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Symmetry and perturbation theory : proceedings of the international conference on SPT 2007, Otranto 2-9 June
No full textParametric smoothness and self-scaling of the statistical properties of a minimal climate model: What beyond the mean field theories?
Full text linkA quasi-geostrophic intermediate complexity model of the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation is considered, featuring simplified baroclinic conversion and barotropic convergence processes. The model undergoes baroclinic forcing towards a given latitudinal temperature profile controlled by the forced equator-to-pole temperature difference TE. As TE increases, a transition takes place from a stationary regime–Hadley equilibrium–to a periodic regime, and eventually to a chaotic regime where evolution takes place on a strange attractor. The attractor dimension, metric entropy, and bounding box volume in phase space have a smooth dependence on TE, which results in power-law scaling properties. Power-law scalings with respect to TE are detected also for the statistical properties of global physical observables — the total energy of the system and the averaged zonal wind. The scaling laws, which constitute the main novel result of the present work, can be thought to result from the presence of a statistical process of baroclinic adjustment, which tends to decrease the equator-to-pole temperature difference and determines the properties of the attractor of the system. The self-similarity could be of great help in setting up a theory for the overall statistical properties of the general circulation of the atmosphere and in guiding–on a heuristic basis–both data analysis and realistic simulations, going beyond the unsatisfactory mean field theories and brute force approaches. A leading example for this would be the possibility of estimating the sensitivity of the output of the system with respect to changes in the parameters
Self-Scaling of the Statistical Properties of a Minimal Model of the Atmospheric Circulation
No full textis considered, featuring simplified baroclinic conversion and barotropic convergence processes. The model undergoes baroclinic forcing towards a given latitudinal temperature profile controlled by the forced equator-to-pole temperature difference TE. As TE increases, a transition takes place from a stationary regime - Hadley equilibrium - to a periodic regime, and eventually to a chaotic regime, where evolution takes place on a strange attractor. The dependence of the attractor dimension, metric entropy, and bounding box volume in phase space is studied by varying TE. It is found that this dependence is smooth and has the form of a power-law scaling. The observed smooth dependence of the system’s statistical properties on the external parameter TE is coherent with the chaotic hypothesis proposed by Gallavotti and Cohen, which entails an effective structural stability for the attractor of the system. Power-law scalings with respect to TE are also detected for global observables responding to global physical balances, like the total energy of the system and the averaged zonal wind. The scaling laws are conjectured to be associated with the statistical process of baroclinic adjustment, decreasing the equator-to-pole temperature difference. The observed self-similarity could be helpful in setting up a theory for the overall statistical properties of the general circulation of the atmosphere and in guiding - also on a heuristic basis - both data analysis and realistic
simulations, going beyond the unsatisfactory mean field theories and brute force approaches
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
Sistema sanzionatorio e giustizia penale: il procedimento penale nei confronti dell’ente
No full textil contributo espone la disciplina processuale dettata per la responsabilità amministrativa degli ent
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