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Sistema Casa e Territorio: un dialogo attraverso il progetto
Get PDFStarting from the criticalities of our current model of consumption, from which negative aspects for environmental or financial sustainability are emerging, I propose a redesign of the domestic field, recognized as the source of the most impacted dynamics due to the user behavior . This area is analyzed according to the design methodology of the Systemic Approach, with the purpose to define the new Home System and taking in consideration the relationship established with the Territorial System where it is situated . This relationship is investigated through the study of the Territorial Characterization obtained by the overlapping of the three networks that define it : the Resources in the area, the settled community’s Know How developed to exploit these resources and the network of the Material Culture, seen as an historical sedimentation from which the peculiar traditions of the local context were taking shape..
The Home System is divided into Planning Areas based on its new chart requirements , these areas are put in relation to optimise the resources’s flow necessary to their operating principle or sustenance and finally they go to dialogue with the Territorial System around to create a durable and sustainable relationship .
A virtual-interactive model for the designer is proposed taking in consideration both these relationships and comparing the House System to a living and breathing organism that adapts itself to the context in the same way as a living being in nature.
The next part pertaining to the project develops three proposals respectively from the areas Waste Treatment , Food Preservation by bacterial action and Water Treatment . The first , developed from the collaboration with " Indesit Polito Branch" , represents a device for treating and transforming organic or solid wastes to be useful for other processes in the house; the second propose a device that allows the fermentation of food , thanks to a control system conceived with Arduino; the third, is a proposal for a new water network that acts on the quality of the water output through alternative mechanical processes.
The feasibility of the three project proposals take in consideration diffused production dynamics from the territory resulting from the combination of Components Design Approach and Do It Yourself production, from Open Culture
Connections Between Products And Contexts. Key Drivers For The Design Of A Product
Get PDFAccording to the recent economic situation, the actual business model will not be sustainable for a long time.
In this paper we want propose a design methodology, which leads the possibility to influence people behaviours through the products.
The aim of this paper is to underline the role of the designer, as director of the process, in order to coordinate involved actors and actions.
This approach suggests a result, namely a product, which uses the local resources preserving material and cultural tradition and furthermore understanding the relationships between the costumer and his territory.
The link between the product and its context defines a “surplus value” which characterizes the design process as “sustainable”.
According to that, the final aim should be a “customised product” defined through a muldisciplinary approach, where the role of the designer is creating a dialogue among all the different actors involved in the definition of the product
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
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