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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
Method for integration of lattice structures in design for additive manufacturing
No full textIl est maintenant possible de fabriquer des structures treillis métalliques facilement avec la fabrication additive. Les structures en treillis peuvent être utilisées pour produire des pièces de faible masse et de haute résistance. Il n’existe pas de méthode de conception pour les structures treillis. Cette thèse se concentre sur les méthodes de conception des structures treillis et la manipulation dans le CAO et FAO pour faciliter l'intégration des structures treillis dans les produits. La thèse a abordé les questions de recherche suivantes:• Pourquoi les structures treillis sont-elles si peu utilisées dans la conception?• Quelles sont les informations nécessaires pour aider les concepteurs à concevoir des pièces contenant des structures treillis?• Comment les structures treillis peuvent-elles être créées rapidement et facilement dans le CAO?Les principales contributions sont les suivantes:• Une évaluation des outils CAO actuels dans la conception de structures en treillis en termes d'interface homme machine, de formats de fichiers CAO et de FAO pour la fabrication d'additive a été effectuée. Les résultats montrent que les outils de CAO et les formats de fichier CAO actuels ont des performances insuffisantes dans le contexte de la conception pour la fabrication d'additive. Les outils de CAO actuels créent et représentent actuellement des structures en treillis utilisant les surfaces limites des volumes. Cela contribue ainsi à la grande taille des fichiers, à une consommation élevée de mémoire vivre, ainsi des opérations fastidieuses pour les modélisations.• Une nouvelle stratégie de conception de structures treillis. Cette méthode sert de guide aux concepteurs pour l'intégration des structures en treillis dans les pièces fabriquées par fabrication additive en utilisant le matériau équivalent. Les concepteurs auront à leur disposition les informations nécessaires pour choisir les types et la densité des structure treillis à utiliser.• Une méthodologie pour calculer les propriétés matériau équivalent. Ces matériaux équivalents remplacent le besoin de créer des structures treillis dans le CAO et de les calculer par éléments-finis. Cela permettra d'économiser du temps dans la création de modèles CAO 3D et les calculs éléments finis.• Les principales caractéristiques géométriques des structures treillis ont été déterminées. Un modèle squelettique a été présenté pour définir les structures treillis à partir de points, de lignes, de sections et de joints au lieu des surfaces et des volumes. Une méthode est présentée pour visualiser et découper les structures treillis à partir du modèle squelette.It is now possible to manufacture metallic lattice structures easily with additive manufacturing. Lattice structures can be used to produce high strength low mass parts. However, it does not exist a method to design lattice structures for additive manufacturing. This PhD focuses on lattice structure design methods and manipulation in CAD, CAE and CAM tools to facilitate the wide use of lattice structures in products. The thesis addressed the following research questions:• Why are lattice structures so little used in part designs?• What are the information necessary to help designers to design parts containing lattice structures?• How can lattice structures be created quickly and easily in CAD?The main contributions are:• An evaluation of current CAD tools in terms of human machine interface, CAD file formats, CAE and CAM to design lattice structures was conducted. The results show that current CAD tools and CAD file formats have insufficient performance in the context of design for additive manufacturing. Current CAD tools create and represent lattice structures using surfaces and volumes. This contributes to large file sizes, high RAM consumption, as well as time-consuming creations and operations.• A new lattice structure design strategy. This method serves as a guideline for designers to integrate lattice structures in additive manufactured parts using the concept of equivalent material. Designers will be able to choose lattice structure patterns and densities.• A methodology to create equivalent materials is presented. It is solid and does not contain any struts, thus has few surfaces only. With this equivalent material, it will be easier and quicker to conduct FEA due to the small number of surfaces involved. The characteristics of different lattice structure patterns and densities were determined, which are the relative Young’s modulus and relative strength in function of the relative density. This methodology can be applied to all lattice structures.• The main lattice structure geometrical characteristics were determined. A skeleton model was presented to define lattice structures with points, lines, sections and joints instead of surfaces and volumes. A method is presented to visualise in CAD and slice lattice structures in CAM from the skeleton model
A study on palmistry color reflectance related to personality of subject / Abdul Hadi Azman
Get PDFPalmistry technique is traditionally known as an ancient art of reading the palm and it can be found in many parts of the world. Since blood circulation in the palm contains valuable information about the health condition of a person, this technique is also acts as one of the aid tools for diagnosing purposes. This thesis will describes the development and analysis of palmistry technique using image processing in term primary additive color component (RGB). The analysis on palmistry will describe about personality of person which is social, non-social, intelligence, non-intelligence, sport and non-sport. Two major of work were carried out to get the result, first the extraction color from palmistry, this process will extract color to a single color component. In this work, samples of palm images are digitally captured under standard and control environment. Other characteristic parameters representing the subject’s personality and health are also taken. Statistical tools are applied to the quantified color component indices from the processed image for significant findings that can relate color of palm with respect to the subject’s character. Findings in this research shows the non-social type of personality can be discriminated from other type of personality based on R and G component refer to result from p-value. Another type also can be trace easily based on R component, all this result is justified by statistical test
A study on palmistry color reflectance related to personality of subject: article / Abdul Hadi Azman
Get PDF-Palmistry technique is traditionally known as an ancient art of reading the palm and it can be found in many parts of the world. Since blood circulation in the palm contains valuable information about the health condition of a person, this technique is also acts as one of the aid tools for diagnosing purposes. This paper presents a contribution in the field of color image processing of palmistry with the help of advanced RGB color image processing techniques in order to study the personality index of a subject. In this work, samples of palm images are digitally captured under standard and control environment. Other characteristic parameters representing the subject’s personality are also taken. Statistical tools are applied to the quantified color component indices from the processed image for significant findings that can relate color of palm with respect to the subject’s character
Méthode pour l'intégration des structures treillis dans la conception pour la fabrication additive
No full textIt is now possible to manufacture metallic lattice structures easily with additive manufacturing. Lattice structures can be used to produce high strength low mass parts. However, it does not exist a method to design lattice structures for additive manufacturing. This PhD focuses on lattice structure design methods and manipulation in CAD, CAE and CAM tools to facilitate the wide use of lattice structures in products. The thesis addressed the following research questions:• Why are lattice structures so little used in part designs?• What are the information necessary to help designers to design parts containing lattice structures?• How can lattice structures be created quickly and easily in CAD?The main contributions are:• An evaluation of current CAD tools in terms of human machine interface, CAD file formats, CAE and CAM to design lattice structures was conducted. The results show that current CAD tools and CAD file formats have insufficient performance in the context of design for additive manufacturing. Current CAD tools create and represent lattice structures using surfaces and volumes. This contributes to large file sizes, high RAM consumption, as well as time-consuming creations and operations.• A new lattice structure design strategy. This method serves as a guideline for designers to integrate lattice structures in additive manufactured parts using the concept of equivalent material. Designers will be able to choose lattice structure patterns and densities.• A methodology to create equivalent materials is presented. It is solid and does not contain any struts, thus has few surfaces only. With this equivalent material, it will be easier and quicker to conduct FEA due to the small number of surfaces involved. The characteristics of different lattice structure patterns and densities were determined, which are the relative Young’s modulus and relative strength in function of the relative density. This methodology can be applied to all lattice structures.• The main lattice structure geometrical characteristics were determined. A skeleton model was presented to define lattice structures with points, lines, sections and joints instead of surfaces and volumes. A method is presented to visualise in CAD and slice lattice structures in CAM from the skeleton model.Il est maintenant possible de fabriquer des structures treillis métalliques facilement avec la fabrication additive. Les structures en treillis peuvent être utilisées pour produire des pièces de faible masse et de haute résistance. Il n’existe pas de méthode de conception pour les structures treillis. Cette thèse se concentre sur les méthodes de conception des structures treillis et la manipulation dans le CAO et FAO pour faciliter l'intégration des structures treillis dans les produits. La thèse a abordé les questions de recherche suivantes:• Pourquoi les structures treillis sont-elles si peu utilisées dans la conception?• Quelles sont les informations nécessaires pour aider les concepteurs à concevoir des pièces contenant des structures treillis?• Comment les structures treillis peuvent-elles être créées rapidement et facilement dans le CAO?Les principales contributions sont les suivantes:• Une évaluation des outils CAO actuels dans la conception de structures en treillis en termes d'interface homme machine, de formats de fichiers CAO et de FAO pour la fabrication d'additive a été effectuée. Les résultats montrent que les outils de CAO et les formats de fichier CAO actuels ont des performances insuffisantes dans le contexte de la conception pour la fabrication d'additive. Les outils de CAO actuels créent et représentent actuellement des structures en treillis utilisant les surfaces limites des volumes. Cela contribue ainsi à la grande taille des fichiers, à une consommation élevée de mémoire vivre, ainsi des opérations fastidieuses pour les modélisations.• Une nouvelle stratégie de conception de structures treillis. Cette méthode sert de guide aux concepteurs pour l'intégration des structures en treillis dans les pièces fabriquées par fabrication additive en utilisant le matériau équivalent. Les concepteurs auront à leur disposition les informations nécessaires pour choisir les types et la densité des structure treillis à utiliser.• Une méthodologie pour calculer les propriétés matériau équivalent. Ces matériaux équivalents remplacent le besoin de créer des structures treillis dans le CAO et de les calculer par éléments-finis. Cela permettra d'économiser du temps dans la création de modèles CAO 3D et les calculs éléments finis.• Les principales caractéristiques géométriques des structures treillis ont été déterminées. Un modèle squelettique a été présenté pour définir les structures treillis à partir de points, de lignes, de sections et de joints au lieu des surfaces et des volumes. Une méthode est présentée pour visualiser et découper les structures treillis à partir du modèle squelette
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
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