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A framework for the global computing system
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (p. 65).by Amit R. Patel.M.Eng
The Dead Sea Rift as a natural laboratory for earthquake behavior: prehistorical, historical and recent seismicity
No full textThe DSW 2009 - Field Trip & Workshop "The Dead Sea Rift as natural laboratory for earthquake behaviour: prehistorical, historical and recent seismicity", held in Israel on 16th-23rd February, 2009, was organized by the Geological Survey of Israel and INQUA Focus Group on Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics, in collaboration with UNESCO (IGCP project 567 “Earthquake Archaeology”).
This event was aimed at improving our understanding of Paleoseismology and Seismic Hazard Assessment, at a global level and specifically in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, with an emphasis on the study of the environmental effects of earthquakes and on the application of the ESI 2007 intensity scale. The region of the Dead Sea Rift is in fact the object of large engineering projects, such as the Dead Sea - Red Sea water conduit project, and existing and planned nuclear facilities in Israel and Jordan.
A six days long field trip along the Dead Sea fault from Hula Valley at the border with Lebanon, to the Red Sea and Aqaba in Jordan, was organized by the Geological Survey of Israel in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and Ben- Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. This volume is the comprehensive Field Trip Guide for the DSW 2009. The field trip spanned 4 seasons, from the snowy Mt Hermon, to the rainy Sea of Galilee region, and to the hot arid desert -- Dead Sea, Arava valley and to the Red Sea, the Aqaba/Eilat area, allowing to examine a wide variety of climatic and geomorphic settings. The “fil rouge” of the trip was of course the trace of the Dead Sea Tranform, which was followed for more than 300 km, with about 35 stops. The participants examined unique field exposures presented by expertise of each site and discussed, among others, A) seismically-induced landslide hazards near the Sea of Galilee and South of the Dead Sea, B) evidence of archaeoseismicity at a variety of location along the Jordan River Valley, Dead Sea Rift and at Aqaba/Petra, C) paleoseismic surface faulting exposed along trench walls in the Arava Valley, and damaged and offsett archaeological remains at Qala'at Al-Subeiba Namrod fortress, Vadum Jacob, Susita, Petra, and Ayla (Aqaba) in Jordan:, D) paleoliquefaction features preserved in the Lisan Formation around the Dead Sea, E) long paleoseismic record from deformed speleothemes in the Soreq Cave near Jerusalem
El proceso de creación de la película Bridge (2016): el proceso alquímico de transformarse individual y socialmente
Full text linkThe author and director of the film Bridge (2016), Amit R. Biswas, reflects on the process of film-making, using strategies that deal with self (and, therefore, social) transformation through art. In a sort of inner confession monologue, he delves not only into the more anecdotal part of the logistics and economic tour-de-force problems that producing a film involve; but also, and more interestingly, in the causes, nuances, and psychological details that are contained in the plot. Seen as a process of catharsis and posterior anagnorisis, the film unveils the subtle influences that underlie human contact, the transformation of the human psyche by means of compassionate attitudes, and the mutual redemption suffered by the seeming victim and his apparent saviour, in a sort of alchemic metempsychosis released by mutual understanding and empathy.El autor y director de la película Bridge (2016), Amit R. Biswas, reflexiona sobre el proceso de creación y producción cinematográficas, utilizando para ello estrategias que tienen que ver con la transformación del yo (y, por ende, de la sociedad) a través del arte. En una suerte de monólogo-confesión interior, el director profundiza no solo sobre esa parte más anecdótica de la logística y de los enormes problemas económicos que se suscitan cuando se produce un largometraje; lo hace también, lo que es más interesante, sobre las causas, matices y detalles psicológicos que están contenidos en la trama. Visto el film como un proceso de catarsis y posterior anagnórisis, se desvelan en él las sutiles influencias que subyacen en el contacto humano, la transformación de la psique por medio de unas actitudes compasivas, y la redención mutua que sufren la aparente víctima y el que parece su salvador, en una metempsícosis alquímica catalizada por la comprensión y la empatía mutuas
El proceso de creación de la película Bridge (2016): El proceso alquímico de transformarse individual y socialmente
Full text linkThe author and director of the film Bridge (2016), Amit R. Biswas, reflects on the process
of film-making, using strategies that deal with self (and, therefore, social) transformation
through art. In a sort of inner confession monologue, he delves not only into the more
anecdotal part of the logistics and economic tour-de-force problems that producing a film
involve; but also, and more interestingly, in the causes, nuances, and psychological details
that are contained in the plot. Seen as a process of catharsis and posterior anagnorisis, the
film unveils the subtle influences that underlie human contact, the transformation of the
human psyche by means of compassionate attitudes, and the mutual redemption suffered by
the seeming victim and his apparent saviour, in a sort of alchemic metempsychosis released
by mutual understanding and empathy.El autor y director de la película Bridge (2016), Amit R. Biswas, reflexiona sobre el proceso
de creación y producción cinematográficas, utilizando para ello estrategias que tienen que ver
con la transformación del yo (y, por ende, de la sociedad) a través del arte. En una suerte de
monólogo-confesión interior, el director profundiza no solo sobre esa parte más anecdótica
de la logística y de los enormes problemas económicos que se suscitan cuando se produce
un largometraje; lo hace también, lo que es más interesante, sobre las causas, matices y
detalles psicológicos que están contenidos en la trama. Visto el film como un proceso de
catarsis y posterior anagnórisis, se desvelan en él las sutiles influencias que subyacen en el
contacto humano, la transformación de la psique por medio de unas actitudes compasivas,
y la redención mutua que sufren la aparente víctima y el que parece su salvador, en una
metempsícosis alquímica catalizada por la comprensión y la empatía mutuas
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
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