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Body Worlds Exhibition and Healthy Lifestyles Promotion: An Educational Research on Neapolitan Visitors
Full text linkBody Worlds è una mostra scientifica con scopo divulgativo che espone campioni anatomici umani conservati con la tecnica della plastinazione, una tecnica innovativa inventata e brevettata dall’anatomopatologo tedesco Gunther von Hagens. La mostra consente ai visitatori non solo di osservare i corpi esposti ma anche di pensare alla qualità della relazione che può essere stabilita con il proprio corpo. La mostra può essere considerata come un’opportunità per partecipare effettivamente alla creazione di nuovi significati sul corpo; in tal senso, Body Worlds è un valido esempio di pedagogia performativa, una pratica di insegnamento democratico che può aiutare gli individui a scegliere comportamenti più responsabili su differenti ambiti della loro vita. L’articolo ha lo scopo di esplorare l’impatto che la mostra Body Worlds di Napoli ha avuto sui visitatori, facendo particolare attenzione alle sue implicazioni educative. La ricerca ha utilizzato due questionari, uno creato per ottenere informazioni socio-demografiche e l’altro per ottenere le abitudini e gli stili di vita, in modo da identificare il target dei visitatori. I risultati mostrano che una buona parte dei visitatori dichiara di voler cambiare il proprio stile di vita dopo la visita alla mostra; il cambiamento passa attraverso una profonda conoscenza di sé e, per fare ciò, è utile coinvolgere altre persone a prendere parte a questo processo. Il raggiungimento di stili di vita salutari, allora, diviene effettivo quando l’informazione è supportata da un approccio educativo, intendendo l’educazione come un processo che ha lo scopo di emancipare l’individuo attraverso lo sviluppo di capacità critico-riflessiveBody Worlds is an informative scientific exhibition which displays human anatomical specimens that have been conserved using plastination, an innovative technique invented by Gunter Von Hagens. The Body Worlds allows visitors not only to observe the exposed bodies as mere aesthetic phenomena but also to think about the quality of the relationship that can be established with their own body. The exhibition can be considered an opportunity to effectively participate in the creation of new meanings about body; in this sense Body Worlds is a valid example of performative pedagogy, a democratic teaching practice that can help the individuals to choose more responsible behaviours about different area of life. This paper aims to explore the impact that the Body Worlds exhibition in Naples had on visitors, paying particular attention to its educational implications. The research has taken into account the use of two questionnaires, one created from scratch to obtaining socio-demographic information and the other to revealing habits and lifestyles in order to identify the target visitors. The results show that after the visit a good part of the visitors wants to change his lifestyle; self-change passes through a deepening of self-knowledge and in order to do this it is useful to involve other people to take part in this process. The awareness of healthy lifestyles becomes effective when the information is supported by an educational approach, intending education as a process that aims to emancipate the individual by sparking the development of critical-reflexive capacities
IL RUOLO DEI GENITORI NELLO SPORT GIOVANILE. COSTRUIRE ALLEANZE EDUCATIVE FAMIGLIA-SPORT
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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
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