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Gravimetry, rotation and angular momentum of Jupiter from the Juno Radio Science experiment
No full textJuno is a NASA space mission to Jupiter, arriving at the planet in July 2016. Through accurate Doppler tracking in X and Ka-band, the Radio Science experiment will allow to map Jupiter's gravity field, crucial for the study of the interior structure of the planet. In this paper we describe the results of numerical simulations of this experiment, performed with the ORBIT14 orbit determination software, developed by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pisa and by the spin-off Space Dynamics Services srl. Our analysis included the determination of Jupiter's gravity field, the Love numbers, the direction of the rotation axis and the angular momentum magnitude, the latter by measuring the Lense-Thirring effect on the spacecraft. As far as the gravity field is concerned, the spherical harmonics coefficients of Jupiter's gravitational potential are highly correlated and the accuracy in the determination of the zonal coefficients of degree l is degraded for l>15l>15. We explore the possibility of using a local model, introducing ring-shaped mascons, so as to determine the gravity field of the portion of the spherical surface bounded by latitudes 6°N and 35°N, the latitude belt observed during Juno's pericenter passes. Finally, the determination of Jupiter's angular momentum magnitude turned out to be compromised by the impossibility of separating the effects of the Lense-Thirring acceleration and of a change in Jupiter's rotation axis direction
On the Juno Radio Science Experiment: models, algorithms and sensitivity analysis
Get PDFJuno is a NASA mission launched in 2011 with the goal of studying Jupiter. The probe will arrive to the planet in 2016 and will be placed for one year in a polar high-eccentric orbit to study the composition of the planet, the gravity and the magnetic field. The Italian Space Agency (ASI) provided the radio science instrument KaT (Ka-Band Translator) used for the gravity experiment, which has the goal of studying the Jupiter's deep structure by mapping the planet's gravity: such instrument takes advantage of synergies with a similar tool in development for BepiColombo, the ESA cornerstone mission to Mercury. The Celestial Mechanics Group of the University of Pisa, being part of the Juno Italian team, is developing an orbit determination and parameters estimation software for processing the real data independently from NASA software ODP. This paper has a twofold goal: first, to tell about the development of this software highlighting the models used, second, to perform a sensitivity analysis on the parameters of interest to the mission
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
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
Superfici algebriche rigate con massimo numero di nodi
No full textIn questa tesi mi propongo di studiare le superfici algebriche nodali rigate non razionali che abbiano il numero massimo di nodi. Il lavoro si articola in tre capitoli.
Nel primo, si discute il problema della risoluzione delle superfici normali insieme a quello della contrazione delle curve nodali e, in base a questi risultati, si da la definizione di nodo.
Il secondo capitolo serve a preparare il terreno per affrontare il problema centrale: si descrive il codice associato a una famiglia di curve nodali di una superficie liscia e, nel caso di una superficie rigata non razionale, si determina il rivestimento associato a questo codice.
Infine, nel terzo ed ultimo capitolo, si risolve il problema centrale del lavoro, determinando il massimo numero di nodi che può avere una superficie nodale rigata non razionale e caratterizzando le superfici nodali rigate non razionali con massimo numero di nodi
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
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