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Neural network approach for colour matching of ceramic glazes
No full textAesthetical quality of ceramic tiles is a winning and indispensable requirement in production. Pigment oxides play an important role and more and more sophisticated applications are required in industrial applications. In the present work a neural network model was tested to define the final apparence due to the mixture of ceramic pigment used for wall tiles. Samples were prepared using 30 industrial pigments and one frit for wall tiles. Mixing the pigments, 79 samples were prepared in a fast ball mill and applied on tiles. After firing in a industrial cycle, the L*,a* and b* coordinates in CIElab spaces were measured using a spectrophotometer and put in relationship with the pigment compositions to define a model able to calculate the colour when the pigment composition is known. The results show a good efficiency of the color matching algorithm
A quasar companion to the puzzling quasar SDSS J0927+2943
No full textWe report the discovery of a quasar close to SDSS J0927+2943 (z = 0.713), which is a massive binary/recoiling black hole candidate. The companion quasar is at a projected distance of 125 h70-1 kpc and exhibits a radial velocity difference of ~1400 km s-1 with respect to the known quasar. We discuss the nature of this peculiar quasar pair and the properties of its environment. We propose that the overall system is caught in the process of ongoing structure formation. Based on observations collected at Asiago observatory
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
3D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF CEMRA DATASETS BY MEANS OF AN OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSIRIX): A FEASIBILITY STUDY
No full textOsiriX is an effective tool for 3D CEMRA data analysis and has the potential to be routinely used for 3D CEMRA data analysis in a clinical setting
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