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Local invertibility in Sobolev spaces with applications to nematic elastomers and magnetoelasticity
Full text linkWe define a class of deformations in W^{1,p}(Ω,R^n), p>n−1, with positive Jacobian that do not exhibit cavitation. We characterize that class in terms of the non-negativity of the topological degree and the equality between the distributional determinant and the pointwise determinant of the gradient. Maps in this class are shown to satisfy a property of weak monotonicity, and, as a consequence, they enjoy an extra degree of regularity. We also prove that these deformations are locally invertible; moreover, the neighbourhood of invertibility is stable along a weak convergent sequence in W^{1,p}, and the sequence of local inverses converges to the local inverse. We use those features to show weak lower semicontinuity of functionals defined in the deformed configuration and functionals involving composition of maps. We apply those results to prove existence of minimizers in some models for nematic elastomers and magnetoelasticity
Tests for almost stochastic dominance
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. Baíllo Moreno, Amparo; Cárcamo, Javier; Mora Corral, Carlos. “Tests for Almost Stochastic Dominance”. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 43.2 (2025): 338–350. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedWe introduce a two-dimensional stochastic dominance (2DSD) index to characterize both strict and almost stochastic dominance. Based on this index, we derive an estimator for the minimum violation ratio (MVR), also known as the critical parameter, of the almost stochastic ordering condition between two variables. We determine the asymptotic properties of the empirical 2DSD index and MVR for the most frequently used stochastic orders. We also provide conditions under which the bootstrap estimators of these quantities are strongly consistent. As an application, we develop consistent bootstrap testing procedures for almost stochastic dominance. The performance of the tests is checked via simulations and the analysis of real dataSupported by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación through projects PID2019-109387GB-I00 (A.B. and J.C.), PID2021-124195NB-C32 (C.M-C.) and the Severo Ochoa Programme CEX2019-000904-S (C.M.-C.). C.M-C. has also been supported by the ERC Advanced grant 83472
Some elliptic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions
Full text linkThis paper concerns with some elliptic equations with non-linear boundary conditions. Sub-supersolution and bifurcation methods are used in order to obtain existence, uniqueness or multiplicity of positive solutions
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
Properties of mappings of finite distortion
No full textIn the following thesis we will be mostly concerned with questions related to the regularity of solutions to non-linear elasticity models in the calculus of variations. An important step in this is question is the approximation of Sobolev homeomorphisms by diffeomorphisms. We refine an approximation result of Hencl and Pratelli's which, for a given planar Sobolev (or Sobolev-Orlicz) homeomorphism, constructs a diffeomorphism arbitrarily close to the original map in uniform convergence and in terms of the Sobolev-Orlicz norm. Further we show, in dimension 4 or higher, that such an approximation result cannot hold in Sobolev spaces W1,p where p is too small by constructing a sense-preserving homeomorphism with Jacobian negative on a set of positive measure. The class of mappings referred to as mappings of finite distortion have been proposed as possible models for deformations of bodies in non-linear elasticity. In this context a key property is their continuity. We show, by counter-example, the surprising sharpness of the modulus of continuity with respect to the integrability of the distortion function. Also we prove an optimal regularity result for the inverse of a bi-Lipschitz Sobolev map in Wk,p and composition of Lipschitz maps in Wk,p comparable with the classical inverse mapping theorem. As a..
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