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A class of residually finite groups isomorphic to fundamental groups of VH complexes
No full textIn a preprint, Ian Leary inquires whether two hyperbolic finitely presented groups are residually finite. We answer in the affirmative by showing that these groups belong to a class of groups, which we call the polygonal VH or PVH groups. To prove that a group is PVH we introduce a systematic tiling method for the standard 2-complex of the group, and deduce from the work of Daniel Wise that hyperbolic PVH groups are residually finite.Dans un prépublication, Ian Leary se demande si deux groupes finitement hyperboliques et de présentation finie sont résiduellement finis. Nous donnons une réponse positive en montrant que ces groupes appartiennent à une classe de groupes que nous appelons les groupes VH ou groupes PVH. Pour démontrer qu'un groupe est PVH, nous introduisons une méthode systématique pour couvrir d'un pavage le 2-complexe standard du groupe, et déduisons des travaux de Daniel Wise les groupes PVH hyperboliques sont résiduellement finis
Counting cycles in labeled graphs
No full textThe main result of this thesis is the proof of the "w-cycle conjecture". This was done in collaboration with Daniel Wise, and our paper "Counting cycles in labeled graphs: The nonpositive immersion property for one-relator groups", which has been submitted to International Mathematics Research Notices is included here (Chapter 5), verbatim. In addition, I provide some context and background to the theorem.La résultat primaire de cette thèse est un démonstration du "w-cycle conjecture". Cela était fait en collaboration avec Daniel Wise et notre article "Counting cycles in labeled graphs: The nonpositive immersion property for one-relator groups" - présentement soumis au International Mathematics Research Notices - est inclus ici (Chapitre 5) textuellement. En plus, je situe le résultat historiquement et dans le contexte de la théorie générale
Letter from Daniel Wise to Alden Partridge, 9 October 1821
No full textDaniel Wise writes from Boston and introduces his son, William Wise, who is to enter Alden Partridge's academy in Norwich, Vermont.Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Letter from Daniel Wise to Alden Partridge, 19 April 1823
No full textDaniel Wise writes from Boston to Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont; he will pay him the money he owes as soon as he can; would Partridge be interested in purchasing shoes for the cadets from him?Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
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
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