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Characterizing the spontaneous collapse of a wavefunction through entropy production
Full text linkWe investigate the phenomenology leading to the non-conservation of energy of the continuous spontaneouslocalization (CSL) model from the viewpoint of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and use such framework toassess the equilibration process entailed by the dissipative formulation of the model (dCSL). As a paradigmaticsituation currently addressed in frontier experiments aimed at investigating possible collapse theories, we consider a one-dimensional mechanical oscillator in a thermal state. We perform our analysis in the phase space ofthe oscillator, where the entropy production rate, a non-equilibrium quantity used to characterize irreversibility,can be conveniently analyzed. We show that the CSL model violates Clausius law, as it exhibits a negativeentropy production rate, while the dCSL model reaches equilibrium consistently only under certain dynamicalconditions, thus allowing us to identify the values – in the parameter space – where the latter mechanism can befaithfully used to describe a thermodynamically consistent phenomenon.<br/
Characterizing the spontaneous collapse of a wavefunction through entropy production
Full text linkObjective-collapse models are a unified dynamics approach to solve the so called “measurement problem” of Quantum Mechanics, namely the conflicting nature of the Schrӧdinger equation and the wave function collapse postulate. Two of the most studied of such models, the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) models and the Diόsi-Penrose (DP) model, share a similar mathematical structure. While in the CSL model the origin of the noise responsible for the collapse is not discussed, in the DP model this is related to gravity.
In our work, we study the CSL and DP models from a different perspective, investigating the phenomenology leading to the non-conservation of energy predicted by these theories from the viewpoint of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. As a paradigmatic situation currently addressed in frontier experiments aimed at investigating possible collapse theories, we consider a one-dimensional mechanical oscillator in a thermal state. We perform our analysis in the phase space of the oscillator, where the entropy production rate, a non-equilibrium quantity used to characterize irreversibility, can be conveniently analyzed. We show that a thermodynamic consistent dynamics is possible only if the asymptotic state has infinite temperature.
We then repeat the analysis for a dissipative generalization of the models, for which it is possible to characterize the equilibration process in the large temperature limit. In particular, after a preliminary study in the Gaussian limit of the dynamics, we also study the consequences of non-Gaussian effects in the equilibration process
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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