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Women and Informatics: The Ada Web Portal
Full text linkThe gender gap in Informatics education is becoming a crucial issue. Over the last four years, the number of women enrolled in IT-related bachelor programs in Italian universities has dramatically decreased, by around 30%. Today, only 15% of Informatics students are female, while the overall percentage of females enrolled at Italian universities is more than 55%. The aim of the Ada Web Portal we present in this paper is to facilitate communication and to share experiences between women (students, teachers, and professionals) working in the IT area
Ricomincio dalla rete. Aggregazioni territoriali e relazioni a rete per nuovi scenari di pianificazione locale
No full textIl punto di partenza dell'intervento proposto è l'osservazione che piani e progetti di area vasta presentano sicuramente dei vantaggi tra i quali il fatto che le aree urbane – e le esigenze quotidiane di chi li abita – sono sempre più policentriche; che si possono valorizzare risorse che travalicano i confini comunali (ad es. distrettualità produttive, reti verdi e blu); ed infine che il nostro contributo al clima richiede una nuova percezione dei territori che abitiamo (infatti sostenibilità non significa più solo proteggere l’ambiente naturale). L'area della valle dell'Agno presenta in tal senso un caso studio di grande interesse in quanto area di distretto produttivo in decadenza e che quindi ha proprio nella sua eventuale capacità di aggregazione la chiave per mantenere la competitività. Questo possibile rilancio passa quindi per quello che è l'elemento che è rimasto come legante di quei territori: l'ambiente naturale. La necessità che ci si pone quindi è uno sforzo di immaginazione che riesca ad individuare varie chiavi di accesso allo sviluppo urbano territoriale come ad esempio cogliere simultaneamente obietti di mtigazione ed obiettivi di adattamento al cambiamento climatico così da immaginare integrazioni territoriali capaci di andare oltre le categorie urbano-rurale, pianura-montagna. Ed è proprio puntando su questo e sulle opportunità delle nuove tecnologie che l'articolo trova una risposta per ri aggregare questi territori
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
Donne e Tecnologie Informatiche
Full text linkUn approfondimento quantitativo e qualitativo del gender gap esistente nelle ICT attraverso dati statistici, analisi del web, rapporti ufficiali, norme e politiche, con particolare attenzione alla realta' del Veneto
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
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
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