Co-word Analysis using the Chinese Character Set
Until recently, Chinese texts could not be studied using co-word analysis because the words are not separated by spaces in Chinese (and Japanese). A word can be composed of one or more characters. The online availability of programs that separate Chinese texts makes it possible to analyze them using semantic maps. Chinese characters contain not only information, but also meaning. This may enhance the readability of semantic maps. In this study, we analyze 58 words which occur ten or more times in the 1652 journal titles of the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database. The word occurrence matrix is visualized and factor-analyzed.

title: Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents
abstract: The Journal Citation Reports of the Science Citation Index 2004 were used to delineate a core set of nanotechnology journals and a nanotechnology-relevant set. In comparison with 2003, the core set has grown and the relevant set has decreased. This suggests a higher degree of codification in the field of nanotechnology: the field has become more focused in terms of citation practices. Using the citing patterns among journals at the aggregate level, a core group of ten nanotechnology journals in the vector space can be delineated on the criterion of betweenness centrality. National contributions to this core group of journals are evaluated for the years 2003, 2004, and 2005. Additionally, the specific class of nanotechnology patents in the database of the U. S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) is analyzed to determine if non-patent literature references can be used as a source for the delineation of the knowledge base in terms of scientific journals. The references are primarily to general science journals and letters, and therefore not specific enough for the purpose of delineating a journal set.

title: The citation impacts and citation environments of Chinese journals in mathematics
abstract: Based on the citation data of journals covered by the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD), we obtained aggregated journal-journal citation environments by applying routines developed specifically for this purpose. Local citation impact of journals is defined as the share of the total citations in a local citation environment, which is expressed as a ratio and can be visualized by the size of the nodes. The vertical size of the nodes varies proportionally to a journal’s total citation share, while the horizontal size of the nodes is used to provide citation information after correction for the within-journal (self-) citations. In the “citing” environment, the equivalent of the local citation performance can also be considered as a citation activity index. Using the “citing” patterns as variables one is able to map how the relevant journal environments are perceived by the collective of authors of a journal, while the “cited” environment reflects the impact of journals in a local environment. In this study, we analyze citation impacts of three Chinese journals in mathematics and compare local citation impacts with impact factors. Local citation impacts reflect a journal’s status and function better than (global) impact factors. We also found that authors in Chinese journals prefer international instead of domestic ones as sources for their citations.

title: A comparison between the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database and the Science Citation Index in terms of journal hierarchies and interjournal citation relations
abstract: The journal structure in the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD) is analysed from three perspectives: the database level, the specialty level and the institutional level (i.e., university journals versus journals issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences). The results are compared with those for (Chinese) journals included in the Science Citation Index. The frequency of journal-journal citation relations in the CSTPCD is an order of magnitude lower than in the SCI. Chinese journals, especially high-quality journals, prefer to cite international journals rather than domestic ones. However, Chinese journals do not get an equivalent reception from their international counterparts. The international visibility of Chinese journals is low, but varies among fields of science. Journals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have a better reception in the international scientific community than university journals.

title: Are the contributions of China and Korea upsetting the world system of science?
abstract: SummaryInstitutions and their aggregates are not the right units of analysis for developing a science policy with cognitive goals in view. Institutions, however, can be compared in terms of their performance with reference to their previous stages. King's (2004) 'The scientific impact of nations' has provided the data for this comparison. Evaluation of the data from this perspective along the time axis leads to completely different and hitherto overlooked conclusions: a new dynamic can be revealed which points to a group of emerging nations. These nations do not increase their contributions marginally, but their national science systems grow endogenously. In addition to publications, their citation rates keep pace with the exponential growth patterns, albeit with a delay. The center of gravity of the world system of science may be changing accordingly.

title: A Comparison between the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database and the Science Citation Index in terms of journal hierarchies and inter-journal citation relations
abstract: A wearable device and method are provided for reporting the time based on a wrist-related trigger. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus for providing time information to a user includes a wearable image sensor configured to capture real-time image data from an environment of a user of the wearable apparatus. The wearable apparatus also includes at least one processing device programmed to identify in the image data a wrist-related trigger associated with the user. The processing device is also programmed to provide an output to the user, the output including the time information, based on at least the identification of the wrist-related trigger.

title: Compositional verification of real-time systems with Explicit Clock Temporal Logic
abstract: To specify and verify real-time systems, we consider a real-time version of temporal logic called Explicit Clock Temporal Logic. Timing properties are specified by extending the classical framework of temporal logic with a special variable which explicitly refers to a global notion of time. Programs are written in an Occam-like real-time language with synchronous message passing. To show that a program satisfies a specification, we formulate a proof system which is proved to be sound and relatively complete. The proof system is compositional, which makes it possible to decompose the design of a large system into the design of subsystems. This is shown by the verification of a small part of an avionics system.

title: A High Performance k-NN Classifier Using a Binary Correlation Matrix Memory
abstract: This paper presents a novel and fast k-NN classifier that is based on a binary CMM (Correlation Matrix Memory) neural network. A robust encoding method is developed to meet CMM input requirements. A hardware implementation of the CMM is described, which gives over 200 times the speed of a current mid-range workstation, and is scaleable to very large problems. When tested on several benchmarks and compared with a simple k-NN method, the CMM classifier gave less than 1% lower accuracy and over 4 and 12 times speed-up in software and hardware respectively.

title: On Adding Link Dimensional Dynamism to CSMA/CA Based MAC Protocols
abstract: Though the popular IEEE 802.11 DCF is designed primarily for wireless LAN (WLAN) environments, today it is being widely used for wide area wireless mesh networking. The protocol parameters of IEEE 802.11 such as timeout values, interframe spaces, and slot durations, which are sufficient for a general WLAN environment need to be modified in order to efficiently operate in wide area wireless mesh networks. The current wide area wireless mesh network deployments use manual configuration of these parameters to the upper limit which essentially makes the networks operate at lower system efficiency. In this paper, we propose d802.11 (dynamic 802.11) which dynamically adapts the protocol parameters in order to operate at varying link distances. We present three strategies, (i) multiplicative timer back-off (MTB), (ii) additive timer back-off (ATB), and (iii) link RTT memorization (LRM), to adapt the ACK_TIMEOUT in d802.11 in order to provide better adaptation for varying link dimensions. Through extensive simulation experiments we observed significant performance improvement for the proposed strategies. We also theoretically modeled the maximum throughput as a function of the link dimension for the proposed system. Our results show that the LRM technique provides the best adaptation compared to all other schemes.

title: Analysis of Welding Defects in Spot Welding Process U-I Curves
abstract: High speed collecting and managing system of spot welding signal can achieve the A/D conversion and data collection. The data of welding current, electrode voltage as well as welding cycle has been collected. Subsequently, they were processed with data acquisition and memory module, wavelet filtering of digit signal module, U-I curves and energy analyzing module, respectively. Based on the collections of welding current and electrode voltage, a criterion splash occurrence and the defective of loose weld by U-I curves change and acreage were proposed. The results prove that the criterion can decipher the welding splash and defective of loose weld accurately.

title: A Fuzzy Logic Expert System for Fault Diagnosis and Security Assessment of Power Transformers