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Viaggio nell'India del Nord
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Optimal blade shapes for viscous dense gas flows through turbine cascades
Full text linkThe objective of the present study is to find optimal blade shapes providing high turbine efficiency over a large range of operating conditions for turbulent flows trough highly loaded turbine cascades, characterized by high values of the pressure ratio. To this end, a multi-point optimization of the blade shape is undertaken, using a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The flow solver is coupled with a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA). Cascade efficiency has been optimized at several operating points in order to obtain blade shapes providing high system efficiency over a large range of conditions. The mechanism leading to efficiency improvement is a reduction in the maximum Mach number: major gains come from a significant weakening of the trailing edge shock for the optimized configuration
Rethinking the Question of Images (Aniconism vs Iconism) in Indian History of Art
No full textThe present paper aims at offering some preliminary reflections on the question of images in India, in order to start a rethinking of these themes, also in relation to the debated interpretation of the history of Indian art in the light of the notions of aniconism and iconism, which may also be taken as a starting point for the following observations
Assistance for post-coma patients in a vegetative state: two different models in Italian regional regulations considered from the local justice point of view
No full textPublic health systems are experiencing difficulties in ensuring a level of care (services, facilities) consistent with the use of increasingly sophisticated technologies and a growing demand for health care. This paper discusses the principles and strategies governing the distribution of resources devoted to health care arguing that these principles and strategies must take into account a shortage of care provision
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
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