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Lezioni di TERMODINAMICA E TRASMISSIONE DEL CALORE - II Edizione
No full textQuesto testo scaturisce dalla volontà di fornire un ausilio didattico agli allievi dei corsi di Termodinamica Applicata e Trasmissione del Calore svolti dall’Autore in ambito ai percorsi di laurea in Ingegneria Biomedica e Ingegneria Energetica presso il Politecnico di Torino.
Il testo è suddiviso in due parti. La prima tratta gli aspetti fondamentali della termodinamica, per quanto riguarda i principi, le proprietà termodinamiche, le relazioni generali sul comportamento delle sostanze e sulle applicazioni in campo ingegneristico, la seconda parte è invece rivolta alla trattazione preliminare dei meccanismi fondamentali di scambio termico e a considerazioni generali sui dispositivi di comune impiego tecnologico
Esercitazioni di Trasmissione del Calore
No full textAllo scopo di consolidare e verificare le abilità acquisite, per le diverse modalità di scambio termico sono presentati esempi utili all’impiego dei concetti fisici delineati nella teoria e più in generale alla soluzione di problemi pratici che si riscontrano in vari contesti ingegneristici
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
Experimental Investigation on Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Diffusivity of Ex-Vivo Bovine Liver from Room Temperature down to −60 °C
Full text linkEx vivo animal tissues (e.g., bovine liver) as well as water-agar gel are commonly used
to simulate both experimentally and numerically the response of human tissues to cryoablation
treatments. Data on the low temperature thermal properties of bovine liver are difficult to find in
the literature and very often are not provided for the whole temperature range of interest. This
article presents the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity measurements performed on ex-vivo
bovine liver samples using the transient plane source method. Regression coefficients are provided
to determine these properties in different temperature ranges except for the phase transition during
which no results were obtained, which suggests an ad hoc calorimetric analysis. A quick procedure
is also suggested to determine the water mass fraction in the tissue. Moreover, an attempt to estimate
the liver density in the frozen state using measurements performed solely at room temperature is also
presented. The measured thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity values are compared with
data reported in literature highlighting a spread up to 40%. Moreover, it emerges that water-agar
gel usually made with 2% by weight of agar does not show the same thermal properties as the
bovine liver
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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