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Customising a System Code for the Analysis of the Thermal-Hydraulic Behaviour of a Supercritical Pressure Light Water Small Modular Reactor
No full textThe paper reports about the work performed in customizing the RELAP/SCDAPSIM code features for an easier assessment of a conceptual design of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) operating at supercritical pressure proposed by Schulenberg and Otic [13] in the frame of the EU ECC-SMART Project. First unsuccessful attempts to make use of an NRC version of the RELAP5 code in the analysis of the thermal-hydraulic behaviour of the SCW SMR revealed numerical difficulties at the transition from supercritical to subcritical pressures. This suggested to activate a cooperation for customising an already existing version of the RELAP/SCDAPSIM code, aiming to overcome similar numerical problems and to implement heat transfer correlations in principle more appropriate for supercritical pressure conditions. The improved version of the code, featuring a user defined generalised correlation for heat transfer encompassing several of the presently available literature proposals, was applied in predicting rod-bundle experiments performed by Razumovskiy et al. [16-17] and in analysing the behaviour of the seven core flow passage reactor proposed in [13]. In the paper, the present capabilities of the code are discussed in front of the obtained results and perspectives for future developments are suggested
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
Overview of the European supercritical-water-cooled small modular reactor concept
No full textThis paper presents the European Supercritical-Water-Cooled Small Modular Reactor (SCW-SMR) concept developed within the ECC-SMART project, a joint European-Canadian-Chinese initiative. The 290 MWth reactor operates at 25 MPa with a core outlet temperature of 500 °C, achieving 44 % net thermal efficiency. The innovative horizontal fuel-assembly arrangement with seven heat-up stages and intermediate mixing plenums enables fully passive decay heat removal through natural circulation, even without operator intervention or external power for >72 hours. The compact pressure vessel (4.17 m inner diameter) contains 400 fuel assemblies in a 20×20 square lattice. System-level safety analyses demonstrate that all design-basis accidents are mitigated exclusively by passive systems, eliminating the need for high-pressure injection. The large subcooled water inventory and unique in-vessel natural circulation patterns limit peak cladding temperatures to <625 °C in normal operation and <780 °C during accidents. By integrating the high efficiency of supercritical-water cooling with inherently safe, fully passive features, the ECC-SMART SCW-SMR offers a promising Generation IV solution tailored to European energy and safety requirements
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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