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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    Schémas ALE multi-matériaux totalement conservatifs pour l'hydrodynamique

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    This PhD subject comes within actual studies managed by CEA/DAM about ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian) schemes (with a splitting of Lagrangian and Remapping steps) in the context of hydrodynamic simulations. These numerical schemes have to respect mass, momentum and total energy conservation, which are the fundamental equations of the studied systems.Space- and Time-Staggered are widely used in industrial codes for their simplicity androbustness despite their known lack of exact energy conservation. This is a major drawbackin presence of strong shocks. Among all existing schemes, none of them meet the expectations of robustness, conservation,thermodynamic consistency (both shocks and relaxations capture), accuracy andadaptibility to complex behaviors. Recently, some novel works have been proposed by A.Llor et. al. in order to make conservative this type of scheme in a Lagrangian context (without remapping step). Current remap methods, necessary in large deformations, donot guarantee simultaneously total energy conservation and thermodynamic consistency.This work aims at extending this conservative Lagrangian space- and time-staggeredscheme to a multi-material ALE methodology, keeping its good properties (conservation,accuracy, thermodynamic consistency, robustness) intact. Classical, but demanding, test cases have been performed (both in plane and axisymmetric 2D geometries) and have been compared to existing numerical methods in order to assess the relevance of our approach.Ce sujet de thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre des études actuellement menées au CEA/DAM concernant des schémas numériques ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian)de type « Lagrange + Projection », dans le contexte des simulations hydrodynamiques mutli-matériaux en grandes déformations. Ces schémas doivent respecter les équations de conservation de la masse, de la quantité de mouvement et de l’énergie totale.Les schémas décalés en temps et en espace sont très utilisés dans les codes industriels. Ils sont robustes et permettent une bonne approximation des comportements complexes, mais sont connus pour ne pas conserver exactement l’énergie totale. Cela pose un problème dans le traitement des chocs, sur maillages raffinés ou dans la simulation des milieux réactifs.En 2016, des travaux originaux on été proposés par A. Llor et. al. pour rendre conservatif ce type de schéma dans un contexte lagrangien (sans projection), notamment en proposant une correction pour retrouver la conservation de l’énergie totale.Le travail de cette thèse a été d’étendre ce schéma lagrangien dans un contexte ALE multi-matériaux (avec interface), en garantissant la conservation de toutes les quantités, le respect du second principe de la thermodynamique et la robustesse. De nombreux cas tests ont été menés (en 2D plan et en 2D axisymétrique) et comparés aux méthodes existantes afin de montrer la pertinence de cette approche

    Schémas ALE multi-matériaux totalement conservatifs pour l'hydrodynamique

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    This PhD subject comes within actual studies managed by CEA/DAM about ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian) schemes (with a splitting of Lagrangian and Remapping steps) in the context of hydrodynamic simulations. These numerical schemes have to respect mass, momentum and total energy conservation, which are the fundamental equations of the studied systems.Space- and Time-Staggered are widely used in industrial codes for their simplicity androbustness despite their known lack of exact energy conservation. This is a major drawbackin presence of strong shocks. Among all existing schemes, none of them meet the expectations of robustness, conservation,thermodynamic consistency (both shocks and relaxations capture), accuracy andadaptibility to complex behaviors. Recently, some novel works have been proposed by A.Llor et. al. in order to make conservative this type of scheme in a Lagrangian context (without remapping step). Current remap methods, necessary in large deformations, donot guarantee simultaneously total energy conservation and thermodynamic consistency.This work aims at extending this conservative Lagrangian space- and time-staggeredscheme to a multi-material ALE methodology, keeping its good properties (conservation,accuracy, thermodynamic consistency, robustness) intact. Classical, but demanding, test cases have been performed (both in plane and axisymmetric 2D geometries) and have been compared to existing numerical methods in order to assess the relevance of our approach.Ce sujet de thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre des études actuellement menées au CEA/DAM concernant des schémas numériques ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian)de type « Lagrange + Projection », dans le contexte des simulations hydrodynamiques mutli-matériaux en grandes déformations. Ces schémas doivent respecter les équations de conservation de la masse, de la quantité de mouvement et de l’énergie totale.Les schémas décalés en temps et en espace sont très utilisés dans les codes industriels. Ils sont robustes et permettent une bonne approximation des comportements complexes, mais sont connus pour ne pas conserver exactement l’énergie totale. Cela pose un problème dans le traitement des chocs, sur maillages raffinés ou dans la simulation des milieux réactifs.En 2016, des travaux originaux on été proposés par A. Llor et. al. pour rendre conservatif ce type de schéma dans un contexte lagrangien (sans projection), notamment en proposant une correction pour retrouver la conservation de l’énergie totale.Le travail de cette thèse a été d’étendre ce schéma lagrangien dans un contexte ALE multi-matériaux (avec interface), en garantissant la conservation de toutes les quantités, le respect du second principe de la thermodynamique et la robustesse. De nombreux cas tests ont été menés (en 2D plan et en 2D axisymétrique) et comparés aux méthodes existantes afin de montrer la pertinence de cette approche

    Conservative multi-material ALE schemes for hydrodynamics

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    Ce sujet de thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre des études actuellement menées au CEA/DAM concernant des schémas numériques ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian)de type « Lagrange + Projection », dans le contexte des simulations hydrodynamiques mutli-matériaux en grandes déformations. Ces schémas doivent respecter les équations de conservation de la masse, de la quantité de mouvement et de l’énergie totale.Les schémas décalés en temps et en espace sont très utilisés dans les codes industriels. Ils sont robustes et permettent une bonne approximation des comportements complexes, mais sont connus pour ne pas conserver exactement l’énergie totale. Cela pose un problème dans le traitement des chocs, sur maillages raffinés ou dans la simulation des milieux réactifs.En 2016, des travaux originaux on été proposés par A. Llor et. al. pour rendre conservatif ce type de schéma dans un contexte lagrangien (sans projection), notamment en proposant une correction pour retrouver la conservation de l’énergie totale.Le travail de cette thèse a été d’étendre ce schéma lagrangien dans un contexte ALE multi-matériaux (avec interface), en garantissant la conservation de toutes les quantités, le respect du second principe de la thermodynamique et la robustesse. De nombreux cas tests ont été menés (en 2D plan et en 2D axisymétrique) et comparés aux méthodes existantes afin de montrer la pertinence de cette approche.This PhD subject comes within actual studies managed by CEA/DAM about ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian) schemes (with a splitting of Lagrangian and Remapping steps) in the context of hydrodynamic simulations. These numerical schemes have to respect mass, momentum and total energy conservation, which are the fundamental equations of the studied systems.Space- and Time-Staggered are widely used in industrial codes for their simplicity androbustness despite their known lack of exact energy conservation. This is a major drawbackin presence of strong shocks. Among all existing schemes, none of them meet the expectations of robustness, conservation,thermodynamic consistency (both shocks and relaxations capture), accuracy andadaptibility to complex behaviors. Recently, some novel works have been proposed by A.Llor et. al. in order to make conservative this type of scheme in a Lagrangian context (without remapping step). Current remap methods, necessary in large deformations, donot guarantee simultaneously total energy conservation and thermodynamic consistency.This work aims at extending this conservative Lagrangian space- and time-staggeredscheme to a multi-material ALE methodology, keeping its good properties (conservation,accuracy, thermodynamic consistency, robustness) intact. Classical, but demanding, test cases have been performed (both in plane and axisymmetric 2D geometries) and have been compared to existing numerical methods in order to assess the relevance of our approach

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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