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Primi dati sugli alberi monumentali di Pantelleria
Get PDFPoche o nulla sono le informazioni sugli alberi monumentali delle piccole isole che circondano la Sicilia. Ciò è dovuto innanzitutto alla rarità di alberi definibili monumentali, le piccole isole hanno subito infatti una trasformazione ancora più profonda della Sicilia, ma anche ad un difetto di conoscenza.
Il nostro vuole essere un primo contributo alla conoscenza degli alberi monumentali nell’isola di Pantelleria. Gli alberi censiti appartengono a due specie, il pino marittimo (Pinus pinaster subsp. hamiltonii) e il leccio (Quercus ilex). In realtà nel caso del pino marittimo possiamo parlare di un “popolamento monumentale” corrispondente alla pineta a pino marittimo presso la località Montagna Grande - sopra Passo del Kherch -costituito da diversi esemplari di cui 5 con diametro superiore a 1,50 m, il più grande dei quali possiede una circonferenza a petto d’uomo di 1,95 m. Gli esemplari di ambedue le specie sono stati datati attraverso la dendrocronologia prelevando delle carote tramite il succhiello di Pressler. Sono state campionate per ciascuna pianta due carote su due raggi distinti per determinare l’età sulla base dell’analisi degli anelli annuali nel legno.
Nel caso di pini, la pianta che presenta la maggiore età ha 101 anni, questo dato sottostima l’età poiché il prelievo è stato eseguito a 1,30 m di altezza dal suolo procedura che comporta una sottostima degli anelli legnosi.
Sono stati censiti anche alcuni lecci in località Benimingalo, si tratta di 6 piante con un numero variabile di polloni da 1 a 3, che presentano una circonferenza massima di 1,96 m. Il carotaggio ha permesso la determinazione dell’età, e l’esemplare più vecchio è risultato di 88 anni, anche in questo caso il campionamento è stato eseguito a 1,30 m dal suolo, determinando una sottostima dell’età. Altri esemplari significativi si trovano in località Gibbiuna dove gli esemplari raggiungono dimensioni superiori (mediamente presentano una circonferenza di 1,6 m) ma hanno una età di poco superiore a 50 anni.
Rispetto a molti altri esemplari monumentali che possiamo trovare in Italia queste piante pur avendo dimensioni non straordinarie presentano delle caratteristiche di unicità. I boschi dell’isola, infatti, sono prevalentemente formazioni giovani risultato della forte pressione antropica che ha modificato notevolmente l’ambiente. In questo caso il carattere di monumentalità viene dato dall’importanza ecologica e rifacendoci alla definizione univoca che viene data dall’articolo n. 7 della Legge n. 10/2013 di albero monumentale ovvero “l'albero ad alto fusto isolato o facente parte di formazioni boschive naturali o artificiali ovunque ubicate ovvero l'albero secolare tipico, che possono essere considerati come rari esempi di maestosità e longevità, per età o dimensioni, o di particolare pregio naturalistico ...”. Inoltre il successivo decreto, del 23.10.2014 (G.U. n. 268 del 18.11.2014) chiarisce che “il criterio dimensionale, ... costruisce un elemento di filtro nella selezione iniziale ma non è imprescindibile qualora gli altri criteri siano di maggiore significatività”. Con questa accezione, in caso di mancanza di individui con dimensioni o età eccezionali, possono definirsi monumentali la popolazione a pino marittimo in quanto nell’isola di Pantelleria raggiunge l’estremo limite sud-orientale del suo areale di distribuzione (Agostini, 1972) e la lecceta poiché la pesante opera di taglio per la carbonificazione ma anche per l’uso del legname rende fortuito il ritrovamento di alberi di questa età.
La ricerca non è esaustiva sia perché si rinvengono altre piante di notevoli dimensioni appartenenti a queste specie ma anche perché sono considerabili monumentali altre piante appartenenti ad altre specie anche coltivate come l’olivo o il castagno
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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