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Schooling and education.
No full textSchooling and education by Giles R. Wright with Howard L. Green and Lee R. Parks. Number 4 in the New Jersey Ethnic Life Series. Published by New Jersey Historical Commission
Galaxy clusters, type Ia supernovae and the fine structure constant
No full textAs is well known, measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect can be combined with observations of the X-ray surface brightness of galaxy clusters to estimate the angular diameter distance to these structures. In this paper, we show that this technique depends on the fine structure constant, α. Therefore, if α is a time-dependent quantity, e.g., α = α0φ(z), where φ is a function of redshift, we argue that current data do not provide the real angular diameter distance, DA(z), to the cluster, but instead DA data(z) = φ(z)2 DA(z). We use this result to derive constraints on a possible variation of α for a class of dilaton runaway models considering a sample of 25 measurements of DA data(z) in redshift range 0.023 < z < 0.784 and estimates of DA(z) from current type Ia supernovae observations. We find no significant indication of variation of α with the present data.Fil: Holanda, R. F. L.. Universidade Estadual Da Paraíba Departamento de Fìsica; BrasilFil: Busti, V. C.. Universidade Do Sao Paulo Instituto de Física; BrasilFil: Colaco, R. L.. Universidade Federal de Campina Grande; BrasilFil: Alcaniz, J. S.. Departamento de Astronomia Observatório Nacional; BrasilFil: Landau, Susana Judith. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentin
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
De Maiestate / Praeside M. Jacobo Thomasio, Moralis Philosoph. P. P., publice disputabit Johannes Dunte, R. L. Author & Respon: ad diem 9. Septembr. H L. Q. C.
No full textDE MAIESTATE / PRAESIDE M. JACOBO THOMASIO, MORALIS PHILOSOPH. P. P., PUBLICE DISPUTABIT JOHANNES DUNTE, R. L. AUTHOR & RESPON: AD DIEM 9. SEPTEMBR. H L. Q. C.
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"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
L-invariants for cohomological representations of PGL(2) over arbitrary number fields
No full textGehrmann L, Pati MR. L-invariants for cohomological representations of PGL(2) over arbitrary number fields. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. 2024;12: e71.**Abstract**
Let
be a cuspidal, cohomological automorphic representation of an inner form
G
of
over a number field
F
of arbitrary signature. Further, let
be a prime of
F
such that
G
is split at
and the local component
of
at
is the Steinberg representation. Assuming that the representation is noncritical at
, we construct automorphic
-invariants for the representation
. If the number field
F
is totally real, we show that these automorphic
-invariants agree with the Fontaine–Mazur
-invariant of the associated
p
-adic Galois representation. This generalizes a recent result of Spieß respectively Rosso and the first named author from the case of parallel weight
to arbitrary cohomological weights.
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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
High-performance bilayer composites for the replacement of osteochondral defects
No full textOsteochondral (OC) defects combine damage to cartilage and subchondral bone, posing a significant challenge to their repair due to the dissimilar characteristics and regenerative capabilities between the two tissues. Here, we propose novel OC bilayer composites, drawing inspiration from corresponding biological tissues and using a combination of simple and reproducible techniques. Cartilage-like materials based on poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogels were produced with nanofiber reinforcements acquired from high-performance fibers (Kevlar® and Zylon®), while bone-like materials were obtained by adding magnesium-substituted calcium phosphate ceramics to PVA. All composites were sterilized by gamma irradiation to rule out the possibility of undesirable effects resulting from the process, and then fully characterized. The results indicated that nanofibers and bioceramics incorporated into the PVA networks form promising structures with multiple interesting properties. The composites resembling cartilage and bone showed high biomimicry with natural tissues, being able to reconcile exceptional mechanics with the requirements of adequate porosity, liquid content, and biological behavior. The developed materials reveal a high potential for use in OC tissue repair applications
Mouse sets in L(R)
No full textGiven a nicely definable set X of reals, it is natural to ask whether X is just the set of reals of some mouse. In many instances, this is known to hold. We will discuss some newly established instances in which X is the set of reals which are ordinal definable over some level of L(R) at a certain degree of complexity. This uses joint work with Steel on correctness of mice in L(R), combined with related work of the author on ladder mice
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
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