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    EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THERMOHYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF LARGE TILTING-PAD JOURNAL BEARING INCLUDING THE INLET PRESSURE EFFECT

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    The thermohydrodynamic performance of a large tilting-pad journal bearing including the inlet pressure effect is investigated experimentally. The continuous film pressure, film thickness and shaft surface temperature, and bearing surface temperature are measured along with the shaft speed and the bearing load for various flow rates. Considerably large inlet pressure is observed at the entrance of each pad, especially the lower pads. The inlet pressure is increased by the increase of shaft speed as well as bearing load, but is almost independent of the flow rate. The upper pads always maintain a slight wedge film shape owing ta the inlet pressure, and scraping is not observed in the upper pads. It is observed that the shaft surface temperature is constant in the circumferential direction and increases with the increase of shaft speed in both low and high shaft-speed regions; however, there exists a transition region where the shaft surface temperature decreases with the increase of shaft speed

    INLET PRESSURE EFFECTS ON THE THERMOHYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF A LARGE TILTING-PAD JOURNAL BEARING

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    Inlet pressure effects on the thermohydrodynamic performance of a 4-pad large tilting pad journal bearing are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The theory takes into account the inlet pressure and the three-dimensional variation of oil viscosity and eddy viscosity. Film pressure, film thickness, bearing metal temperature, load capacity, and eccentricity are measured by experiments. A noticeable inlet pressure rise is observed at the entrance of pads. It is shown that the inlet pressure increases not only the film pressure and the load capacity but also the supply flow rate, while if decreases the mixing and bearing surface temperature. The bearing characteristics predicted by the turbulent thermohydrodynamic theory, including the inlet pressure, are in good agreement with the experimental results. Therefore it can be suggested that the inlet pressure must be taken into account in theoretical calculations in order to predict the thermohydrodynamic performance of large tilting pad journal bearings accurately

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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