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Currie, D R, 5715237
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/380112Surname: CURRIE
Given Name(s) or Initials: D R
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 5715237
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Item: [2016.0049.12405] "Currie, D R, 5715237
The LARES Mission for Testing the Dynamics of General Relativity
No full textToday the investigation of the dynamical aspects of
general relativity and gravitational interactions are especially
important. This is due to recent discoveries in cosmology,
and in particular to the recent discovery of dark energy. The
most interesting potential explanation of the dark energy occurs
in string theory, and may require a violation of general
relativity. One way of testing General Relativity at the highest
precision uses laser ranged satellites such as LAGEOS I
and LAGEOS II, launched by NASA and NASA-ASI in 1976
and 1992 respectively. More than 40 stations on Earth will
range those satellites, and the proposed satellite LARES, using
laser pulses, with accuracies that may reach a millimeter
at distances of 6000 km. The objectives of the LARES mission
are to measure specific aspects of general relativity such
as the Lense-Thirring effect that is induced by the Earth’s angular
momentum and that is not predicted by Newton’s laws.
It will also test the equivalence principle and improve the
measurement of some post-Newtonian parameters and the inverse
square law for very weak gravity fields. These and other
tests will be described in the paper. In addition to the scientific
objectives, the engineering aspects of the mission will be
analyzed, that is: the ground segment, the satellite and the
launch system. Among these, particular emphasis should be
placed on the selection and the test of the satellite retroreflectors.
Proposed tests on the cube corner retroreflectors will be
described. In addition, some results concerning the general
relativity tests obtained with LAGEOS and LAGEOS II are
presented. A similar measurement, but much more accurate,
will be achieved with LARES
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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