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Digital Shadow Methodology—A Real-Time Measurement Technique for Thermal Comfort
No full textThis study aims to develop a methodology for evaluating strategies for retrofitting and urban regeneration of a specific category of buildings within the municipality of Milan. The research is part of a larger programme, MUSA, which is an Ecosystem of Innovation funded by the Ministry of University and Research within the PNRR, encompassing disciplines such as architecture, biology, medicine, economics, and computer science. The proposed methodology employs the Digital Shadow methodology, which involves analysing a typical case building and replicating its behaviour in a digital model. The explained procedure defines a thermal comfort environment where specific parameters as temperature and humidity are chosen and transmitted in real time to a Building Information Model (BIM) through an algorithmic procedure. The digital shadow framework includes data, information, and mathematical models, focusing on mathematical models to enable extended data and information fusion. The methodology is implemented using the Arduino digital ecosystem, which is open-source, cost-effective, and versatile, allowing for remote operation and adaptation of the inserted code without physically accessing the sensors. The acquired environmental data are transmitted to a digital model, developed in a Revit platform, which is the state of the art in BIM. Once the data transmission method and model update are implemented, real-time verification of environmental data trends can be possible for individual buildings and an urban-scale platform update, enabling global values comparison and parameter changes considering building interventions for urban regeneration
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
The use of zadoff–Chu sequences for a new distance measurement technique
No full textThis work presents a different distance evaluation technique that combines the properties of the Zadoff–Chu sequences with the advantages of the OFDM modulation scheme. The resulting signal is very robust against the multipath that is the most important problem of any indoor positioning system. The signal is composed of only pilot subcarriers, and it can be fully generated in digital domain leading to a very simple architecture for the transmitter and the receiver. The capabilities of the proposed technique were tested evaluating the distance between two active devices synchronized and connected through cables with different length. The system was able to achieve an accuracy of 0.2 cm and a mean final precision of 0.65 cm using a signal with 100 MHz of bandwidth and 64 subcarriers
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
sj-docx-1-tct-10.1177_15330338231189593 - Supplemental material for X-ray and MR Contrast Bearing Nanoparticles Enhance the Therapeutic Response of Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for Oral Cancer
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tct-10.1177_15330338231189593 for X-ray and MR Contrast Bearing Nanoparticles Enhance the Therapeutic Response of Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for Oral Cancer by Gayatri Sharma, Mir Hadi Razeghi Kondelaji and
Guru P. Sharma, Christopher Hansen,
Abdul K. Parchur, Shayan Shafiee,
Jaidip M. Jagtap, Brian Fish, Carmen Bergom, Eric Paulson, William A. Hall, Heather A. Himburg, Amit Joshi in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment</p
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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