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The Distribution of the Asymptotic Number of Citations to Sets of Publications by a Researcher or From an Academic Department Are Consistent With a Discrete Lognormal Model
How to quantify the impact of a researcher's or an institution's body of work
is a matter of increasing importance to scientists, funding agencies, and
hiring committees. The use of bibliometric indicators, such as the h-index or
the Journal Impact Factor, have become widespread despite their known
limitations. We argue that most existing bibliometric indicators are
inconsistent, biased, and, worst of all, susceptible to manipulation. Here, we
pursue a principled approach to the development of an indicator to quantify the
scientific impact of both individual researchers and research institutions
grounded on the functional form of the distribution of the asymptotic number of
citations. We validate our approach using the publication records of 1,283
researchers from seven scientific and engineering disciplines and the chemistry
departments at the 106 U.S. research institutions classified as "very high
research activity". Our approach has three distinct advantages. First, it
accurately captures the overall scientific impact of researchers at all career
stages, as measured by asymptotic citation counts. Second, unlike other
measures, our indicator is resistant to manipulation and rewards publication
quality over quantity. Third, our approach captures the time-evolution of the
scientific impact of research institutions.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, 3 table
An Inverse Problem for Localization Operators
A classical result of time-frequency analysis, obtained by I. Daubechies in
1988, states that the eigenfunctions of a time-frequency localization operator
with circular localization domain and Gaussian analysis window are the Hermite
functions. In this contribution, a converse of Daubechies' theorem is proved.
More precisely, it is shown that, for simply connected localization domains, if
one of the eigenfunctions of a time-frequency localization operator with
Gaussian window is a Hermite function, then its localization domain is a disc.
The general problem of obtaining, from some knowledge of its eigenfunctions,
information about the symbol of a time-frequency localization operator, is
denoted as the inverse problem, and the problem studied by Daubechies as the
direct problem of time-frequency analysis. Here, we also solve the
corresponding problem for wavelet localization, providing the inverse problem
analogue of the direct problem studied by Daubechies and Paul.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
Perfis de aprendizagem de estudantes do Ensino Superior
Tendo por base o trabalho de Entwistle e colaboradores sobre a forma como os estudantes do ensino superior percecionam e vivenciam as experiĂŞncias de aprendizagem, foram objetivos centrais do presente trabalho avaliar os significados atribuĂdos Ă aprendizagem, ao estudo e Ă s preferĂŞncias por tipos de ensino e compreender se serĂŁo divergentes as abordagens ao estudo e as conceções de aprendizagem de estudantes de diferentes áreas cientĂficas e anos. Quisemos ainda perceber qual o significado das diferenças, bem como o que parece ser mais relevante em termos de tarefas acadĂ©micas para os intervenientes. Neste sentido, foram consideradas as perceções dos estudantes em relação ao ambiente de
ensino-aprendizagem, percebidas como indicadores que influenciam o que os estudantes pensam sobre o ensino, o estudo e a aprendizagem (preferĂŞncias por tipos de aulas e de ensino). O estudo realizado assume uma natureza descritiva,correlacional e nĂŁo experimental, tendo sido desenvolvido com 568 estudantes de uma instituição universitária do sul do paĂs. Os resultados obtidos permitem-nos afirmar a existĂŞncia de algumas diferenças significativas em função do ano e do domĂnio cientĂfico, bem como identificar perfis dissonantes em termos das formas como os estudantes abordam o estudo e a aprendizagem
Arsenic in rice agrosystems (water, soil and rice plants) in Guayas and Los Rios provinces, Ecuador
Geogenic arsenic (As) can accumulate and reach high concentrations in rice grains, thus representing a potential threat to human health. Ecuador is one of the main consumers of rice in South America. However, there is no information available about the concentrations of As in rice agrosystems, although some water bodies are known to contain high levels of the element. We carried out extensive sampling of water, soil, rice plants and commercial rice (obtained from local markets). Water samples were analysed to determine physico-chemical properties and concentrations of dissolved arsenic. Soil samples were analysed to determine total organic C, texture, total Fe and amorphous Fe oxyhydroxides (Fe-ox), total arsenic (tAs) and the bioavailable fraction (As-Me). The different plant parts were analysed separately to determine total (tAs), inorganic (iAs) and organic arsenic (oAs). Low concentrations of arsenic were found in samples of water (generally 80%) in all parts of the rice plants. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Morse–Bott split symplectic homology
© 2019, The Author(s). We associate a chain complex to a Liouville domain (W¯ , d λ) whose boundary Y admits a Boothby–Wang contact form (i.e. is a prequantization space). The differential counts Floer cylinders with cascades in the completion W of W¯ , in the spirit of Morse–Bott homology (Bourgeois in A Morse–Bott approach to contact homology, Ph.D. Thesis. ProQuest LLC, Stanford University, Ann Arbor 2002; Frauenfelder in Int Math Res Notices 42:2179–2269, 2004; Bourgeois and Oancea in Duke Math J 146(1), 71–174, 2009). The homology of this complex is the symplectic homology of W (Diogo and Lisi in J Topol 12:966–1029, 2019). Let X be obtained from W¯ by collapsing the boundary Y along Reeb orbits, giving a codimension two symplectic submanifold Σ. Under monotonicity assumptions on X and Σ , we show that for generic data, the differential in our chain complex counts elements of moduli spaces of cascades that are transverse. Furthermore, by some index estimates, we show that very few combinatorial types of cascades can appear in the differential
Morse-Bott Split Symplectic Homology
We introduce a chain complex associated to a Liouville domain whose boundary admits a Boothby--Wang contact form (i.e. is a
prequantization space). The differential counts cascades of Floer solutions in
the completion of , in the spirit of Morse--Bott homology (as
in work of Bourgeois, Frauenfelder arXiv:math/0309373 and Bourgeois-Oancea
arXiv:0704.1039). The homology of this complex is the symplectic homology of
the completion .
We identify a class of simple cascades and show that their moduli spaces are
cut out transversely for generic choice of auxiliary data. If is obtained
by collapsing the boundary along Reeb orbits and is the quotient of
by the -action induced by the Reeb flow, we also establish
transversality for certain moduli spaces of holomorphic spheres in and in
.
Finally, under monotonicity assumptions on and , we show that for
generic data, the differential in our chain complex counts elements of moduli
spaces that are transverse. Furthermore, by some index estimates, we show that
very few combinatorial types of cascades can appear in the differential.Comment: 67 pages, 7 figures; expanded the section on orientations of moduli
spaces, corrected some errors and improved exposition thanks to comments from
the refere
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