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    Corrigendum to ‘Aerogel from fruit biowaste produces ultracapacitors with high energy density and stability’ [Journal of Energy Storage (2020) Volume 27 Pages 101152] (Journal of Energy Storage (2020) 27, (S2352152X19309077), (10.1016/j.est.2019.101152))

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    The authors regret the omission of Mahbub Hassan (same affiliation as the other co-authors) as one of the authors in the author list. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused

    A Collaborative Approach to Heading Estimation for Smartphone-based PDR Indoor Localisation

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    Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) is widely used for indoor localisation. Its principle is to recursively update the location of the pedestrian by using step length and step heading. A common method to estimate the heading in PDR is to use magnetometer measurements. However, unlike outdoor environments, the Earth’s magnetic field is strongly perturbed inside buildings making the magnetometer measurements unreliable for heading estimation. This paper presents a new method to reduce heading estimation errors when magnetometers are used. The method consists of two components. The first component uses a machine learning algorithm to detect whether a heading estimate is within a specific error margin. Only heading estimates within the error margin are retained and passed to the second component, while the other estimates are discarded. The second component uses data fusion to average the heading estimates from multiple people walking in the same direction. The rationale of this component is based on the observation that magnetic perturbations are often highly localised in space and if multiple people are walking in the same direction, then only some of their magnetometers are likely to be perturbed. Data fusion between users can be carried out in a distributed manner by using a consensus algorithm with information sharing over wireless links. We tested the performance of our method using 92 datasets. The method is shown to provide an average heading estimate error of approximately 2°, which is more than 6-fold lower than the error of the heading estimate based only on raw magnetometer measurements (without any filtering and fusion). Assuming highly accurate step-length observation, the improved heading estimation leads to an average localisation accuracy of 55cm, which is an 80% improvement over PDR localisation using only raw magnetometer measurements

    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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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