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Does IT bring hope for wellbeing?
No full textThe first part of this chapter reviews the design, implementation, and customer experience with the OLDES SW tele-care platform developed within the EU project Older people's e-services at home. The OLDES solution has been successfully tested at two different locations: in Italy with the participation of a group of 100 seniors (including 10 senior citizens suffering from heart disease), and in the Czech Republic, with the involvement of a group of 10 diabetic patients. The suggested OLDES approach proved to be an effective solution for municipalities, hospitals, and their contact centres for providing health and social services. The project partners therefore decided to develop a second generation of the system called SPES (Support to Patients through E-Service Solutions), which started in April 2011. The SPES project aims at transferring the original approach and results achieved in implementing the OLDES focusing on new target problem domains: dementia, mobility-challenged persons, respiratory problems, and social exclusion. © 2013, IGI Global
Older People's e-services at home
No full textThe number of old people in the EU is dramatically increasing
and the related burden in term of public expense getting higher
and higher – these are the two main reasons
motivating the OLDES project. Today more and more
old people are living alone, in many cases with no
families helping them nor enough money to afford
private carers. Getting inspiration from these facts,
OLDES will work to plan and implement an innovative
technological platform, with low cost and easy use
able to provide a wider range of services to an higher
number of elderly people, so to face the situations
described above. The platform will be tested by 100
elderly people in Italy (10 of them affected by heart
disease) and a sample of diabetics in Prague. Mr.
Paruolo, Bologna Municipality’s Deputy Mayor for Health, firmly
wanted this project; he believes that the welfare model has to
be changed and renewed quickly, making the most of new
technologies and high tech devices to offer a wider number of
old people tele-medicine, tele-assistance, tele-entertainment
and tele-company services. In this way it will be possible to
enlarge the number of people assisted by public services, even
if public resources are decreasing whilst the number of old
people increases
Validation and performance analysis of a parallel ported code for simulating the effects of lightning strokes on telecommunication buildings
No full textThe Artemis subproject, in the framework of the UE Capri project, deals with porting on parallel architectures of a Method of Moment (MoM) code for electromagnetic design and hardening of telecommunication centres against the effects of lightning strokes. After a preliminary stage of the work during which QR and LU algorithms for large complex matrix inversion were implemented both on Alenia's Quadrics (SIMD) and Cray T3D (MIMD) platforms, in order to choose the best suitable machine for such a kind of problem, the code has been ported on the last one. In this paper the parallel code validation and the performance improvement analysis with respect to the sequential one will be reported and discussed. © 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Porting on parallel platforms of a tool for simulating the effects of lightning strokes on telecommunication buildings: A comparison on preliminary results about performances and accuracy on SIMD and MIMD architectures
No full textIn the framework of the UE CAPRI project, the Artemis subproject deals with porting on parallel architectures of a Method of Moment (MoM) code for electromagnetic design and hardening of telecommunication centres against the effects of lightning strokes. As a preliminary stage of the work, QR and LU algorithms for large complex matrix inversion were implemented both on Alenia's QUADRICS (SIMD) and Cray T3D (MIMD) platforms. The detailed results obtained from several test runs performed on each platform were reported elsewhere [HSSD95]. In this paper a comparison between the performance, scalability and accuracy results obtained from the above-mentioned tests will be reported and discussed © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996
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
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