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    Giant molecular clouds properties in NGC 3627

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    Questa tesi intraprende un'esplorazione dei processi di SF all'interno della galassia a spirale barrata NGC 3627, concentrandosi sull'identificazione e la caratterizzazione delle GMC in diversi ambienti galattici. Utilizzando l'emissione della linea CO(1-0) di ALMA e le osservazioni Halfaalfa di MUSE, studiamo l'intricata relazione tra gas molecolare, tassi di SF (SFR) e struttura galattica, nella regione centrale di 10 kpc. L'intensità integrata, la velocità e la dispersione di velocità della linea del CO(1-0) mostrano un sistema rotante con attività di SF in varie regioni. La massa totale di CO misurata da questa linea ammonta a MmolTOT(1,6±0,2)×109M_{mol}^{TOT} \sim (1,6 \pm 0,2) \times 10^9 M{_\odot}. Abbiamo studiato le relazioni tra gas molecolare e SFR in diversi ambienti. Abbiamo identificato 552 GMC che coprono un intervallo di massa molecolare compreso tra 10410^4 e 10810^8 M{_\odot}, con le nubi più massicce concentrate nel nucleo. La relazione MmolM_{mol}-SFR nell'intera galassia, mostra una pendenza di 0,83 ±\pm 0,04. Abbiamo anche derivato la relazione simile alla legge di Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) tra ΣMmol\Sigma_{M_{mol}} e ΣSFR\Sigma_{SFR}, che mostra una pendenza simile (N=0,86±0,09N=0,86 \pm 0,09). Le relazioni simil-KS sono diverse nei vari ambienti galattici: nel disco misuriamo un indice ripido (N=1,23±0,17N=1,23 \pm 0,17), mentre nella barra e nelle estremità della barra abbiamo un indice molto più piatto. Queste osservazioni suggeriscono che esiste una diversità di gas molecolare e SF all'interno della galassia, legata all'ambiente galattico. Il confronto con gli studi più ampi di PHANGS rivela risultati quasi del tutto coerenti, anche se utilizziamo un metodo diverso di identificazione del GMC e un diverso tracciante del gas molecolare

    Studio delle hotspot di radiogalassie nell’infrarosso

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    In questo lavoro di tesi sono state cercate e studiate le emissioni in infrarosso delle hotspot di 48 radiogalassie FRII prese da due campioni a redshift diverso (29 con redshift z < 0.3 e 19 con redshift 0.3 < z < 0.6), confrontando le loro posizioni con i dati provenienti dalle osservazioni in banda infrarossa del telescopio spaziale WISE. Per 10 di queste radiosorgenti `e stata trovata una controparte infrarossa nel catalogo di WISE. Per queste sorgenti sono stati calcolati i flussi e gli indici spettrali radio-infrarosso, questi ultimi hanno dato un valore medio di circa 0.75. Inoltre, sono state individuate altre 4 hot-spot con una candidata sorgente infrarossa, ma le loro osservazioni a disposizione in questo momento non permettono di confermare tale controparte

    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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