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La radioterapia metabolica con Sr89 nelle metastasi scheletriche da carcinoma prostatico
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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
Benchmarking Clothing Industry Effectiveness by Computer Simulation
No full textThe textile and apparel artefacts business is facing relevant restructuring, to manufacture items with enhanced value as for quality reliability and fashion inventiveness. The industrial area characterises by wit and knowledge driven settings, followed by labour intensive shop lay-outs and, so far, to improve effectiveness, productive break-up is exploited, with advertising and creative firms fed by decentralised processing sections, to distribute the work according to wages and skills figures. Business success is sought, balancing added value and cost reduction, by productive decentralisation aiming at preserving quality critical jobs under direct control (e.g. by means of automatic cutting machines) and transferring routine labour jobs (e.g. the sewing of already assorted pieces).
The evolution coherently moves towards new organisations, based on distributed intelligence to grant value cycle monitoring, while enabling flexibility by production schedules assuring return on investment. The paper addresses innovation based on embedding information technology tools for the improved management of product flow, by means of fully exploiting known data, while avoiding redundancies as for, both, processing units and spare resources. First, basic organisational requirements are outlined, with reference methods to establish and assess improvements; then, enabling expert-simulation aids are reviewed, with explanatory discussion on apparel manufacturing environments. The option is purposely referred to the case development of an underwear sewing section to show the technicalities offered by intelligent manufacturing software and to provide hints for further developments
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