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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
Robotic wires manipulation for switchgear cabling and wiring harness manufacturing
Full text linkThis paper describes a cyber-physical system for a wiring operations, composed by a robotic manipulator and a gripper with tactile sensors. This system can be used for switchgear cabling and manufacturing of wiring harnesses. The manipulation of electrical wires, and more in general deformable linear objects, is a complex task of large interest for different industrial applications. The proposed system is designed to shape a cable along a desired path including fixing points and obstacles exploited to shape the cable itself. To accomplish this goal, the wire position needs to be determined starting from a list of point and then converted in a joint reference pose for the manipulator to reproduce the desired trajectory. Moreover, the wire tension must be controlled on the basis of both the estimation of the robot external wrench and the tactile data by acting on the gripper finger opening. An experimental setup in which a cable must be routed along two linear paths connected by a turn and with four fixing points has been used to validate the proposed solution
Monocular Estimation of Connector Orientation: Combining Deformable Linear Object Priors and Smooth Angle Classification
No full textExperimental Evaluation Of Intuitive Programming Of Robot Interaction Behaviour During Kinesthetic Teaching Using sEMG And Cutaneous Feedback
Full text linkModern applications related to service or production can nowadays benefit from the introduction of collaborative robots already available on the market and endowed with several advanced features such as precise torque control or safe physical interaction with operators. More importantly, collaborative robots allow operators to teach end-effector trajectories by means of physical interaction – known as kinesthetic teaching – which is one of the most intuitive programming-by-demonstration techniques. However, important functionalities provided by modern collaborative robots, like the possibility of performing smooth interactions, cannot be programmed intuitively with the available framework of kinesthetic teaching. In the present study, we propose and experimentally evaluate a robot programming framework for the simultaneous teaching of both trajectories by means of kinesthetic teaching, and robot interaction behavior by means of impedance shaping along the trajectory exploiting a wearable interface. Specifically, the wearable interface is designed to not affect the free motion of the operator, necessary to perform kinesthetic teaching, and it is based on the usage of surface electromyography (sEMG) and vibrotactile stimulation. In this way, we propose an intuitive robot programming framework for an offline robot trajectory and interaction behavior programming, according to which the operator will be able to plan interactions with the environment and humans. In this article, we report a preliminary experimental evaluation of the proposed system, in which an operator will teach a 7-degrees-of-freedom manipulator the execution of a task on a robotic wiring test-bed. In the experiment, the programming of requested compliance levels during the kinesthetic teaching of a trajectory is performed, and the reported results show that the provided wearable interface is successfully exploited by the operator. Finally, the experiment also demonstrates that the offline intuitive programming of trajectories and impedance levels can be exploited online for human-robot co-work
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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