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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Sensitivities of Configurations with Missing Fuel Rods

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    International audienceRecent results described a new method paving the way towards a consistent approach of criticality safety of fuel assemblies with missing fuel rods. The proposed approach made use of a pair of descriptive variables, that are then used to browse among the large diversity of situations associated to the problem. In the present work, it is shown that the proposed coordinate system can also be used to describe the variations of the sensitivity profiles observed on a fuel assembly with different configurations of missing fuel rods, this showing that the variables are truly relevant for describing the physics of the problem. We then go on to discuss a few prospects for the realization of integral experiments, illustrating how the variables used could help and guide the choice of new experiments involving configurations of fuel rods on a regular lattice

    Search for new physics in the top-antitop channel with the ATLAS experiment at LHC collider

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    La présente thèse constitue le compte rendu de l'analyse menée auprès du détecteur ATLAS du LHC et concernant la recherche de processus de création résonante de nouvelles particules se désintégrant en une paire de quarks top. Elle s'articule principalement autour de la notion de jet de hadrons, dont l'identification et la reconstruction est un enjeu capital pour toute mesure essayant de signer l'apparition de quarks top lors de processus de collisions proton-proton. Après une mise en contexte portant sur une description générale des caractéristiques théoriques et expérimentales que présente la thématique de la détection de jets de hadrons dans le détecteur ATLAS, nous présentons une première tentative de validation de la méthode d'étalonnage hadronique local, dont le but est de corriger ces jets des imprécisions de mesure engendrées par le détecteur. Dans la deuxième partie du document figure l'analyse menée sur les 14~fb⁻¹ de données de collisions proton-proton à √s=8~TeV, récoltées lors de l'année 2012, à la recherche de l'apparition de processus de création résonante de nouvelle particules lourdes dans le spectre de masse invariante top-antitop. Pour des particules lourdes, les quarks tops produits lors de la désintégration de ces dernières possèdent une impulsion très grande par rapport à leur masse et la désintégration de tels quarks top conduit souvent à une topologie dans l'état final dite og boostée fg, où le quark top, s'il se désintègre de manière hadronique, est très souvent reconstruit comme un seul jet, de large paramètre de rayon. Le présent travail de thèse propose ainsi une étude préliminaire pour reconstruire et identifier le plus précisément possible ce type de signal, en se basant sur l'étude de la sous-structure des jets de hadrons.This report presents the analysis conducted with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and searching for resonnant production of new particles decaying into a pair of top quarks. Top quark reconstruction is mainly build upon the notion of hadronic jets, whose identification and reconstruction is a crucial issue for any measure trying to sign top quark decays from proton-proton collisions processes. After a general description of the theoretical and experimental features of jet reconstruction in the ATLAS detector, we present a first attempt to validate the local hadronic calibration method, which aim at correcting the measurement of these objects from inaccuracies caused by detector effects. In the second part, we present the analysis conducted on 14~fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collision data at √s=8~TeV collected during the year 2012 and searching for resonnant creation of new heavy particles in top-antitop invariant mass spectrum. For heavy particles, the quarks produced in the decay of the latter have a high impulsion with respect to their mass and those top quark decays often results in a so called og boosted fg topology, where the hadronically decaying top quark is often reconstructed as a single jet of large radius parameter. In this context, we present a preliminary study to reconstruct and identify as precisely as possible this type of boosted topologies, based on the study of jet substructure
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