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Muscle activity on head-first compression responses of a finite element neck model
Full text linkEffects of muscle activation on human neck kinematic responses under compressive loads have not been un-derstood empirically due to the limitation of testing on in vivo test specimens. Advanced computational models can potentially provide information to improve our understanding of such responses. This study used a previ-ously developed ligamentous finite element (FE) neck model, further integrated with muscles, fleshy tissue, and skin of the neck to predict the influence of passive and active muscles on responses to neck compression. For validation, post-mortem human subject (PMHS) and volunteer responses in frontal sled impacts were used to compare the dynamic response of the model with passive and active muscles, respectively. An objective eval-uation of the validation responses suggested the 'fair' to 'good' biofidelity rating of the muscular system model. The compressive impacts, used to validate the ligamentous FE neck, were methodologically applied in the current study including the muscles with various activation states, flesh, and skin. The contribution of muscles (passive or active) resulted in an increase in the peak lower neck compression and shear forces and in a reduction in the upper neck forces on average; the role of active state dynamics of the muscles was crucial on the magnitude of the forces. Therefore, modeling of the muscles in a computational neck model may not be neglected to study a head-first compressive impact
Mechanical characterisation of additively manufactured PA12 lattice structures under quasi-static compression
No full textThe primary advantage of lattice structures over other cellular structures is the possibility of obtaining higher mechanical properties combined with lower weight. This paper describes the quasi-static mechanical behaviour of eight lightweight lattice structures of various tessellated unit cell topologies using finite element (FE) analysis. Three types of structures were additively manufactured with polyamide (PA12) material using the advanced Multi Jet Fusion technology and were tested under quasi-static compressive loading. The experimental results were used to validate the FE models of the lattices. We compared specific mechanical properties of all eight structures designed with an identical strut diameter of 1 mm or an identical relative density of 0.095. Such comparisons provide a different order of preference for the lattice structures. Based on Maxwell's stability criterion, the current eight structures are of bending-dominated nature; however, these structures may exhibit stretch-dominated behaviour due to a reasonable amount of struts aligned in the direction of the external load. An excellent combination of stiffness, strength, and energy absorption can be obtained by the structures, when the load is applied in a specific direction with respect to the strut elements
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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