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Very high strain sensitivity in thick-film resistors: real and false super gauge factors.
No full textAn investigation was carried out on the correlations between composition/morphology of RuO2-based thick-film resistors and their strain sensitivity. Very high gauge factors (GFs), as well as satisfactory performance in terms of TCR (temperature coefficient of resistance), excess noise and reliability, are obtained with an appropriate choice of glassy matrix, RuO2 grain size and concentrations. Resistive systems modified with metal and metal oxide additions were analyzed. In some cases, notable changes of electrical properties are observed , related to defective structures. Methods for a simple and accurate diagnosis of reliable or fictitious performance of thick-film strain gauges are identifie
Manganese in ruthenium dioxide-based thick film resistors.
No full textThe effects of Mn as additive on the microstructure, composition, and electrical properties of RuO2-based thick-film resistors were examined. Samples were prepared with pastes containing either MnO2 or Mn octoate in small amounts. Resistors were screen-printed and fired on 96% alumina and 99.5% beryllia. Dissolution of Mn in glass and phase transformation of oxides were studied, as well as the effect of Mn on interdiffusion phenomena in the resistors. The electrical properties of resistors with and without Mn were measured and compared. Mn is a very effective negative temperature coefficient of resistance driver; moreover, this additive brings a further beneficial effect on the performance properties of the resistors by preventing large inverse size effects in resistors with Ag-bearing terminations. It is shown that organometallic compounds are more suitable than oxides as a Mn source
LEAD-FREE RUTHENIUM-BASED THICK-FILM RESISTORS - A STUDY OF MODEL SYSTEMS
No full textA model system of thick-film resistor (TFR) was prepared starting from RuO2 powders and a lead-free glass. The microstructural development was investigated by scanning and transmission electron microscopies, energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetry and other complementary techniques. The electrical properties of the resistors were analysed with particular attention to sheet resistance, temperature coefficient of resistance, size effects and piezoresistive properties. It was found that these simple systems are interesting with respect to their stability in ageing tests at relatively high temperatures but they are not promising for high-temperature piezoresistive gauges because of low strain sensitivity. Some samples were also prepared with a Bi2Ru2O7; a notable exchange reaction occurs between the conductive grains and the glass matrix which prevents the formation of pyrochlore-type based resistors with this glassy matrix
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
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