1,720,976 research outputs found

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

    Get PDF
    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

    Influence of collective effects on seeded FEL and mitigation strategies at FLASH

    No full text
    The Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facility FLASH at DESY is currently being upgraded within the framework of the FLASH2020+ project with the goal of converting one of the beamlines into an externally seeded beamline. In particular, the Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) method will be used to generate fully coherent FEL pulses in XUV and soft X-ray wavelength regions down to 4 nm. As one of the most challenging of the planned operation modes, 4 nm EEHG can be especially sensitive to the parasitic beam dynamics, known as collective effects. In this work, we employ analytical models to investigate the influence of Incoherent Synchrotron Radiation and Intra-Beam Scattering on the efficiency of the EEHG setup. We perform numerical simulations to study the effect of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) in the seeding section of the beamline on the spectral properties of EEHG bunching. We compare different models of CSR and highlight the importance of such aspects of the models as chamber shielding and transient effects in the parameter space of 4 nm EEHG set-up at FLASH. Furthermore, for CSR, which poses noticeable challenges, we explore a mitigation strategy using short seed laser pulses to optimize the spectral bandwidth. Finally, we demonstrate a promising solution to the Micro-Bunching Instability (MBI) using the recently installed Laser Heater. This thesis is a self-contained detailed investigation of the electron beam dynamics of EEHG in the seeding section in the presence of collective effects and an integral part of ongoing start-to-end simulation efforts for realistic characterization of the performance of the future seeded FEL beamline at FLASH2020

    Influence of collective effects on seeded FEL and mitigation strategies at FLASH

    No full text
    The Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facility FLASH at DESY is currently being upgraded within the framework of the FLASH2020+ project with the goal of converting one of the beamlines into an externally seeded beamline. In particular, the Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) method will be used to generate fully coherent FEL pulses in XUV and soft X-ray wavelength regions down to 4 nm. As one of the most challenging of the planned operation modes, 4 nm EEHG can be especially sensitive to the parasitic beam dynamics, known as collective effects. In this work, we employ analytical models to investigate the influence of Incoherent Synchrotron Radiation and Intra-Beam Scattering on the efficiency of the EEHG setup. We perform numerical simulations to study the effect of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) in the seeding section of the beamline on the spectral properties of EEHG bunching. We compare different models of CSR and highlight the importance of such aspects of the models as chamber shielding and transient effects in the parameter space of 4 nm EEHG set-up at FLASH. Furthermore, for CSR, which poses noticeable challenges, we explore a mitigation strategy using short seed laser pulses to optimize the spectral bandwidth. Finally, we demonstrate a promising solution to the Micro-Bunching Instability (MBI) using the recently installed Laser Heater. This thesis is a self-contained detailed investigation of the electron beam dynamics of EEHG in the seeding section in the presence of collective effects and an integral part of ongoing start-to-end simulation efforts for realistic characterization of the performance of the future seeded FEL beamline at FLASH2020

    Influence of collective effects on seeded FEL and mitigation strategies at FLASH

    No full text
    The Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facility FLASH at DESY is currently being upgraded within the framework of the FLASH2020+ project with the goal of converting one of the beamlines into an externally seeded beamline. In particular, the Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) method will be used to generate fullycoherent FEL pulses in XUV and soft X-ray wavelength regions down to 4 nm. As one of the most challenging of the planned operation modes, 4 nm EEHG can be especially sensitive to the parasitic beam dynamics, known as collective effects. In this work, we employ analytical models to investigate the influence of Incoherent Synchrotron Radiation and Intra-Beam Scattering on the efficiency of the EEHG setup. We perform numerical simulations to study the effect of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) in the seeding section of the beamline on the spectral properties of EEHG bunching. We compare different models of CSR and highlight the importance of such aspects of the models as chamber shielding and transient effects in the parameter space of 4 nm EEHG set-up at FLASH. Furthermore, for CSR, which poses noticeable challenges, we explore a mitigation strategy using short seed laser pulses to optimize the spectral bandwidth. Finally, we demonstrate a promising solution to the Micro-Bunching Instability (MBI) using the recently installed Laser Heater. This thesis is a self-contained detailed investigation of the electron beam dynamics of EEHG in the seeding section in the presence of collective effects and an integral part of ongoing start-to-end simulation efforts for realistic characterization of the performance of the future seeded FEL beamline at FLASH2020

    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

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

    Get PDF
    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

    Get PDF
    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

    Author Index

    No full text
    Nao informado

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

    No full text
    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
    corecore