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Wave Energy Converter Archetypes and Power Performance Representation
Full text linkThere is a continuing and increasing need to develop renewable energy technologies that are efficient, cost-effective and produce usable forms of energy. Wave energy converters (WECs) have an opportunity to play a key and significant role in the integration of renewable energy technologies on a commercial scale.
It is estimated that waves off the United States coast could provide ~64% of U.S electricity generation in 2018 [1]. A priority requirement to assist marine energy development is a better understanding what types of WECs are currently being developed and their current associated power production performance estimates.
This report explains the key differences between different WECs and the various power take-off (PTO) systems within then. Overviews of how the WEC operates, basic dimensions of the WEC, and a performance matrix are provided for each WEC archetype. The performance matrices illustrate the amount of power generated based on the significant wave height and the wave energy period, as per the International Electrotechnical Commission TC-114 Technical Specifications
Bias correction techniques for uncertainty reduction of long-term metocean data for ocean renewable energy systems
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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
On the temporal sensitivity of the reference data in bias correction techniques for improving metocean datasets
No full textThe paper presents a preliminary study limited to the use of wave height for the data corresponding to the Gulf of Biscay, a location with a very dominant North-West wave rose. It benchmarks different bias correction (BC) techniques and evaluates their performance, as well as the sensitivity of the BC to the reference dataset employed for the identification of the BC parameters. More precisely, the amount of data (number of years) and the selected period (exact years) are analysed. Overall, the results demonstrate that the Gumbel-based BC techniques overperform the linearly-spaced BC techniques, the directional-adjusted Gumbel Quantile Mapping technique showing the lowest bias. With respect to the sensitivity of the reference data, BC seems to provide satisfactory results even when only 1 year of data are used. However, the dispersion among the different selected periods is large, resulting in large uncertainties. This dispersion reduces significantly once 3 or more years of data are used, independently of the selected period
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
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