Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents
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: 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: 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: A Speaker Verification System Based on EMD
abstract: Most of the speech utterance feature extraction methods are based on the assumptions: utterance signal is short-term stable and independent between each other adjacent frames. This approach ignores the dynamic characteristics of speech signal. For the time-varying characteristics of the speech utterance, we propose a new feature extraction method based on empirical mode decomposition EMD. We can extract the LPCC feature parameters from different stages of IMFs which are decomposed by EMD process. A speaker verification system based on EMD is proposed and it is shown that it is better performance than the one with traditional LPCC features based on short-term process.

title: Available bit rate (ABR) source control and delay estimation
abstract: The problem of regulating the transmission rate of an available bit rate (ABR) traffic source in an ATM network is examined. Of particular interest is linear quadratic (LQ) rate regulation based on estimates of the round-trip propagation delay. The round-trip delay is estimated using a nonlinear least mean square (NLMS) algorithm. Simulation results are used to demonstrate the method.

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: Explicit Construction of Multivariate Padé Approximants for a q-Logarithm Function
abstract: We explicitly construct the non-homogeneous multivariate Pade approximants to a two variable version of the q-logarithm functionL"q(x, y)@[email protected]?i, j=0~(q-1)x^iy^jq^i^+^j^+^1-1, for |q|>1 and |x|, |y|<|q|, by using the residue theorem and functional equation method.

title: Local Elastic Registration of Multimodal Medical Image Using Robust Point Matching and Compact Support RBF
abstract: A novel local elastic registration of multimodal medical image method is proposed in this paper. At first, local deformation regions are detected by evaluating the variation of mutual information in re-quantified gray space of images. The re-quantified image retains anatomical structure of the organ well and reduces the gray levels greatly. Mutual information performs better in the quantification space and can be used to detect whether the deformation happens in small sampling images. Next, edges of the local deformation regions are detected. Fuzzy clustering method is performed on edge points and the clustering centers are chosen as candidate landmarks. Robust point matching is used to estimate landmarks correspondence in the local deformation regions. Finally, a new compact support radial basis function CSTPF has been adopted to deform image, which cost less bending energy than other RBFs. Local registration experiments of multimodal medical images show the feasibility of our method.