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    Willems (J.). Le Sénat romain en l'an 65 après Jésus-Christ, publié d’après les notes de P. Willems. Louvain, 1902

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    Willems (J.). Le Sénat romain en l'an 65 après Jésus-Christ, publié d’après les notes de P. Willems. Louvain, 1902. In: Revue épigraphique, tome 4, N°109, 1903. p. 32

    Open problems in the area of pole placement

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    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

    Optimality with respect to blips

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    We consider local minimality with respect to short duration variations, called ‘blips’. It is shown that for quadratic differential integrals either there are no such optimal trajectories, or that all stationary trajectories are local minima with respect to blips. Conditions on the polynomial matrix that defines the quadratic integral for the stationary trajectories to be local minima with respect to blips are derived. We motivate this problem by the variational principles of mechanics, and show that if the Hessian of the Lagrangian with respect to the generalized velocities is positive definite, then the solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations are the local minimum of the action integral w.r.t. blips as variations

    Linear-quadratic control and quadratic differential forms

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    We consider the infinite time linear-quadratic control problem from a behavioral point of view. The performance functional is the integral of a quadratic differential form. A characterization of the stationary trajectories and of the local minima with respect to (left) compact support variations, as well as their relation to stability, are obtained. Finally, several theorems are derived that describe the optimal LQ trajectories with specified initial, and possibly terminal, conditions

    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
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