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[Des Moines Electric Co., Engine Drawing Card, Sketch No. 8324]
No full textThis engine drawing card was created for Des Moines Electric Company, Class 4 36 C. Section J 4 C. Sketch 8324. Copy Spec. 36 D-1
Rim and body fragment of an amphora, White Painted IV (109478+109480/8324).
No full textRim and body fragment of an amphora, White Painted IV (109478+109480/8324).</p
Sensing mixtures of H₂, CH₄ and CO through an array of chemiresistors.
No full textA determinação de cada espécie que compõe uma mistura gasosa tem sido alvo de muitas pesquisas. Existem equipamentos para tal finalidade tais como, cromatografia gasosa, espectroscopia de infravermelho e sensores. A fim de viabilizar uma aplicação de baixo custo para a determinação da concentração de espécies em uma mistura gasosa, neste trabalho, é proposto um aparato para sensoriamento de H₂, CH₄ e CO encontrados em gases combustíveis. O sensoriamento é efetuado por quimioresistores de SnO₂ comercialmente disponíveis. O aparato consiste de um sistema de coleta da mistura gasosa e de sua diluição antes de seguir com a análise feita pelos sensores, obedecendo aos requisitos de segurança contra explosões. O aparato foi submetido a 125 diferentes misturas oriundas da combinação das concentrações de 0, 200, 800, 1500 e 2000 ppm de cada espécie gasosa utilizando o nitrogênio (99,999%) como gás de arraste. As amostragens foram avaliadas sob dois diferentes métodos de recuperação dos sensores: forçado e natural. Através dos resultados experimentais obtidos, foi observado que: a sensibilidade cruzada dos sensores de CO e de CH₄ é bastante elevada enquanto que o sensor de H₂ apresentou maior seletividade e, o método de recuperação natural apresentou melhores resultados em função da estabilidade térmica do sistema. Uma rede neural artificial foi desenvolvida e treinada com o objetivo de superar o problema das sensibilidades cruzadas. Os resultados obtidos pela rede neural são promissores e apresentaram erro máximo de 0,1 % para o hidrogênio, 23% para o metano e 29% para o monóxido de carbono para a obtenção da concentração absoluta de H₂, CH₄ e CO encontrados em misturas com composições conhecidas de antemão.The achievement of the content of each component of a gas mixture from gasifiers has been a matter of several studies. There are specific techniques for this purpose, such as: gas chromatography, infrared spectroscopy and sensors. In order to allow a low cost application for obtaining the concentrations in a gas mixture, this study proposes a set up for sensing H₂, CH₄ and CO found in fuel gases produced by gasifiers. The sensing is performed by commercially available chemiresistors of SnO₂. The proposed set up collects the gas mixture and dilutes it before proceeding the sensing step, based on the safety requirements to avoid explosion. 125 different gas mixtures were prepared from the combination of 0, 200, 800, 1500 and 2000 ppm of H₂, CH₄ and CO using nitrogen (99.999%) as the carrier gas. The samples were evaluated under two different methods for sensor recovery: forced and natural. Based on the results, it was established that: the cross sensitivity of the CO and CH₄ sensors is too high while the H₂ sensor presents higher selectivity (almost 100%) and the natural recovery method showed improved results because of the better thermal stability of the system. An artificial neural network was developed and trained with the purpose of overcoming the problem of cross sensitivities. The results achieved by means of the neural network are promising and indicated a maximum error of 0.1% for hydrogen, 23% for methane and 29% for carbon monoxide when the absolute concentration of H₂, CH₄ and CO found in the gas mixtures are obtained from well known compositions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
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