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    The Onano Pyroclastic Formation (Vulsini volcanoes): depositional features, distribution and eruptive mechanisms

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    Field relations, areal distribution and depositional sequence of the units which constitute the Onano Pyroclastic Formation (ON) are analyzed and discussed in detail. The eruptive events linked to the emission of the ON products take place during the initial stages of the last Latera calderic collapse. -from Author

    Joint tracking and identification algorithms for multisensor data

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    The paper describes an algorithm to jointly form a track and assign an identity flag to a target on the basis of measurements provided by a suite of sensors: surveillance radar, high resolution radar and electronic support measures. The algorithm is built around Bayes' inference and Kalman filters with the interacting multiple model. The improved performance in the track formation and identity estimation, which accrues by the joint tracking and identification algorithm, is evaluated by Monte Carlo simulation and compared to the performance of filters that process the data provided by each single sensor. The joint tracking and identification algorithm plays an important role in modern surveillance systems with non-cooperative target recognition capabilities

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    Using Neural Networks for wine identification

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    The capability to reduce the complexity of wine’s production, bottling and packaging, it is highly important for any company with an elevated commercial standard. This research contains a study and a research on mathematical models for the classification of wine absorption spectrum characteristics so to improve some critical aspects of production as the bottling process. The identified model, based on neural networks, consents both recognition and classification of various typologies of wine produced from the Wine Firm “M. Mastroberardino” of Atripalda (AV)
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