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    Separating and counting number of touching object using image segmentation technique / Ahmad Afif Azmi

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    Image segmentation is the fundamentals process in digital image processing. It is a process of partitioning a digital image into something more meaningful for easier analysis in practical application. Separating and counting number of touching object is one of the practical applications. The sample objects taken are oval, circle and rectangular. The image sample of each of the objects is captured on 3 different images. Those images would be an image of single object, multiple touching object and image consist both single and multiple touching objects. Each image will contain 7 quantities of objects. The images are first segmented using marker-controlled watershed segmentation technique. Then information pertaining to orientation and pixels in the segmented image is extracted and plotted in a graph. Next the range of the objects pixel is determined and finally the number of objects in an image can be counted. The results shows that using this algorithm can accurately separate and counting the number of touching object if correct parameter is applied

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    Azan reader and digital alarm clock / Emirulzaman Supeni and Ahmad Afif Azmi

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    Azan reader is implemented using Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition .It is because the interface is user-friendly and easy to understand It save the time for azan that had been set and alerts the Muslims users when the time is equal to azan reader. It can play in laptop and desktop computer also The features of azan reader are it have five time solah like zohor,asar ,maghrib,isyak and subuh.lt also has a main time to display the user that what time are going now. This azan reader is suitable for Muslims who are busy in working at office especially doing a job in front of computer. Even though, the market have azan reader software, this azan reader is very easy installing and using. Digital alarm clock is device that show current time and set the time for alarm. The difference on digital alarm clock described here is use one PIC 16F84A as it core this PIC will act as multiplexer and decoder with certain code that will be program in this PIC and control the circuit operation. In this report will describe how the azan reader and digital alarm clock are implemented and work

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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