Purpose:To analyze the diversity of citation distributions to publications in different research topics to investigate the accuracy of size-independent,rank-based indicators.The top percentile-based indicators are the...
Introduction The Yijing易经,or Book of Changes,is said to be the most influential philosophical text of the ancient classics of China.Written over 2000 years ago,initially it was a manual for divination(the Zhouyi),an...
Every production-recycling iteration accumulates an inevitable proportion of its matter-energy in the environment, lest the production process itself will be a system in perpetual motion, violating the second law of T...
The article examines the tradition of the writing of Encyclopaedias and historical dictionaries in seventeenth and eighteenth century France. The main ones--by Bayle, Chambers, and by the group assembled by d'Alember...
Based on the authors' experience of supervising English majors' B.A. thesis writing and situation of the thesis writing nowadays in China, the present paper makes a comparative analysis of the translation of the tit...
It has been claimed in the literature that impossibility of faster-than-light quantum communication has an origin of indistinguishability of ensembles with the same density matrix. We show that the two concepts are no...
In Arrow’s General Possibility Theorem (GPT), social choice should be defined over allpairs of alternatives. In this paper, we generalize Arrow’s GPT to situations where choice over pairs ofalternatives may not be p...