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    Sulla media di superficie per le funzioni armoniche: una disuguaglianza di stabilità

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    In this article we present some of the main aspects  and the most recent results related to the following question: If the surface  mean integral of every harmonic function on the boundary of an open set D is "almost'' equal to the value of these functions at x0 in D, then  is D "almost'' a ball with center x0? This is the stability counterpart of the rigidity question (the statement above, without the two "almost'') for which several positive answers  are known in  literature.  A positive answer to the stability problem  has been given in a paper by  Preiss and Toro, by assuming a condition that turns out to be sufficient  for ∂D to be geometrically close to a sphere.  This condition, however, is not necessary, even for small Lipschitz perturbations of smooth domains, as shown in our recent paper, in which a stability inequality is  obtained by  assuming only a local regularity property of the boundary of D in at least one of its points closest to x0.In questo articolo presentiamo alcuni degli aspetti principali e i risultati più recenti relativi al seguente quesito: Se la media integrale di superficie di ogni funzione armonica sulla frontiera di un insieme aperto D "quasi'' uguale al valore di queste funzioni in x0 in D, allora D è "quasi'' una palla con centro x0? Questa è la controparte di stabilità del quesito di rigidità (la frase sopra senza i due "quasi'') per il quale diverse risposte affermative sono note in letteratura. Una risposta affermativa al problema di stabilità è stata data in un articolo di Preiss e Toro, assumendo una condizione che si rivela sufficiente per ∂D ad essere geometricamente vicino a una sfera. Questa condizione, tuttavia, non è necessaria, anche per piccole perturbazioni Lipschitziane di domini lisci, come dimostrato nel nostro recente articolo, in cui si ottiene una disuguaglianza di stabilità assumendo solo una proprietà di regolarità locale del bordo di D in almeno uno dei suoi punti più vicini a x0

    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

    Global estimates for degenerate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators

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    We consider a class of degenerate hypoelliptic Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operators in RN. For this class of operators we prove global L p estimates (1 < p < ∞) and corresponding weak type (1,1) estimates. This result seems to be the first case of global estimates, in Lebesgue L p spaces, for complete Hörmander’s operators

    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
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