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    Experimental high accuracy measurement in ultrasonic compass

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    A procedure to identify useful echoes parameters pre-estimation in an ultrasonic signal, to allow the application off line of a Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimator (M.L.E.) [1] as been faced. An experimental application, utilizing an ultrasonic medical scanner, sampled by an acquisition board is also presented

    New Pll System To High Accuracy Ultrasound Measurement

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    Ultrasound signal, received by an ultrasound (U.S.) machine from target under observation, has an impulsive form. Actual systems use a non-linear stage, as a logarithmic amplifier, to get its amplitude demodulation and to display it on U.S. scanner monitor. This work proposes an idea to realize a new input stage based on phase locked loop (PLL) system to obtain a more accurate amplitude demodulation. PLL, is an inherently slow system and it needs several cycles to reach phase lock, so it must be modified by means with a delay locked loop (DLL) to obtain more quickness from PLL. A first system has been realized and experimental results confirm the goodness of our idea

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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