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A new shape descriptor based on a Q-convexity measure
No full textIn this paper we define a new measure for shape descriptor. The measure is based on the concept of convexity by quadrant, called Q-convexity. Mostly studied in Discrete Tomography, this convexity generalizes hv-convexity to any two or more directions, and presents interesting connections with â totalâ convexity. The new measure generalizes that proposed by Balázs and Brunetti (A measure of Q-convexity, LNCS 9647 (2016) 219â 230), and therefore it has the same desirable features: (1) its values range intrinsically from 0 to 1; (2) its values equal 1 if and only if the binary image is Q-convex; (3) its efficient computation can be easily implemented; (4) it is invariant under translation, reflection, and rotation by 90°. We test the new measure for assessing sensitivity using a set of synthetic polygons with rotation and translation of intrusions/protrusions and global skew, and for a ranking task using a variety of shapes. Based on the geometrical properties of Q-convexity, we also provide a characterization of any binary image by the matrix of its â generalized salient pointsâ , and we design a linear-time algorithm for the construction of the binary image from its associated matrix
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
Extension of a one-dimensional convexity measure to two dimensions
No full textIn this paper we propose a new idea to design a measure for shape descriptors based on the concept of Q-convexity. The new measure extends the directional convexity measure defined in [2] to a two-dimensional convexity measure. The derived shape descriptors have the following features: (1) their values range from 0 to 1; (2) their values equal 1 if and only if the binary image is Q-convex; (3) they are invariant by reflection and point symmetry; (4) their computation can be easily and efficiently implemented
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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