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Engineering Associated with Research and Development
Get PDFIt is found, at the beginning of the civilisation, technology
was developed without science. In later stages technology followed science . At present both run parallely. Though engineering plays a role in basic research , it is more dominant in applied research.Research normally becomes more fruitful when its results are translated to the benefit of the society through technology development and
transfer. The R&D starts with conception of an innovative idea and followed by evaluation, accomplishment, development and culminatein release.
The R&D scientist see their ideas to reality through three distinct parties - management, customer and engineering. The engineering aspects of R&D can be generalised through four phases viz., planing and specification, design, process/prototype and release. Earlier it was
thought it is better not to control R&D. When competitiveness increased,control became necessary. Attempt is made to enumerate the role of engineering in R &D in nutshell in this paper. It is also demonstrated
that effective innovation management synergising, the efforts of engineering and R&D teams can enhance the quality of collaborative R&D and promotes cutting edge over competition from multinationals. This would also ensure greater confidence and faith in the domestic industry towards indigenous stand-alone R&D institutions
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
Technology Transfer to Small Scale Industries
Get PDFThe paper discusses the role of small scale industries (SSI)in the growth of national economy. The small scale industries contributes substantially in the employment generation industrial production and experts. The difficulty faced in adopting new technologies by SSI
entrepreneur has been explained. The author points out that in many cases the know how developed in the laboratories do not have cost analysis, details of equipment required for setting up the plant based
on the basis of know how. The author suggests that the small scale industries can support R&D only when the technology is fully established before that the expenses incurred in the development of technology for SSI should be reimbursed by the ministry of small scale industries. However, the facilities for trials be extended by small scale industries. The collaboration between SSI and R&D institutes will go in long way in improving the economy of state/centers
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
Transfer of know-how, the need for a holistic approach
Get PDFExperience shows that many products and processes
developed in the laboratory do not see the light of day due to lack of a holistic approach. The scientists who develop know-how are often satisfied with the publication and patents. Their efforts do not mature in the form of technology because the development of technology is a
group activity where the involvement of entrepreneur is also needed. The good work done by scientists remains in the archives of the laboratory in the form of reports due to lack of a systematic approach in its commercialization. The paper discusses various factors, which inhibit the development of know-how into a marketable technology, and
the factors, which hinder its transfer to the user's place. It also suggests ways for effective utilization of R& D efforts
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
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