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Dataset for "The influence of Track Design on the Rolling Noise from Trams"
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Wenjing Sun, David Thompson, Martin Toward, Marcus Wiseman, Evangelos Ntotsios, Stephen Byrne. "The influence of track design on the rolling noise from trams" in Applied Acoustics.</span
Sound propagation and audibility of train horns
No full textHorn sound levels and sound propagation along railway tracks were investigated after track workers reported that some newer trains have quieter horns than older trains. Sound levels from a static horn above a test track decayed by 6 dB per doubling of distance, but only up to about 30 or 50 metres depending on the horn height. At greater distances the level decayed by approximately12 dB per doubling. At 400 metres, the sound level from a horn 2.5 to 3.0 metres above the ground was about 10 dB higher than the level from the horn 0.5 metres above the ground, although the levels at 25 metres were the same. The effective range of a horn depends on its height. At two mainline sites the mean attenuation rates beyond 90 metres were 10.7 and 9.2 dB per doubling ofdistance. At one site, horn sound levels were highly correlated with distance. At the other, with newer trains, horn levels were poorly correlated, suggesting some variability in horn sound levels at source, or moment to moment variability in sound propagation. Track workers’ ratings of the audibility of the horns were compared to horn levels as recommended by Detectsound and by ISO 773
The influence of track design on the rolling noise from trams
No full textTramway noise can be significant even though the speeds are relatively low. The influence of track design on the rolling noise is studied through a systematic comparison of different tracks on a single network. These include a slab track with embedded sleeper blocks, a ballasted track and a track with embedded rails. Measurements have been taken of rail vibration and noise during tram passages at approximately 55 km/h; the rail and wheel roughness have also been measured. Comparisons are made in terms of track decay rate, rail vibration and pass-by noise. After normalising to the same roughness, the slab track is found to be the noisiest and the ballasted track the quietest. Theoretical models of the various track forms are also presented to give insight into the differences in acoustic performance. The models allow the relative contributions of the track and wheels to the pass-by noise to be identified. In addition the effect of rail dampers added to the slab track is assessed. These attenuate the noise at higher frequencies due to the increase in decay rate, but an increase in radiation is noted at 500 Hz and below, possibly linked to differences in effective roughness
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
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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