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Urban Futures
No full textThis symposium examines the landscape of future cities from both philosophical and practical perspectives. As Professor Jonathan Hill has noted, inherent in the original Italian word for design, disegno, was a duality suggesting both the drawing of a line on paper as well as the drawing forth of an idea. We take this dual connotation as making explicit the close relationship between thought and practice which underpins our collective design research interests as we consider the future of urban life. This symposium brings together a group of academics from Asia and the UK, with invitees from English government agencies and private organisations, with speakers presenting their research interests under this broad theme. \ud
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‘What is past is prologue’ William Shakespeare, 1611\ud
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We anticipate this symposium will be the alchemy that forms new long-term research partnerships and ventures and wonderfully it is being held at Rousham Gardens, a Grade 1 listed Picturesque landscape designed by William Kent in 1741. Rousham is considered to be one of the finest English Gardens and has been intentionally chosen as a venue where as William Shakespeare reminds us, we are able to use the past as a prism to view the future. The presentations, when taken together, will allow us to develop a compendium of diverse possibilities for our urban landscape futures
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
[Review of the book Late antiquity: A guide to the postclassical world edited by Peter Brown, G. W. Bowersock and Oleg Grabar]
No full text[Review of the book St. John Chrysostom, the homilies on the statues: An introduction, by Frans van de Paven]
No full textAppropriate 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
[Review of the book Greek philosophers and sophists in the fourth century A.D.: Studies in Eunapius of Sardis, by Robert J. Pennella]
No full textOn two Lacunae in Zosimus' new history
No full textPresents a note on lacunae detected in the last part of New History, written by Zosimus. Locations of the lacunae; Implications of the lacunae.; Presents a note on lacunae detected in the last part of New History, written by Zosimus. Locations of the lacunae; Implications of the lacunae
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