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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
Nozzle Flange Connection Design
No full textJoshua Bonilla and Roohullah Maqsoodi, ENT 422: Machine Design II Faculty Mentor: Professor Jikai Du, Engineering Technology
Xylem Heat Transfer is a world leader in heat exchangers. The company makes a variety of heat exchangers such as Brazed plate, Gasket plate, and Shell and Tube. One of the company’s products is the RolAirTrol air-water separator. The RolAirtrol mechanism is designed to slow down velocity in a liquid system, to allow for air to rise out the system and solids to sink out of the system. Our project’s nozzle to flange fixture is designed to preform tack welding processes for changing size connections. The designs for Xylem’s newly developed air water separator has connections at the center and, as a result, the geometry of the nozzle needs to be modified when compared to the old system. Through our research and engineering design, we devised a variety of possible designs. We created drawings for the company to manufacture, assemble, and disassemble the fixture. Welding fixtures will be available in different sizes, shapes, materials, and mechanisms based on their operational need. The precision of the fixture plays a major role in manufacturing. The newly designed fixture should benefit the company tremendously, as there is currently no alternative fixture available.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp20-compeng/1007/thumbnail.jp
Eco-friendly mangrove-derived nanocomposite coating for sustainable biofouling and corrosion protection in Persian Gulf field trials
Get PDF: Marine biofouling and corrosion impose major environmental and operational costs on maritime industries. This study aims to develop an eco-friendly, mangrove-derived nanocomposite coating that sustainably mitigates both challenges. Aluminum oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles were green-synthesized using Avicennia marina leaf extract and integrated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix. Structural characterization (XRD, FTIR, FESEM-EDS, UV-Vis) confirmed uniform nanoparticle dispersion and hybrid formation with enhanced photocatalytic efficiency. The optimized 0.5 wt% Al2O3-TiO2@MWCNT/PDMS coating exhibited superior antibacterial performance, achieving 96.5 % inhibition against S. aureus, 97.2 % against E. coli, and 95.8 % against P. aeruginosa, alongside 98.7 % anti-algal suppression of Nannochloropsis oculata. Corrosion current density reached as low as 0.008 μA/cm2, while polarization resistance increased to 4750 kΩ·cm2. Four-month field trials in the Persian Gulf demonstrated a 68 % reduction in fouling coverage relative to control PDMS panels. Through green synthesis and the exclusion of toxic biocides, this coating minimizes ecological risk and supports UN Sustainable Development Goals 9 and 14 by providing a scalable, durable, low-impact solution for marine infrastructure protection
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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