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    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

    Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with condensation

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    This thesis presents direct numerical simulations of turbulent humid air flow through a cooled vertical channel at atmospheric conditions. The combination of humidity, temperature and mixed convection is relevant to the ventilation of car interiors, where condensation on critical surfaces such as windows and windshield poses a problem to its immediate or long-term usability. The interaction between buoyancy, convective transport, and phase transitions creates a complex multi-physics problem at the intersection of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. For the specific range of flow parameters relevant to automotive ventilation, the influence of the liquid phase dynamics is negligible compared to the flow of the gas phase. Leveraging this fact, the single-phase simulation approach uses direct numerical simulations for the solution of the flow fields for the gas phase, including the effect of the phase transition on the velocity, temperature, and vapor concentration of the humid air. It disregards the dynamics within the liquid phase, either neglecting the liquid completely or modeling condensate droplets as static, solid wall deformations. Simulations with and without phase transitions and with and without wall deformations serve to isolate the specific effect of the different influence factors. The combination of direct buoyancy from the cooling and drying of the humid air near the cooled channel wall and the opposing buoyancy contribution from the released latent heat damps the overall influence of the cooled surface on the flow fields compared to cooled channel flow without condensation. In simulations including wall deformations mimicking condensate droplets, the flow across these obstacles create a positive feed-back loop for condensation, increasing the rates at existing droplets

    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

    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

    DNS of turbulent channel flow with condensation and a cluster-based droplet deposition model

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    Single Phase DNS of turbulent flow of humid air along a channel is performed and coupled with a simplified condensation model. Droplet growth is studied using a clustering algorithm to model droplet Agglomeration
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