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Software-defined multiband array passive radar (SMARP) project: An overview
No full textThis paper presents the results of the Software-defined Multiband Array Passive Radar (SMARP) project. The objective of the project was to design and realize a multiband passive radar demonstrator based on a software-defined solution and oriented to coastal surveillance applications. This work has been conceived in the framework of the Italian National Plan for Military Research. The project overall duration was 36 months and it was composed by three phases. The system concept and the results of each phase are presented in this paper
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
Signal Spectral Modelling for Airborne Radar in Presence of Windshear Phenomena
No full textA number of significant airplane accidents have resulted from windshear encounters during takeoff or landing. In these situations the radar signal received may be affected by a strong ground clutter that may make the conventional windshear detection algorithms implemented on ground-based systems unusable. Typically, the solution to this problem is to employ a clutter rejection filter and then process the filter output to derive weather information. In this study, a parametric bimodal spectral model of the raw radar signal from an airborne Doppler weather radar is proposed. The bimodal shape of the model has been defined as a superposition of clutter and windshear. The model can be used to define a windshear detection algorithm that can also directly estimate the physical weather parameters by using the estimated model parameters without using a clutter rejection pre-filter. Owing to the impossibility of testing a windshear detection system in a realistic environment, a simulated windshear data base has been developed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during their windshear research programme. The purpose of this study is to define a parametric bimodal spectral model and demonstrate its validity on the NASA-FAA windshear certification data set
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
Passive ISAR for harbor protection and surveillance
No full textThis chapter presents the application of the PB-ISAR (passive bistatic-ISAR) technique to data collected in a harbor area. The results show the effectiveness of PB-ISAR algorithm for the purposes of harbor protection and surveillance. In Chapter 5, the theory behind PB-ISAR imaging has been detailed. The PB-ISAR algorithm is based on two main concepts. The first concerns the bistatic ISAR theory. Owing to the fact that a passive radar is intrinsically bistatic, since the transmitter and the receiver are not co-located, the bistatic ISAR theory can be applied [4]
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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