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[Treatment of Dupuytren's contracture with thiopronine in local injections: computerized analysis of the hand print].
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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
Valuing Banks: A New Corporate Finance Approach
No full textThis book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled, the “Asset Mark-down Model”. This method incorporates an Adjusted Present Value model, which allows practitioners to identify the main value creation sources of a particular bank: from asset-based cash flow and the mark-down on deposits, to tax benefits on bearing liabilities. Through the implementation of this framework, the authors offer a more accurate and more specific approach to valuing banks
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
Development of a Velocity Prediction Program for a High Performance Eco Sustainable SKIFF Sailing Yacht
No full textIn nowadays high-performance sailing yacht design, a performance prediction tool capable of identifying the speed of the boat in numerous sailing conditions as a function of several design parameters is considered a crucial success factor. In the present work, a VPP is developed using validated results from CFD simulations for the hydrodynamic forces and an indirect approach to simulate the aerodynamic forces generated by the sail plan. Detailed performance results, together with a parametric study to highlight the influence of a few final design parameters on the boat speed, are presented for an R3 class SKIFF sailing yacht. The program takes as inputs the geometry and design of the boat, the sailor's mass and a range of true wind speed conditions and returns the boat speed, the displacement of the crew in order to maintain a zero roll angle, the leeway angle, the optimal equivalent sail lift coefficient as well as all the major forces acting in their relative center of pressure. The equilibrium equations are solved for each cycle on true wind angles and true wind speed, using a gradient based method that finds the minimum of a constrained nonlinear multivariable function. The solution found by the iterative method is the one that maximizes the velocity made good on course (VMC) of the boat under the specified conditions and constraints, for each true wind angle possible and low to medium wind speeds, accordingly to the average wind conditions of the regatta's location in which the boat will have to perform
A computer-based technique for cell aggregation analysis: cell-condensation in "in vitro" chondrogenesis
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