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Perturbations of positive semigroups with applications
No full textThis book is intended to give a survey of relevant facts from functional analysis, positivity theory, and theory of semigroups, presented at a not too abstract but also not too superficial level, together with many proofs which are often difficult to find in literature. On the other hand, we discuss examples coming from the applied sciences, from population theory, through fragmentation processes, to various aspects of linear transport theory, emphasise the difference between the original model and its functional analytic reformulation, which makes it tractable by techniques introduced in the first part, and explore consequences of this dichotomy
Asymptotic analysis for a particle transport equation with inelastic scattering in extended kinetic theory
No full textInterplay of elastic and inelastic scattering operators in extended kinetic models and their hydrodynamic limits - Reference manual
No full textConservative and non-conservative Boltzmann-type models of semiconductor theory
No full textIn this paper we analyze the linear Boltzmann equation of semiconductor theory with
unbounded collision term modelling both elastic and inelastic scattering of electrons on
the crystalline lattice (corresponding to scattering on impurities and optical phonons),
in both bounded and unbounded domains. We prove the existence of a substochastic
semigroup solving this problem and, for a large class of scattering cross-sections, we also
characterize the generator of this semigroup as the closure of the formal right-hand side
operator showing thus that the semigroup is conservative (stochastic) in this case. On
the other hand, we provide an example of a cross-section growing at an exponential rate
for which the semigroup is not conservative
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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