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A CAD/CAM SYSTEM FOR PRECISION CAMS WITH 3 CNC INTERPOLATION METHODS
No full textDesign and manufacture of cams are complicated engineering tasks usually performed independently of each other. Therefore, a CAD/CAM system for cams would be very useful. The mathematical cam profile must be interpolated at some increment to create the numerical data for CNC machining. The interpolation method has significant effects on the dynamic performance. The focus of this paper is to develop a methodology of computer-aided design and manufacturing for precision cams by consideration of three CNC interpolation methods: linear, circular and R-Theta. Various aspects of the features of the interpolation method are explained and compared. The presented software can simulate a roughing and finishing sequence on a given cam blank. The computerised procedure is detailed with accompanying examples
Design and implementation of a fuzzy elevator group control system
No full textElevator group control systems (EGCS's) are the control systems that systematically manage three or more elevators in order to efficiently transport passengers. Most EGCS's have used the hall call assignment method to assign elevators in response to passengers' calls. This paper proposes a control strategy generation method, a hall call assignment method based on the fuzzy theory, and then the fuzzy elevator group control system (FEGCS). The control strategy of FEGCS is made using the classification of the passenger traffic and system manager's requirements, and the hall calls are assigned to suitable elevators by the generated control strategy. The system is operated using the given control strategy which is defined by the system manager. The proposed system shows better results than the conventional methods in simulations and is under commercialization by an industrial company
An all-optical gain-controlled amplifier for bidirectional transmission
No full textA novel all-optical gain-controlled (AOGQ bidirectional amplifier is proposed and demonstrated in a compact structure. The AOGC function using fiber Bragg grating (FBG) pairs controls both directional signals independently, and combinations of optical interleavers and isolators suppress Rayleigh backscattering (RB) noise. The amplifier achieves high and constant gain with a wide dynamic input signal range and low noise figure. The performance does not depend on the input signal conditions, whether static-state or transient signals, or whether there is symmetric or asymmetric data traffic on bidirectional transmission. Transmission comparison experiments between invariable symmetrical and random variable asymmetric bidirectional data traffic verify that the all-optical gain control and bidirectional amplification functions are successfully combined into this proposed amplifier.I wish to thank the Photonics Research Laboratory, in the
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The
University of Melbourne, Australia, for their help
A single recognition system for faces and objects in expert-based experiments using synthetic stimuli
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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
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
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