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Il sistema di Controllo interno nelle imprese non grandi. Elementi costitutivi, dimensioni soggettive e tendenze di integrazione
No full textChinese culture through video: lines of analysis and research perspectives
No full textThis paper proposes a perspective analysis of perceptions and representations of Chinese Culture by young people with multinational backgrounds, they used the practice of video communication within a research context to promote effective practices of cross-cultural communication and the Chinese Culture, as an interpersonal cultural experience. The aim is to underline how young people of different countries perceive, understand and rebuild the Chinese Culture using videos, for example which are the most used representations cultural and values factors, and what is the level of effectiveness of the communication techniques used. Up until today, we have examined 100 of the videos made by the young producers involved in the "Looking China" project. The research approach can be included in the mixed methods (Tashakkori and Teddlie 2010). The videos were analysed individually through a grid of analyses, which focuses on the content, both on the qualitative indicators of the Chinese Culture and on the techniques used for the video communication. The results were shown and compared, using quantitative procedures that can point out to the main similarities and differences among the indicators measured. By comparison, the results show that there are interesting lines of interpersonal analysis on the experience of the Chinese Culture and of elements that could, in practical and theoretical terms, improve the practices of cross-cultural communication and help us to create spaces of knowledge on the sharing of "the other" and of the Chinese Culture through the video
Assessment and training of grapho-motor skillst hrough adaptive technologies: the E-Hand project
No full textStorytelling as a device for professional change in initial and lifelong education of specialized teachers
No full textSpecial Pedagogy legitimizes storytelling as a heuristic and educational device (Giaconi, Capellini, 2019). The value of narrating educational practices in initial and lifelong education and the role of autobiographical writing in the process of professionalization and recursive reconstruction of a professional identity allows us to understand the set of “action schemes [...] used in a profession”, that is the habit which a professional “wears” and it determines its perceptions, interpretations, analyses and decisions (Giaconi et al., 2021, p. 9). This contribution will illustrate the potential of storytelling and video narration through the introduction of a video-narrative format aimed at enhancing the life stories of people with disabilities in educational courses for all the teachers, with a particular attention to those who want to train as specialized teachers
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
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