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Simulating bodily movement as an agent for the reactivation of forgotten open air spaces in the city
Get PDFThis paper presents experimental work that uses immersive technologies for
engaging users and local communities in the design process of architectural interventions
on historic, fragmented environments in an effort to re-activate the place under study. In
addition to the use of cutting-edge methods of capturing and analysing on-site information,
this research framework, implemented in the on-going study of Paphos Gate area of
historic Nicosia which lies on the infamous Green Line that still divides the city, explores
the potential of narrative-led visualization to enable personal interpretations of space and
its history. This virtual environment hosts reconstructions of the Paphos Gate neighbourhood
which were produced based on archival material and via 3D data acquisition (LiDAR, UAV
and terrain Structure-from-Motion techniques), in order to explore the associations
between the transformation of the monument through the years – from its construction
to present day – and the bodily experience of the visitors sojourning in its surrounding part
of the city. The vision of this research is to develop a digital platform which through
immersion, cinematic language and storytelling will enable the evaluation of alternative
scenarios and design interventions in the context of the management plan of forgotten
open air spaces that used to be popular within their urban fabric.Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.peer-reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Occupied City. Hotel Cambridge and Central São Paulo between Urban Decay and Resurrection
No full textHand in hand with the overall exodus that afflicted central São Paulo over the course of the 20th century, the architecture of the historic city increasingly slipped into decay. Consequently, vacancy accrued. Myriad edifices that formerly epitomized urban progress, such as the notorious Hotel Cambridge, were left obsolete. Ever since the end of the 1990s, urban movements increasingly occupied this aggregating depository of residual urban structures. Multiple decrepit buildings were consequently converted into makeshift ‘home made homes’ by and for low-income denizens. Pivoting around the architectural biography of the Hotel Cambridge building, this contribution will trace the urban transformation of central São Paulo, iterating as it does between decay and reclaim. The shifting materiality, use and meaning of the building serve as methodological devices for deciphering the centre’s alternating regimes of construction and reconstruction, abandonment and occupation, disruption and reform, and indeed, conflict and inclusion. The contribution focusses on the urbanistic agency of occupation movements, and their claim to take part in the piecemeal reshaping of the architecture of the city. It seeks to interrogate the nexus of occupations and urbanism, exploring though conjoined urban analysis and extensive fieldwork whether and how occupations precipitate a latent and prototypical ‘proto-project’ for the city, an urbanism ‘in the making’ that prefigures and provisionally starts piecing together more inclusive future urban scenarios.status: Publishe
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing
No full textSocio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps the current terrain of political thinking, ethical conversations and community activism that complements the current discourse on new opportunities to access housing. Its carefully selected case studies cover many geographical contexts, including the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia, Asia and Europe. Importantly, the volume presents the views of stakeholders that are typically left unaccounted for in the process of housing development, and presents them with an interdisciplinary audience of sociologists, planners and architects in mind. Each chapter offers new interpretations of real-world problems, local community initiatives and successful housing projects, and together construct a critique on recent governmental and planning policies globally. Through these studies, the reader will encounter a narrative that encompasses issues of equality for housing, the biopolitics of dwelling and its associated activism, planning initiatives for social sustainability, and the cohabitation of the urban terrain
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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