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    Brillouin neutron scattering in heavy water: Evidence for two-mode collective dynamics

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    A high resolution (1.5 meV) inelastic neutron scattering experiment was carried out, aiming at an accurate investigation of the high frequency and low momentum dynamic response in heavy water. The experimental data confirm the existence of a dispersionless mode, besides the ordinary longitudinal collective dynamics. A simplified model, based on the interaction of two vibrational branches, is proposed to interpret the observed features of the dynamic spectra. The validity extent of this scheme is proved by applying it to room temperature neutron and x-ray data, to temperature and pressure dependent x-ray data, and to room temperature neutron data of vibrational density of states. The overall successful results provided by this model, in conjunction with the combined analysis of the x-ray and neutron data on collective dynamics, enable a deeper insight into the complex mechanisms of the water dynamics and provide a simple phenomenological explanation for the transition from ordinary to fast sound

    Neutron Investigation of Collective Excitations in Liquid K-Cs Alloys: The Role of the Electron Density

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    The investigation of the ion dynamics in the liquid alloy K52Cs48. which has the same electron density as Rb, was carried out by neutron inelastic scattering. Well defined collective excitations were observed up to the maximum value of momentum transfer of the experiment. A scaling of the dispersion relation data was found to hold between K-Cs alloys, Rb and Cs. The suggested scaring points out the key role of the conduction electron density in the collective dynamics of alkali metals

    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
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