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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
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
Boundary stabilization problems for systems of hyperbolic partial differential equations in one dimension
No full textDans cette thèse, nous étudions le problème de stabilisation au bord de systèmes généraux d'équations aux dérivées partielles hyperboliques. Plus précisément, l'étude se focalise sur des systèmes où le transport est uniquement scalaire et où le sens de propagation de l'information est fixé. En outre, le contrôle choisi sera la plupart du temps sous la forme d'une loi de retour d'état (ou feedback) linéaire que l'on perturbera éventuellement par l'effet d'une saturation. Le travail est séparé en deux parties bien distinctes ; l'une se concentre sur des méthodes de Lyapunov, tandis que l'autre va plutôt utiliser des techniques propres au linéaire. Pour la première partie, deux travaux principaux sont présentés. Dans un premier temps, nous ne considérons que des équations de transport linéaires à vitesses positives et cherchons à stabiliser exponentiellement le système dans L8 grâce à un feedback linéaire saturé. La méthode consiste à utiliser des techniques classiques de Lyapunov afin d'exhiber un bassin d'attraction et d'en donner une estimation fine. On généralise ensuite ce travail dans un cadre BV pour les systèmes de lois de conservation scalaires couplées au bord. Secondement, un système de lois de conservation scalaires à vitesses positives est discrétisé en utilisant un schéma à limiteur de pente. En s'inspirant des méthodes issues du cadre continu, une fonctionnelle de Lyapunov discrète est étudiée pour prouver la stabilisation exponentielle BV par feedback linéaire de la solution discrète. Pour la seconde partie, deux études sont également exposées mais cette fois-ci, dans un cadre totalement linéaire. D'une part, il s'agit d'établir la possibilité de construire un feedback issu d'un placement de pôles pour stabiliser exponentiellement des edps hyperboliques linéaires avec couplage au bord et dans le domaine. D'autre part, nous développons une théorie du backstepping discrétisé pour stabiliser en temps fini un schéma numérique modélisant un système 2 × 2 avec couplage au bord et au sein du domaine.In this thesis, we study the problem of boundary stabilization of general hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations. More precisely, the analysis focuses on systems where the transport term is scalar and for which the information propagates in a fixed direction. In addition, the chosen control is most of the time a state feedback law for which a saturation is possibly applied. The work is divided into two distinct parts, one focusing on Lyapunov techniques while the other one uses the linearity of the problem. In the first part of the thesis, two main works are presented. In the first one, only linear transport equations with positive velocities are considered. The main goal is to design a saturated linear feedback in order to stabilize exponentially the open-loop system in L 8 . The method consists of using classical Lyapunov techniques to exhibit a basin of attraction for which a fine estimate is given. We also extend this work to nonlinear scalar conservation laws in a BV framework. In the other work, thanks to a slope limiter scheme, a system of scalar conservation laws is discretized. Inspired by "continuous" Lyapunov methods, a discrete Lyapunov functional is studied to prove the exponential BV stabilization of the discrete solution using a linear feedback. In the second part of the thesis, two works are exposed as well, this time in a full linear framework. On the one hand, we study systems of linear transport equations of arbitrary dimension, coupled on the domain and at the boundary. Designing a controller from a pole placement algorithm, the exponential stabilization is proved in L 2 . On the other hand, we develop a numerical Backstepping theory in order to stabilize in finite time a numerical scheme modeling a 2 × 2 linear system with in domain and boundary couplings
Problèmes de stabilisation au bord pour des systèmes d'équations aux dérivées partielles hyperboliques en dimension un d'espace
Get PDFDans cette thèse, nous étudions le problème de stabilisation au bord de systèmes généraux d'équations aux dérivées partielles hyperboliques. Plus précisément, l'étude se focalise sur des systèmes où le transport est uniquement scalaire et où le sens de propagation de l'information est fixé. En outre, le contrôle choisi sera la plupart du temps sous la forme d'une loi de retour d'état (ou feedback) linéaire que l'on perturbera éventuellement par l'effet d'une saturation. Le travail est séparé en deux parties bien distinctes ; l'une se concentre sur des méthodes de Lyapunov, tandis que l'autre va plutôt utiliser des techniques propres au linéaire. Pour la première partie, deux travaux principaux sont présentés. Dans un premier temps, nous ne considérons que des équations de transport linéaires à vitesses positives et cherchons à stabiliser
exponentiellement le système dans L8 grâce à un feedback linéaire saturé. La méthode consiste à utiliser des techniques classiques de Lyapunov afin d'exhiber un bassin d'attraction et d'en donner une estimation fine. On généralise ensuite ce travail dans un cadre BV pour les systèmes de lois de conservation scalaires couplées au bord. Secondement, un système de lois de conservation scalaires à vitesses positives est discrétisé en utilisant un schéma à limiteur de pente. En s'inspirant des méthodes issues du cadre continu, une fonctionnelle de Lyapunov discrète est étudiée pour prouver la stabilisation exponentielle BV par feedback linéaire de la solution discrète. Pour la seconde partie, deux études sont également exposées mais cette fois-ci, dans un cadre totalement linéaire. D'une part, il s'agit d'établir la possibilité de construire un feedback issu d'un placement de pôles pour stabiliser exponentiellement des edps hyperboliques linéaires avec couplage au bord et dans le domaine. D'autre part, nous développons une théorie du backstepping discrétisé pour stabiliser en temps fini un schéma numérique modélisant un système 2 × 2 avec couplage au bord et au sein du domaine.In this thesis, we study the problem of boundary stabilization of general hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations. More precisely, the analysis focuses on systems where the transport term is scalar and for which the information propagates in a fixed direction. In addition, the chosen control is most of the time a state feedback law for which a saturation is possibly applied. The work is divided into two distinct parts, one focusing on Lyapunov techniques while the other one uses the linearity of the problem. In the first part of the thesis, two main works are presented. In the first one, only linear transport equations with positive velocities are considered. The main goal is to design a saturated linear feedback in order to stabilize exponentially the open-loop system in L 8 . The method consists of using classical Lyapunov techniques to exhibit a basin of attraction for which a fine estimate is given. We also extend this work to nonlinear scalar conservation laws in a BV framework. In the other work, thanks to a slope limiter scheme, a system of scalar conservation laws is discretized. Inspired by "continuous" Lyapunov methods, a discrete Lyapunov functional is studied to prove the exponential BV stabilization of the discrete solution using a linear feedback. In the second part of the thesis, two works are exposed as well, this time in a full linear framework. On the one hand, we study systems of linear transport equations of arbitrary dimension, coupled on the domain and at the boundary. Designing a controller from a pole placement algorithm, the exponential stabilization is proved in L 2 . On the other hand, we develop a numerical Backstepping theory in order to stabilize in finite time a numerical scheme modeling a 2 × 2 linear system with in domain and boundary couplings
The discretized backstepping method: an application to a general system of linear balance laws
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