochar/soil mixture not only exhibited a
common desorption curve but also buffered the soil solution at a value of ca. 0.2 mg/L.
This study shows the diversity in P chemistry that can be expected when biochar is a soil
amendment and suggests the potential to develop biochars with properties to meet specific
objectives.”

Source: Soil Use and Management, 2013, 29, 306–314

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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1. Identify the five Top Journals in your research area

2. Select at least 10 abstracts and Introduction sections

from good papers from these journals
3. Categorize all sentences in these abstracts based upon
the proposed models

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

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Lee et al., Nature Biotechnology 23, 1517, 2005 (Review)

Centurion et al., J. Nanosc. Nanotech, 2011 in press

Glowacki et al., Nature Chem., 3, 850, 2011

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2005, p 55

Borges et al., International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 9, 2010, 547.

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Nature Materials 2, 552–558, 2003

Hoover et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 16901, 2011

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Prof. Zucolotto as a Scientific Editor

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Prof. Valtencir Zucolotto, Associate Editor

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