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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Automatic production of three-dimensionnel models by 3D digitization
No full textLa numérisation 3D telle que pratiquée aujourd'hui repose essentiellement sur les connaissances de l'opérateur qui la réalise. La qualité des résultats reste très sensible à la procédure utilisée et par conséquent aux compétences de l'opérateur. Ainsi, la numérisation manuelle est très coûteuse en ressources humaines et matérielles et son résultat dépend fortement du niveau de technicité de l'opérateur. Les solutions de numérisation les plus avancées en milieu industriel sont basées sur une approche d'apprentissage nécessitant une adaptation manuelle pour chaque pièce. Ces systèmes sont donc semi-automatiques compte tenu de l'importance de la contribution humaine pour la planification des vues.Mon projet de thèse se focalise sur la définition d'un procédé de numérisation 3D automatique et intelligente. Ce procédé est présenté sous forme d'une séquence de processus qui sont la planification de vues, la planification de trajectoires, l'acquisition et les post-traitements des données acquises. L'originalité de notre démarche de numérisation est qu'elle est générique parce qu'elle n'est pas liée aux outils et méthodes utilisés pour la réalisation des tâches liées à chaque processus. Nous avons également développé trois méthodes de planification de vues pour la numérisation d'objets sans connaissance a priori de leurs formes. Ces méthodes garantissent une indépendance des résultats par rapport au savoir-faire de l'opérateur. L'originalité de ces approches est qu'elles sont applicables à tous types de scanners. Nous avons implanté ces méthodes sur une cellule de numérisation robotisée. Nos approches assurent une reconstruction progressive et intelligente d'un large panel d'objets de différentes classes de complexité en déplaçant efficacement le scannerThe manual 3D digitization process is expensive since it requires a highly trained technician who decides about the different views needed to acquire the object model. The quality of the final result strongly depends, in addition to the complexity of the object shape, on the selected viewpoints and thus on the human expertise. Nowadays, the most developed digitization strategies in industry are based on a teaching approach in which a human operator manually determines one set of poses for the ranging device. The main drawback of this methodology is the influence of the operator's expertise. Moreover, this technique does not fulfill the high level requirement of industrial applications which require reliable, repeatable, and fast programming routines.My thesis project focuses on the definition of a procedure for automatic and intelligent 3D digitization. This procedure is presented as a sequence of processes that are essentially the view planning, the motion planning, the acquisition and the post-processing of the acquired data. The advantage of our procedure is that it is generic since it is not performed for a specific scanning system. Moreover, it is not dependent on the methods used to perform the tasks associated with each elementary process. We also developed three view planning methods to generate a complete 3D model of unknown and complex objects that we implemented on a robotic cell. Our methods enable fast and complete 3D reconstruction while moving efficiently the scanner. Additionaly, our approaches are applicable to all kinds of range sensors
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Application of 3D scanning techniques to the process control of forged parts
No full textL’objectif de ces travaux de thèse est la conception et le développement d’un système de caractérisation tridimensionnelle de pièces forgées de grande dimension portées à haute température. Les travaux se basent sur de nombreuses thématiques telles que l’acquisition tridimensionnelle, l’extraction, la segmentation et le recalage de primitives 3D. Nous présentons tout d’abord les limites des systèmes de caractérisation de pièces forgées cités dans la littérature. Dans la deuxième partie, nous présentons la réalisation du système de caractérisation de pièces forgées, constitué de deux scanners temps de vol (TOF). Nous présentons également le simulateur de numérisation par scanner TOF qui nous permet de nous affranchir des contraintes industrielles (temps, difficulté de manœuvres) pour positionner les deux scanners. La troisième partie est consacrée à l’extraction des primitives 3D. Nous avons traité deux types de primitives : viroles et sphères avec deux approches différentes : méthode supervisée et méthode automatique. La première approche basée sur une méthode de croissance de région et de contour actif, permet d’extraire des formes extrudées complexes. Des problèmes d’ergonomie du système nous ont conduits à développer une deuxième approche, basée sur l’image de Gauss et l’extraction d’ellipse, qui permet l’extraction automatique de formes cylindriques ovales ou circulaires. Nous présentons également quatre méthodes d’extraction automatique de sphères basées sur des approches heuristiques : RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus), algorithme génétique et algorithme génétique par niche. Dans la quatrième partie, nous étudions les différentes approches de recalage de données 3D traitées : le calibrage basé sur les cibles artificielles et le recalage fin basé sur l’algorithme ICP. Pour conclure, nous présentons la réalisation d’un système complet de caractérisation tridimensionnelle de pièces forgées de grande dimension. Ensuite, nous comparons les performances et les limites de ce système avec les systèmes de caractérisation cités dans la littérature.The main objective of this Phd project is to conceive a machine vision system for hot cylindrical metallic shells diameters measurement during forging process. The manuscript is structured by developing in the first chapter the state of the art and the limits of hot metallic shells measurement systems suggested in literature. Our implemented system which is based on two conventional Time Of Flight (TOF) laser scanners has been described in the same chapter along, chapter two, with presentation of its respective numerical simulator. Simulation series have been done using the digitizing simulator and were aimed to determine the optimal positions of the two scanners without any industrial constraints (time, difficulty of operations). The third part of the manuscript copes with 3D primitives extraction. Two major types of approaches have been studied according to the primitive’s form (cylinders or spheres) to be extracted: supervised method and automatic method. The first approach, based on a growing region method and active contour, enables to extract complex extruded forms; while problems of ergonomics have been solved using automatic methods that have been carried out along the programme research. The proposed methods consist in automatically extracting: oval or circular cylindrical forms, using Gauss map associated with ellipse extraction techniques : spherical forms, using heuristic approaches such as RANdom SAmple Consensus RANSAC, Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Niche Genetic Algorithm (NGA). Two varieties of 3D data registration approach have been presented and discussed in chapter 4: the registration based on the artificial targets and the fine registration based on algorithm ICP. A complete system for three-dimensional characterization of hot cylindrical metallic shells during forging process has been implemented and then compared with existing systems in order to identify its performances and limits in conclusion
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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