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The Devīśataka of Ānandavardhana with the Commentary of Kayyaṭa: Critical Edition, Translation and Study
No full textCritical edition, translation and study of Ānandavardhana’s Devīśataka (9th c.) with Kayyaṭa’s commentary (978 AD). First complete assessment of what is certainly the masterpiece in the neglected genre of citrakāvya (“figurative/marvelous poetry”). By editing also the ṭīkā, which is absolutely necessary to decipher the verbal tricks of the Śataka, I try to fill the lack of critical editions and comprehensive studies of Sanskrit commentaries on kāvya
Citrakāvya in manuscripts: the case of Ānandavardhana's Devīśataka
No full textBi- monthly publication of the National Mission for Manuscript
Ātaṅkavādaśataka: la centuria sul Terrorismo di Vagish Shastri
No full textThis paper will examine the sanskrit short-poem Ātaṅkavādaśataka (“Century of Verses on terrorism”) written in 1988 by the famous indian pandit Vagish Shastri. Although composed in a language that is 2500 year old, the Century deals with one of the most dramatic events in contemporary indian history: sikh nationalist terrorism. The poet provides both a socio-political interpretation as well as a mythological-theological one, managing to combine a traditional approach with a pronounced ideological awareness. We will both supply information on the social and historical background of the phenomenon, and discuss the poetic qualities of the work. Special attention will be given to linguistic, metrical and rhetorical features, which link this contemporary composition to classical kāvya poetry
Upstream-flowing Rivers: The Rāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvya of Daivajña Śrī Sūrya Paṇḍita
No full textThe category of palindrome compositions (vilomakāvyas) undoubtedly represents one of the most peculiar examples of poetic mastery in Sanskrit literature. Beside their surprising formal elaboration, this kind of poems are also able to express the most complex contents. Clarifying their place amongst the “pictured poems” (citrakāvyas), we will analyse their subdivisions, definitions and common devices, and we will furnish a general background to the topic to enter the poet's laboratory.
We will present the work done in India studying one palindrome poem almost unknown to western scholars: the Rāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvya was composed in the 16th century by the astronomer Sūrya, and despite its brevity (it contains less than 40 verses) it stands as a monument of this genre of poetry. Narrating the adventures of the two most famous avatāras the poet discloses a high number of metres and tricks and in his auto-commentary to the text demonstrates a subtle knowledge of vaiṣṇava philosophic issues. For its extremely refined technique and for the poetic manifesto contained in the commentary it is clear that this work deserves more attention and possibly a more accessible edition
Clean and renewable energy from the Arno River: A feasibility study in the Province of Florence (northern Italy)
No full textDuring a joint project between the Provincia di Firenze Administration and the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Firenze, the Arno riverbed was studied from the terminal portion of the Upper Valdano up to the Middle Valdarno (about 75 km). In particular, we analysed the preservation status of the existing weirs, which are nowadays the most important hydraulic works as concern the profile riverbed conservation and the fluvial dynamics. Such research was oriented to perform a practical analysis useful for a complete recovery of the hydraulic functionality and also for a possible renovation of some structures in order to produce clean electricity, following the current sensitivity in many national and international institutions. This analysis resulted in the determination of a different degree of feasibility, identifying from a technical point of view the most suitable weir and its annex for a quick recovery intervention and highlighting their economic impact on potential investors that might be attracted to the economic income related to the sale of electricity to the local network
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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