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It's a C Thing
Get PDFThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show
Grief
Get PDFThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.I wrote this on the one-year anniversary of my father's angel wings. My father liked to write poetry and I told myself I would continue to write in his honor. As I reflected on his life and processed all of my emotions on his anniversary, this poem came to my heart and mind. Many of my friends and family and the world is still grieving from so many changes and losses. It takes time to heal. It isn't an easy journey. Writing is therapeutic for me so I hope this can help heal others who also experience grief and that difficult journey. However, I hope as in the poem we all find peace with this journey and this unavoidable part of life. I want to leave with the reader that there is still hope and the feeling of hope
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
What If
Get PDFThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This work received a Second Place Award in the "Open Verse Poetry" category from all literary works submitted in the 2023 On My Own Time show.Many times, in life we reflect on things in the past, present or future. Sometimes we face situations that we believe outcomes would have been different if we had done something differently. Many times, as we think through life's ups and downs, create new ideas, or try something different, "what if" is phrase that may permeate our thoughts. This poem was a reflection of a time when many situations were in my head with the "what if" pre-text. However, we realize at the end of a long day or deep thought, the "what if" really is just a phrase. Sometimes we let the "what if's" have too much power and hold us back and we have to gently remind ourselves to keep moving
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
Using Engineering to Create an Adaptive Self-Feeding System for Patients with Upper Body Disabilities
Get PDFThis research project aims to provide a self-feeding manipulator system to accommodate those who have upper-body motor disabilities. The purpose of the device is to allow patients to rely less on their caregivers during a meal. The patient's safe feeding without injury or malfunction at home or in a public setting will successfully achieve this form of assistance. The target cost is USD 1096 with a minimum of six months to make it a marketable product and nine months to develop a prototype. People have created similar devices such as the Neater Eater, Mealtime Partners, and the Obi Robotic Feeder in the past. These devices stem from one general need: provide a means to assist people with disabilities in feeding themselves. However, the disadvantage to all the existing products is that they are very costly, ranging between 4000 ��� 8000 USD apiece. In addition, they are inaccessible to people in Qatar due to their production and market being overseas. We use engineering methods to create a device that is more versatile and accessible. This thesis discusses all the alternatives created to build the manipulator. The manipulator's design is one with four degrees of freedom, and the actuators used to mobilize the joints were Servo Motors. The manipulator is to work automatically using Denavit-Hartenberg, Forward Kinematics, and Jacobian robotics methods. Some parts of the manipulator require 3D printing and CNC machining, which will be accessible in the TAMUQ building. In addition, some parts will be bought based on our requirements calculations. Another engineering method used to control the manipulation of the system is by using an Arduino board. The device consists of four main subsystems. Firstly, there is the base which mounts on any flat surface. Also, a plate, divided into four sections, that attaches to the base and can rotate. The manipulator is also attached to the base, along with a spoon attached to the manipulator. Finally, the user-interface is a critical component of the system to allow easy communication between the user and the device. Since this device targets patients with upper-body disabilities, a user-interface that functions using the patient's feet would be suitable. We aim to have the device ready to test by the end of April 2021 and allow patients from Sidra Hospital to test the device
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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