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Wind profiles identification using wind lidars: An application to the area of Lamezia Terme
No full textThe definition of the vertical wind profile is a crucial point for wind loads and wind resource assessment. However, nowadays efficient methods for the measurement and probabilistic modeling of the vertical wind profiles are not fully available. Recent developments of remote sensing technologies such as Wind Lidars allow for the measurement of the vertical wind profile without the need of installing met masts. The present paper focuses on the assessment of vertical wind profiles on flat terrains employing Wind Lidars. These are described through the power law, characterized by the Hellmann coefficient, and through the modified logarithmic profile, characterized by the aerodynamic roughness coefficient and a stability correction parameter depending on the Monin-Obukhov length. Results for the area of Lamezia Terme are presented, pointing out some the issues related to complex terrains and breeze regimes
CANv2: A Hybrid CA Model by Micro and Macro-dynamics Examples
No full textCellular Automata (CA), one of the most challenging computational paradigms in microscopic and macroscopic complex systems simulation, can be successfully addressed also by using a modified CA classical approach. In this contribution we discuss related aspects in applying the CANv2 approach in examples of micro and macro dynamics such as: superconductive devices and forest fire simulation. Advantages and limitations are introduced when both microscopic and macroscopic dynamics are taken into account justifying the introduction of hybrid components between single cellular automata, i.e. a network in which global behavior and local interactions can coexist with side effects in computational parallelism addressing
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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