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Accelerated TPM by simulation
No full textPersonalization of products, mix variability, short time to market and risk of products obsolescence are the most important factors that have forced many companies to adopt the concepts of Just-in-Time production
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
The hospital efficient management: just in time and kanban technique
No full textNationwide, a fundamental change is taking place in health care. Rapidly increasing health care costs combined with new government policy, have redirected the spotlight of the national attentions to hospitals and other health care providers. To remain viable and competitive in the new cost-conscious environment, hospitals and health-care providers must change the way they have traditionally operated. Costs need to driven down as a managed-care contracts put a cap on revenue opportunities. It will not be business as usual; it will be running an efficient business, and that business is health care.
This is the reason in public hospitals the use of the resources is to be optimized by applying economic methodologies developed for private firms. The hospital fulfillment system is very important in the firm balance and for this reason the need of implementing new stock management systems emerged.
In this context this paper finds its application: the presented research deals with the design and experimentation of an innovative automatic supply model so as the ward products could be reached by means of a Just In Time system. The first application of the suggested procedure is developed for the City Hospital of Padova (Italy), in particular some representative wards of this hospital were selected for a small scale experimentation: these wards are the most significant of the structure for dimensions, for quantity of managed products and for category.
The obtained results are excellent, in fact, with small investments (modular cabinets and “intelligent” trolleys), the quantities and the volumes of the stored products, expired medicines, orders error and unjustified picking operations. Moreover, most of the administrative activities, normally performed by the hospital personnel, are vanished, improving the assistance activities
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