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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
Indirect Search for WIMP Dark Matter with the MAGIC Telescopes
Full text linkLa naturalesa de la matèria fosca (DM) de l’univers segueix essent un misteri a dia d’avui malgrat els esforços de la comunitat científica. D’entre les partícules candidates, més enllà del model estàndard de física de partícules, destaca la Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) com una de les més prometedores. S’estima la seva massa entre pocs GeV i centenars de TeV, encaixant perfectament en l’interval d’energies testejades per a la cerca indirecta de la DM.
Els telescopis MAGIC, situats a l’Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, a l’illa canària de La Palma, fan cerques indirectes de les WIMP des que van entrar en funcionament. Els objectes observats més comuns amb aquest objectiu són les galàxies nanes esferoïdals (dSphs) satèl·lits de la Via Làctia i el centre galàctic amb el seu halo.
En aquesta tesis presento el resultat de les cerques indirectes d’anihilació de WIMPs en tres diferents objectes d’observació (el cúmul globular M15 i les dSphs Draco i Coma Berenices), així com els resultats obtinguts a partir de la combinació de les dades de les dues dSphs estudiades i dues dSphs analitzades prèviament dins de la col·laboració MAGIC. No s’ha trobat cap senyal en qualsevol dels 4 estudis.
L’estudi de M15 ha constituït un repte, debut al modest excés de densitat de DM que se suposa hi ha en aquest tipus d’objectes i a les grans incerteses sistemàtiques associades als perfils de dispersió de la velocitat de les estrelles en els seus centres. Per tal d’obtenir una estimació de les sensibilitats que es poden obtenir amb aquest tipus d’anàlisis, s’han considerat quatre diferents perfils de densitat de DM en M15. S’han obtingut límits superiors estadístics sobre la mitjana de la secció eficaç d’anihilació de WIMPs multiplicada per la velocitat (en endavant velocity-averaged cross-section) considerant perfils de densitat de DM proporcionats en els treballs de H.E.S.S. i VERITAS. Els resultats obtinguts són compatibles amb els presentats en les seves respectives publicacions. Addicionalment, s’han trobat límits superior de prova considerant perfils de densitat de M15 i del seu contingut en matèria no bariònica en un escenari d’un cos dominat per DM. Els límits obtinguts amb aquest mètode són millors que els que s’obtenen amb les més prometedores dSphs, però al mateix temps són poc realistes i proporcionen només un valor mínim de la velocity-averaged cross-section que es pot assolir en M15, a l’espera de noves mesures cinemàtiques en les seves parts centrals.
Les dSphs Draco i Coma Berenices han estat observades amb els telescopis MAGIC dins d’una campanya de diversificació de fonts d’observació plurianual. S’han obtingut límits superiors realistes amb un 95% de nivell de confiança en la velocity-averaged cross-section de WIMPs. La combinació de les dades d’aquestes dues dSphs amb les de les altres dues anteriorment observades amb MAGIC (Segue 1 i Ursa Major II) ha permés de millorar la sensibilitat en la cerca indirecta d’anihilació de WIMPs. Els resultats obtinguts constitueixen el llegat de la col·laboració MAGIC en aquest camp, i són els més restrictius trobats a MAGIC i els més estrictes en l’interval de massa de WIMP ~10-100 TeV en les cerques en astrofísica de raigs gamma, arribant a límits superiors de l’ordre de 10⁻²⁴ cm³/s sobre la velocity-averaged cross-section amb un nivel de confiança del 95%.
En l’última part de la tesis es presenta la meva contribució al desenvolupament i posada a punt del Barcelona Raman LIDAR, un instrument avançat i no comercial optimitzat per a la monitorització de l’atmosfera sobre el Cherenkov Telescope Array.La naturaleza de la materia oscura (DM) en el universo sigue siendo un enigma a día de hoy a pesar los esfuerzos de la comunidad científica. Entre las partículas candidatas más allá del modelo estándar de física de partículas destaca la Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) como una de las más prometedoras. Su masa se estima entre pocos GeV y cientos de TeV, encajando perfectamente en el intervalo de energías testeadas para la búsqueda indirecta de la materia oscura.
Los telescopios MAGIC, situados en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos en la isla canaria de La Palma, realizan búsquedas indirectas de WIMP desde que entraron en operación. Los objetos observados más comunes para tal fin son las galaxias esferoidales enanas (dSphs) satélites de la Vía Láctea y el centro galáctico y su halo.
En esta tesis presento el resultado de las búsquedas indirectas de aniquilación de WIMPs en tres diferentes objetos de observación (el cúmulo globular M15 y las dSphs Draco y Coma Berenices) así como los resultados obtenidos a partir de la combinación de los datos de las dos dSphs estudiadas y dos dSphs analizadas previamente dentro de la colaboración MAGIC. No se ha encontrado ninguna señal en cualquiera de los 4 estudios.
El estudio de M15 ha constituido un reto debido al modesto exceso de densidad de DM supuesto en este tipo de objetos y las grandes incertidumbres asociadas a los perfiles de dispersión de la velocidad de las estrellas en sus centros. Para obtener una estimación de las sensibilidades que se pueden obtener en este tipo de análisis, se han considerado cuatro diferentes perfiles de densidad de DM de M15. Se han obtenido límites superiores estadísticos sobre el promedio de la sección eficaz de aniquilación de WIMPs multiplicada por la velocidad (en adelante velocity-averaged cross-section) considerando los perfiles de densidad de DM proporcionados en los trabajos de H.E.S.S. y VERITAS. Los resultados obtenidos son compatibles con los presentados por sus respectivas publicaciones. Adicionalmente, se han encontrado límites superiores de prueba considerando perfiles de densidad de DM obtenidos a partir de la convolución del perfil de densidad de M15 y de su contenido de materia no bariónica en un escenario de un cuerpo dominado por DM. Los límites obtenidos con este método son mejores que los que se obtienen con las más prometedoras dSphs, pero al mismo tiempo son poco realistas y proporcionan solamente un valor mínimo de la velocity-averaged cross-section alcanzable en M15, a la espera de nuevas medidas cinemáticas en sus partes centrales.
Las dSphs Draco y Coma Berenices han sido observadas con los telescopios MAGIC dentro de una campaña de diversificación de fuentes de observación plurianual. Se han obtenido límites superiores realistas con un 95% de nivel de confianza en la velocity-averaged cross-section de WIMPs. La combinación de los datos de estas dos dSphs con los de las otras dos dSphs anteriormente observadas con MAGIC (Segue 1 y Ursa Major II) ha permitido mejorar la sensibilidad en la búsqueda indirecta de aniquilación de WIMPs. Los resultados obtenidos constituyen el legado de la colaboración MAGIC en este campo, y son los más restrictivos alcanzados en MAGIC y los más estrictos en el intervalo de masa de WIMP ~10-100 TeV en las búsquedas en astrofísica de rayos gamma, llegando a límites superiores del orden de 10⁻²⁴ cm³/s sobre la velocity-averaged cross-section con un nivel de confianza del 95%.
En la última parte de la tesis se presenta mi contribución al desarrollo y puesta a punto del Barcelona Raman LIDAR, un instrumento avanzado y no comercial optimizado para la monitorización de la atmósfera encima del Cherenkov Telescope Array.The nature of Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe is still an enigma at present day, despite the efforts of the scientific community. Among the favorite DM particle candidates beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is of the most promising. Predicted to have a mass between few GeV and hundreds of TeV, it fits perfectly in the energy range tested by indirect dark matter searches with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes.
The MAGIC telescopes, located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on the Canary Island of La Palma, perform indirect DM searches for WIMPs since their very beginning. Among the targets observed, dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) and the Galactic Center and halo are the most common, both expected to be embedded in a high DM overdensity.
In this thesis I present the outcome of indirect WIMP annihilation searches from three different observation targets (the globular cluster M15 and the dSphs Draco and Coma Berenices) together with the results obtained by a combination of data from the two dSphs studied in this thesis and two dSphs previously analyzed by the MAGIC collaboration. No signal has been observed in any of the four searches.
The study of M15 has been a challenge due to its relatively low DM overdensity predicted and the large systematic uncertainties resulting from the current lack of star velocity dispersion profiles at its core. In order to get an estimate of the sensitivities achievable with this type of analyses, four different realizations of the M15 DM density profile were investigated. Statistical upper limits on the velocity-averaged WIMP annihilation cross-section have been obtained with the use of the DM profiles provided by the H.E.S.S. and VERITAS experiments. The results obtained are compatible with those presented in their respective publications. Further toy statistical upper limits have been obtained taking into account DM density profiles from a convolution of the M15 density profile and its expected non-baryonic matter content in a scenario of DM domination. The limits retrieved with this method are better than the most promising ones from dSphs, but at the same time systematically unreliable, and provide only a minimum value of the velocity-averaged cross-section attainable in M15, awaiting for new kinematic measurements at globular clusters cores.
The dSphs Draco and Coma Berenices were observed during the past years with the MAGIC telescopes within a multi-year diversification campaign. Reliable 95% CL upper limits on the velocity-averaged WIMP annihilation cross-section have been retrieved and are presented in this thesis. The data of these two dSphs are also combined with the ones of the two other dSphs previously observed with the MAGIC telescopes, namely Segue 1 and Ursa Major II, to achieve the best sensitivity for indirect WIMP DM annihilation searches. The results obtained constitute the MAGIC collaboration legacy in this field, and are the most constraining reached by MAGIC and the most stringent in the ~ 10-100 TeV WIMP DM mass interval in gamma-ray astrophysics searches so far, reaching upper limits of the order of 10⁻²⁴ cm³/s for the velocity-averaged cross-section.
In the last part of this thesis, I present my contribution to the development and set up of the Barcelona Raman LIDAR, an advanced and no commercial instrument optimized for the atmospheric monitoring above the future Cherenkov Telescope Array.Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Físic
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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