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Improved lattice operators: the case of the topological charge density
No full textWe analyze the properties of a class of improved lattice topological charge
density operators, constructed by a smearing-like procedure. By optimizing the
choice of the parameters introduced in their definition, we find operators
having (i) a better statistical behavior as estimators of the topological
charge density on the lattice, i.e. less noisy; (ii) a multiplicative
renormalization much closer to one; (iii) a large suppression of the
perturbative tail (and other unphysical mixings) in the corresponding lattice
topological susceptibility
Three-Loop Results in QCD with Wilson Fermions
No full textWe calculate the third coefficient of the lattice beta function in QCD with
Wilson fermions, extending the pure gauge results of Luescher and Weisz; we
show how this coefficient modifies the scaling function on the lattice.
We also calculate the three-loop average plaquette in the presence of Wilson
fermions. This allows us to compute the lattice scaling function both in the
standard and energy schemes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
The three-loop beta function of SU(N) lattice gauge theories with Wilson fermions
No full textWe calculate the third coefficient of the lattice beta function associated
with the Wilson formulation for both gauge fields and fermions. This allows us
to evaluate the three-loop correction (linear in ) to the relation
between the lattice Lambda-parameter and the bare coupling , which is
important in order to verify asymptotic scaling predictions. Our calculation
also leads to the two-loop relation between the coupling renormalized in the
MSbar scheme and .
The original version of this paper contained a numerical error in one of the
diagrams, which has now been corrected. The calculations, as well as the layout
of the paper have remained identical, but there are some important changes in
the numerical results
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
The two-loop relation between the bare lattice coupling and the coupling in QCD with Wilson fermions
No full textWe calculate the two-loop relation between the coupling renormalized in the MS scheme and the bare lattice coupling g0 in QCD with Wilson fermions, extending the pure gauge results of Lüscher and Weisz. Our calculation leads to the the third coefficient of the lattice beta function. We show how this coefficient modifies the scaling function on the lattice
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