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Planck SCS PLM SIT at Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou - Quick look data analysis
Get PDFScope of this document is to provide a first quick look analysis evaluation of the functionality of the Sorption Cooler Sub-System during the SIT Test Campaign performed at Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), after shipment of the satellite from CSL to Kourou for the Launch Campaign.
The objective of Planck PLM SIT is two fold:
- to verify the correct performance of the satellite systems and the compatibility between all the integrated subsystems and instruments while operating together
- to mimic some basic operating procedures which will be exercised during the different phases of the missio
Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana
No full textRockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life
Kourou et la fêlure du bord de mer : la ville spatiale face à l’érosion du trait de côte
No full text« Nous sommes une affaire qui est décidée à réussir et qui réussira. Pour la première fois en Guyane, on réussira quelque chose et on arrivera à faire oublier que la Guyane est une terre où il n’y a eu que des échecs. »M. Kramer, directeur du centre spatial Guyanais, 1968 La création du Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) à Kourou est décidée en 1964. Il s’agit alors, après l’indépendance de l’Algérie, de remplacer la base de Hammaguir, dans le Sahara. Le site de Kourou est choisi parmi plusieurs p..
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
Cultures et patrimonialisation : clôture
No full textClôture de la table-ronde Cultures et patrimonialisation intitulée "La culture et l\u27Université" par Monsieur Jacques BLAMONT, professeur émérite à l\u27Université Pierre et Marie CURIE et concepteur du Centre Spatial Guyanais
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
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