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Mixed Kinematics and Camera Based Vehicle Dynamic Sideslip Estimation for an RC Scaled Model
Vehicle side slip angle is at the basis of many vehicle dynamics control systems. Many methods are available to estimate side-slip angle using on board sensors (usually accelerometers and gyros). The technical advances pertaining autonomous vehicles made an additional kind of sensor available: cameras. This study develops a mixed kinematic vision-based side slip angle estimation. The proposed algorithm merges the information of a commercial grade inertial measurement system, wheel encoders and information from a camera. The camera measurement are integrated in a Kalman filter observer. The paper implements and tests the approach on an instrumented RC scale vehicle, comparing the proposed approach against a kinematic based estimation. Experimental results show a decrease of a factor between 2 and 10 (depending on the type of maneuver) of the estimation mean squared error
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
Innovatieve kribben proefproject Haaften
In het eerste proefproject met innovatieve kribben wordt de kruin van de bestaande kribben met 1 m verlaagd. Deze verlaging wordt op verschillende manieren uitgevoerd. Als potentiële locatie voor het proefproject is Haaften, gelegen aan de Waal in Gelderland, aangewezen. Voordat wordt overgegaan tot de aanleg van de innovatieve kribben bij Haaften zijn gedurende enkele jaren metingen verricht om de huidige situatie en werking van de kribben in kaart te brengen. Deze metingen worden beschouwd als T0-meting voor de verdere monitoring van het proefproject. Dit rapport geeft een korte beschrijving van de locatie, een weergave van de uitgevoerde metingen en een aanzet tot analyse van de meetresultaten. In hoofdstuk 2 wordt een beschrijving gegeven van de proeflocatie. De methodiek en meetresultaten worden in hoofdstuk 3 toegelicht. Vervolgens volgt in hoofdstuk 4 een aanzet tot analyse gegeven.Innovatieve Kribbe
Variations on the Author
“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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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