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Implementation and ground validation of a facility for functional and structural analysis of proximal upper limb muscles in microgravity.
Get PDFThe study of the activity of the proximal muscles of the upper limb and in particular of
muscles acting on the gleno-humeral joint in microgravity condition has a special interest
because: 1. The upper limbs play a major role in posture and locomotion for the subject
living in the space station; 2. Muscle fatigue may have a significant effect on the hand and
upper limb, for the ordinary work on board and in particular for the extra-vehicular
activities (EVA); 3. Crewmembers may be at risk of shoulder injury during space
walks because of decreasing muscle and tendon mass during long-duration space-flight.
In this study a facility was developed to follow the changes in mass and force of proximal
upper limb muscles. The facility is composed of a dynamometer, composed of a handle
connected to a load cell, indicated as Pullgrip Dynamometer (PGD), and a specific software
able to record force measurements and to drive the testing procedure (indicated as MAAT
protocol). PGD was designed in a way to be easily mounted on the inner wall of the ISS.
The results obtained in the testing session demonstrated that PGD and MAAT can reliably:
1. Discriminate between subjects in relation to the level of muscle strength develop in a pull
effort applied on the PGD; 2. provide data for correlation between force and muscle size; 3.
Evaluate the weight of the proprioceptive feedback in comparison with visual feedback to
determine precision of force generation; 4. Evaluate muscle fatigue. The validation of the
facility based on PGD and MAAT provides support to the plans to utilize them in
experimental studies on alteration of proximal upper limb muscles on board of the
International Space Station (ISS)
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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