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Signatures of i-process nucleosynthesis
Get PDFNeutron capture nucleosynthesis is responsible for the production of heavy elements. Three neutron capture processes are currently known, each occurring at their own characteristic neutron density and operating in different ways. The slow neutron capture process operates at neutron densities of n ≈ 10⁷ 10¹⁰ cm⁻³, the rapid at neutron densities of = & 10²⁰ cm⁻³ and the intermediate at neutron densities of n ≥ 10¹² - 10¹⁵ cm⁻³. The intermediate neutron capture process (i process) is the focus of this work.The i process is now widely accepted to be the process that produces the unusual abundances of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) -r/s stars. A challenge in recent years has been constraining a site for the i process. Given the large range in potential neutron densities, many astrophysical sites have the potential to host i-process conditions. Two of the most promising sites for the i process are: the intershell regions of low-mass, low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars and on rapidly accreting white dwarfs. This work provides abundance analyses of models of the two different scenarios.I first look at comparing both models to a sample of CEMP-r/s stars using j2 fitting. From this I was able to determine the abundance signatures that can make one model fit an i-process pattern more closely than another. I used this fitting technique to fit i-process models to other objects in the literature, including to phosphorus-rich stars. j2 fitting is also used to show that stellar models can be used to make predictions of the Th and U we would expect to see from the i process.I move on to investigating elemental abundance ratios that may help us distinguish an s process from an i process by using three-element plots. From this, I came up with four abundance ratios that have the potential to be useful as an i-process signature
Signatures of i-process nucleosynthesis
Get PDFNeutron capture nucleosynthesis is responsible for the production of heavy elements. Three neutron capture processes are currently known, each occurring at their own characteristic neutron density and operating in different ways. The slow neutron capture process operates at neutron densities of n ≈ 10⁷ 10¹⁰ cm⁻³, the rapid at neutron densities of = & 10²⁰ cm⁻³ and the intermediate at neutron densities of n ≥ 10¹² - 10¹⁵ cm⁻³. The intermediate neutron capture process (i process) is the focus of this work.The i process is now widely accepted to be the process that produces the unusual abundances of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) -r/s stars. A challenge in recent years has been constraining a site for the i process. Given the large range in potential neutron densities, many astrophysical sites have the potential to host i-process conditions. Two of the most promising sites for the i process are: the intershell regions of low-mass, low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars and on rapidly accreting white dwarfs. This work provides abundance analyses of models of the two different scenarios.I first look at comparing both models to a sample of CEMP-r/s stars using j2 fitting. From this I was able to determine the abundance signatures that can make one model fit an i-process pattern more closely than another. I used this fitting technique to fit i-process models to other objects in the literature, including to phosphorus-rich stars. j2 fitting is also used to show that stellar models can be used to make predictions of the Th and U we would expect to see from the i process.I move on to investigating elemental abundance ratios that may help us distinguish an s process from an i process by using three-element plots. From this, I came up with four abundance ratios that have the potential to be useful as an i-process signature
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
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 PDFWe 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 PDFWe 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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