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Aspects of QCD thermodynamics through scalar field theory and NJL models
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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
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
A Search for Shape
No full textAs 3D object collections grow, searching based on shape becomes crucial. 3D capturing has seen a rise in popularity over the past decade and is currently being adopted in consumer mobile hardware such as smartphones and tablets, thus increasing the accessibility of this technology and by extension the volume of 3D scans. New applications based on large 3D object collections are expected to become commonplace and will require 3D object retrieval similar to image based search available in current search engines.
The work documented in this thesis consists of three primary contributions. The first one is the RICI and QUICCI local 3D shape descriptors, which use the novel idea of intersection counts for shape description. They are shown to be highly resistant to clutter and capable of effectively utilising the GPU for efficient generation and comparison of descriptors. Advantages of these descriptors over the previous state of the art include speed, size, descriptiveness and resistance to clutter, which is shown by a new proposed benchmark.
The second primary contribution consists of two indexing schemes, the Hamming tree and the Dissimilarity tree. They are capable of indexing and retrieving binary descriptors (such as the QUICCI descriptor) and respectively use the Hamming and proposed Weighted Hamming distance functions efficiently. The Dissimilarity tree in particular is capable of retrieving nearest neighbour descriptors even when their Hamming distance is large, an aspect where previous approaches tend to scale poorly.
The third major contribution is achieved by combining the proposed QUICCI descriptor and Dissimilarity tree into a complete pipeline for partial 3D object retrieval. The method takes a collection of complete objects, which are indexed using the dissimilarity tree and can subsequently efficiently retrieve objects that are similar to a partial query object.
Thus, it is shown that local descriptors based on shape intersection counts can be applied effectively on tasks such as clutter resistant matching and partial 3D shape retrieval. Highly efficient GPU implementations of the proposed, as well as several popular descriptors, have been made publicly available to the research community and may assist with further developments in the field
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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