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An algorithm to draw simulations of dynamic lightweight structural systems with schemas
Full text linkArchitects, designers and structural engineers throughout their education and practice work mostly with visually controlled 3D modelling applications that require manually controlled actions to get the final desired model. On the contrary, we can see the development of visual programming that is now intertwined with traditional software applications and uses data flow to generate geometry. Professionals in the AEC industry witness the capabilities of visual programming mainly by means of its output and the live demonstration of scripts that automate the big amount of manual work. Notwithstanding the fact that visual programming is very appealing as an asset, acquiring the necessary skillset is often a matter of struggle. An example of this is the dynamic simulations of structural systems (tensile, bending active etc.). There are means to perform them but they usually require knowledge of visual programming and several frameworks. This paper attempts to introduce an open-source algorithm cutting short the intricate process of learning new non-conventional software and directly giving the opportunity to design dynamic structural systems as a schema and getting the instant simulations therein
Algorithmic humanitarian architecture - advancement in tools and methods for emergency settlement and shelter planning
Full text linkDOTTORATOL'architettura umanitaria è un sottodominio della disciplina dell'architettura che affronta i bisogni delle persone in emergenza per gli interventi di progettazione e pianificazione. Lo scopo di questa tesi è illustrare le attuali carenze della pratica dell'architettura umanitaria e gli sviluppi intrapresi durante il periodo di ricerca degli studi di dottorato che sono indirizzati a portare avanzamento in questo dominio. I flussi di lavoro comuni nell'architettura umanitaria sono guidati dalla pratica architettonica più ampia. Tuttavia, i bisogni delle persone che vengono qui affrontati e il contesto in generale differiscono notevolmente dalla pratica convenzionale. Negli ultimi decenni, ci sono stati molti progressi nella tecnologia di progettazione architettonica che hanno avuto un profondo impatto sulla metodologia di lavoro. Tuttavia, non c'è stato alcun tentativo significativo di portare questi progressi nel caso particolare dell'architettura umanitaria con soluzioni, strumenti e metodi su misura. La domanda principale di questa tesi è: come si può far avanzare la metodologia di progettazione architettonica umanitaria per un risultato migliore per le persone bisognose? Nel perseguimento di questa domanda, questa tesi presenterà un'analisi approfondita della situazione esistente e presenterà le ipotesi e le soluzioni sviluppate per rispondere ad essa. Come suggerisce il titolo, questa tesi preferisce affrontare il compito di architettura umanitaria non come un problema di progettazione ma piuttosto come un problema di calcolo. Gli sviluppi presentati in questa tesi sono raggiunti principalmente dalla modellazione computazionale, simulazione e validazione di vari fenomeni legati all'architettura come la pianificazione basata sui dati, la ricerca dinamica di forme, l'ottimizzazione strutturale, il comfort termico, l'ottimizzazione evolutiva ecc. I risultati dimostrano che implementando una nuova metodologia computazionale di progettazione e pianificazione, l'architettura umanitaria può migliorare notevolmente la sua efficienza e precisione. La tesi conclude che esiste un modo migliore di pianificare nell'architettura umanitaria e fornisce i metodi e gli strumenti necessari per farlo.Humanitarian architecture is a subdomain of the architecture discipline that addresses the needs of people in an emergency for design and planning interventions. The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the current shortcomings of humanitarian architecture practice and the developments undertaken during the research period of PhD studies that are addressed to bring advancement in this domain. The common workflows in humanitarian architecture are driven by the larger architectural practice. However, the needs of the people that are addressed here and the context in general highly differs from the conventional practice. In recent decades, there have been many advancements in architectural design technology that had a profound impact on the work methodology. Nevertheless, there has been no significant attempt to bring those advancements to the particular case of humanitarian architecture with bespoke solutions, tools and methods. The overarching question of this thesis is how can the humanitarian architectural design methodology be advanced for a better outcome for the people in need? In the pursuit of addressing this question, this thesis will present a thorough analysis of the existing situation and will present the hypotheses and solutions developed for answering it. As the title suggests, this thesis prefers to approach the humanitarian architecture task not as a design problem but rather as a calculation problem. The developments presented in this thesis are achieved mainly by the computational modelling, simulation and validation of various architecture-related phenomena like data-driven planning, dynamic form-finding, structural optimization, thermal comfort, evolutionary optimization etc. The findings demonstrate that by implementing a novel computational methodology of design and planning, humanitarian architecture can dramatically enhance its efficiency and accuracy. The thesis concludes that there is a better way of planning in humanitarian architecture and provides the necessary methods and tools to do so.DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA, INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI E AMBIENTE COSTRUITO33CARVELLI, VALTERSCAIONI, MARC
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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