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Method for scheduling radio resources
No full textA method for allocating resource blocks of a transmission frame on a cellular network. The cellular network includes a cluster of antennas and a master unit of the cluster. Each antenna of each cluster is configured to provide radio coverage over a corresponding cell to exchange data with corresponding user equipment in communication with the antenna. During the transmission frame the antennas of the cluster are configured to be selectively activated and muted according to a plurality of cluster muting conditions
A method of scheduling transmission in a communication network, corresponding communication node and computer program product
No full textData streams are transmitted from a node (BS) towards a receiver in a communication network in the form of data packets for play out via a reproduction buffer at the receiver. The data packets are arranged in a scheduling queue (SQ) and dropped from the scheduling queue (SQ) if their sojourn time (t) in the queue (SQ) exceeds a given drop deadline (d). The reproduction buffer (B) is emulated at the node (BS) in order to determine respective playout values (po) for the data packets which are indicative of expected playout instants (p) for the data packets by the reproduction buffer at the receiver. The drop deadlines (d) are assigned to the data packets as a function of the respective play out values (po) determined via the reproduction buffer as emulated at the node (BS)
OptiMOS: Optimal MOS-based scheduling of downlink voice flows in point-to-multipoint access networks
No full textWe introduce OptiMOS, a method for selecting deadlines for the scheduling of downlink voice flows in a centralized-scheduling point-to-multipoint network. These include cellular networks such as LTE, UMTS HSDPA, or WiMAX, and WLANs with centralized control. OptiMOS selects the deadline of each packet so as to maximize the expected Mean Opinion Score (MOS) for the talkspurt it belongs to. It requires that absolute time is both included in RTP timestamps at the source and checked for scheduling decisions, in a cross-layer approach. OptiMOS can be employed in conjunction with any deadline-based scheduling algorithm, and does not require a specific playout buffering scheme at the receiver. Simulations of an LTE system show a performance improvement in terms of MOS for the VoIP flows, good tolerance to relatively large synchronization errors and qualitatively similar results with different playout buffers
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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