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The Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie at Fornò. Studies for the restoration and seismic strengthening
No full textThe Sanctuary of “Santa Maria delle Grazie” is located at Fornò in the countryside near Forlì (Italy).The first temple, built in 1450, assumes today's configuration at the beginning of the sixteenth century, to undergo various modifications, due to static necessities and to changes in tastes related to the time, as well as due natural disasters and war damage. Structurally, the Sanctuary consists of an external masonry cylinder, around 33m diameter and 15m in height, with four semicircular niches protruding outwardly; inside there is a similar concentric structure, the oldest temple, about 14m diameter and 20m tall, covered by a dome supported by an octagonal masonry structure. The space between the
two circular structures is covered with a wooden roof resting on thirty-six main wooden beams. In the last years the Sanctuary has been subjected to numerous studies, surveys and analysis, including FEM structural analysis (also due to singular curvilinear typology of the masonry structures). In regard to the seismic risk, the building was studied focusing on the Guidelines (2011) for the "Evaluation and Reduction of Seismic Risk of Cultural Heritage.". Today, following the entry into force of the new technical standards NTC2018 (January 2018) we have scheduled an update of the structural analysis and a series of proposals for restoration, anti-seismic improvement and dehumidification works, in regard to the effects of decay caused by soaking on the mechanical characteristics of the masonry
Il santuario di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Fornò. Rilievi statici e del degrado e analisi strutturali agli elementi finiti
No full textIl Santuario di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Fornò, ubicato nella campagna di Forlì, per dimensioni
e forma costituisce un unicum sul territorio come fabbrica dedicata al culto mariano. L’aspetto
attuale, sostanzialmente due cilindri murari concentrici di diversa altezza, è il frutto di modifiche e
trasformazioni avvenute nel tempo sia per necessità statiche, sia per cambiamenti di gusto legati
all’epoca, sia per calamità naturali e per danni bellici. Ampie ed approfondite sono state le indagini
conoscitive sull’edificio ed il suo intorno che hanno permesso un’adeguata valutazione delle attuali
condizioni di degrado e danneggiamento, sia per le finiture e sia per le strutture (su cui si sommano
gli effetti di lesioni e di estesa imbibizione alla base per umidità di risalita). La particolare tipologia
curvilinea di tutte le strutture resistenti, in muratura di mattoni, ha motivato lo studio delle attuali
capacità resistenti, anche sotto le sollecitazioni di natura sismica prevedibili con l’applicazione delle
linee guida (2011) per la “Valutazione e riduzione del rischio sismico del patrimonio culturale con
riferimento alle Norme tecniche per le costruzioni di cui al D. M. 14/01/2008. "
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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