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the shape of collaborations
Abstract The structure of scientific collaborations has been the object of intense study both for its importance for innovation and scientific advancement, and as a model system for social group coordination and formation thanks to the availability of authorship data. Over the last years, complex networks approach to this problem have yielded important insights and shaped our understanding of scientific communities. In this paper we propose to complement the picture provided by network tools with that coming from using simplicial descriptions of publications and the corresponding topological methods. We show that it is natural to extend the concept of triadic closure to simplicial complexes and show the presence of strong simplicial closure. Focusing on the differences between scientific fields, we find that, while categories are characterized by different collaboration size distributions, the distributions of how many collaborations to which an author is able to participate is conserved across fields pointing to underlying attentional and temporal constraints. We then show that homological cycles, that can intuitively be thought as hole in the network fabric, are an important part of the underlying community linking structure
Multi-jet production in lepton-proton scattering at next-to-leading order accuracy
I summarize the theoretical and experimental status of multijet production in
DIS. I present the state of the art theoretical predictions and compare those
to the corresponding experimental results obtained by analysing the data
collected by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA. I also show new
predictions for three-jet event-shape distributions at the NLO accuracy.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the Ringberg
Workshop on "New Trends in HERA Physics 2005", Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee,
Germany, 2-7 October 200
Distributing Leadership for Initiating University-Community Engagement
Facilitating community engagement in education is promoted and emphasised as an investment strategy (Garlick 2000). However, the responsibility for facilitating university-community engagement rests upon university personnel to initiate collaborations with the community. This paper describes and analyses leadership processes for initiating community engagement with the new Queensland University of Technology campus at Caboolture. Data collection and analysis involved observation of practices, and coding interviews, minutes of meetings, and written correspondence with a wide range of participants (i.e., senior QUT staff, lecturers, preservice teachers, principals, school executives and teachers, and other community members). Results indicated that leadership processes involved: (1) articulating visionary directions, (2) communication for instigating change processes, (3) motivating potential key stakeholders, (4) promoting collaboration and team effort, and (5) distributing leadership. This study highlighted the impact of creating positive working environments for developing collaborative partnerships. However, new campuses need to shape university goals to suit individual contexts, which will require considerable input from key stakeholders. Initiating community engagement requires university personnel to connect key stakeholders, and the distribution of leadership will be essential in order to sustain university-community collaborations
Gender Disparities in Science? Dropout, Productivity, Collaborations and Success of Male and Female Computer Scientists
Scientific collaborations shape ideas as well as innovations and are both the
substrate for, and the outcome of, academic careers. Recent studies show that
gender inequality is still present in many scientific practices ranging from
hiring to peer-review processes and grant applications. In this work, we
investigate gender-specific differences in collaboration patterns of more than
one million computer scientists over the course of 47 years. We explore how
these patterns change over years and career ages and how they impact scientific
success. Our results highlight that successful male and female scientists
reveal the same collaboration patterns: compared to scientists in the same
career age, they tend to collaborate with more colleagues than other
scientists, seek innovations as brokers and establish longer-lasting and more
repetitive collaborations. However, women are on average less likely to adapt
the collaboration patterns that are related with success, more likely to embed
into ego networks devoid of structural holes, and they exhibit stronger gender
homophily as well as a consistently higher dropout rate than men in all career
ages
ZZ production at the LHC: fiducial cross sections and distributions in NNLO QCD
We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of four charged
leptons in the ZZ signal region at the LHC. We report on the complete
calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to this
process in QCD perturbation theory. Numerical results are presented for
TeV, using typical selection cuts applied by the ATLAS and CMS
collaborations. The NNLO corrections increase the NLO fiducial cross section by
about , and they have a relatively small impact on the shape of the
considered kinematical distributions. In the case of the
distribution of the two Z candidates, the NNLO corrections improve the
agreement of the theoretical prediction with the CMS data.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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