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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
Alien limit cycles in Liénard equations
No full textAgraïments: The second author thanks the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) for its support as invited professor during the period November to December, 2011.This paper aims at providing an example of a family of polynomial Liénard equations exhibiting an alien limit cycle. This limit cycle is perturbed from a 2-saddle cycle in the boundary of an annulus of periodic orbits given by a Hamiltonian vector field. The Hamiltonian represents a truncated pendulum of degree 4. In comparison to a former polynomial example, not only the equations are simpler but a lot of tedious calculations can be avoided, making the example also interesting with respect to simplicity in treatment
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
Periodic orbits from second order perturbation via rational trigonometric integrals
No full textThe second order Poincaré-Pontryagin-Melnikov perturbation theory is used in this paper to study the number of bifurcated periodic orbits from certain centers. This approach also allows us to give the shape and the period up to first order. We address these problems for some classes of Abel differential equations and quadratic isochronous vector fields in the plane. We prove that two is the maximum number of hyperbolic periodic orbits bifurcating from the isochronous quadratic centers with a birational linearization under quadratic perturbations of second order. In particular the configurations (2, 0) and (1, 1) are realizable when two centers are perturbed simultaneously. The required computations show that all the considered families share the same iterated rational trigonometric integrals
Shape and period of limit cycles bifurcating from a class of Hamiltonian period annulus
No full textIn this work we are concerned with the problem of shape and period of isolated periodic solutions of perturbed analytic radial Hamiltonian vector fields in the plane. Fran¸coise develop a method to obtain the first non vanishing Poincaré-Pontryagin-Melnikov function. We generalize this technique and we apply it to know, up to any order, the shape of the limit cycles bifurcating from the period annulus of the class of radial Hamiltonians. We write any solution, in polar coordinates, as a power series expansion in terms of the small parameter. This expansion is also used to give the period of the bifurcated periodic solutions. We present the concrete expression of the solutions up to third order of perturbation of Hamiltonians of the form H = H(r). Necessary and sufficient conditions that show if a solution is simple or double are also presented
Shape and period of limit cycles bifurcating from a class of Hamiltonian period annulus
Get PDFIn this work we are concerned with the problem of shape and period of isolated periodic solutions of perturbed analytic radial Hamiltonian vector fields in the plane. Fran¸coise develop a method to obtain the first non vanishing Poincaré-Pontryagin-Melnikov function. We generalize this technique and we apply it to know, up to any order, the shape of the limit cycles bifurcating from the period annulus of the class of radial Hamiltonians. We write any solution, in polar coordinates, as a power series expansion in terms of the small parameter. This expansion is also used to give the period of the bifurcated periodic solutions. We present the concrete expression of the solutions up to third order of perturbation of Hamiltonians of the form H = H(r). Necessary and sufficient conditions that show if a solution is simple or double are also presented
Corrigendum to "Shape and period of limit cycles bifurcating from a class of Hamiltonian period annulus" (Nonlinear Anal. 81 (2013) 130--148)
No full textIn our paper [1] we are concerned with the problem of shape and period of isolated periodic solutions of perturbed analytic radial Hamiltonian vector fields in the plane. Actually, there is a mistake in the formula of the first order approximation of the period given in Corollary 4. Here we give its proper drafting
New lower bounds for the Hilbert numbers using reversible centers
No full textAltres ajuts: UNAB13-4E-1604 (FEDER)In this paper we provide the best lower bounds, that are known up to now, for the Hilbert numbers of polynomial vector fields of degree N,, for small values of N. These limit cycles appear bifurcating from symmetric Darboux reversible centers with very high simultaneous cyclicity. The considered systems have, at least, three centers, one on the reversibility straight line and two symmetric outside it. More concretely, the limit cycles are in a three nests configuration and the total number of limit cycles is at least 2n + m, for some values of n and m. The new lower bounds are obtained using simultaneous degenerate Hopf bifurcations. In particular, H(4) ≥ 28, H(5) ≥ 37, H(6) ≥ 53, H(7) ≥ 74, H(8) ≥ 96, H(9) ≥ 120 and H(10) ≥ 142
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