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Review of Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-enchanting Rituals in Europe by Alessandro Testa
No full textReview of Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-enchanting Rituals in Europe by Alessandro Testa (Carolina Academic Press, 2023)
Alessandro Testa, Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale. Le dimensioni storiche e socio-culturali di una festa appenninica, Napoli, Loffredo, 2014
No full textBiasiori Lucio. Alessandro Testa, Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale. Le dimensioni storiche e socio-culturali di una festa appenninica, Napoli, Loffredo, 2014. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°9, 2014. pp. 181-184
Gendered peace: policies and conflicts within Catholic Church Norms, Institutions and Practices
No full textThis contribution examines the production process of the relic-object in Catholic settings. Manual works are presented – technical knowhow and production rationale – focusing on the concrete actions performed by cloistered nuns on human remains (bones and fabric). These are turned into objects to which extra-human power is attributed.
These women follow and establish the whole process of production, meaning-attribution and dissemination of the ‘sacred’ object, creating some niches of autonomous power for themselves within the wider ecclesiastic scenario. The contribution draws on an ethnographic study based on observant participation where the author shared the life of some French and Italian monastic groups. In particular, it focuses on the remains of Breton duchess Françoise d’Amboise (1427-1485), beatified by Pius IX in 1863 and considered to be the founder of the Carmelites in France.
The practice of relic production is used as a political strategy in relation with the ecclesiastic world itself but also, indirectly, with the lay world. In fact, on the one hand it is used by the (female) monastic world to free itself from the (male) ecclesiastic world; on the other hand, it appears to be a way to emphasize full autonomy from the local political scenario
Behaviour models for the evacuation of a motorway tunnel
No full textThis work focuses on the human behaviour during an evacuation of a motorway tunnel. First of all all the type of signalization have been taken into account, according with the current legislation updated after the Mont Blanc Tunnel tragedy of March 1999. In order to study how people behaves in case of emergency an interesting methodology has been applied: Thomas Saaty's Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP), based on matrix weight calculation. This methodology has been implemented in a simulation model that considers different scenarios, based on the signs' position. All the scenarios then have been analysed and evaluated using well-known techniques such as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM)
Le primarie 2012 del Centrosinistra. Quali voci per la costruzione del discorso politico
No full textIl momento della partecipazione al voto delle Primarie si caratterizza come azione ad alto valore simbolico perché non solo inquadra l'elettore come facente parte di una precisa parte politica, ma lo chiama in causa direttamente, a scegliere, fuori dai tradizionali congressi di partito, il leader della coalizione. Le Primarie di coalizione del centrosinistra hanno costituito un oggetto di studio degno d’interesse perché hanno restituito, a pochi mesi dalla elezioni politiche, la complessità di un panorama politico-comunicativo che si dispiegherà compiutamente nella campagna elettorale dei mesi successivi. Tanto per quanto riguarda le tematiche trattate, quanto dal punto di vista dei soggetti coinvolti nel dibattito pubblico, infatti, questa esperienza di sostanziale pre-campagna, ha costituito un format di competizione per la leadership della coalizione che rimane un unicum nel panorama italiano.The paper realizes a study on the issues and key figures emerged during the primary elections of 2012
Analyzing and modeling the failure behavior of Wireless Sensor Networks software under errors
No full textAs Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are starting to be adopted in critical scenarios, it becomes important to study the behavior of WSN software in response to errors induced by hardware faults. To this aim, in this paper we present the results of an extensive fault-injection campaign, conducted on three different WSN operating systems (OSs). Results show that, depending on the concurrency model and on the memory management, the OS reacts to injected faults differently, indicating that fault containment strategies and hang-checking assertions should be implemented to avoid spreading and activations of errors. Analysis also allowed us to define a detailed dependability model of the WSN software, to be used to simulate the expected failure behavior of a given OS when solicited by given low-level hardware faults
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
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