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Microscopic dynamics in liquid metals: the experimental point of view.
No full textThe experimental results relevant for the understanding of the microscopic dynamics in liquid metals are reviewed, with special regard to the ones achieved in the last two decades. Inelastic neutron scattering played a major role since the development of neutron facilities in the 1960s. The last ten years, however, saw the development of third generation radiation sources, which opened the possibility of performing inelastic scattering with x rays, thus disclosing previously unaccessible energy-momentum regions. The purely coherent response of x rays, moreover, combined with the mixed coherent or incoherent response typical of neutron scattering, provides enormous potentialities to disentangle aspects related to the collectivity of motion from the single-particle dynamics. If the last 20 years saw major experimental developments, on the theoretical side fresh ideas came up to the side of the most traditional and established theories. Beside the raw experimental results therefore models and theoretical approaches are reviewed for the description of microscopic dynamics over different length scales, from the hydrodynamic region down to the single-particle regime, walking the perilous and sometimes uncharted path of the generalized hydrodynamics extension. Approaches peculiar of conductive systems, based on the ionic plasma theory, are also considered, as well as kinetic and mode coupling theory applied to hard-sphere systems, which turn out to mimic with remarkable detail the atomic dynamics of liquid metals. Finally, cutting edge issues and open problems, such as the ultimate origin of the anomalous acoustic dispersion or the relevance of transport properties of a conductive system in ruling the ionic dynamic structure factor, are discussed
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
Adiabatic and isothermal sound waves: the case of supercritical nitrogen.
No full textThe acoustic sound dispersion of nitrogen in its liquid and
supercritical phase has been studied by Inelastic X-Ray
Scattering (IXS). Approaching supercritical conditions, the gradual
disappearance of the positive sound dispersion, characteristic of
the low-temperature liquid, is observed. In the supercritical
state, evidence for a crossover between adiabatic and isothermal
sound propagation regimes is inferred by an analysis of the
dynamic structure factor based on generalized hydrodynamics
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
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