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Design of intelligent sprayer control for an autonomous farming drone using a multiclass support vector machine
No full textThe increasing need for agricultural commodities poses a serious threat to the cultivating ability of agricultural supplies. The use of autonomous farming drones to support the cultivation process is a rapidly growing trend. In an effort to improve efficiency and accuracy in watering using drones, this research strived to propose a control design for the drones using the multiclass support vector machine (MSVM) method. The proposed system was an improvement compared to the common approach of using constant watering strength in all drone conditions. By obtaining suitable watering strength based on the drone’s altitude, wind speed, and speed sensor data as the input, the optimal solution between water usage and water efficiency was expected to be achieved. An experimental trial that consisted of 12 flights was conducted to acquire a data set with 3,750 data. The results of classification with MSVM obtained an accuracy of 90.82%. The efficiency of using the water resource and the accuracy of delivering the correct amount of water based on the drone condition were achieved. These results show that the proposed technology has great potential for using drones as an automatic watering system in agriculture
Artefacts Removal of EEG Signals with Wavelet Denoising
No full textThe recording of EEG signals often still contains many contaminants electrical signals that originate from non-cerebral origin such as ocular muscle activity called artefacts. The amplitude of artefacts can be quite large relative to the size of amplitude of the cortical signals of interest. In this paper, an application of wavelet denoising method for artefacts removal of EEG signals is proposed. The experiment result shows that contaminant artifact of EEG signals can significantly removed
Withdrawn article: A Quarter Active Suspension System Based Ground-Hook Controller
No full textWithdrawn article: This paper has been formally withdrawn. It should not be cited or referred to in the future. Request approved by the Authors, the Editors and the Publisher on October 31, 2017
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
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
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