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RATS: the photometric data reduction automatic pipeline
No full textThe automatic photometric pipeline provides a real time images reduction and directly the light curves of object in the field within the RATS project (RAdial Velocities Transit Search). The light curves themselves will be analyzed in order to catch light dimming due to a transit. For this purpose, the algorithm needs as input files a list of fits images taken at Schmidt Telescope of Asiago (INAF, Italy), a reference master list of stars and three files with the optional parameters for the DAOPHOT photometry package (Stetson 1987, PASP, 99, 191). The master list is previously obtained from a photometric characterization of the field (for more details: http://www.rats.it and Claudi et al. 2006, in Observatoire de Haute Provence Colloquium, Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies, 22-25 August 2005, eds. Arnold, L., Bouchy, F. and Moutou, C., 350)
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
Ruprecht 147: A Paradigm of Dissolving Star Cluster
Full text linkWe employed recent Gaia/DR2 data to investigate the dynamical status of the nearby (300 pc), old (2.5 Gyr) open cluster Ruprecht 147. We found prominent leading and trailing tails of stars along the cluster orbit, which demonstrates that Ruprecht 147 is losing stars at fast pace. Star counts indicate the cluster has a core radius of 33.3 arcmin and a tidal radius of 137.5 arcmin. The cluster also possesses an extended corona, which cannot be reproduced by a simple King model. We computed the present-day cluster mass using its luminosity and mass function, and derived an estimate of 234 ± 52 M ⊙. We also estimated the cluster original mass using available recipes extracted from N-body simulations obtaining a mass at birth of 50,000 ± 6500 M ⊙. Therefore dynamical mass loss, mostly caused by tidal interaction with the Milky Way, reduced the cluster mass by about 99%. We then conclude that Ruprecht 147 is rapidly dissolving into the general Galactic disk
Decreti onorari da Efeso per atleti vincitori in agoni panellenici
Full text linkUn blocco marmoreo rinvenuto a Efeso riporta tre decreti onorari risalenti circa al 300 a.C. Con essi, il consiglio concede la cittadinanza efesina e premi in denaro ad alcuni giovani atleti che si distinsero in prestigiosi giochi panellenici. Il protagonista della seconda iscrizione, Athenodoros, meteco a Efeso, dove godeva dell’ἰσοτελία prima del conferimento della cittadinanza, è noto anche da I.Ephesos 2005: il suo talento gli valse una sovvenzione da parte della città. Lo stesso provvedimento potrebbe essere decretato per un altro promettente atleta, Timonax, nella terza iscrizione
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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