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Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for The Two Faces of Diversity: The Relationships between Religious Polarization, Religious Fractionalization, and Self-rated Health
No full textSupplemental material, Supplemental_Material for The Two Faces of Diversity: The Relationships between Religious Polarization, Religious Fractionalization, and Self-rated Health by Yun Lu and Xiaozhao Y. Yang in Journal of Health and Social Behavior</p
Dynamic characteristics of filled natural rubber for earthquake energy applications / Tee Yun Lu
Get PDFApart from food and clothing, a secure shelter is a necessity for a civilised society. Buildings
and structures are proves that a country is moving toward modernisation. During
the service, high-rise buildings and architectural structures are prone to dynamic external
forces such as earthquake and wind. Along this line, innovative means of enhancing structural
functionality and safety against natural hazards such as active, hybrid and passive
energy dissipation system have been carried out in recent years. Passive energy dissipation
system is the preferable energy dissipation device due to its good performance,
economic and easy maintenance. In this thesis, an original passive energy dissipation
device in the form of sliding rubber damper (SRD) is proposed. The device is developed
by utilizing the special characteristics of rubber as damper and metal plates as supporting
material. In order to produce a device that is economic and durable, study on the
dynamic characteristics of material is required. For this purpose, shear and combined
tension-torsion fatigue tests on carbon black filled natural rubber are conducted. Two
carbon black contents are considered: 10 wt% and 25 wt%. The fatigue test results are
presented in the form of Wöhler curves where the maximum principal stretch and the
strain energy density are used as fatigue predictors in combination with the concept of
strain amplification factor to account for carbon black content. The modal analysis is
subsequently carried out in order to investigate the vibration characteristics of the device.
More precisely, the latter involves impact hammer testing and shaker testing on a structure
model. Results showed that fatigue life of natural rubber with 25 wt% carbon black
is longer than 10 wt%. Moreover, rubber with 25 wt% carbon black showed a better
damping performance
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211061576 – Supplemental material for The influence of Reader’s Theater on High School Students’ English Reading Comprehension-English Learning Anxiety and Learning Styles Perspective
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211061576 for The influence of Reader’s Theater on High School Students’ English Reading Comprehension-English Learning Anxiety and Learning Styles Perspective by Chih-Cheng Lo, Shih-Yun Lu and Dou-Dou Cheng in SAGE Open</p
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
Privatization and Tariff Liberalization: An Optimal Reform Package for Transition Economies
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