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Through adhesive surface treatment for bonded joints
Get PDFThrough adhesive surface treatments have been defined as pretreatments for adhesive bonding where the adherend surface is physically attacked under a covering layer of uncured adhesive.
In addition to the usual benefits associated with physical pretreatments, there is potential for novel chemical reactions between adhesives and adherends. It may be proposed that, in the absence of a coherent oxide layer, an adhesive will form primary chemical bonds to a reactive metal adherend. Primary bonds may endow an adhesive to adherend interface with greater strength and aqueous stability than secondary bonding alone can provide.
Three techniques of through adhesive surface treatment have been investigated. The first uses an abrasive surface, flooded with adhesive, onto which the adherend is scrubbed. The second relies on abrasive filler in the adhesive. Agitation of uncured joints’ adherends causes the filler to abrade the bonding surfaces. Finally, the third technique employs the adhesive as an ultrasonic cleaning medium. Ultrasound in the uncured adhesive causes cavitation, the shock waves of which erode the adherend surface.
After initial experiments to establish practical methods, all three techniques have been evaluated for a number of adhesive to metal combinations. The majority of tests show small but significant increases in initial strengths, coupled with possible increases in durability.
Limited surface analysis studies have not discerned a reason for the changes, since primary bonding may not be their only cause. It is quite possible that changes in wetting can account for the small improvements observed in performance
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
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
The Feasibility of Functional Lung Imaging Using X-Ray Velocimetry as Compared to Age-Appropriate Standard Pulmonary Function Tests
No full textAbstract #TP094Phillips J, Bruorton M, Carson-Chahhoud K, Parsons D, Donnelley M, Goddard T, House J, Tai
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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