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    Desempeño de controladores difuso y neuro-difuso sobre una planta no lineal inestable

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    En este artículo se presentan los resultados obtenidos en el desempeño de funcionamiento, en fase de simulación, de un controlador difuso y de un controlador neuro-difuso, aplicados al control de una planta no lineal e inherentemente inestable como es el dispositivo de bola y plataforma. A partir del modelo matemático del sistema, y mediante la utilización de las herramientas computacionales de Matlab®, se diseñaron ambos controladores empleando la estructura clásica de Mamdani y un sistema de inferencia difusa basado en red adaptiva, o ANFIS, respectivamente. El procedimiento de verificación se realizó mediante la aplicación de consignas de entrada con el objetivo de imprimir a la bola trayectorias circulares y rectangulares sobre la plataforma. La comparación de las respuestas obtenidas por simulaciones muestra ventajas en favor del controlador neuro-difuso, aun considerando la presencia de ruido generado en los sensores y la ocurrencia de eventuales perturbaciones externas.Fil: Penco, José Jorge. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concordia; Argentina.Fil: Modesti, Mario Roberto. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Córdoba; Argentina.Peer Reviewe

    Comparison of neural networks. An estimation model in yield of monoglycerides from biodiesel by-product

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    Biodiesel is generally manufactured by transesterification, obtaining glycerol as a by-product. The transesterification of methyl stearate selectively produced monoglycerides, for glycerol valuation. Mixed oxides containing lithium catalysed the reaction. The purpose of this work was to develop and compare mathematical models obtained through artificial neural networks (ANN), capable for characterising the relationship between the mole percent conversion of methyl stearate and the yield of the products mono-, di- and triglycerides. The lowest mean squared error (MSE), the highest correlation coefficient (R), similarity in the evolution of validation and simulation errors and absence of data overlearning were considered to select the best model. Three ANNs with backpropagation structures were compared. They evidenced high correspondence between the estimated product yield values and the interpolated experimental ones. The ANN containing 35 neurons with sigmoid transfer function in the hidden layer and a linear neuron in the output one was the simplest.Consequently, the 5, 15 and 60 neurons were also explored in the hidden layer. The ANN structured with an intermediate number of neurons (35) achieved the most adequate MSE, considering mono- and diglyceride products (0.011193, 0.000489). The development of these models contributes to the dynamic estimation of the process.Fil: Alvarez, Dolores María Eugenia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Química. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Córdoba. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Química; ArgentinaFil: Balsamo, Nancy Florentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Química. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Córdoba. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Química; ArgentinaFil: Modesti, Mario Roberto. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Córdoba. Centro de Investigación en Informática para la Ingeniería; ArgentinaFil: Crivello, Mónica Elsie. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Química. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Córdoba. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Química; Argentin

    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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