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Natural radiation sources: a study on NORM in industrial sectors
Get PDFIn Italy some industrial processes involving Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM in the following) are regulated by the Legislative Decree of 31
July 2020 n. 101 [1] which transposes the Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom[2]. For several sectors, the entry into radiation protection system is entirely new. The
topic of NORM is quite recent in radiation protection system; in fact, it is only in the last few decades that more attention has been paid to this issue. Therefore,
the information available is far less than for other topics in the radiation protection field and some aspects, such as sampling protocols, are still being
defined.
For these reasons, this thesis aims to provide an overview of natural radioactivity
content in some NORM-involving industries, selected from the Italian legislative
decree 101/2020.
The study carried out in this research project can help to understand which kind
of material is more critical from the radiation protection point of view or which
radionuclides usually occur in it and can therefore be expected from the analysis
of such a sample.
A great collection of data about the content of radioactivity in four categories of
materials (raw materials, residues, products and effluents) from twelve NORM
involving industrial sectors has been carried out. The collection considers
radiological data (in terms of activity concentrations of 238U, 226Ra, 210Pb, 210Po,
232Th, 228Ra and 40K) for more than 6200 samples, taken from international and
national literature. Collected radiological data have been analyzed and the most
significant results will be shown here. Complete data, instead, are reported in
Appendix.
An inventory of the industries currently operating in Italy was updated in order
to understand the impact of the Italian radiation protection legislation on NORMrelated
industrial activities and to identify the industrial sectors with an
important radiological impact on population and workers.
Moreover, given the large number of industrial sectors, a general methodological
approach was developed, which can be adapted and declined for the different
NORM industry sectors indicated in the legislation. The methodology,
elaborated taking into account a graded approach, consinsts of two phases and
provides indications about the characterization of the most critical exposure
scenarios and of the radiological content of NORMs involved in the different
phases of the industrial processes.
Lastly, all data collected and analyzed in this study will be soon available online.
In fact in the framework of the research project it is nearing completion a
database on the “Physical Agents Portal (PAF)” website
(https://www.portaleagentifisici.it/) that will allow not only data consultation,
but also dose assessment for different scenarios
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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