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No more moody mornings: Alarm clock anticipates sleepers' emotions
No full textMore eloquent alternatives to the harsh tones of the oldfashioned alarm-clock bells abound, including a newsreaders voice summing up last nights disasters, or a tape of your favourite early morning music. Still, getting out of bed has its difficult moments. All this could well change in the near future, if Ir. Stephan Wensveen, a graduate student at the ID-StudioLab of the Delft Industrial Design faculty, has any say in it. For his doctorate research at the Form Theory Group of Dr.Kees Overbeeke, Wensveen is designing an alarm clock that deduces how you will feel the following morning from the way in which you set it, and adapts its alarm signal accordingly. In fact, it signals the end of earlymorning grumpiness
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
Rights Though Making
No full textThe lack of solutions for the complexities of the modern world, such as environmental issues, cultural clashes, ideological warfare and the breakdown of cultures, indicates that we might have touched upon the limits of the rationally and positively driven practice of the Western world. The authors of the volume believe that the design thinking, where action and thinking are combined, could take the lead in developing a new approach to these global problems. Sharing the language of making might break down barriers between people, ideologies and communities, while at the same time preserving diversity. The proposed project is indeed a first step towards this ambitious program: this book proposes to use the power of making, conjugated with local design culture, to pave the way for a new way of communicating and a new way of thinkin
Designing Complexity in Context: Light Through Culture
No full textLight through Culture is an international design school which
explores the theme of complexity in learning environments. The
aim of the school is to weave the newest technologies and the rich
existing culture into a new canvas for making and thinking.
Learning is meant as a way to (re) incorporate culture and making
into thinking. The school has been hosted by the Museum
Complex Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy. Being immersed in
a rich historical-cultural context, the students had to design an
experiential path along the Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrimage
route developing in the middle age from Canterbury to Rome,
passing through England, France, Switzerland and finally Italy.
Traveling along the route, the pilgrims stopped at the Santa Maria
della Scala, that was an hospital at that time, where they could be
given shelter and care on their way. Pilgrims started a long trip
toward the enlightenment, the hope, the alleviation. Are
contemporary visitors new pilgrims? The design school tried to
answer this question exploring history and culture by means of
innovative light technologies. Learning developed while building
a real path in the Museum underground crossed by the ancient Via
Francigena, opening the results of the design activity to the
experience of real visitors and reflecting on how people feel,
perceive and make sense of their experience. Learning confronts
with the whole complexity of a real environment: the results of
the school were not only texts but also physical, virtual and mixed
new realities consisting of new ways of presenting and adding
new dimensionalities to the existing world
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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