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Nonequilibrium dynamics of a system with quantum frustration
Full text linkUsing flow equations and equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics of a two-level system (TLS) is investigated, which couples Ohmically via noncommuting components to two independent oscillator baths. In equilibrium, the two-level energy splitting is protected when the TLS is coupled symmetrically to both baths. A critical asymmetry angle separates the localized from the delocalized phase. Real-time decoherence of a nonequilibrium initial state is studied as well. The short-time dynamics exhibits initial slips on the scale of the cutoff frequency of the bath modes. Moreover, whereas for a single bath decay of coherence depends crucially on the chosen initial state, for a symmetric coupling to two baths this dependence vanishes. © 2013 American Physical Society.H.K. acknowledges financial support from the German Research council (DFG) with Grant No. Ko 3538/1-2 and from CSIC within the JAE-Doc program cofunded by the FSE (Fondo Social Europeo). A.H. acknowledges support by the David and Ellen Lee foundation.Peer Reviewe
Exiles at home: mobility, exclusion and (in)visibility among Palestinians in Tel Aviv
Full text linkThis thesis explores intersecting processes of inclusion and exclusion among
Palestinians in Tel Aviv, a city considered to be essentially Jewish-Israeli. It looks at
Palestinians from diverse backgrounds and statuses who engage with the city in
search of employment, higher education, political activism, or an urban lifestyle.
Although this self-consciously liberal city creates social and economic openings,
unequal power relations and conflict prevail over urban civility and citizenship. The
Palestinians face a paradox: the deeper their inclusion into Tel Aviv’s political
economy, the stronger their estrangement and the more serious their dilemmas.
Because their urban inclusion is limited, mobility and constant adaptation become
obligatory and eventually disempowering. As they oscillate between conflicting
desires and senses of solidarity or identification, the Palestinians in Tel Aviv struggle
with intersecting forms of cultural and political power.
They seek individual
opportunities within a political system they oppose, demand recognition of their
identity and history but also seek urban anonymity as unmarked individuals. Their
balancing acts resemble acrobats: they walk a tightrope between contradictory
worlds, unable to reconcile both into a stable balance and simultaneously prevented
from ever fully arriving at the other end. They live in exile ‘at home’
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
On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Homelonging, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility
No full textDispelling 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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