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Computation of spatial skyline points
No full textThe database skyline query (or non-domination query) has a spatial form: Given a setPwithnpoint sites, and a point set S of m locations of interest, a site p is an element of P is a skyline point if and only if for each q is an element of P\{p}, there exists at least one location s is an element of S that is closer topthan toq. We reduce the problem of determining skyline points to the problem of finding sites that have non-empty cells in an additively weighted Voronoi diagram under a convex distance function. The weights of said Voronoi diagram are derived from the coordinates of the sites ofP, while the convex distance function is derived from the set of locationsS. In the two-dimensional plane, this reduction gives an O((n + m) log(n + m))-time algorithm to find the skyline points.
Computation of Non-dominated Points Using Compact Voronoi Diagrams
No full textWe discuss in this paper a method of finding skyline or non-dominated points in a set P of n points with respect to a set S of m sites. A point p(i) is an element of P is non-dominated if and only if for each p(j) is an element of P, j not equal i, there exists at least one point s is an element of S that is closer to p(i) than p(j). We reduce this problem of determining non-dominated points to the problem of finding sites that have non-empty cells in an additively weighted Voronoi diagram under convex distance function. The weights of the said Voronoi diagram are derived from the co-ordinates of the points of P and the convex distance function is derived from S. In the 2-dimensional plane, this reduction gives a O((m + n) log m + n log n)-time randomized incremental algorithm to find the non-dominated points
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
Bangla Handwritten Text Segmentation for Optical Character Recognition.
No full textThis dissertation work puts forward, to be specific, two methods for segmentation of Bangla handwritten text into characters for Optical Character Recognition, OCR in brief. Given a text, we propose a method to segment words from text. Now, with each word we proceed towards its segmentation into characters. We detect different zones across the height of the word based on certain characteristics of Bangla writing methods. These zones give certain structural information about the respective word and its constituent characters. Thereafter, we approach segmentation of words into characters two methods are proposed. One based on vertical histogram and distance concepts, and the other one on recursive contour following and bounding box method. Limitations of these methods are also discussed with examples
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
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
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