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A spatial version of the Shang method
No full textThis paper proposes a modified version of the Shang method, starting from the assumption
that the convergence of opinions involves a spatial context in many applications. The Spatial
Shang we present is based, like the classical Shang method, on judgments of a panel of experts,
and is applicable when consultations and consequent decisions concern matters of spatial
location. The experts are first asked to draw four points on a map while, in subsequent rounds,
each panelist must locate a single point, representing her/his evaluation, in one of four
rectangles drawn on the map. The method is very easy to be implemented and the whole
procedure is very fast to be performed. The application presented in this paper concerns the
Costa Teatina National Park (Italy) and the definition of its boundaries. We will here present
the on-going conflict and the contribution to its mitigation offered by the Spatial Shang
method. The application resulted in a convergence of opinions in a buffer of 550 m; that can be
used as a decision support for the choice on the best location for the park's boundaries
Urban food markets and community development
No full textUrban food markets and farmers’ markets are firmly linked to Italian cities’ traditions.
These are the locations where local rural identity, local food products, and culinary
traditions find their physical expression. Moreover, they contribute to making cities
more attractive for residents and tourists as well. These markets successfully represent
the identities of the place where they are located. Urban food markets and farmers’
markets are able to reflect the mutability implicit in the term identity, by adapting
to the changes regarding the people and the geographical spaces modifying the offer
of food and goods efficiently sold by their stalls thanks to the relationship between
producers and consumers. By hosting different culinary traditions these markets are
crucial in driving gastronomic tourism that can exist, indeed, only if products are a
direct expression of the region, authentic, original, of high-quality, and symbolic.
In order to investigate these dynamics and to better understand the complexities of
this particular foodscape, we carried out a study characterized by a multidisciplinary
approach in some representative urban food markets in the city of Rome
Urban food markets in Rome
No full textUrban food markets and farmers’ markets in Rome, currently offer food and non-food products that can mainly be defined as authentic. They also host several public services for resident customers. Most of these markets are declining, showing resistance to necessary changes and a scarce ability to adapt their offer to a more dynamic demand. Besides management-related motivations, structural obstacles which feed the losing managerial choices in a vicious circle exist. As evidence of this, it has been noticed that the most successful markets are those offering experiences (i.e. immersive purchase experience, street-food availability) different from the ones proposed by their direct competitors (i.e. the large-organized distribution). In order to reevaluate the urban food markets of Rome – taking into consideration their ubiquitous distribution and the importance of the vendors as expression of the local traditions – we foresee the need to run several activities that can animate the markets during times when they are not being used today, involving different groups of potential users, for instance for educational purposes. Another needed action for the thriving of urban food markets is the process of digitalization; this would help in making the information more transparent for clients and in widening the relationship between vendors and customers over the physical space represented by the walls of
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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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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