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Heritage Accessibility and Valorization. Tactile Maps for a more inclusive University
No full textThe present contribution describes two projects of tactile maps developed by a research team of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia. These tactile maps have the aim to help people with visual impairments in using and enjoying two of the main buildings of the Università of Pavia: Palazzo Centrale, with the Department of Political and Social Sciences, the Department of Law and the most important administrative offices including the Rectorate, and the Museum of Electrical Technology (MTE), one of the main museums of the University of Pavia, containing the stages of the discovery and exploitation of electricity, from the production to the distribution and use.
These two examples of good practices are chosen among several projects developed at the University of Pavia for its heritage: the team coordinated by prof. Alessandro Greco has been working on accessibility and usability since 2006, with experiences of research, design and training activities, on both buildings and urban spaces.
After a normative and conceptual framework about disability and accessibility in architecture, deepening the issue in the particular case of historical and cultural heritage, the two projects of tactile maps are explained in detail, focusing also on the different contexts and adopted technologies for the realizations: aluminum in mold from specific matrices for the tactile maps at Palazzo Centrale, 3D printing technology for the tactile map at the Museum of Electrical Technology
Phaistos Project. The linear section on the southeast slope of the Christos Effendi hill and the evolution of Phaistos in the Protopalatial period: a contextual reassessment
No full textDuring ten years of survey on the territory surrounding the palace of Phaestos, the "Project Phaestos", directed by Fausto Longo, under the aegis of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens and in collaboration with the Universities of Padua (Armando De Guio and Andrea Betto), Rome (Alessandro Greco) and Catania (Simona Todaro), has completed the survey (which also included some targeted trial excavations, restoration projects and the study of materials) of the territory surrounding the palace complex. The new data gathered allows the formulation of an updated picture of the 'urban phenomenon' of the settlement and its development from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic phases.
The primary purpose of this paper is to present a case study of particular interest for the understanding of 'urban development' of Protopalatial Phaestos: the linear section that opens along the Phaestos - Matala road on the southeast slopes of Christos Effendi, documenting the presence of an important housing area in situ.
The section will be examined in its topographical context (Alessandro Greco), from an archaeological and stratigraphic point of view (Andrea Betto), while the pottery excavated will also be presented (Simona Todaro and Laura Spampinato).
Our primary aim is to present a study of this strategic part of the “urban area” of Phaestos, to be integrated and compared with other better known “urban areas” of the site, such as Chalara and Haghia Photini, taking into account both the previous literature and the new theoretical models of development of the urban phenomenon in the Minoan Era (possibility of a unitary architectural/urban development project vs random progressive additions; study of the formation processes of the so-called foundation deposits and identification of precise "ritual and technological practices" and the possible application of these models in order to read and understand the urban phenomenon of Phaestos
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
Hagia Photinì and the “urban” development of Phaistos: an up-to-date survey. a project by “Progetto Festos” and “INSTAP”
No full textHagia Photinì and the "urban" development of Phaestos: an up-to-date survey
The site of Hagia Photinì is located in the northern slope of the hill of the Palace at Phaistos. The archaeological area was discovered during the construction of the modern road Moires-Matala in 1954 and excavated by the Italians archaeologists between 1954 and 1959. In the western part of the site a small nucleus of little houses was excavated and identified as a "Minoan Quarter" by the Excavator, Doro Levi. The excavation was soon published but it was very superficially documented. In the framework of the Italian-Greek synergasia, the "Phaistos Project", during the 2015 campaign a new effort has been conducted in order to clean the site and to prepare it for restoration.
Stemming from the new data acquired during the cleaning and restoration campaigns of the site (2015-2016) and the data acquired from the seven-years survey on the site of Phaestos, the main aim of the first part of the communication (Alessandro Greco) represents an up-to-date and integrated analysis of the so-called "Quartiere" of H. Photinì during the two main periods of its Minoan flowering in the framework of the new knowledge of the urban territory of Phaestos.
In the second part of the paper, Orazio Palio will present the first results of the study conducted on the LM IB pottery groups excavated by D. Levi. During this period, represented at Festòs by very few architectural structures, the small complex of rooms built on the ruins of the Protopalatial period holds particular importance, also considering its position along one of the main tracks of access to the hill of the Palace. The ceramic assemblages, connected with food preparation and consumption, perhaps in a ritual context, may be linked to host activities that precede the entrance to the palace
Sperimentazione tecnica ed innovazione architettonica nel progetto della residenza pubblica. Due vicende del Novecento.
No full textIn Europa, negli ultimi decenni, si è assistito ad uno sviluppo qualitativo dei processi costruttivi improntati all'impiego di sistemi stratificati a secco al fine di garantire una risposta adeguata sia alle istanze di natura prestazionale che quelle di fattibilità tecnico-economica, tanto nel settore dell'edilizia terziaria quanto in quello della residenza. La situazione italiana si caratterizza invece per la permanenza dell'impiego di sistemi costruttivi tradizionali, soprattutto nell'ambito dell'housing, limitando l'adozione di soluzioni tecniche a secco alla risoluzione del tema dell'involucro.
L'esigenza di migliorare gli edifici dal punto di vista del contenimento dei consumi energetici e la necessità di individuare soluzioni distributive flessibili ed adattabili ad un più articolato quadro esigenziale, sollecitano ad attuare una innovazione del processo edilizio con un rinnovato interesse verso l'impiego di sistemi costruttivi a secco. In questo contesto i progettisti rivestono un ruolo fondamentale; il loro compito non è più circoscrivibile alla sola individuazione di elementi industrializzati già presenti sul mercato, ma è indotto ad aprirsi verso la ricerca e l'innovazione nella progettazione di componenti capaci di soddisfare i requisiti di alta qualità e di alte prestazioni energetiche ed estetiche. Un percorso di ricerca che taglia trasversalmente l'intero iter progettuale, dalla formulazione dell'idea architettonica fino alla definizione delle soluzione tecniche di dettaglio e dei materiali
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
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