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Porosity effects on nanoporous Au Young's modulus
No full textNanoporous Au is a model system extensively studied to investigate how porosity affects the mechanical behaviour. To fabricate nanoporous Au structures with similar ligament diameter, but different solid volume fractions, we applied tailored dealloying procedures to Ag-Au alloys with Au atomic fraction ranging from 0.20 to 0.41. Their Young's moduli, measured by nanoindentation, correlate with the Au atomic fraction. The scaling law we observe suggests a crucial role of percolation thresholds in the definition of mechanical properties
A Biometric-Based Adaptive Simulator for Driving Education
No full textDistracted driving emerges as a global threat, significantly contributing to the alarming toll of 1.3 million annual traffic fatalities. This paper presents an innovative solution employing a Unity-based driving simulator with biometric features to tackle distracted driving across educational and technological domains. The simulator uses the popular Mediapipe Solutions library and uncomplicated camera setups to capture pivotal biometric parameters: head rotation, gaze direction, and eyelid opening. The fusion of these parameters creates an immersive user experience, enabling self-assessment of distraction levels within simulated nighttime scenarios. The simulator incorporates alerts for incorrect gaze direction or signs of drowsiness, employing an acoustic signal. Furthermore, the simulator activates car headlights upon the driver’s proximity to the dashboard, indicating compromised visibility. The proposed solution’s efficacy is confirmed through experiments conducted under diverse conditions, including scenarios with sunglasses, eyeglasses, and low luminosity. With minimal hardware and software requirements, the simulator emerges as a valuable educational tool for drivers, holding potential for integration into assisted driving systems. The results highlight its significant contribution to road safety, effectively addressing the pervasive issue of distracted driving through a comprehensive and accessible framework
From Fully Supervised to Blind Digital Anastylosis on DAFNE Dataset
No full textAnastylosis is an archaeological term consisting in a reconstruction technique whereby an artefact is restored using the original architectural elements. Experts can sometimes imply months or years to carry out this task counting on their expertise. Software procedures can represent a valid support but several challenges arise when dealing with practical scenarios. This paper starts from the achievements on DAFNE challenge, with a traditional template matching approach which won the third place at the competition, to arrive to discuss the critical issues that make the unsupervised version, the blind digital anastylosis, a hard problem to solve. A preliminary solution supported by experimental results is presented
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
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