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    Load Altering Attacks Detection, Reconstruction and Mitigation for Cyber-Security in Smart Grids with Battery Energy Storage Systems

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    In this paper, a novel scheme inspired by the Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Algorithm (STA) is proposed to detect, reconstruct and mitigate resonance load altering cyber attacks in smart grids. In the existing literature, it has been shown that these attacks are difficult to be detected by the control centre, as they are often characterised by relatively small power oscillations. Nonetheless, they can degrade the energy balance of the smart grid by making the frequency oscillating outside the tolerable limits. These attacks can further bring disruptive consequences, such as widespread blackouts and the disconnection of an area from the grid. In this study, it is shown that Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) controlled by an observer-based STA can effectively mitigate the impact of these attacks on a smart grid. Specifically, an STA observer is created to detect and reconstruct in real-time load altering cyber attacks in a decentralised fashion. The estimation of the attack is then utilised as a set-point for a decentralised STA-based controller to dynamically regulate the output power of the BESS. The simulation results, which account for three possible scenarios, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme

    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

    Finite time output parameter estimation for a class of nonlinear systems

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    This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IEEE via the DOI in this recordIn this letter, a novel scheme is proposed to identify in finite time the value of an unknown output parameter for a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Inspired by the Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Algorithm (STA), the identification problem is solved in an innovative way, consisting of two steps. An STA observer is firstly designed to track in finite time the system output. Exploiting the observer behaviour during the sliding motion, a second scheme, still inspired by the STA, is used to estimate the unknown value of the output parameter, thus solving the identification problem in finite time. The numerical simulations based on district heating systems validate the effectiveness of the proposed identification method.European Union Horizon 2020Dutch Research Council (NWO)ERA-Net Smart Energy System

    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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