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Characteristics of Intermetallic Compounds in Dissimilar Friction Stir Welding: A Review
No full textIn the present paper, mechanical and metallurgical characteristics of different dissimilar weldments fabricated by friction stir welding were investigated. Existence of lamellar composite structure within the stir zone in addition to observation of interfacial intermetallic compounds (IMCs) was the main characteristics that were investigated throughout this research. Results indicated that the optimum IMCs layers, resulting in enhanced mechanical properties, met three criteria, thinness, uniformity, and continuity
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
Level of Propensity: a zonal metric for evaluating the multimodal option Electric Micromobility and Public Transport
Full text linkElectric Micromobility (EMM), e.g. e-bikes, e-scooters, light-weight electric vehicles, has a key role in policymakers’ strategies for making cities more liveable. Especially, its combination with Public Transport (PT) can be essential in the transportation sector decarbonization. This work proposes a zonal metric to evaluate EMM and PT integration, named “Level of Propensity” (LoP) to multimodality. LoP is defined adopting a multi-dimensional domain-based classification capturing two main phases of the trip: (1) the access phase by EMM towards PT stops; (2) the accessibility potential to destination by PT. PT open data, road network configuration, activities and Floating Car Data are adopted for the elaboration. LoP has been validated in the medium-size city of Salerno (Italy), but it is easily transferable to other cities. It can support urban planners and PT/EMM operators in identifying zones with low propensity to multimodality, suggesting priorities in terms of PT service improvements and EMM infrastructure implementations
Investigation of mechanical properties of mwcnts doped epoxy nanocomposites in tensile, fracture and impact tests
No full textThe current paper was aimed to investigate the effect of addition of MWCNTs on mechanical properties of epoxy. Tensile, fracture and impact tests were carried out for mechanical characterization while the weight concentration of the MWCNTs was 0.5 wt.%. Results showed that addition of MWCNTs resulted in decreasing tensile strength of the nanocomposites, whereas an improvement appeared for fracture and impact tests. In fact, fracture toughness and impact strength of the MWCNTs/epoxy increased by 65 and 117 percentage, respectively, compared with the pristine epoxy
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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