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    Nonadiabatic surface reaction: Mechanism of electron emission in the Cs+O_{2} system

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    Electron emission during oxidation of thin Cs films is confined to the stage Cs2O2→CsO2 and is caused by Auger deexcitation accompanying the (formal) reaction O22-(s)+O2→2O2-(s). This nonadiabatic process becomes possible because resonance ionization of the affinity level of the impinging O2 molecule upon crossing the Fermi level EF is efficiently suppressed due to the absence of occupied states near EF at the surface

    Preparation and characterization of thin CsAu films

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    The formation of CsAu films by successive evaporation of gold and caesium atoms onto a clean Ru(001) substrate surface was followed by UV photoelectron spectroscopy and (subsequent) thermal desorption spectroscopy. No compound but only a chemisorbed layer (and eventually bulk caesium) is formed if caesium is deposited onto a gold layer, if the quantity of the latter itself does not exceed the monolayer capacity. With thicker gold layers, on the contrary, semiconducting CsAu (with a band gap of 2.6 eV and the Fermi level close to the conduction band edge) is formed by interdiffusion at T > 250 K, but the outer surface consists always of a layer of chemisorbed caesium. This even holds for a “sandwich” system for which a thick gold film was evaporated onto a CsAu layer. The surface region of CsAu is highly reactive towards oxygen

    Exoelectron emission during oxidation of Cs films

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    During oxidation of thin Cs films, a nonadiabatic surface reaction manifests itself in the emission of electrons. This effect was investigated in detail by combining measurements of the current and of energy distributions of these exoelectrons with studies on the electronic properties of the surface by means of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and metastable deexcitation spectroscopy. Exoelectron emission occurs via Auger deexcitation of the empty state derived from the O2 affinity level. This process is confined to the stage Cs2O2→CsO2 in which resonance ionization of the affinity level of the impinging O2 molecule upon crossing the Fermi level EF is efficiently suppressed due to the absence of metallic states near EF. A kinetic model based on the successive steps involved in the oxidation of Cs is developed which describes qualitatively well all the experimental findings

    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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    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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