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    Il progetto CARG in Basilicata: il Foglio 489 Marsico Nuovo

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    The stratigraphic and structural features of the Apenninic Chain exposed in the Marsico Nuovo sheet are shortly described. The Apenninic edifice is composed of tectonic units, originated since Oligocene time. It is completely detached and resting onto a deep seated thrust system (the Apulian thrust system), deformed since Tortonian in contemporaneous with the Tyrrhenian opening. The geodynamic evolution of this latter influenced the further movements of the Apenninic Chain. Stratigraphic characters of the sequences outcropping in the studied area are here discussed. The deepest units are the Lagonegrese Mesozoic basinal sequences; these underlie the coeval carbonate platform units. A general decoupling between the Mesozoic sequences and the Tertiary flysch-type terrigenous covers occurs. Oil field traps have been dected in the ramp-anticlines of the buried thrust system and a lots of subsurface data allows to restore the whole geodynamic evolution of this area

    Landslide Impact on Nature Reserves: First Results on the Multisensor Survey of Unstable Slopes in Protected Areas

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    This study is focused on the use of digital close -range remote surveying techniques for the identification and mapping of landslide phenomena along rock slopes in protected areas. This activity is part of a research project aimed at the digital analysis of slope models. The techniques compared herein are based on photographic and photogrammetric applications, carried out from both ground and aerial surveys, and on the use of infrared thermography in two test sites located within the Cinque Terre National Park (Liguria, Italy) and the "Timpa di Acireale" nature reserve (Sicily, Italy). The analysis of oblique aerial photographs allowed detecting key geomorphological indicators of past landslide movements and to carry out preliminary observations on unstable outcrops. The use of digital close -range sensors for the aerial photogrammetric survey allowed building a digital slope model to be analysed for the recognition and mapping of previous landslides. Moreover, key structural features, likely controlling the slope stability, were highlighted. Infrared thermography allowed detecting signs of landslides, providing the possibility of validating the photogrammetric data. In both protected areas, an almost zero level of environmental disturbance was guaranteed. Finally, both the potential and limitations of the techniques, used for the noninvasive morphological survey, are highlighted

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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
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