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Percolation of secret correlations in a network
No full textAuthor's name is different in directory (see: Raul Garcia-Patron Sanchez). -ACMIn this work, we explore the analogy between entanglement and secret classical correlations in the context of large networks—more precisely, the question of percolation of secret correlations in a network. It is known that entanglement percolation in quantum networks can display a highly nontrivial behavior depending on the topology of the network and on the presence of entanglement between the nodes. Here we show that this behavior, thought to be of a genuine quantum nature, also occurs in a classical context.Alexander von Humboldt-StiftungEuropean Research Council (Starting grant PERCENT)W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theor
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Distribution quantique de clef et codes correcteurs quantiques avec des sytèmes bosoniques
No full textCette thèse porte sur l'étude théorique de la distribution quantique de clef et de la correction d'erreurs quantiques, mises en œuvre avec des systèmes bosoniques. Dans le premier chapitre, une borne analytique sur le taux secret asymptotique de clé des protocoles de distribution de clef quantique à variables continues est dérivée. Ce nombre permet de quantifier la sécurité d'un protocole et donc de comparer la sécurité de différentes instances d'un protocole pour faire un choix éclairé. Le chapitre 2 de la thèse présente et étudie un nouveau code bosonique, le qutrit 2T. Ce codage a la particularité d'utiliser deux modes bosoniques, ce qui signifie que l'espace dans lequel l'information est encodée est encore plus grand que lorsqu'un seul mode est utilisé. Ces travaux ont ensuite inspiré la construction d'importantes familles de codes multimodes, dont certains des codes introduits au chapitre 3. Ce dernier présente une construction générale de codes correcteurs d'erreurs qui sont tels que l'information encodée peut ensuite être facilement manipulée pour effectuer les calculs logiques souhaités.This thesis concerns the theoretical study of quantum key distribution and quantum error correction implemented with bosonic systems. The former is referred to as continuous-variable quantum key distribution while the latter is called bosonic error correction. In the first chapter, an analytical bound on the asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocols is derived. This quantity broadly quantifies the security of a protocol. This is a significant contribution as it helps to compare the security of different instances of a protocol and to make an informed choice. In Chapter 2, a new bosonic code, the 2T-qutrit, is introduced and studied. This encoding has the particularity of using two bosonic modes, which means the space in which the information is encoded is even bigger than when only a single mode is used. This work then inspired the construction of important families of multi-mode codes, including some of the codes introduced in Chapter 3. The latter presents a general construction of error correcting codes such that the encoded information can easily be manipulated to carry out the desired logical computations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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