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Ambiances patrimoniales. Problèmes et méthodes
No full textInternational audienceThis research work focuses on the sensorial real life within historical and/or heritage buildings by means of the heritage ambience notion. This latter is recharging from previous research assets and implemented to the context of research on heritage. The heritage ambience notion is introduced; its status enhanced and then conceptualized. The barriers and problems met when it is applied are revealed and explained. The appropriate methods and research techniques are also presented. Finally, some case studies of heritage ambiences illustrate the aims of this paper
Hotel Architecture in the French Colonization Era; The Case of Biskra City, Algeria
Full text linkOften quoted as the queen of an oasian region, namely the Zibans, Biskra, a southern Algerian city, was a famous winter station renowned for its tourist character during the French colonization (1830-1962). This stimulated the colonizing authorities to build several hospitality buildings, the largest of which were edified using imported constructive techniques, but with local constructive materials and several local spatial organizations and regional decorative motives. In continuation of previous research work carried out by the first author of this article, this study aims to analyse and classify Biskra’s main hotels to draw up an architectural typology using Philippe Panerai’s method. As a result, four models were identified within the corpus of the study, including seven (7) hotels. Its findings could be considered as strong, helpful support for future research in the field of architectural heritage, regardless of building typology, as well as an appropriate database for the heritage buildings’ practical preservation. Moreover, such research work should inform about other various underrated and misjudged heritage buildings dating from the colonial era in Algeria
Les ambiances de la Casbah d’Alger. Les révélations des textes
No full textPart of topic : Ambiance as heritage of the futureInternational audienceThis research work suggests a specific approach to investigate the architectural heritage from the sensorial point of view. It goes beyond quantitative aspects in order to encompass the qualitative ones. The ambiances felt in the various cases of architectural heritage are explored and studied by means of textual information found in novels. The case of Old Algiers house is investigated through the application of the content analysis method to a contemporary Algerian novel. The information extracted from this novel has been identified and quantitatively classified in function of the related ambiance and the spatial component and/or the household item involving in its generation
Spatialités lumineuses des médersas du Maghreb
No full textDans l’Islam, la lumière occupe une place importante similaire à celle qui lui est accordée par les religions du Livre antérieures. Une sourate coranique entière est dédiée à la lumière et la valorise en tant que symbole divin : « Allah est la lumière des cieux et de la terre. Sa lumière est semblable à une niche où se trouve une lampe. La lampe est dans (un récipient de) cristal et celui-ci ressemble à un astre de grand éclat » (Coran, 24, 35). La symbolique du divin et de l’unité divine octroyée par l’Islam à la lumière est centrale, en particulier pour le soufisme, comme le soulignent plusieurs auteurs (Akkach 2005 ; Behrens-Abouseif 1999 ; Bonnéric 2012 ; Burckhardt 1985 ; Gonzales 2001 ; Hoag 1962 ; Irwin 1997). Cette symbolique s’étendra également à la connaissance, à la sagesse (Akkach 2005) et à la beauté
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
Vers une relecture d’un quartier de la reconstruction tunisienne d’après-guerre. L’ambiance comme outil de revalorisation
No full textPart of topic : Ambiance as heritage of the futureInternational audienceThis research focuses on a legacy of the past, the mass housing of the Tunisian post-war reconstruction. This latter could be considered as a transposition of Athens Charters recommendations and Modern Movement doctrines with a respectful design attitude to the place climatic specifications. A survey has been conducted among the residents of the neighbourhood El Menzah in Tunis about their living way there with a focus on the ambiances. The first results reveal that the place atmosphere can enhance its reading, and generates, on the one hand, a place attachment to its old inhabitants and an attraction for the new ones, on the other
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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