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Numerical predictions and experimental verifications for the hydrodynamic performance of horizontal axis marine current turbine
No full textThis paper presents the numerical predictions of 3D CFD rotor computations of an 800mm diameter model of marine current turbine (MCT). In the paper CFD is applied to a rotor at stationary hydrodynamic conditions Simulations from the numerical prediction are compared with experimental measurements of the model of MCT which is experimented on in a cavitation tunnel and a towing tank. The experimental data includes measurements of power and thrust generated by the turbine, in both a cavitation tunnel and a towing tank, for a series of blade pitch settings and speeds. The numerical predictions show similar results and provide a satisfactory representation of the experimental turbine performance.</p
Pothole detection based on disparity transformation and road surface modeling
No full textPothole detection is one of the most important tasks for road maintenance. Computer vision approaches are generally based on either 2D road image analysis or 3D road surface modeling. However, these two categories are always used independently. Furthermore, the pothole detection accuracy is still far from satisfactory. Therefore, in this paper, we present a robust pothole detection algorithm that is both accurate and computationally efficient. A dense disparity map is first transformed to better distinguish between damaged and undamaged road areas. To achieve greater disparity transformation efficiency, golden section search and dynamic programming are utilized to estimate the transformation parameters. Otsu's thresholding method is then used to extract potential undamaged road areas from the transformed disparity map. The disparities in the extracted areas are modeled by a quadratic surface using least squares fitting. To improve disparity map modeling robustness, the surface normal is also integrated into the surface modeling process. Furthermore, random sample consensus is utilized to reduce the effects caused by outliers. By comparing the difference between the actual and modeled disparity maps, the potholes can be detected accurately. Finally, the point clouds of the detected potholes are extracted from the reconstructed 3D road surface. The experimental results show that the successful detection accuracy of the proposed system is around 98.7% and the overall pixel-level accuracy is approximately 99.6%
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
San jiao ge zi shang ci xing yu chao dao de yan jiu
No full textThe third part of this thesis is on one hole problem of asymmetric T and T -- Jz model, which we found can be turned into a single body problem and is solvable. We get the spectrum of the model and calculate as a result the mass of the hole. This model may be related to the two species fermion coexisting system which may be realized in the optical lattice.This thesis project is mainly inspired by the newly discovered superconductor NaxCoO2 · yH 2O. It has a layered structure with an almost separated single band out of the inner band electrons. It becomes the theoretical focus because it is the first layered strongly correlated system that shows superconductivity besides the cuprate superconductors. It may help people to understand the superconductivity in the cuprate system. In this thesis we mainly focus our attention on the strongly correlated models on triangular lattice. These models are expected to provide a theoretical background for the Nax CoO2 · yH2O system. We investigate the magnetic and superconductivity properties of these models on the triangular lattice. By the mean field calculation of different magnetic orders we got a phase diagram of the triangular lattice Hubbard model for different magnetic orders in the Hubbard model in the triangular lattice. To further investigate the superconductivity pairing symmetry of the triangular lattice, we use the standard variational Monte Carlo method to find which kind of pairing symmetry is stabilized in the triangular lattice T -- J -- V model. Our finding is that the extended- f wave pairing is most stable in the lattice.To further understand the properties of the related model in the electron interacting system in the triangular lattice, we also solve the few particle problem in the triangular lattice. For two particles with the T -- U -- J -- V model in the triangular lattice, we got the exact solutions. For four particles of the Hubbard model in the triangular lattice we got the asymptotic solutions. We discuss the existing of the bound states in these solutions and the pairing symmetry of these bound states. For system with two-hole and one down-spin away from the all up spin background we also get a solution utilizing a large U expansion. We discussed the relation of this solution with the Nagaoka states.Fan, Rui = 三角格子上磁性與超導的研究 / 樊睿."September 2007."Adviser: Lin Hai Qing.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: B, page: 1719.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-87).Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.Abstracts in English and Chinese.School code: 1307.Fan, Rui = San jiao ge zi shang ci xing yu chao dao de yan jiu / Fan Rui
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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