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The history and source of mass-transfer variations in AM Herculis
No full textThe optical brightness of magnetic cataclysmic variables without accretion discs is a direct measure of the near-instantaneous mass-transfer rates from the late-type secondary stars to the magnetic white dwarfs in these semi-detached binary systems. We derive the mass-transfer history of the magnetic cataclysmic variable AIM Herculis from its long-term visual light curve and from bolometric corrections obtained from a number of X-ray observations covering various accretion states. On average. less than 25% of the maximum observed mass-transfer rate occurs. Assuming that the mass-transfer rate is modulated by stellar starspots on the secondary stars, we convert the derived mass-transfer rates into spot filling factors at the L-1-point. A statistical model for the coverage fraction and size distribution of random spots near the L-1-point in AM Her suggests that the spot filling factor is roughly 0.5 for a fitted power-law law distribution of starspot radii, i.e. about half the surface of the star near the L-1-point is covered with spots. This density can only be explained if the spottedness of the L-1-point is unusual - for instance if spot groups are forced to wander towards the L-1-point - or if a large-scale magnetic spot group produced by an alpha (2)-dynamo slowly drifts in and out of the L-1-region. The former solution predicts that the occurrence of long-term high- and low-states is random and the latter that the long-term light curves of polars are quasi-periodic; the light curve of AM Her may suggest periods of order a decade. Finally, we discuss the relevance of this result to the mass-transfer variations of other cataclysmic variables
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
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
RX And: An intermediate between Z Cam and VY Scl stars
No full textWe present the AAVSO long term visual light curve of
RX And. The system has been classified as a Z Cam-type dwarf nova,
showing alternating standstills and dwarf nova outbursts. Our data reveal
that RX And
has also characteristics of a VY Scl star, remaining for extended
periods in a low state ~3.5 mag fainter than the standstill with
no detectable outbursts. We discuss this result in the context of mass
transfer variations in CVs and the still poorly understood VY Scl
phenomenon
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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