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Improving a genetic algorithm segmentation by means of a fast edge detection technique
No full textThis paper presents a new hybrid range image segmentation approach. Two separate techniques are applied consecutively. First, an edge based segmentation technique extracts the edge points-creases and jumps-contained in the given range image. Then, by using only the edge point position information, the boundaries are computed. Secondly, the points clustered into each region are approximated by single surfaces through a Genetic Algorithm (GA). The GA takes advantage of previous edge representation finding the surface parameters that best fit each region. It works in a local way, according to the boundary information, reducing considerably the required CPU time. Experimental results with different range images are presented; moreover a comparison using either the edge detection stage or not is given
Adecision support systemfor industrial waste heat recovery: the CE-HEAT Project
No full textThe exploitation of the huge potential for industrial waste heat recovery detected in Europe represents an opportunity to accomplish the objectives set by the European Union with the aim to reduce resources consumption, greenhouse gases emissions and to fightclimate change. The CE-HEAT project, financed by the Interreg Central Europe Programme, aims to improve the governance of energy efficiency by focusing on the field of waste heat utilization in Central Europe space. In order to aid the decision-making process of investors and policy makers, an online decision support tool for the preliminary assessment of investments in waste heat recovery projects has been implemented. Different operating scenarios could be compared combining various heat recovery technologies, some of which considering single companies (absorption chiller, heat exchanger, heat pump) and others network oriented (district heating, ORC). The operation of the online tool is based on a multi-objective decision support system (DSS) which hasbeen specifically developed. The objective functions evaluate environmental impact minimization and economic performances maximization, ensuring a sustainability analysis. In order to evaluate the main parameters that interest the stakeholders, decision variables such as incentives, grant, thermal and electrical energy costs have been considered. The developed DSS is aimed at helping final users in the decision-making process through a conscious comparison between different waste heat recovery options based on the exploitation of different technologies. Once the input variables are selected by the user, the program will provide the decision support suggestions in terms of sustainability performance indicators, displayed by graphs and tables, allowing a comparison of these option
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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