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We investigate the problem of counting co-authorhip in order to quantify the impact and relevance of scientific research output through normalized h-index and g-index. We use the papers whose authors belong to a subset of full professors of the Italian Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) FIS01 Experimental Physics. In this SSD two populations, characterized by the number of co-authors of eac...

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The conversion of orthographic text into a phonemic form may itself comprise several processes i n series, for instance, formatting t e x t to expand a b b r e v i a t i o n s and n o n a l p h a b e t i c e x p r e s s i o n s , p a r s i n g and word c l a s s d e t e r m i n a t i o n , segmenta l p h o n e m i c i z a t i o n of words, word and clause level stress assignment, word internal ...

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