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A novel shared control algorithm for industrial robots
Full text linkHuman management of robots in many specific industrial activities has long been imperative, due to the elevated levels of complexity involved, which can only be overcome through long and wasteful preprogrammed activities. The shared control approach is one of the most emergent procedures that can compensate and optimally couple human smartness with the high precision and productivity characteristic to mechatronic systems. To explore and to exploit this approach in the industrial field, an innovative shared control algorithm was elaborated, designed and validated in a specific case study
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
Experimental Characterization of Leak Detection Systems in HLM Pool Using LIFUS5/Mod3 Facility
Full text linkIn the framework of the European Union MAXSIMA project, the safety of the steam generator (SG)
adopted in the primary loop of the Heavy Liquid Metal Fast Reactor has been studied investigating the consequences
and damage propagation of a SG tube rupture event and characterizing leak rates from typical cracks.
Instrumentation able to promptly detect the presence of a crack in the SG tubes may be used to prevent its further
propagation, which would lead to a full rupture of the tube. Application of the leak-before-break concept is relevant
for improving the safety of a reactor system and decreasing the probability of a pipe break event. In this framework,
a new experimental campaign (Test Series C) has been carried out in the LIFUS5/Mod3 facility, installed at ENEA
Centro Ricerche Brasimone, in order to characterize and to correlate the leak rate through typical cracks occurring
in the pressurized tubes with signals detected by proper transducers. Test C1.3_60 was executed injecting water at
about 20 bars and 200°C into lead-bismuth eutectic alloy. The injection was performed through a laser microholed
plate 60 μm in diameter. Analysis of the thermohydraulic data permitted characterization of the leakage through
typical cracks that can occur in the pressurized tubes of the SG. Analysis of the data acquired by microphones and
accelerometers highlighted that it is possible to correlate the signals to the leakage and the rate of release
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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