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Rappresentazione strutturale delle entità neutrali. Il monismo neutrale da un punto di vista analitico e storico-filosofico
No full textMy doctoral investigation intends to clarify the philosophical concept of “neutral entity”. In
particular, it aims to find a definition of neutral entities which is consistent with the main ontological and
epistemological theses of neutral monism. For this purpose, the thesis undertakes a new method which marries
analytic philosophy to history of philosophy (Friedman et al. 2010). The problem of defining neutral entities
is analytically formulated under the name of “difficulty of neutrality”. To solve this problem, the investigation
applies two main hypothesis and is divided into two parts. The first hypothesis is that (1) neutral entities feature
three general properties: being “qualitative”, “subjectless” and “structural”. The second hypothesis is that (2)
the movement of neutral monism must be enlarged to include a structural current of itself whose original works
are some writings of the early Carnap. The first part of the thesis makes the hypotheses (1) and (2) appliable.
The second part develops, gathers and interprets the consequences of their application. This way, my
investigation obtains two main results: (I) neutral entities are epistemically elusive and gets to be knowable
only according to their structural properties; (II) collections of neutral entities are formally identified with dual
sets of lattice representation theorems
Quartieri abusivi di Tirana, Albania. Politiche urbane e interventi di recupero
No full textPeriodico interuniversitario del Centro Studi Urbanistici PVS, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Pianificazione Territoriale e Urbanistica, Rom
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP OF BENTHIC BIVALVES OF THE ANDONI FLATS, NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA
No full textThe length weight relationship of three benthic bivalves namely, Senilia (= Anadara) senilis (bloody cockle), Tagelus adansonii (knife clam), Tellina nymphalis (soft shell clam) from the Andoni Flats were determined. The bivalves which are of ecological importance were obtained from the intertidal areas of the Andoni Flats. Shell lengths of the bivalves were measured and corresponding dry weight measurements were also taken. The data obtained were then subjected to regression analysis using the FAO-ICLARM Fish Stock Assessment Tools (FiSAT). The length weight relationships obtained from the FiSAT analysis indicated isometric growth for Senilia (= Anadara) senilis, with slope (b) value of 2.942; positive allometric growth for Tagelus adansonii, with a ‘b’ value of 3.395 and negative allometric growth for Tellina nymphalis with ‘b’ value of 2.633
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Andoni Marine Ecology: Emphasis on the Biology and Importance of Some Useful Plants
No full textThere appears to be a dearth in literature of mangrove plants in Andoni. This write up intends to fill the gap using photographs of plants found in the mangrove and its environment. Below is the description of some of the mangrove plants found in Andon
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