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Numerical analysis of stacked geo-tubes
No full textGeo-tubes and geo-containers are being increasingly used as marine structures for coastal protection and harbor construction. They represent an alternative solution compared to the traditional methods such as rock embankment and/or concrete units, with a significant reduction in cost and time. The tensile stress of stacked geo-tubes in immersed condition has been explored in this paper through numeri-cal modeling, considering that the main drawback for this kind of structures is the lack of definite design criteria. With the aim of increasing the knowledge of the shape of the tubes and of the tensile stress in the geotextiles after filling and load-ing, the analyses showed how these parameters may be influenced by many fac-tors, as the mutual distance of the geo-tubes, the interface friction and the level of filling of the geo-tubes
Numerical analysis of a geo-tube subjected to seismic soil liquefaction
No full textGeo-tubes are geosynthetic tubular containers, of various length and diameter,
which are filled by pumping a fluid mixture of water and soil: the permeability of the
geosynthetic allows water to drain rapidly so that at the end of the installation a solid nucleus is
obtained. Considering that geo-tubes have been widely used as submerged elements, for example
for shoreline protection, and that the filling material is a low density loose soil, hydraulically
deposited, they may be subjected to liquefaction during seismic events. In order to investigate
the behavior of a single submerged geo-tube when subjected to soil liquefaction, a numerical
analysis is presented. The El Centro earthquake was considered and, under this solicitation, a
rapid buildup of the pore pressure in the filling soil was observed. Consequently, since the first
seconds of the seismic event, a decrease of the effective vertical stress took place up to values
close to zero, showing the capability of the model to replicate a condition of soil liquefaction. At
this stage, a general increase of the tensile force in the geosynthetic was noted, up to values that
are significantly higher than those experienced in the static phase
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
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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