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VALORIZATION OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: A STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Full text linkA new strategy to revamp Italian economy must enhance potentialities of internal market and of needs of citizens. This article suggests that taking care of the historical-monumental goods could be good in order to boost the economy towards
sustainable growth, provided that everything takes place in close partnership with the stakeholders also through public-private partnership (PPP). This study examines the case study of the Agenzia del Demanio and the potential and policies it has undertaken. The conclusion to be pursued is that the enhancement and redevelopment of the territory must be based on economic integration and tourism, which is one of the main sectors driving economic development of different territories. It has to be implemented in a sustainable manner, combining the needs for use of the attractors and the safeguard of the heritage as a precious entity to be preserved, transmitted and handed down to future generations
THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY FOR PROMOTING CIRCULAR ECONOMY WITH A VIEW TO QUINTUPLE HELIX IN THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION CONTEXT. THE CASE-STUDY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA"
Full text linkThe aim of the research is to analyze the role of University to promote sustainable strategies inside and outside the academic community. In particular, the focus is on projects promoted by the Academia that respond to the big problem regarding waste. After an analysis of the literature on circular economy and Third Mission of University, the research focuses on the analysis of the causes of the call “Mission Sustainability” promoted by University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. By promoting sustainable action in the territory, in specific a project will involve the installation of incentivizing compactors in the Campus for PET collection. The research methodology applied to the case study, mainly qualitative, is based on the document analysis of: university report and strategy planning, the call and the specific project promoted by professor and researcher titled “GREENtosi for UniRecycling purpose between Third Mission and Sustainability. A virtuous experimental partnership with a view to quintuple helix in the socio-ecological transition context”
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
RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION IN FOOD SECTOR. CASE STUDY: FAIRTRADE
Full text linkThis research analyzes the result of the initiative adopted by public and private organizations to improve the Fairtrade consumption and the responsible production linked to seventeen goals of SDGs (Sustainable Development Solution Network Report, 2016). This paper is structured as follows: a) section 1 provides a literature review on sustainable consumption; b) section 2 describes the Tor Vergata’s experience: it provides an analysis of the case study of Fairtrade big challenge; c) Finally, section 3 concludes with some consideration of the experience. The public and private partnerships are
important because they make possible sustainable development in the environment through the cooperation and the know-how exchange. This exchange leads to economic development, but above all, it adds value in disadvantaged societies; the result is a reduction of the poverty, an increase of the work gender equality and a reduction of inequalities. The case study analysis concerns an initiative suggested by a group of students in collaboration with “Next-Nuova Economia per tutti” (a no profit organization that deals with sustainable territorial development) and the Department of Management
and Law (University of Tor Vergata). The initiative has been nominated for the “Prepararsi al Futuro Lazio 2015-2016” award and it won as Best Etic Cash Mob
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
REGENERATION AS A DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. CROSS COUNTRIES ANALYSIS: ITALY, BELGIUM AND SPAIN
Full text linkThe aim of the research is to analyse the state-of-the-art of Italian railway heritage, in particular the mismanaged stations, disused railway lines, the National action-plan of railway reconversion, the role of the Public Administration in the requalification and regeneration processes and the impact that these processes have on territories in terms of social and environmental sustainability. After an analysis of the literature on the processes of territorial change, such as regeneration and requalification (Borri, 1995; Evans & Shaw, 2004), the research focuses on the analysis of the causes of dismiss and
abandonment of the stations and railways and on a cross-country analysis of Italy, Belgium and Spain. The research methodology applied to the case study, mainly qualitative, is based on the document analysis (Bowen, 2009), with the aim of "registering" the unused Italian, Belgian and Spanish railway assets, analysing reuse methodologies and the stakeholder
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