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An Automatic Tuning System to Improve Near-Field Powering in Implanted Electronics
No full textDevelopments in the field of inductive charging have opened the door to the use of devices without a battery or with a wireless rechargeable battery. Although this aspect is significant in the field of wearable devices, it is even more significant in the field of transcutaneous connections for implanted electronics and batteries that can greatly benefit the safety and comfort of the patient. The performance on the ability to transmit and store energy through an inductive channel can, however, be influenced by various environmental and manufacturing factors, with significant variations on the effective values of the LC resonant pair. In this regard, an automatic tuning mechanism based on a SAR algorithm implemented in 180nm CMOS technology is proposed
Labetalol blockade of central alpha- and beta-noradrenergic receptors in rat brain homogenates
No full textDevelopment of an electrical current stimulator for activating muscle tissues in biohybrid machines
No full textSoft and flexible robots are being developed as an alternative to traditional robotics. While they offer significant adaptability to the external environment, the integration of biological tissues as actuators presents several challenges. One of the critical challenges is the activation of the biological tissues to contract and move the robotic system's joints. In this paper, we discuss the development of an electrical current stimulator that can activate muscle tissues in soft robotic systems. The stimulator, realized with commercial components and designed using a stacked approach, combines a power supply board and an electrical stimulation front-end. A stacked-design approach allows to keep the device compact, with a total size of 59 mm x 28 mm x 25 mm (lxwxh). The stimulator, which has a power consumption of 1.3 W, can deliver up to 18 mA of stimulation current, and it has been verified to activate muscle tissues, demonstrating the ability to trigger muscle contraction by inducing up to 178 μN of contraction force
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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