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Thinking, Alternatively: The Application of Art, Philosophy and Holistic Practice in the Teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Get PDFThe challenge for education in contemporary times is how to combine rich subject knowledge with conceptualization, whilst also supporting curiosity, criticality and creative problem-solving through application. More importantly is the embedding of well-being in curriculums to ensure the evolution of being, becoming, and thriving subjects towards enhancing life-long learning. This chapter will explore the potential of interdisciplinary working across philosophy and the humanities to develop the kinds of critical education required. Using practical examples, we will demonstrate how educators can think in interdisciplinary ways, within the constraints of formal curricula activity. We will explore opportunities for ‘thinking, alternatively’ across STEM subjects, focusing particularly on the role of art and philosophy. Drawing on posthuman thinking and the work of Deleuze, Guattari, Dewey and others, we consider philosophy to be an active and creative practice which can work to open new ontological positions and modes of thought. We consider how art can work with science, not as a tool in the service of understanding scientific concepts, but to reimagine what science is, what it can do, and to break down nature/culture binaries. We aim to show how transdisciplinary educational practice can aid human and non-human well-being, through reframed relations within and without the classroom
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
Wear modelling and FEA simulation for dry sliding contacts
No full textEN-AUSThe thesis presents a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) based wear modellingalgorithm devised in the course of the reported research activity. FEA is used as a tool to calculate nodal pressures at the contact region for small sliding steps. These pressures are then inputted to a customised wear calculating routine. The routine uses averaged wear coefficients (wear rates) obtained from custom designed experiments. The FEA contact geometry is modified after each sliding step to account for the contact height decay, thus determining the volume loss due to wear over usage time, thus predicting the worn geometry. Consequently, the designer gains invaluable insight into the extent of wear-caused component deformation along with the number of usage cycles lapsed prior to such deformation.PhD Doctorat
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
Predicting the useful life of sliding polymer components : using Finite Element Analysis
No full textkoamabayili/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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