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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
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
A Vision Based Emergency Forced Landing System for an Autonomous UAV
No full textThis paper introduces the forced landing problem for UAVs and presents the machine-vision based approach taken for this research. The forced landing problem, is a new field of research for UAVs and this paper will show the preliminary analysis to date. The results are based on video data collected from a series of flight trials in a Cessna 172.\ud
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The aim of this research is to locate "safe" landing sites for UAV forced landings, from low quality aerial imagery. Output video image frames, will highlight the algorithm’s selected safe landing locations. The algorithms for the problem use image processing techniques and neural networks for the classification problem.\ud
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It should be noted that although the system is being designed primarily for the forced landing problem for UAVs, the research can also be applied to forced landings or glider applications for piloted aircraft
A Vision Based Forced Landing Site Selection\ud System for an Autonomous UAV
No full textThis paper presents a system overview of the UAV forced\ud
landing site selection system and the results to date. The\ud
forced landing problem is a new field of research for UAVs\ud
and this paper will show the machine vision approach taken\ud
to address this problem. The results are based on aerial\ud
imagery collected from a series of flight trials in a Cessna\ud
172.\ud
The aim of this research is to locate candidate landing sites\ud
for UAV forced landings, from aerial imagery. Output image\ud
frames highlight the algorithm’s selected safe landing\ud
locations. The algorithms for the problem use image\ud
processing techniques and neural networks for the\ud
classification problem.\ud
The system is capable of locating areas that are large enough\ud
to land in and that are free of obstacles 92.3% ± 2% (95%\ud
confidence) of the time. These areas identified are then\ud
further classified as to their surface type to a classification\ud
accuracy of 90% ± 3% (98% confidence).\ud
It should be noted that although the system is being designed\ud
primarily for the forced landing problem for UAVs, the\ud
research can also be applied to forced landings or glider\ud
applications for piloted aircraft
A computationally intellgent framework for UAV forced landings
No full textA computationally intelligent framework has been developed for the forced landing problem for uninhabited airborne vehicles (UAVs). This framework locates landing areas within an image that are of the appropriate geometrical size and free of obstacles. The surface-type of the candidate landing areas are classified into categories such as grass, trees and water. The classification results are combined with other information such as, the spatial relationships between candidate areas, the presence of moving objects (for example cars and people) and the objects in surrounding the areas, to nominate candidate UAV forced landing sites.\ud
A discussion is presented that shows that a type-2 fuzzy-based approach is expected to be useful in resolving data-set uncertainties allowing a reliable UAV forced landing site recommendation to be made. Examples of data-set uncertainties include the surface type classification and the models of motion of various objects.\ud
Results are presented showing the successful location of appropriate candidate UAV landing sites. A success rate of 90% has been achieved using a neural network classification approach and based on the testing of 500 images. These results are based on actual flight imagery collected from a Cessna 172 flight over Brisbane, Australia
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
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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