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Farma4all: Smart User Experience for Drugstores
No full textE-Health and Well-Being are two of the more relevant application fields for smart technologies to foster social sustainability. In this paper, we report on a research project named Farma4all we are carrying out to enable pharmacists to adopt and keep under control inside their physical stores the enhanced customer experience unleashed by IoT, mobile apps and bot ecosystems
Artificial Intelligence on Edge Computing: a Healthcare Scenario in Ambient Assisted Living
No full textThe aging population brings many challenges surrounding the quality of life for older people and their carers, as well as impacts on the healthcare market. Several initiatives all over the world have focused on the problem of helping the aging population with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, aiming at promoting a healthier society, which constitutes a main social and economic challenge. In this paper, we focus on an Ambient Assisted Living scenario in which a Smart Home Environment is carried out to assist elders at home, performing trustworthy automated complex decisions by means of IoT sensors, smart healthcare devices, and edge nodes. The core idea is to exploit the proximity between computing and information-generation sources. Taking automated complex decisions with the help AI-based techniques directly on the Edge enables a faster, more private, and context-aware Edge Computing empowering, called Edge Intelligence
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
Learning and recognizing routines and activities in SOFiA
No full textIn order to promote an effective and personalized interaction, smart environments should be endowed with the capability of understanding what the user is doing. To this aim we developed a system called WoMan that, using a process mining approach, is able to incrementally learn user’s activities and daily routines as workflow models. In order to test its efficacy in a real-world setting, we set up a smart office environment, SOFiA, equipped with a sensor network based on Arduino. Then we collected an annotated dataset of 45 days and from this dataset we learned the workflow models of the user daily routines and of the activities performed in the office. Then we performed some experiments that show how our approach perform in learning and recognizing activities and routines. In particular, we achieve in average the accuracy of 82% for tasks and the accuracy of 98% for the transitions among tasks. Moreover we test the real-time performance of the approach with sensor data coming from the SOFiA sensors and the system started to make a correct prediction since the fourth execution in 82% of the cases
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
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