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VPRS 12682 Advance Account, Secretary and Treasurer
No full textThe Central Roads Board, the first agency concerned with the establishment of main roads and bridges, was abolished on 1 January 1858 and succeeded by the Department of Roads and Bridges (VA 2964) which operated under the statutory control of the Board of Land and Works (VA 744).<br/><br/>This series consists of the records of the Advance Account as authorised by the Secretary and Treasurer of the Department. Receipts were from the Treasury and from reimbursements. Disbursements were for wages, expenses related to toll collection, and minor maintenance works for roads and bridges as authorised by the central office of the Department.<br/><br/>VPRS 12682/P1 was formerly registered as Unit 2 of VPRS 1141 Journal. It was reserialised in 2001 as part of the ARAD Project
An algorithm for random generation of admissible horizontal alignments for optimum layout design
Get PDFThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Vázquez-Méndez ME,Casal G, Castro A, Santamarina D. An algorithmfor random generation of admissible horizontalalignments for optimum layout design.ComputAided Civ Inf.2021;36:1056–1072, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12682.This work deals with the design of horizontal alignments (HAs) for its application in intelligent civil systems. Two consecutive tasks are performed: the random generation of admissible horizontal alignments (AHAs; alignments verifying some geometric constraints set in advance) and the optimal design of layouts joining two given points. A rigorous mathematical analysis of the first task leads to a novel algorithm for random generation of alignments, which is used to develop the global optimization method proposed for the second task. The usefulness of this approach is shown on some practical applications. First, two problems with applications in robotics, pipe layout design, and forest road design are solved in realistic situations. Next, the random generation of AHAs in mountainous terrain is addressed. Finally, the model is extended to 3D alignments and a real case study is presented, designing a bypass on the N-640 Spanish national road, surrounding the urban area of MonterrosoThird author thanks the support given by the Consellería
de Cultura, Educación e Universidade (Xunta de Galicia) by
Project ED431B 2020/25. The authors are also very grateful
to the Editor and the seven anonymous reviewers for their very
valuable suggestions.S
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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