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Data parametric representation for monitoring of cultural heritage
No full textThe present paper analyses the Abbey of S. Matteo in Genoa exemplifying a possible use of survey and its elaborations in the field of conservation. The three-dimensional survey was used as the basis for the collection, management and representation of the data derived from the survey on rising damp. The purpose was to test a dynamic data processing system that could be used as a tool to collect data on site as well as to access data remotely. By using software for three-dimensional representation and a node programming language, it was possible to define a system that offered dynamic viewing and was easy to use, through the use of chromatic scales and level curves, which can be generated starting from tables containing numerical data. Surveying, diagnostics, modelling and representation allow one to experiment with new ways of interaction within the common goal of conservation
A Journey of Valorisation from the Sacred to the Secular. The Oratory of Sant’Antonio Abate in the Village of Mele (Genoa-Italy)
No full textThe Oratory was the expression of a community that, even with its strong sense of identity and wealth (deriving from the profitable local paper mills and ironworks), felt the need for a symbol, which could represent them; a morally enlightening space, spiritually transcendent, and socially prestigious. The development and the creation of the project allowed professionals in the fields of Restoration, Drawing, and Informatics to work together but mainly it created the opportunity to become acquainted with an ancient collective devotional culture, which has an undeniably fundamental value from an historical and anthropological point of view. The goal was to develop a mobile application which does not incorporate the use of 3D models, but was easily accessible by the visitor. Inside the app, information sheets and images of detail offer a more thorough understanding of Oratory, also thanks to using special sensors (Beacon) and graphic symbols (QRcode)
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
Ripensare il nesso casa-città nei luoghi dell’‘excel urbanism’
No full textIl contributo presenta i primi esiti di una ricerca interdisciplinare condotta con una particolare attenzione alla relazione tra progetto architettonico, strumenti urbanistici e politiche abitative. La ricerca pone lo sguardo su parti relativamente recenti delle nostre città: insediamenti a carattere residenziale e disegno unitario, appartenenti a una prima stagione di interventi di riqualificazione di aree produttive dismesse sviluppati a cavallo del millennio. Esito di concertazione pubblico-privato, hanno svolto un ruolo importante nell’offerta residenziale, coniugando politiche abitative pubbliche e libero mercato, con esiti spesso contrastanti in termini qualitativi. Questa ricerca solleva l’esigenza di una revisione progettuale che, per quanto precoce, ci pare necessaria per anticipare processi di fragilizzazione dovuti alla mancata capacità degli spazi di adattarsi ai noti cambiamenti socio-demografici fortemente accelerati dalla pandemia. Il contributo esplora questi temi a partire dallo studio di alcuni dei cosiddetti P.R.U. (Programmi di Riqualificazione Urbana o Programmi Integrati di Intervento) di Milano. Dall’analisi di cinque tra i più importanti emergono caratteri comuni generati da una risposta prevalentemente quantitativa alla domanda residenziale, che raduneremo sotto il nome di excel urbanism. A distanza di soli quindici anni, questi luoghi mostrano segni di obsolescenza e portano a interrogarsi su come intervenire. Da qui la proposta di ripensare la concatenazione degli spazi a cavallo tra casa e città, e quindi i rapporti tra individuo e collettività. Il contributo
si propone di: restituire una lettura critica degli esiti spaziali e sociali di questa stagione di insediamenti, adottando un punto di vista originale tra policy analysis, architettura e disegno urbano; e rilanciare le sfide poste dal mutare del tessuto socio-demografico, evidenziando opportunità, testando scenari e proponendo strategie per trasformazioni che impattino positivamente sul nesso casa-città
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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