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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
Dynamic Simulation and Modelling for Continuum Load of Robotics Impedance Control
Get PDFTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a safe neuro-modulation technique based on electromagnetic induction of an electric field inside the brain, has shown behavioral effects and therapeutic potential. Applying robots to the TMS procedure is shown to improve stability and consistency. However, unlike human operators, robots can hardly detect the contact force if the attached device is a varying load and if the sensor is not directly placed at the contact region. This limitation adversely affects the safety of the TMS therapy. Impedance Control could potentially address this problem by considering the contact force as impedance and changing the robots' motion accordingly. The impedance controller requires accurate measurement of the contact force, but, with the TMS cable attached, the contact force is highly coupled with the gravitational force of the cable.
This thesis presents novel approaches to tracking or simulating the continuum load of the cable during robotic TMS, making the decoupling of the contact force and the load possible. The kinematics-based modeling approach and dynamic modeling approach, employing real-time integration of Taichi physics engine to ROS and a novel marker labeling algorithm, provide comprehensive and robust solutions to the challenges of accurate and precise external force estimation. The proposed kinematics-based method is tested in realistic experiments by projecting the reconstructed object onto the image captured by an RGBD camera, and the computational demand of the dynamics-based method is examined in the simulation environment. The positional error of the TMS coil localization in the simulation is evaluated by applying artificial external loads to the robot. This thesis shows that the proposed modeling approach improves the performance of the impedance control applied for Robotic TMS therapy in the presence of continuum loads, which paves the way for real-time integration of force control and robotic TMS therapy
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Dynamic Simulation and Modelling for Continuum Load of Robotics Impedance Control
Get PDFTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a safe neuro-modulation technique based on electromagnetic induction of an electric field inside the brain, has shown behavioral effects and therapeutic potential. Applying robots to the TMS procedure is shown to improve stability and consistency. However, unlike human operators, robots can hardly detect the contact force if the attached device is a varying load and if the sensor is not directly placed at the contact region. This limitation adversely affects the safety of the TMS therapy. Impedance Control could potentially address this problem by considering the contact force as impedance and changing the robots' motion accordingly. The impedance controller requires accurate measurement of the contact force, but, with the TMS cable attached, the contact force is highly coupled with the gravitational force of the cable.
This thesis presents novel approaches to tracking or simulating the continuum load of the cable during robotic TMS, making the decoupling of the contact force and the load possible. The kinematics-based modeling approach and dynamic modeling approach, employing real-time integration of Taichi physics engine to ROS and a novel marker labeling algorithm, provide comprehensive and robust solutions to the challenges of accurate and precise external force estimation. The proposed kinematics-based method is tested in realistic experiments by projecting the reconstructed object onto the image captured by an RGBD camera, and the computational demand of the dynamics-based method is examined in the simulation environment. The positional error of the TMS coil localization in the simulation is evaluated by applying artificial external loads to the robot. This thesis shows that the proposed modeling approach improves the performance of the impedance control applied for Robotic TMS therapy in the presence of continuum loads, which paves the way for real-time integration of force control and robotic TMS therapy
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