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Appunti preliminari per un'analisi semiotica della comunicazione non verbale nella letteratura artistica barocca, ovvero: il paratesto visivo, questo misconosciuto
No full textNella scia dell'analisi semiotica del paratesto figurativo della Felsina Pittrice di Carlo Cesare Malvasia, proposta dal medesimo autore in altra sede, si amplia qui l'applicazione dei criteri precedentemente definiti all'analisi di altri testi storico-artistici secenteschi coevi, e segnatamente le Vite di Giovan Pietro Bellori, le Osservazioni di Vincenzo Vittoria e e L'Accademia Todesca di pittura e scultura di Joachim von Sandrart nelle due versioni, tedesca e latina. Lo scopo di questo esercizio applicativo ha tra le sue finalità la validazione metodologica, su una casistica più ampia, dell'approfondimento semantico del messaggio storico-critico delle pubblicazioni della letteratura artistica barocca attraverso l'interpretazione semiotica dell'apparato illustrativo e decorativo, letto in chiave non bibliologica, ma appunto semiotica
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
Met-myoglobin Association in Dilute Solution during Pressure-Induced Denaturation: an Analysis at pH 4.5 by High-Pressure Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
No full textIn this paper, we report on the original global fit procedure of synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) data applied to a model protein, met-myoglobin, in dilute solution during temperature- and pressure-induced denaturation processes at pH 4.5. Starting from the thermodynamic description of the protein unfolding pathway developed by Hawley (Hawley, S. A. Biochemistry 1971, 10, 2436), we have developed a new method for analyzing the set of SAXS curves using a global fitting procedure, which allows us to derive the form factor of all the met-myoglobin species present in the solution, their aggregation state, and the set of thermodynamic parameters, with their p and T dependence. This method also overcomes a reasonably poor quality of the experimental data, and it is found to be very powerful in analyzing SAXS data. SAXS experiments were performed at four different temperatures from hydrostatic pressures up to about 2000 bar. As a result, the presence of an intermediate, partially unfolded, dimeric state of met-myoglobin that forms during denaturation has been evidenced. The obtained parameters were then used to derive the met-myoglobin p, T phase diagram that fully agrees with the corresponding phase diagram obtained by spectroscopic measurements
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
Synthesis and characterization of orthorhombic, 2d-centered rectangular and lamellar iron oxide doped silica films
No full textIron oxide doped silica films and powders with highly ordered mesostructures of extraordinary temperature stability (up to 1000 °C) and iron loading of up to 6 atom% were produced by the use of novel iron alkoxide-coordinated surfactants. Wormhole-like, 2d-centered rectangular, orthorhombic and lamellar mesostructures were obtained by variation of the molar ratios of the metal–surfactant complexes. The influence of a subsequent heat treatment was studied by GI-SAXS, TEM, XRD, and nitrogen sorption techniques. The molecular composition of the films was studied by XPS and EXAFS
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