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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
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
Throughput and Delay Analysis for Real-Time Applications in Ad-Hoc Cognitive Networks
No full textWe consider a simple ad-hoc cognitive scenario with two data up-links, one licensed to use the spectral resource (primary) and the other unlicensed (secondary or cognitive). It is assumed that the cognitive link accesses the channel only when the channel is sensed idle. An ON-OFF channel model is used for the primary link, where traffic statistical characteristics are taken into account. A closed-form expression for the signal-to noise-plus interference (SINR) statistics of the cognitive nodes is derived that can be used for estimating the network performance. Moreover, a M/G/1 queueing model is exploited for deriving a simple expression for the average packet delay. Finally, a MAC strategy based on a channel-and-queue aware scheduling is introduced
Hans Keller: Beethoven’s string quartet in B flat major, op. 130: four lectures
No full textIn 1973, at the invitation of Alexander Goehr, then Professor of Music at Leeds University, Hans Keller gave four lectures on Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat Major, Op. 130, illustrated by the Aeolian Quartet. They were in part a response to Joseph Kerman's newly published monograph on The Beethoven Quartets, and in part a demonstration of his "two-dimensional theory" of music, which posits a vital tension between "well-defined expectations" and '"what the composer does instead". These lectures have now been transcribed, and appear in print here for the first time: they form Keller's most substantial examination of a single chamber work. Keller had intended a full-length monograph on the quartet, but never got further than three chapters, of which the second, on "String-quartet Playing", is included here along with related materials (the other chapters largely replicate the lectures). The book comes with a supplementary volume of music examples, including the entire score of Op. 130, and is illustrated with lively string-quartet drawings by Keller's wife, Milein Cosman
Optimization of Scalable Broadcast for a Large Number of Antennas
No full textIn this paper, for a system incorporating a large number of antennas, we address the optimal space-time coding of multimedia scalable sources, which require unequal target error rates in their bitstream. First, in terms of the number of antennas, we analyze the behavior of the crossover point of the outage probability curves for the vertical Bell Laboratories space-time (V-BLAST) architecture with a linear or a maximum-likelihood receiver, and orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs). We prove that, as the number of antennas increases with the transmission data rate fixed, the crossover point in outage probability monotonically decreases. This holds for any data rate employed by the system and is valid over propagation channels such as spatially correlated Rayleigh or Rician fading channels, as well as independent and identically distributed Rayleigh channels. We next show that, over such propagation channels with a large number of antennas, those analytical results can be used to simplify the computational complexity involved with the optimal space-time coding of a sequence of scalable packets, with no performance degradation. © 2016 IEEE.FALS
Optimization of Multimedia Progressive Transmission Over MIMO Channels
No full textThis paper studies the optimal transmission of multimedia progressive sources, which require unequal target error rates in their bitstream, over multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channels. First, we derive the information outage probability expression of a space-time code for an arbitrarily given piecewise-linear diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) function and the conditions for the existence of a crossover point of the information outage probability curves of the space-time codes. We prove that as long as the crossover point of the outage probabilities exists, as spectral efficiency increases, the crossover point in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) monotonically increases, whereas that of the outage probability monotonically decreases. This analysis can be applied to any space-time code, receiver, and propagation channel with a given DMT function. As a specific example, we analyze the two-layer diagonal Bell Labs space-time architecture (D-BLAST) with a group zero-forcing receiver, the vertical BLAST (V-BLAST) with a minimum mean-square error receiver, and orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs), and prove the monotonic behavior of the crossover point for those codes. Based on that, with respect to D-BLAST, V-BLAST, and OSTBC, we derive a method for the optimal space-time coding of a sequence that contains numerous progressive packets. We show that by employing the optimization method rather than exhaustive search, the computational complexity involved with optimal space-time coding can be exponentially reduced without losing any peak SNR performance. © 2015 IEEE
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
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