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Surveillance analyses of in-patient palliative/terminal care provided to children with end-stage malignant disease.
No full textMedical and Pediatric Oncology (abstract
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
"Le più honorate e magnifiche scole che habbi il mondo". Le sedi dell'Università di Padova tra età moderna e contemporanea
No full textDispelling 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
Tecniche costruttive utilizzate nelle case di Aquileia: le sottofondazioni pluristratificate
No full textAs now, our knowledge of the building techniques which were used in Aquileia during the Roman Age is still scarce. Research carried out so far about town’s buildings have not dealt in detail with technical architectural details, notably for private, residential buildings.
To fill in this gap of knowledge, a research project has recently started which focuses on building techniques used in Aquileia during the Roman Age. The research is carried out through the collection of data in literature and through analyses on site, in particular at the Domus of "Bestie ferite" and at the central Domus of the archaeological area named "fondi ex Cossar". By means of investigation on site a considerable amount of Roman walls have been analyzed. In detail, research has focused on walls foundations techniques. Walls foundations techniques in these two houses are very unusual and reveal ancient builders’ skills and flexibility to adapt traditional building techniques according to the natural environment they lived in.
The paper takes into account a particular kind of wall foundation technique, which is characterized by the presence of sequences of drain layers under the walls. This building technique, useful to protect walls from capillary rise of groundwater, seems to be very widespread in the North of Italy during the Roman Age
Edilizia privata e apparati decorativi ad Aquileia: lo stato della ricerca
Full text linkL’attenzione dedicata al tema dell’edilizia domestica si è concretizzata, in quest’ultimo decennio, in una serie di contributi importanti, che consentono di definire un quadro abbastanza organico del modello del “vivere alla romana” in Cisalpina. E’ tuttavia innegabile quanto il lavoro di ricostruzione sia ostacolato dalla natura fortemente lacunosa dei dati a disposizione. A fronte della difficoltà di interpretare planimetrie spesso incomplete, ancor
più arduo è il tentativo di ricostruire il sistema della casa con tutti i suoi apparati decorativi, sia di tipo immobile (rivestimenti pavimentali e parietali) sia di tipo mobile (oggetti di arredo, statue, manufatti funzionali). Da questa prospettiva, la documentazione di Aquileia evidenzia gli stessi limiti delle testimonianze cisalpine: nonostante il consistente numero di abitazioni indagate, la possibilità di risalire a connessioni sicure fra contesti architettonici
e apparati decorativi è il più delle volte un obiettivo difficilmente raggiungibile, a cui gli attuali filoni di ricerca si stanno dedicando
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