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Block Card 5819 Davida Drive
No full textThis image was produced by the Auditor's Office in Lucas County, Ohio for tax assessment purposes. Associated dates are approximate. Descriptive terms related to this photograph include: dwelling | 5819 Davida Drive (Toledo, Ohio) | Cape Cod Style | North Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) | Greenwood Area (Toledo, Ohio) | Davida Park (Toledo, Ohio
VLT and Suzaku observations of the Fermi pulsar PSR J1028-5819
No full textContext. The launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2008 opened new perspectives in the multi-wavelength studies of neutron stars, with more than 100 γ-ray pulsars having since been detected. While most Fermi pulsars had previously been observed in the X-rays with Chandra and XMM-Newton, optical observations with 8 m-class telescopes exist for only a tiny fraction of them. Aims. We aim to search for optical emission from the Fermi pulsar PSR J1028-5819 (P = 91.4 ms). With a spin-down age τ ∼ 90 kyr and a rotational energy loss rate of Ä-∼ 8.3 × 10 35 erg s -1, PSR J1028-5819 can be considered a transition object between the young, Vela-like pulsars and the middle-aged ones. At a distance of ∼2.3 kpc and with a relatively low hydrogen column density PSR J1028-5819 is a good potential target for 8 m-class telescopes. Methods. Owing to its recent discovery, no optical observations of this pulsar have been reported so far. We used optical images taken with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the B and V bands to search for the optical counterpart of PSR J1028-5819 or constrain its optical brightness. At the same time, we used an archival Suzaku observation to confirm the preliminary identification of the pulsar's X-ray counterpart obtained by Swift. Results. Owing to the large uncertainty in the pulsar's radio position and the presence of a bright (V = 13.2) early F-type star at 4″ (star A), we are unable to detect its counterpart down to flux limits of B ∼ 25.4 and V ∼ 25.3, the deepest obtained so far for PSR J1028-5819. From the Suzaku observations, we find that the X-ray spectrum of the pulsar's candidate counterpart is best-fit by a power-law with spectral index Γ X = 1.7 ± 0.2 and an absorption column density N H < 10 21 cm -2, which would support the proposed X-ray identification. Moreover, we find possible evidence of diffuse emission around the pulsar. If real and associated with a pulsar wind nebula (PWN), its surface brightness and angular extent would be compatible with the expectations for a ∼100 kyr old pulsar at the distance of PSR J1028-5819. Conclusions. A far more accurate radio position for PSR J1028-5819 is necessary to better determine its position relative to star A. Future high-spatial resolution observations with both the HST and Chandra will be more able to distinguish the optical emission of PSR J1028-5819 from the halo of star A and confirm the existence of the candidate PWN. © 2012 ESO.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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
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