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Improved outflow model for oil tankers following collision events and investigation of relevant statistical properties by Monte Carlo simulation
No full textThe paper focuses on the development of an improved outflow model for oil tankers following collision events and the investigation of its statistical properties by Monte Carlo simulation. After a review of the most recent advances, a new oil outflow model is developed for double hull oil tankers, based on a time-domain iterative procedure, until hydrostatic equilibrium is reached at outer and inner side openings. The model allows removing the assumptions related to the negligible dimension of the damaged area, the full loading condition of cargo tank and the detachment of the oil spillage event in a set of subsequent phases. The IMO statistics are employed for random generation of collision damage events, under different assumptions concerning the damage dimensions, assumed both uncorrelated and correlated, in the latter case by the employment of Gaussian copula functions. Two oil tankers are considered in a benchmark study, devoted to investigating the oil outflow statistical properties following collision events and comparing them with the relevant values obtained by the IMO model. The incidence of double hull width is investigated and some suggestions for the possible updating of current IMO guidelines are also provided to improve the safety of oil tankers following collision events
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
Carta de Michele Federico Sciacca a Alain Guy. Génova, 20 de Junio de 1961
No full textCarta de Michele Federico Sciacca a Alain Guy en la que le agradece las palabras que ha expresado sobre él en las reseñas de los dos volúmenes dedicados a él.- Observaciones: Michele Federico Sciacca filósofo realista italiano, profesor de la Universidad de Génova y fundador de la revista Giornale di Metafisic
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
Carta de Michele Federico Sciacca a Alain Guy. Génova, 18 de Diciembre de 1956
No full textCarta de Michele Federico Sciacca a Alain Guy en la que le felicita por su magnífica obra Les philosophes espagnols d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, las navidades y el nuevo año. - Observaciones: Michele Federico Sciacca filósofo realista italiano, profesor de la Universidad de Génova y fundador de la revista Giornale di Metafisica.- Bibliografía que aparece en la carta: Giornale di metafisica: rivista bimestrale di filosofia. Torino: Societá Editrice Internazionale, 1946-; Les philosophes espagnols d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Toulouse: Éditions Privat, 195
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