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    TBA type equations and tropical curves

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    The Joyce integrable system and the corresponding Bridgeland-Toledano-Laredo connections are fundamental objects associated with suitable abelian categories or, more generally, with a class of continuous families of stability data. We offer an overview of some of our work, mostly joint with M. Garcia Fernandez, focusing on equations of TBA type as a useful tool in the analysis of these objects and their deformations, and as a means to establish a connection with tropical geometry

    A rigid Calabi-Yau three-fold

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    The aim of this paper is to analyze some geometric properties of the rigid Calabi-Yau three-fold Z{stroke} obtainedby a quotient of E3, where E is a specific elliptic curve. We describe the cohomology of Z{stroke} and give a simple formula for the trilinear form on Pic(Z{stroke}). We describe some projective models of Z{stroke} and relate these to its generalized mirror. A smoothing of a singular model is a Calabi-Yau three-fold with small Hodge numbers which was not known before. © 2011 International Press

    Minuscule Schubert varieties of exceptional type

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    We study the finite free resolutions of intersections of exceptional minuscule Schubert varieties with the opposite big open cell. We investigate the patterns which arise and relate the resolutions we obtain to certain basic cases which have been already extensively studied by commutative algebraists

    The E3∕Z3 orbifold, mirror symmetry, and Hodge structures of Calabi–Yau type

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    Starting from the Kähler moduli space of the rigid orbifold Z=E3∕Z3 one would expect for the cohomology of the generalized mirror to be a Hodge structure of Calabi–Yau type (1,9,9,1). We show that such a structure arises in a natural way from rational Hodge structures on Λ3Q[ω]6, where ω is a primitive third root of unity. We do not try to identify an underlying mirror geometry, but we show how special geometry arises in our abstract construction. We also show how such Hodge structure can be recovered as a polarized substructure of a bigger Hodge structure given by the third cohomology group of a six-dimensional abelian variety of Weil-type. Moreover, we recover a result of Zheng Zhang on the associates variation of Hodge structure

    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
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