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    Condition assessment of power cables using partial discharge diagnosis at damped AC voltages

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    The thesis focuses on the condition assessment of the distribution power cables, which have a very critical part in the distribution of electrical power over regional distances. The majority of the outages in the power system is related to the distribution cables, of which for more than 60% to internal defects. The material degradation in the power cables can be categorised into four local degradation processes, which are related to partial discharges. Partial discharge characteristics therefore provide sensitive parameters for detecting degradation processes. With partial discharge diagnostics, the insulation defects (discharge sources) can be pinpointed by "time domain reflectometry" to a specific component over the length of the cable system. To detect partial discharges external energising sources are required. In this thesis, damped AC voltages (temporarily attenuating AC voltages as a result of an oscillation obtained by means of an LC resonant circuit) are successfully investigated in this thesis as an effective energising method for partial discharge diagnostics. The compact and low weight measuring system results in a low noise level and high sensitivity in the field during the low power damped AC voltages with frequencies in the range of 100-500Hz for 100-200ms, for discharging defects in impregnated paper as well as polymeric cable insulation. The effects of the different test voltages on discharge activities are investigated by measuring different defect models in the laboratory and power cables in the field with 50Hz AC voltages, damped AC voltages at various frequencies and 0,1Hz voltages. It is shown that the test voltage shapes and frequencies do not have major influence on the values for the partial discharge parameters. Knowledge rules for condition assessment of the different insulation systems are developed. Statistical analysis of large amounts of measurement data are for this an effective and reliable method to determine experience norms (standard based on experience) for condition assessment. The various partial discharge properties relate to different aspects of the condition of a cable system and its components. The weighted combination of the various knowledge rules results in a methodology for decision making of maintaining cable systems.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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