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Report on industrial attachment with Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd
No full textThis report thoroughly describes the author’s fruitfully valuable experiences and achievements which contribute to the improvement of process, efficiency and effectiveness to the company during his Industrial Attachment to Motorola Electronics Pte., Ltd. from the period of 7th January 2008 to 7th June 2008. Having been assigned as software engineer under Motorola Software Development Centre (SDC), the author is responsible is to daily script seven programming languages in order to build the dashboard and operation tracking which are able to track the mobile phone software integration with the aim of improving automation workflow, capturing and providing real data. The seven programming languages are PHP, HTML, SMARTY, SQL, JAVASCRIPT, PERL, and CLEARCASE where CLEARCASE is run under Linux/Unix Environment. The author has done a dozen projects including big and small project. Due to company confidential, only four of them are selected to be described in the report. Having the opportunity to be involved in the real and complex working environment, the author has gained an extremely enlightening exposure not only in the programming part but also the diversity and complexity of a business function and interpersonal skill as well.
Modeling and performance analysis of mobile ad hoc network using OPNET
No full textMobile ad hoc network is a collection of two or more nodes that are dynamically and arbitrarily located. It is self-organizing and adaptive; it does not require intervention of any centralized access point or existing infrastructure. In order for nodes to communicate with each other, a routing protocol is used to basically discover routes among the nodes inside the network. The design goal of ad hoc network routing protocol is to establish the routes quickly and correctly between sources and destinations. The protocol should provide loop-free as well as minimize overhead for data transmission so as to conserve available bandwidth and increase scalability.
The routing protocol which is used in the project is Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV). AODV routing protocol is increasingly more popular for mobile nodes in ad hoc network as it provides a quick adaptation to dynamic change due to mobility, low processing and memory overhead, low network utilization and loop-free protocol.
In this Final Year Project, AODV routing protocol has been analyzed by measuring four imperative metrics including packet delivery fraction, average delay, normalized routing load and normalized media access control (MAC) load under different scenarios which were performed using varying number of sources, mobility and network sizes.Bachelor of Engineerin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Routing performance of mobile ad hoc network in urban street-grid environment by using peer-to-peer propagation model
No full textIn this paper, effect of non-line of sight propagation in an urban-street environment on routing performance in mobile ad hoc network is investigated. We implement a reliable propagation model in network simulator (NS2) named peer to peer propagation model which has been shown to be suitable for our street-grid environment by taking into account non-line of sight paths. Our simulation result shows that multiple reflected signals in an urban street grid environment have significant impacts on routing performance.Published versio
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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