58 research outputs found
1 Researchers ’ publication patterns and their use for author disambiguation
No full textOver the recent years, we are witnessing an increase of the need for advanced bibliometric indicators on individual researchers and research groups, for which author disambiguation is needed. Using the complete population of university professors and researchers in the Canadian province of Québec (N=13,479), of their papers as well as the papers authored by their homonyms, this paper provides evidence of regularities in researchers ’ publication patterns. It shows how these patterns can be used to automatically assign papers to individual and remove papers authored by their homonyms. Two types of patterns were found: 1) at the individual researchers ’ level and 2) at the level of disciplines. On the whole, these patterns allow the construction of an algorithm that provides assignation information on at least one paper for 11,105 (82.4%) out of all 13,479 researchers—with a very low percentage of false positives (3.2%)
L’analisi della conversazione istituzionale: applicazioni e prospettive
No full textLa Conversation Analysis si occupa del parlato quotidiano, di interazioni comunicative qualsiasi, tra amici o sconosciuti, tra commesso e cliente, insegnante e allievi, terapeuta e paziente. Gli esempi delle applicazioni potrebbero essere infiniti, dato che la conversazione e le sue varianti "istituzionali", come l’intervista o il dibattito, costituiscono la forma di comunicazione più immediata e diffusa. Nell'articolo l’autrice introduce alla Analisi della Conversazione, ne illustra gli aspetti di base, ne mostra le applicazioni alle interazioni comunicative istituzionali e propone una sinergia interdisciplinare a partire da un nucleo sociologico con indicazioni operative e prospettive per la ricerca.The Conversation Analysis deals with the daily speech, it deals with any communicative interactions among friends or strangers, among clerk and customer, teacher and students, therapist and patient. The examples of its applications may be infinite, since ordinary conversation and “institutional talk”, such as interview or debate, are the most immediate and widespread form of communication. The article introduces the Conversation Analysis illustrating its basic aspects and it shows its applications to institutional communicative interactions. From a sociological perspective, the author proposes an interdisciplinary synergy with operational guidance and prospects for research
Qui fait quoi? Analyse des libellés de contribution dans les articles savants
No full textQui fait quoi au sein d’une équipe de recherche scientifique? Ce mémoire propose de définir les rôles de chacun des auteurs à l’aide d’une méthodologie originale. L’ordre des auteurs est un indicateur utile de l’importance relative de chacun des co-auteurs, mais il ne révèle pas la nature précise de leur rôle au sein de l’équipe. Ainsi, notre recherche démontre que l’utilisation des libellés de contributions aux articles scientifiques à des fins bibliométriques est possible et ce, même à grande échelle. Nos résultats montrent qu’il existe des différences dans les contributions apportées aux articles scientifiques et que ces différences s’appliquent aussi à la répartition du travail au sein des équipes de recherche selon le sexe des auteurs.Who does what in a scientific research team? This work proposes to define the roles of each author with an original methodology. The order of the authors is a useful indicator of the relative importance of each of the co-authors, but it does not reveal the precise nature of their respective role. Our research shows that using statements of contributions from scientific articles for bibliometric purposes is possible, even on a large scale. Our results show that there are differences in the contributions to scientific articles and these differences also apply to the distribution of work among research teams by gender
Qui fait quoi? Analyse des libellés de contribution dans les articles savants
No full textQui fait quoi au sein d’une équipe de recherche scientifique? Ce mémoire propose de définir les rôles de chacun des auteurs à l’aide d’une méthodologie originale. L’ordre des auteurs est un indicateur utile de l’importance relative de chacun des co-auteurs, mais il ne révèle pas la nature précise de leur rôle au sein de l’équipe. Ainsi, notre recherche démontre que l’utilisation des libellés de contributions aux articles scientifiques à des fins bibliométriques est possible et ce, même à grande échelle. Nos résultats montrent qu’il existe des différences dans les contributions apportées aux articles scientifiques et que ces différences s’appliquent aussi à la répartition du travail au sein des équipes de recherche selon le sexe des auteurs.Who does what in a scientific research team? This work proposes to define the roles of each author with an original methodology. The order of the authors is a useful indicator of the relative importance of each of the co-authors, but it does not reveal the precise nature of their respective role. Our research shows that using statements of contributions from scientific articles for bibliometric purposes is possible, even on a large scale. Our results show that there are differences in the contributions to scientific articles and these differences also apply to the distribution of work among research teams by gender
Urban Forestry
No full textThe essay has been developed on the occasion of the X Forum ProArch, National Scientific Society of Architectural Design teachers, SSD ICAR 14-15-16, held in Genoa, on 16-17-18 November 2023. The result is a lemmary where the author focuses on “Urban Forestry” as an architectural response to the urgency of reversing the process of transformation of the cities. What does Architecture do when permeable soils and cultivated or wooded areas grow? How buildings help the expansion into the towns of freshness, silence, perfume, beauty, sense of common belonging? Above all in the last twenty years, physical-perceptive systems capable of providing the city with services that, to a common observer, might seem to belong to natural processes have been envisaged. But Urban Forestry does not replicate nature, an impossible objective, but rather reproduces it or emulates some functions. Similarly to Artificial Intelligence, it can actually enhance the creative action of man and contribute to integrating, in qualitative terms, the political response to climate change
Concilio Vaticano II e progetto urbano. Le chiese di San Raffaele Arcangelo e San Giovanni Evangelista a Palermo
No full textTo begin once again a moral and economic duty. Italy, after Second World War: according to Fanfani and Tupini’s laws (1949), INA-casa and its procuring enti- ties’ ventures made a motor of urban renewal from the enthusiasm and the commitment of many entrepreneurs and public administrators. In Palermo, the agricultural lands began to include new neighbourhoods designed as part of the reconstruction after the bombardment of the old city, which had to be restored.
Soon big private capital had been involved also coming from «people until that time unrelated to building entre- preneurship» «many landowners located in the surroun- dings of the historic city sold the farthest part of it, applying a price of “agricultural land” in order to build public housing and infrastructure works. When the value of the crossed and not sold areas increased greatly , they began new speculation plans». Quickly, the new districts merged with the historic centre and with the continuous town of the nineteenth-twentieth century.
In the fifties, between the town and its geographic limits (the mountains of the Corona dei Colli) a ring has been hypothesized. It was also useful to link the new residen- tial peripheral areas. In the sixties, the new roads marked a border beyond and around there were still a lot of citrus groves, vineyards, olive groves, flowers and gardens. In the fields, little rural buildings, warehouses and villas arose. The urban aggregations only were the thin clusters of historic villages.
Among the new neighbourhoods there are the villaggio Santa Rosalia (1951) and the Centro di Edilizia Popolare CEP (1954), where the churches San Raffaele Arcangelo (1959) and San Giovanni Evangelista (1965) have been realized according with the design by Giuseppe Spatrisano (Palermo, 1899-1985). Spatrisano was Ernesto Basile’s student but also a teacher himself at University of Palermo. At that time, among others, he was a protagonist designer and intellectual within the urban transformation. Indeed, the aim to regulate the growth of the city results in the Town Plan started in 1956 by the same Spatrisano with Salvatore Caronia, Edoardo Caracciolo, Luigi Epifanio Pietro Villa and Vittorio Ziino. This plan underwent several drafts before being approved in 1962.
Therefore, the churches San Raffaele Arcangelo and San Giovanni Evangelista are two pieces of a big transformation of the town. At the same time, these architectures show another innovation promulgated by the Church that was renewing itself during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
For these reasons, both the architectures will be described, from a double perspective: from the outside, looking also at the city, and from the inside, considering the liturgical questions.
It is interesting to understand how, in these specific cases, the outer and insider shells of the buildings, result from several external and internal conditions that interact each others in relationships of cause and effect, defining the surrounding spaces.
The choice to compare these two churches comes from some analogies that help to clarify the salient issues on first: the urban design in the new neighbourhoods of Palermo; second: the Spatrisano’s interpretation of the indications by the Church about the design of new places of worship, that was, at that time, the focus of the archi- tectural debate.
The similarities found are not really in the final architec- tural solution, rather in the process of the intermediate configurations. Both planning processes show a cultural change in progress about the relation between “church- context-conciliar reforms” and, therefore, they can help
to know generally Italian churches built since the begin- ning of the sixties.
Giuseppe Spatrisano often cultivated the interest, pre- sent in the Faculty of Architecture of Palermo, to the relationship between the architecture and its context. In 1948, he investigated this issue, for example, through the project of the Nautical Institute of Palermo, where existing and new paths would have to penetrate the buil- ding, shaping it. The school has been designed as urban hinge between three important areas of the city’s historic core: the Cala harbour, Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Via Butera. The outside is an intimate part of the archi- tecture. This happens also in his design for the Casa del Mutilato in Palermo (1935-1937) where, as Gianni Pirrone writes, Spatrisano «through a free interpretation of Hypaethros temple, centralizes and resolve the entire composition of the building in the cella-patio».6 This work, the best known by this author, is a manifesto of belonging to the Rationalism; it represents abandonment of the nineteenth-century language and of the traditional stylistic elements, from which, nevertheless, Spatrisano is always fascinated, as the historical and neorealist refe- rences of its last architectures show.
In fact, in the years immediately following the war, he preferred rigid blocks, continuous curtains-wall and por- ches, agreed with his colleagues Bonafede, Gagliardo, Ziino for the Nautical Institute and with Epifanio, Santangelo and Ziino for the New Way of the Palermo Harbour (1949). But a few years later he applied slight distortions to the volumes, emphasizing the differences between the parties.
In the sixties, his choice of a neorealist architectural language can be partly attributed to the tasks commissioned him in that period. The Nautical Institute or the Casa del Mutilato were silent and sometimes repetitive architectures that perfectly integrate within the complexity of the existing urban fabric. Instead, the new suburbs of Palermo, where Spatrisano is called to work, at that time arose in the countryside, out of the solid mass of the old town and out of the ordinate nineteenth century expansion
Savoring the first byte: girls and boys in introductory-level high school computer science classes
No full textPurpose
This case study sought to investigate the structure, pedagogy and culture of an introductory-level, high school computer science class and to examine the experiences of the girls and boys in the class to understand why so few girls enroll in the advanced
computer science classes.
Research Questions
What factors can help explain why so few girls enroll in the advanced computer science classes in high school?
a) How do the existing structure, pedagogy and culture of the entry-level computer science class encourage or discourage girls’ and boys’ interest, enrollment and
persistence in the advanced computer science classes?
b) How do girls and boys perceive their experiences in the entry-level computer
science class?
c) What kinds of opportunities occur in the entry-level computer science class to foster the construction of the identity of a computer scientist for girls and boys?
d) How do perceptions of Computer Science as a discipline influence high school girls’ interest and enrollment in advanced computer science classes? Methodology
This qualitative study utilized surveys, classroom observations, individual and focus group interviews and document collection. Four students, two girls and two boys, two teachers and two guidance counselors were chosen to participate. Interview transcripts and documents were coded to discover patterns, grouped into general categories and later combined into narrower themes and perspectives. Validity
procedures included member checking, use of participants’ words, triangulation and researcher reflexivity.
Findings
Female students often enter the introductory computer science classes with weaker computer skills and less involvement with computers than their male peers.
Opportunities to manage their learning environment by working at their own pace, collaborating and focusing on project topics and features that were meaningful to them proved to be a successful combination for the students in the introductory computer science class. Additionally, this research study yielded the discovery of institutional factors that influence the gender imbalance in computer science classes: course scheduling practices and prerequisites, teacher beliefs and attitudes, students’ prior experience and knowledge of computers, transition from middle school to high school computer science classes and computer-related opportunities outside the classroom.
Significance of Study
Understanding the ways that girls and boys experience high school computer science classes can help schools provide a positive classroom experience for all students and redistribute the power of important social, cultural and academic resources. Providing an opportunity for high school students to share their perceptions, successes, failures and recommendations can serve as a catalyst for school improvement and promote the futures of girls and boys in technology.Ed.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rosemarie Macalus
Suolo, architettura e paesaggio
No full textSi può immaginare Rural-urban intersections come una discussione sviluppata attorno ad un ampio tavolo sugli esiti di alcune precedenti ricerche svolte dall’autrice. I professori universitari italiani e stranieri, chiamati in causa, rispondono alle domande di Luciana Macaluso tratteggiando un quadro sul grande e sfuggente tema del paesaggio. «La tecnica dell’intervista, nobilitata dall’ambito giornalistico, è divenuta metodo accademico utilizzato nelle scienze sociali, nella storia e in numerose altre discipline; persino la psicoanalisi è basata su uno schema, più elaborato, domanda-risposta. Di solito, è utilizzata per raccogliere informazioni, fornite attraverso una testimonianza orale resa disponibile da trascrizioni o registrazioni e sotto forma di dichiarazioni, resoconti e narrazioni. L’autenticità, l’autorità e la soggettività sono caratteristiche centrali di tale modalità di documentazione. Le informazioni così raccolte valgono come fonte che si può citare e a cui ci si può riferire come prova a favore». In questo caso le interviste costituiscono, più che una nuova fonte, i fili di un setaccio in grado di valutare e rendere più interessanti i contenuti ai quali erano approdate le precedenti ricerche, poste alla base delle conversazioni. Sulla rete del vaglio, fra varie proposizioni, resta qualche pietra di valore, il resto, la sabbia, cade giù. Pur alla luce di questa metafora deve essere ricordato che ciottoli eleganti o particelle poco importanti sono stati acquisiti, in tutte le ricerche, grazie ad approfondite indagini d’archivio, a sapienti ridisegni, infiniti sopralluoghi ma, soprattutto, grazie ad una incessante attività di progettazione, praticata in tutte le occasioni in modo interscalare, dall’architettura al paesaggio.Rural-urban intersections looks like a discussion around a large table about the results of some previous researches carried out by the author. Italian and foreign university professors involved respond to Luciana Macaluso outlining a framework on the wide and elusive theme of landscape. «The technique of the interview, ennobled by the journalistic scope, became academic method used in the social sciences, history and many other disciplines; even psychoanalysis is based on a, even if more elaborate, question-answer scheme. Typically, it is used to gather information, provided through an oral testimony. It becomes available with transcriptions or recordings, in the form of statements, reports and stories. The authenticity, the authority and the subjectivity are central features of this method of documentation. The data collected are sources that you can cite and refer as evidence in favour». At first, in this work, the interviews, more than a new source, are like the wires of a sieve that allow us to evaluate the contents of previous researches, used as scientific bases of the dialogues, making these assumptions more interesting. On the screen mesh, between various propositions, some valuable stone remains and the vain sand falls down. In light of this metaphor, we should remember that more or less important particles and pebbles have been acquired, in all those researches, through extensive archival investigations, skilful drawings, various surveys but, above all, thanks to a relentless architectural and landscape design activity
Characterization of the defect density states in MoOx for c-Si solar cell applications
No full textThin layers of MoOx have been deposited by thermal evaporation followed by post-deposition annealing. The density of states distributions of the MoOx films were extracted deconvoluting the absorption spectra, measured by a photothermal deflection spectroscopy setup, including the small polaron contribution. Results revealed a sub-band defect distribution centered 1.1 eV below the conduction band; the amplitude of this distribution was found to increase with post-deposition annealing temperature and film thickness
Author Correction: In-vivo vascular application via ultra-fast bioprinting for future 5D personalised nanomedicine (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (3205), 10.1038/s41598-020-60196-y)
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in Affiliation 8, which was incorrectly given as ‘Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre, via Manzoni 56, 20090, Rozzano Milan, IT, Italy.’. The correct affiliation is listed below: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, via Manzoni 56, 20089, Rozzano Milan, IT, Italy This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information file
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