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Proprietà termofisiche di pannelli fonoassorbenti e trasparenti per barriere antirumore
No full textLa possibilità di coniugare, in un’unica soluzione costruttiva, delle buone prestazioni di assorbimento delle onde sonore con proprietà di trasparenza ottica si rivela importante in diverse applicazioni. Il contenimento dell’impatto visivo delle opere antirumore per infrastrutture di trasporto rappresenta infatti uno dei principali requisiti richiesti in fase di progettazione, sia in termini di sicurezza e comfort degli utenti dell’infrastruttura, sia in termini di “accettabilità” dell’opera da parte di coloro che vivono nell’ambiente circostante; l’impiego di materiali trasparenti è una delle soluzioni più comunemente adottate a questo scopo. D’altra parte, l’efficacia di un’opera antirumore può essere ridotta in presenza di superfici scarsamente fonoassorbenti e di riflessioni multiple. Il lavoro si propone di investigare, teoricamente e sperimentalmente, la realizzabilità tecnica di pannelli fonoassorbenti trasparenti, basati sull’impiego di lastre micro-perforate accoppiate ad intercapedini d’aria. Si sono considerate sorgenti di rumore a banda larga, in particolare le infrastrutture di trasporto su strada, optando quindi per configurazioni a più lastre, che consentono un significativo incremento delle prestazioni in un ampio range di frequenze. Oltre ad una breve disamina del modello teorico usato per la previsione delle prestazioni acustiche, sono riportati i risultati delle prove sperimentali condotte in condizioni di incidenza normale (mediante tubo di impedenza) e diffusa (in camera riverberante). Si è osservato un buon accordo tra il modello teorico e i dati sperimentali, che ha consentito un’ottimizzazione dei principali parametri geometrici che governano le prestazioni acustiche del pannello
Sviluppo di un Materiale Innovativo da Granuli di Pneumatici Usati per Applicazioni Acustiche
No full textIl lavoro si pone l’obiettivo di studiare una possibile forma di valorizzazione dei pneumatici fuori uso, favorendo il recupero di materia.
Oggetto del presente lavoro è infatti lo studio di nuovi materiali fonoisolanti, prodotti con granuli di pneumatici usati (in seguito abbreviati con “PG”); si sono in particolare investigate le proprietà acustiche e meccaniche di questi materiali, al fine di valutare le effettive prestazioni raggiungibili.
L’interesse per questo tipo di materiali è dimostrato in letteratura da numerosi Autori, unitamente alla fattibilità tecnica di validi processi industriali per questi materiali, e alla loro commerciabilità
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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