Naively, one would expect longer papers to have larger impact (i.e., to be cited more). I tested this expectation by selecting all (∼ 30, 000) refereed papers from A&A, AJ, ApJ and MNRAS published between 2000 and 2004. These particular years were chosen so papers analyzed would not be too “fresh”, but at the same time length of each article could be obtained via ADS. I find that indeed longer ...

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In Analytic SSA, an approximate upper bound to the logdet term in Eq. 4 is computed (Hara et al., 2012). Without re-deriving this bound entirely, we present its final steps, which we use to obtain the bounds for KSSA and NLSSA.

A new analogue of vicenistatin was isolated from the producing strain Streptomyces sp. HC-34. A characteristic of the elucidated structure involved the existence of a neutral sugar mycarose instead of an aminosugar vicenisamine of vicenistatin. The absolute stereochemistry of the new analogue (named as vicenistatin M) was determined by the synthesis of D-mycarose and of vicenistatin M itself. B...

The energy E(G) of a graph G is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of G. An n-vertex graph is said to be hypoenergetic if E(G) < n and strongly hypoenergetic if E(G) < n−1. In this paper, we consider hypoenergetic and strongly hypoenergetic trees. For any given n, the existence of both hypoenergetic and strongly hypoenergetic trees of order n is completely characterized.

To answer Alsmith’s questions about the existence of a vestibular sense, we outline in the first part of our reply why we believe the vestibular sense is a true “sixth sense”. We argue that vestibular information constitutes distinct sensory events and that absolute coding of body orientation and motion in the gravitycentered space is the important unique feature of the vestibular system. In th...

ABSTRACT: A difference labeling of a graph G is realized by assigning distinct integer values to its vertices and then associating with each edge the absolute difference of those values assigned to its end vertices. A decomposition of labeled graph into parts, each part containing the edge having a commonweight is called a common – weight decomposition. In this paper we investigate the existenc...

Abstract. The existence of crack evolutions based on critical points of the energy functional is proved, in the case of a cohesive zone model with prescribed crack path. It turns out that evolutions of this type satisfy a maximum stress criterion for the crack initiation. With an explicit example, it is shown that evolutions based on the absolute minimization of the energy functional do not enj...

or concrete entities. I could also give a similar story-relative account of the issue as to whether fictional characters are individual versus general entities such as universals; here too I can simply reply that it depends on whether or not the relevant characters are represented as individuals or as universals, in the fictional story. 35. Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics, chap. 1. 36. That ...