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Domain decomposition based H-LU preconditioning
No full textHierarchical matrices provide a data-sparse way to approximate fully populated matrices. The two basic steps in the construction of an H-matrix are (a) the hierarchical construction of a matrix block partition, and (b) the blockwise approximation of matrix data by low rank matrices. In this paper, we develop a new approach to construct the necessary partition based on domain decomposition. Compared to standard geometric bisection based H-matrices, this new approach yields H-LU factorizations of finite element stiffness matrices with significantly improved storage and computational complexity requirements. These rigorously proven and numerically verified improvements result from an H-matrix block structure which is naturally suited for parallelization and in which large subblocks of the stiffness matrix remain zero in an LU factorization. We provide numerical results in which a domain decomposition based H-LU factorization is used as a preconditioner in the iterative solution of the discrete (three-dimensional) convection-diffusion equation
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
Hyphocapnodia Z. H. Lu & Maharachch. 2022, gen. nov.
No full textHyphocapnodia Z. H. Lu & Maharachch., gen. nov. MycoBank number: MB 845348 Etymology: The name reflects the hyphomycetous morph phylogenetically related to Capnodium Saprobic on living and decaying branches. Sexual morph: not observed. Asexual morph: on the natural substrate, colonies effuse, hairy, black. Mycelium immersed and superficial, forming dark brown conidiomata. Conidiomata synnematous, erect, subcylindrical, dark brown to black, with conidiogenous cells distributed mostly laterally, mainly towards the upper half of the synnemata. Conidiophores macronematous, simple, dark brown. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, cylindrical, integrated, determinate, and smooth. Conidia subcylindrical to fusiform, brown, transversely septate, conidial secession schizolytic. Type species: Hyphocapnodia sichuanensis Z. H. Lu, Wanas., Madrid & Maharachch., sp. nov.Published as part of Lu, Zheng-Hua, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Madrid, Hugo & Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S. N., 2022, Hyphocapnodia sichuanensis gen. et sp. nov. (Capnodiaceae), a novel hyphomycete from Sichuan Province, China, pp. 84-94 in Phytotaxa 564 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.564.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/707786
Joint domain-decomposition H-LU preconditioners for saddle point problems
No full textFor saddle point problems in fluid dynamics, several popular preconditioners exploit the block structure of the problem to construct block triangular preconditioners. The performance of such preconditioners depends on whether fast, approximate solvers for the linear systems on the block diagonal (representing convection-diffusion problems) as well as for the Schur complement (in the pressure variables) are available. In this paper, we will introduce a completely different approach in which we ignore this given block structure. We will instead compute an approximate LU-factorization of the complete system matrix using hierarchical matrix techniques. In particular, we will use domain-decomposition clustering with an additional local pivoting strategy to order the complete index set. As a result, we obtain an H-matrix structure in which an H-LU factorization is computed more efficiently and with higher accuracy than for the corresponding block structure based clustering. H-LU preconditioners resulting from the block and joint approaches will be discussed and compared through numerical results
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
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