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    ''Action tunes body dimension in space: evidences from non-use and overuse''

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    Finisguerra, Alessandra | Bassolino, Michela | Serino, Andrea | Pozzo, ThierryInternational audienc

    ''Action tunes body dimension in space: evidences from non-use and overuse''

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    Finisguerra, Alessandra | Bassolino, Michela | Serino, Andrea | Pozzo, ThierryInternational audienc

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Digital Twin-Driven Design of an Ice Prediction Model

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    This paper describes the development of an ice creation model to be used within the framework of a model-based systems engineering approach to predict the amount of ice growing on aircraft wings during flight. This model supports the preliminary design of the ice protection system, as well as the implementation of a control system, in real-time. When the aircraft meets a high concentration of super-cooled water in the atmosphere and a low temperature, the risk of ice formation on its external surfaces is significant. This causes a decrease in aerodynamic performance, with potential loss of control of the aircraft. To mitigate this effect, ice prevention and protection systems are crucial. The characteristics of the icing phenomena are first defined, then their effects on aircraft behavior during operation are evaluated. This allows us to develop a highly parametric predictive model of the actual icing conditions experienced by the aircraft during a given flight mission. To precisely predict the ice accretion and to design an ice protection system, estimating heat fluxes involving the aircraft’s wing surfaces and the external environment is required. To allow for this, this study also develops a thermal model that is specifically applied to the above-mentioned analysis. This model includes many factors characterizing the atmospheric conditions responsible for ice creation upon the aerodynamic surfaces, and it enables an accurate estimation and quantification of all the parameters necessary to design an appropriate ice protection system

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

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    The role of reference frames in memory recollection

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    In this commentary on Bastin et al., we suggest that spatial context plays a critical role in the encoding and retrieval of events. Specifically, the translation process between the viewpoint-independent content of a memory and the viewpoint-dependent stimuli activating the retrieval (mental frame syncing) plays a critical role in spatial memory recollection. This perspective also provides an explanatory model for pathological disturbances such as Alzheimer's disease
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