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Love and trust / Muhammad Zaid Zainuddin
Full text linkA compilation of poems from interested 118 lecturers and academicians from UiTM and other higher learning institutions
Application of Magneto-Rheological Damper on Riser Tensioner System for Low-Heave Semisubmersible to Reduce Riser Stroke
Full text linkThe push for optimizing current technology in semisubmersible system enables reduction in semisubmersible overall size. One field that see potential optimization is the riser operation philosophy, which in certain cases become the restricting factor of utilizing smaller semisubmersible. In adverse sea-state riser stroke becomes large such that it results in large topside deck, hence large hull. The objective of this thesis is to employ the magneto-rheological damper (MR Damper) in riser system to ameliorate the riser stroke in storm event in order to reduce the deck spacing. This leads to reduction in deck size. In addition, this thesis looks into suitable semisubmersible that generates favorable motion to be used hand-in-hand with the MR damper. Finally, this thesis investigates the operational philosophy of the riser tensioner system and MR Damper that result in the most optimum riser stroke. The analysis develops a new shallow draft low-heave semisubmersible with the resulting favorable riser stroke of 7.55m (24.76ft) without MR Damper. Using this as the host vessel, the analysis finds that the most optimum use of MR Damper on riser tensioner system is by having the MR Damper constantly engage to the riser tensioner ring so that it can dissipate energy when the stroke is at its highest speed, that is when the stroke is at nominal (at zero stroke). Then applying linear damping coefficient of 9000 kN/ms^-1 onto the MR Damper reduces riser stroke from 7.55m (24.76ft) to 4.52m (14.81ft), well within the target stroke of 4.57m (15ft). The reduction of the stroke is attributed to the energy dissipation in semisubmersible heave motion and riser top motion, leading to lower heave motion and riser top motion. Implementing an up-scaled MR Damper numerical model results in total stroke close to linear damping MR Damper model, that is 4.91m (16.11ft). In conclusion, the application of MR damper in riser tensioner system results in a lower riser stroke, the utilization of a low-heave semisubmersible also results in a lower riser stroke, and the constantly-engaged MR Damper during storm event allows an effective use of MR Damper
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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