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    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

    Task-Aware Connectivity Learning for Incoming Nodes Over Growing Graphs

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    Data processing over graphs is usually done on graphs of fixed size. However, graphs often grow with new nodes arriving over time. Knowing the connectivity information of these nodes, and thus, the expanded graph is crucial for processing data over the expanded graph. In its absence, its inference and the subsequent data processing become essential. This paper provides contributions along this direction by considering task-driven data processing for incoming nodes without connectivity information. We model the incoming node attachment as a random process dictated by the parameterized vectors of probabilities and weights of attachment. The attachment is driven by the existing graph topology, the corresponding graph signal, and an associated processing task. We consider two such tasks, one of interpolation at the incoming node, and that of graph signal smoothness. We show that the model bounds implicitly the spectral perturbation between the nominal topology of the expanded graph and the drawn realizations. In the absence of connectivity information our topology, task, and data-aware stochastic attachment performs better than purely data-driven and topology driven stochastic attachment rules, as is confirmed by numerical results over synthetic and real data.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Multimedia ComputingIntelligent System

    Secondary Flows in Boundary Layers over Streamwise-aligned Wall-roughness

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    The cause of recently observed spanwise-alternating low- and high-momentum pathways [1,2,3] to appear across the entire turbulent boundary layer formed over rough surfaces is experimentally investigated by measuring the flows over roughness elements with systematically varied spanwise spacing. We found that the secondary flows associated with these low- and high-momentum pathways only appeared when the spanwise spacing of roughness elements was roughly proportional to the boundary layer thickness, and did not appear for cases with spacing much less than the boundary layer height. This suggests that the ratio of the spanwise spacing to the boundary layer thickness, as opposed to the roughness height (or width), is the most important parameter to predict the occurrence of these secondary motions in turbulent boundary layers over rough walls

    Flow over partially liquid filled cavity

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    Experiments have been carried out to investigate the effect of liquid cavity filling on the behavior of the gas flow over a flat plate cavity. PIV measurements in the gas phase reveal that cavity filling can affect vortex shedding in the cavity mouth. Shear layer vortices can break-up into smaller vortices, thereby losing their periodic interaction with the aft wall and, hence, their sound producing potential. Expected is that this is one of the mechanisms causing sound mitigation in corrugated pipes with liquid addition, observed in literature

    Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation

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    The desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters

    Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers

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    In the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)

    Representation of symmetry in the extrastriate visual cortex from temporal integration of parts: An EEG/ERP study

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    When symmetry is present in the retinal image, a symmetry-sensitive network in the extrastriate visual areas activates, and response magnitude scales with degree of regularity. Is this activation driven by the regularity in the image, or can the network recover regularity of an object? We investigated whether the network responds to bilateral symmetry for dynamically occluded shapes, and thus responds to symmetry in the object. The stimulus was an irregular shape partly occluded by a rectangle. After 500 ms, the rectangle was displaced to the other side, occluding the previously visible half, and revealing the other half for 1000 ms. Therefore, no symmetry was present in the image at any point in time. Exp.1 and Exp.2 used vertical and horizontal axis of reflection, and in Exp. 3 there was no occluder. Participants could detect symmetry with >80% accuracy. More importantly, ERP analysis showed a symmetry-specific response from ∼300 ms after presentation of the second half of the shape. When integration was made from halves of asymmetric whole shapes (Exp.4), and when symmetry was not task-relevant (Exp.5), no symmetry response was recorded. The results show, for the first time, an electrophysiological evidence of symmetry representation in the brain obtained by assembling information over time into a unitary gestalt. The integration process occurs when observers look for symmetric matches between the parts, and only if these are perceived as belonging to the same object

    Author Rights: Maintaining Control over your Publications

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    Author Rights: Maintaining Control over your Publication

    Large and detached eddy simulation of separated flow over 3D hill geometries with surface roughness to mimic flows over complex terrains

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    With the push to making wind power a significant contributor to the energy portfolio in the U.S. and Europe, there is considerable effort to deploy the currently available peta-scale computational resources to assess and improve well known simulation techniques, such as the large eddy simulation (LES) and detached eddy simulation (DES) techniques, to model the complex flows in wind farms, taken as a whole, as opposed to individual wind turbines. Simulating turbulent flows in wind farms, consisting of arrays of wind turbines, begins with the modeling and simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over complex terrain that is characterized by regions of separated flow with a high degree of turbulence anisotropy. Over the years there has been considerable work on applying LES and Reynolds Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations over terrain geometries, such as the Askervein Hill, to understand turbulence closure models for flow over complex terrain. Such studies, however, have had limited success due to difficulties associated with the closure models in the near wall region of the flow. At the same time, turbulence simulations over \emph{canonical} geometries, such as the periodic and axisymmetric hills, have been shown to compare well with data obtained from laboratory scale experiments, where the inflow turbulence and boundary conditions are better characterized and defined respectively. In an effort to extend these canonical flows to be more representative of flows over complex terrain, this paper aims to present results of large and detached eddy simulations of separated flow over three dimensional hill geometries with roughness parametrization, with the objective of developing better closure models for flow over complex terrain
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