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Scenari e problematiche di conservazione dei centri storici d’Abruzzo. Spunti per una riflessione
No full textL’Abruzzo offre un ampio e differenziato panorama sulle problematiche di tutela dei centri storici; la particolare morfologia della regione, infatti, ha determinato condizioni sociali, economiche e infrastrutturali diverse per i nuclei antichi sparsi sul territorio, alle quali corrisponde una gamma molteplice di problemi conservativi.
La maggiore accessibilità ha consentito il protrarsi nel tempo dell’attività residenziale nei centri medio-collinari, dove comunque l’adeguamento funzionale ha comportato la profonda modifica del tessuto antico, sottoposto a tagli e demolizioni indiscriminate, e la trasformazione lenta, ma continua, dell’edificato, con una significativa alterazione delle tipologie edilizie e della realtà materiale storica. Negli anni più recenti, molti di questi abitati sono al centro di un rinnovato interesse per il costruito storico, concretizzatosi nell’elaborazione di programmi per la valorizzazione turistica dei centri e nel recupero edilizio, con le fabbriche storiche principalmente convertite in strutture ricettive e case per vacanze. Le esigenze di valorizzazione economica e turistica però, se non affiancate e sostenute da un’appropriata consapevolezza culturale, possono portare alla museificazione e alla falsificazione dei centri storici: il fenomeno è particolarmente evidente in molti centri montani e di particolare pregio ambientale della regione
Nelle aree montuose interne, invece, l’isolamento ha determinato un progressivo spopolamento dei centri minori, con l’abbandono totale o parziale dei nuclei antichi. In molti casi si assiste allo spostamento dell’abitato all’esterno del centro storico, con la crescita di nuclei edilizi moderni che alterano i caratteri costitutivi e i rapporti proporzionali nello skyline urbano. Alla dismissione funzionale corrisponde un degrado avanzato e la perdita di testimonianze materiali ma, al tempo stesso, anche una maggiore preservazione dell’autenticità morfologica e costruttiva degli insediamenti.
La strada della valorizzazione turistica e dello sfruttamento consumistico dei centri storici presenta limiti evidenti e palesa l’urgenza di definire strategie di tutela e metodologie più attenta alle esigenze di tutela. Per la varia casistica di problematiche di conservazione, i centri abruzzesi rappresentano in definitiva, un prezioso laboratorio di studio e riflessione su queste tematiche.Abruzzo offers a broad and differentiated view on the issues of protection of historic centers, the particular morphology of the region, in fact, resulted in social, economic and infrastructural different for the ancient centers scattered throughout the territory, which corresponds to a multiple range of problems conservative. Increased access has allowed the enduring of residential centers mid-hills, where, however, the functional adaptation has resulted in the profound modification of the ancient fabric, subjected to indiscriminate cutting and demolition, and the transformation of slow but continuous, of 'built, with a significant alteration of building types and materials of historical reality. In recent years, many of these settlements are at the center of a renewed interest in the historical built, implemented in the development of programs for the tourist centers and building recovery, with factories historical mainly converted into accommodation and holiday holidays. The need for economic and tourism development, however, unless accompanied and supported by appropriate cultural awareness, can lead to the falsification of creating museums and historical centers: the phenomenon is particularly evident in many mountain towns and of particular environmental value of the region in public areas mountainous interior, on the other hand, the isolation has resulted in a gradual depopulation of the smaller towns, with the total or partial abandonment of the ancient nuclei. In many cases, we are witnessing the displacement of the town outside the historical center, with the growth of modern building units that alter the character and constituents proportional relationships in the urban skyline. On disposal of a functional corresponds advanced degradation and loss of material evidence but at the same time, even greater morphological preservation of the authenticity and construction of settlements. The road to tourism development and exploitation of the historic centers of consumerism has obvious limitations and reveals the urgent need to define protection strategies and methodologies attentive to the needs of protection. For various cases of conservation issues, the centers of Abruzzo ultimately represent a valuable laboratory for study and reflection on these issues
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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