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An Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuator Based on PSMI-Incorporated PVDF with Chemical Stability and Performance Durabilit
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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
Développement de modèles prédictifs décrivant le couplage chimie-transport dans les sédiments naturels
Full text linkLa gestion de sols ou sédiments contaminés par des métaux nécessite de pouvoir prédire la migration de ces métaux, dont la mobilité dépend des propriétés de transport du milieu ainsi que de la réactivité chimique de celui-ci (principalement réactions sorption/désorption). Pour étudier l'adsorption des cations métalliques (majeurs et traces) en condition dynamique, des expériences de transport en colonne ont été réalisées avec un sol pauvre en minéraux carbonatés et en matière organique. Considérant que la réactivité de ce sol était due essentiellement à la phase argileuse smectitique, un modèle d'adsorption basé sur les propriétés de rétention de la montmorillonite du Wyoming, utilisant la théorie des échangeurs d'ions multi-sites a été intégré à un code de transport 1D. Les prédictions calculées par ce modèle ont ensuite été comparées aux courbes de percées mesurées dans cette étude et reportées de la littérature. L'étude sur le transport réactif des cations majeurs a mis en évidence le rôle significatif des protons (et ce même à des pH proche de la neutralité), et a permis de valider le modèle pour le transport compétitif des cations majeurs (Na et Ca). Cependant, l'étude de la rétention de Zn(II) a mis en évidence une incohérence entre les résultats issus des expériences batch et ceux obtenus avec les expériences colonne, que l'on pourrait attribuer à la contribution d'une autre phase adsorbante (illite). Néanmoins, le modèle d'adsorption proposé a permis de reproduire avec une bonne satisfaction des données expérimentales de rétention de Zn(II) proposées dans la littérature et obtenues avec des expériences colonne.Management of soils or sediments contaminated by metals requires to predict the migration of metallic cations, whose mobility depends both on the transport properties of the medium and chemical reactivity of the system (principally sorption/desorption reactions). To study the sorption of metallic cations (major and trace) in dynamic condition, transport experiments using columns have been carried out with a soil poor in carbonated minerals and organic matter. Considering that the reactivity of this soil was mainly due to swelling clay minerals, a sorption model based on the sorption properties of the Wyoming montmorillonite and built according to a multi-site ion exchanger theory has been integrated into a 1D transport code. The predictions given by this model were then compared with the breakthrough curves measured in this study and those reported in the literature. The study of the reactive transport of major cations highlighted the significant role of protons (even at near neutral pH), and validated the model for major cations (Na and Ca). However, the study concerning Zn (II) showed a discrepancy between the results obtained from batch experiments and those issued from column experiments, which could be attributed to the contribution of another sorbent phase (illite). Finally, the proposed sorption model allowed reproducing with a good confidence experimental data reported from literature for sorption of Zn (II) in dynamic conditions.POITIERS-SCD-Bib. électronique (861949901) / SudocSudocFranceF
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
Novel electro-active polymer actuator based on ionic networking membrane of PSMI-incorporated PVDF
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