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Role of the m = 0 modes in the edge region of a reversed-field pinch during pulsed poloidal current drive
No full textChanges in the edge profile of soft x-ray emission during pulsed poloidal current drive (PPCD) experiments are in agreement with the modifications of the plasma surface, as seen from magnetic measurements. In particular, the m=0 modes resonant at the reversal radius have been analyzed. A comparison with an m=0 island reconstruction model shows that PPCD reduces the bulging associated with the m=0 modes by shifting inward the reversal surface, where the m=0 island is located. Regarding the total m=0 amplitude, there are evidences that during PPCD, on average, it does not change significantly. Additional data coming from standard discharges support the idea that two competing phenomena act during PPCD: one is the inward shift of the reversal, which destabilizes the m=0 modes; the other one is the decrease of the m=1 fluctuations, which acts in the opposite direction. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics
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
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Observation of tearing mode deceleration and locking due to eddy currents induced in a conducting shell
No full textUV imaging of a Plasma for Space Applications
No full textIn this paper we present recent results of a project concerning UV imaging of a
plasma for space applications. Magneto-plasmadynamic (MPD) thrusters are a class of high power electric space propulsion devices that accelerate a plasma to high velocities(> 10 km/s), by exploiting the Lorentz force. This force arises from the interaction
between a discharge current and both self-induced and externally applied magnetic
field. This device is promising for long-range space missions. The imaging system has been realized by inserting 3 arrays of UV-enhanced photodiodes directly into the plastic structure of the anode. The amplifiers are miniaturized, and built into the detector.
This advanced diagnostic design allows for a detailed tomographic reconstruction of
the emissivity spatial structure, both in the axial direction z (corresponding to a wavenumber n) and azimuthal direction (wavenumber m) with high time resolution. In
fact, recently an intense effort has been devoted to the optimization of the performances of the thruster, which unfortunately shows a limitation of the efficiency at high plasma current IP and applied axial magnetic field Bz. As proposed in [Zuin et al., 2004a], this limitation is not merely confined to the field of engineering, but it unveils
genuine physics, in that it is connected to the onset of an (m = 1; n = 1) magneto-
hydrodynamic (MHD) kink instability. In this paper we will show new results that
confirm the existence of a kink, and extend the analysis of the properties of the MPD
plasma column
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