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Lattice Green/Neumann function for the 2D Laplacian operator defined on square lattice on cylinders, tori and other geometries with some applications
No full textInternational audienceAbstract The lattice Green function for the discrete planar Laplacian defined on regular square lattice wrapped around cylinders and tori are rigorously defined and obtained in an exact analytic form. The method of images well-known in potential theory is implemented to derive for many other geometries with free boundaries (semi-infinite or finite cylinders and strips, rectangle) the related exact lattice Green-Neumann functions needed to readily solve discrete Neumann problems or, via a Neumann-to-Dirichlet mapping, discrete Dirichlet problems for these flat square lattices. Some applications are thus proposed as explicit expressions of two-point resistances for related resistor networks, and some probability-based characteristics regarding the associated P\`{o}lya's random walks
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
Length of the Instability Intervals for Hill's Equation
No full textInternational audienceThe length of instability intervals is investigated for the Hill equation y′′+ω(ω− 2∈p(x)y = 0, where p(x) has an infinite Fourier series of coefficients cn. For any small ∈ it is shown that these lengths are completely characterized by the cn's
Computation of the Madelung constant for hypercubic crystal structures in any dimension
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Two Phase Stefan Problem with Boundary Temperature Conditions: An Analytical Approach
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Calculation of two-point resistances for conducting media needs regularization of Coulomb singularities
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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
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