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Flow visualization in bubbly two-phase hydraulic jump
No full textThe present study investigated the bubbly two-phase flow in hydraulic jump, using flow visualization technique. Bubbly two phase flow is encountered in many engineering problems; however, mainly because of experimental difficulties, little information is at present available on the internal structure of these flows although such knowledge is clearly essential to a thorough understanding of the mass transfer between the two component phases. In the past some authors measured the distribution of void ratio in hydraulic jump using hot-film anemometry. Now this interesting technique may be improved using flow visualization technique, which enable to obtain the percentage of air in each pixel and across each vertical section of the jump. This is possible by evaluating the gray levels of the first principal axes transformed images starting from RGB images. The experiments considered the phenomenon of air concentration in hydraulic jump, which was studied and analysed using image processing techniques, with the aim of obtaining reliable quantitative measurements. To achieve this, the processing system was planned and tested at hardware level and a procedure for managing the processing on software was set up. The calibration curve was obtained using McCorquodale J.A. and Khalifa A. (1993) law. The results enable to evaluate air concentration of the flow along all the jump and to show the position in which the air concentration reaches the maximum value against time
Flow visualization in bubbly two-phase hydraulic jump
No full textThe present study investigates bubbly two-phase flow in a hydraulic jump using a flow visualization technique. Bubbly two-phase flow is encountered in many engineering problems; however, mainly because of experimental difficulties, little is known opt the internal structure of these flows, although such knowledge is clearly essential to a thorough understanding of the mass transfer between the two component phases. In the past, same authors measured the distribution of void ratio in a hydraulic jump using hot-film anemometry. Nowadays this interesting technique may be improved using a flow visualization technique, which enables one to obtain the percentage of air across each vertical section of the jump. This is possible by evaluating the gray levels of the first principal axes of transformed images starting from RCB images. The experiments considered the phenomenon of air concentration in a hydraulic jump, which was studied and analyzed using image processing techniques, aimed at obtaining reliable quantitative measurements. To achieve this, the processing system was planned and tested at the hardware level and a procedure for managing rifle processing was set up, The calibration curve was obtained using the McCorquodale and Khalifa law (1983). The results permit the visualization of flow structures and the estimation of air concentration of the flow along all the jump and to show the position in which the air concentration reaches the maximum value versus time
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
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
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