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Infinitesimal deformations and stability of rods made of nonlocal elastic materials
No full textAim of the paper is the formulation of a criterion of infinitesimal stability for a class of rods made of nonlocal elastic materials. To that end, the nonlinear equilibrium equations of naturally straight, inextensible rods subject to terminal loads are written, and the constitutive equation assumed to represent the material response in rods of finite length is discussed. Then, the equations describing the infinitesimal deformations superimposed upon a finite one are deduced. The expression of the work done by the increments of the external loads associated with an infinitesimal deformation is employed to formulate, for the considered rods, the criterion of infinitesimal stability which does not require the existence of a stored-energy function. The criterion is applied to study the stability of simply supported rods subject to axial forces, of rods with one end clamped and the other one constrained to have the tangent parallel to the undeformed rod axis, subject to axial forces and twisting couples, and of annular rods formed from naturally straight rods with the addition of twist. The results show that rods made of nonlocal elastic materials exhibit a reduction in rigidity with respect to rods having the same geometry and made of usual elastic materials with the same tensile and shear moduli
Equilibrium of Kirchhoff's rods subject to a distribution of magnetic couples
Full text linkThe equilibrium of magneto-elastic rods, formed of an elastic matrix containing a uniform distribution of paramagnetic particles, that are subject to terminal loads and are immersed in a uniform magnetic field, is studied. The one-dimensional nonlinear equations governing the problem are deduced from a three-dimensional model and are fully consistent with the Kirchhoff's theory in the sense that they hold at the same order of magnitude. Exact solutions of those equations in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions are presented with reference to magneto-elastic cantilevers that undergo planar deformations under the action of a terminal force and a magnetic field whose directions are either parallel or orthogonal. The exact solutions are applied to the study of a problem of the remotely controlled deformation of a rod and to a bifurcation problem in which the end force and the component of the magnetic field parallel to the undeformed rod axis can be regarded as imperfection parameters; the stability of the different solutions possible under the same load is assessed by comparing the corresponding energies
Globalizzazione e modelli culturali : Contesti socio-economici per promuovere la cittadinanza democratica
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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
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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