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The Crowdfunding Regulation in the Context of the Capital Markets Union
No full textThe chapter, after providing an overview of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) plan with a focus on actions in favour of small and medium enterprises and their financing, analyses financial-return crowdfunding in comparison with traditional forms of finance and other alternative funding methods touched upon by the Capital Markets Union Plan, as well as identifies the related main legal issues raised by the Crowdfunding Regulation, which will be discussed in further details in other chapters. Finally, it will assess the coherence of the resulting overall framework
Low back pain in adolescent cyclist: prevalence and its impact of activity on everyday life
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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
Robust data gathering for wireless sensor networks
No full text2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Networks jointly held with the 2005 7th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications, Proceedings
Volume 1, 2005, Article number 1635527, Pages 469-474
2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Networks jointly held with the 2005 7th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia; 16 November 2005 through 18 November 2005; Category number05EX1235; Code 69262
Robust data gathering for wireless sensor networks (Conference Paper)
Ortolani, M. , Gatani, L. , Lo Re, G.
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Parco d'Orleans, 90128 Palermo, Italy
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Abstract
In this paper we propose a data gathering model for wireless sensor networks that provides a reasonable tradeoff between robustness and efficiency, with special regard to energy saving. We design a routing algorithm that exploits implicit acknowledgment of reception and smart caching of the data to implement an efficient strategy for retransmission of lost packets and alternative path discovery; in order to do that, we build upon the general framework presented in recent works, that provided a formulation of duplicate and order insensitive aggregation functions, taking advantage of some intrinsic characteristics of the wireless sensor networks. The advantages of the proposed approach become more evident when one parts from an ideal scenario in which all nodes have available data to transmit in favor of a more practical one in which data originates from only a subset of all sensors. In this practical case, the approach provides a better usage of the resources and a minimization of the traffic in the network, and, as a consequence, of the overall consumed energy
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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