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Practical determination of individual element resistive states in selectorless RRAM arrays
Full text linkThree distinct methods of reading multi-level cross-point resistive states from selector-less RRAM arrays are implemented in a physical system and compared for read-out accuracy. They are: the standard, direct measurement method and two methods that attempt to enhance accuracy by computing cross-point resistance on the basis of multiple measurements. Results indicate that the standard method performs as well as or better than its competitors. SPICE simulations are then performed with controlled amounts of non-idealities introduced in the system in order to test whether any technique offers particular resilience against typical practical imperfections such as crossbar line resistance. We conclude that even though certain non-idealities are shown to be minimized by different circuit-level read-out strategies, line resistance within the crossbar remains an outstanding challeng
An ultra-low voltage RRAM read-out technique employing dithering principles
No full textA hardware-friendly, ultra-low voltage read-out technique for multi-level RRAM technologies inspired by the dithering techniques from image processing is proposed and studied. We lay out the fundamental principles behind our adaptation of the approach, present results from hardware tests, carry out sensitivity analysis through simulations in order to study its l imitations. Successful discrimination between a few resistive state levels is shown at a read-out voltage of just 10 mV, thus proving the concept
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
Practical operation considerations for memristive integrating sensors
No full textThe effects of key operating parameter on the practical operation of a recently proposed memristor-based neuronal activity sensor are investigated. A test memristor device is repeatedly subjected to a reference neural recording input signal that has been pre-processed using different settings. The resulting changes in the ability of the device to capture and store neuronal activity as resistive state transitions are assessed. It is found that resistive switching saturation is an important performance limiting factor, combatable by resetting the memristor. Higher desired sensitivity (ability to detect less prominent features in the neural waveform) necessitates more frequent resets
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
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