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Analysis and comparison of functional verification and ATPG for testing design reliability
No full textAs the complexity of current hardware systems rises, it is challenging to harden these systems against faults and to complete their verification and manufacturing test. Not only that verification and testing take a considerable amount of time but the number of design errors, faults and manufacturing defects increases with the rising complexity as well. In this paper we performed a detailed analysis of two approaches devoted to generation of input test vectors with respect to detection of stuck-at faults: the first one is based on classical Automatic Test Pattern Generation, the second one on Constrained-random Stimulus Generation. We evaluated their qualities as well as their drawbacks and introduced ideas about their combination in order to create a new promising approach for testing reliable systems
Association of phytoplasmas and viruses with malformed clovers
No full textPlants of Trifolium spp. exhibiting two different kinds of symptoms - phyllody associated with yellowing/reddening, and dwarf growth habit without floral abnormalities, were observed in several areas of the Czech Republic. Nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with phytoplasma specific primers, and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses of 16SrDNA revealed that phyllody of T. repens was associated with phytoplasmas belonging to the 16SrI-C subgroup. Similar symptoms in T. hybridum and T. pratense plants revealed the presence of phytoplasmas belonging to two subgroups: 16SrI-C and 16SrIII-B. Dwarf disease of cultivated T. pratense plants was associated with more than one agent: eleven of twenty plants examined by PCR/RFLP analysis revealed the presence of phytoplasmas belonging to four distinct subgroups: 16SrI-B, 16SrI-C, 16SrIII-B and 16SrX-A. Moreover, two kinds of bacilliform virions were observed in ultrathin sections of fifteen T. pratense plants. Particles occurred mostly in the parenchymatous cells of vascular bundles and were located in the cytoplasm as aggregates within an extended network of membraneous cisternae. Phytoplasmas and rhabdoviruses occurred singly, and both together or in co-presence with filamentous virus-like particles
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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