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THROUGHPUT UPPER-BOUNDS FOR OPEN MARKOVIAN QUEUING-NETWORKS WITH BLOCKING
No full textWe present a simple but effective decomposition method which yields tight throughput upper bounds for open Markovian finite-buffered queueing networks under any commonly used blocking mechanism. This method is first elaborated on with three specialized network configurations, tandem, split and merge, and then extended to a general configuration. Also shown is that the existing throughput-bounding methods for open queueing networks with blocking can be improved via duality consideration. Computational experiments confirm that our method is superior to all other existing methods
SERVER ASSIGNMENT FOR MULTISTAGE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS WITH FINITE BUFFERS
No full textWe consider a multi-stage production system with finite buffers under the so-called repetitive-service blocking mechanism, modelled by a tandem queueing system with blocking. The objective is to find to which stage each server should be assigned in order to maximize the throughput. For this server assignment problem we first derive a throughput upper bound which is found to be very close to the exact one to be used as a substitute measure. Based on this measure we show that the rules of placing the worst servers from the outermost stages by Yamazaki et al. (1989) for the case of no buffers, are effective for the case with buffers of equal size. For the general case with buffers of different sizes, we propose an algorithm based on the observation that our throughput upper bound can be increased fastest by placing the fastest servers around the smallest buffered stage. Effectiveness of this algorithm as well as the proposed rules are well demonstrated by the extensive computational experiments conducted with a number of test examples ranging up to five stages
The mechanisms of neuronal death produced by mitochondrial toxin 3-nitropropionic acid: the roles of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors and mitochondrial calcium overload.
No full textEffects of amphetamine on the AMPA-mediated synaptic activity and the expression of AMPA receptor subunit 2 of brain neurons.
No full textComplete Recovery of Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality (SCIWORA) Syndrome and Traumatic Brachial Plexopathy in a Young Infant Falling From 30-feet-High Window.
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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
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