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Material Selection to Reinforce Circular Economy Trajectories in Industrial Companies: The O.S.M.O.S.I.S. Methodology
No full textThe shift towards new economic models is rapidly modifying the way we conceive our products in a systemic way. Diverse business strategies have been developed to tempt companies in adopting new visions, while governmental regulations are pushing towards a strong paradigmatic change of the industrial production to valorize raw materials use. To manage the quantity and the quality of resources deployed into artifacts a material selection (MS) activity is necessary. Several MS theories, methodologies and tools have been studied in research since years. However, their implementation in the dynamics of industrial companies’ routine is difficult to pursue, mainly if their introduction needs to fit in well-defined working paths. Direct cooperation with an Italian company’s employees has been crucial to understand that finding a new MS approach supporting new economic models’ visions without neglecting its traditional pillars and the industrial needs is missing. By adopting a mixed methodology, the research has been oriented to participatory action research, to ground MS activity. Hence, a novel MS approach is proposed: considering technical, hedonic and ethic aspects of raw materials, MS has been investigated interdisciplinary, intending it as an organic activity between different company departments. The proposed work represents a starting point for interpreting the MS task as a process enhancing the way materials are deployed into industrial companies, since they need to build core competencies to facilitate product and components cascading, with prompt intervention on product design activity in the daily practice
Il Sistema Museale Regionale del Design e delle Arti Applicate. Un progetto per lo sviluppo locale in Campania
No full textFor Nature / With Nature: new sustainable design scenarios
No full textThe Architecture and Industrial Design Department of Vanvitelli University (DADI/VANVITELLI) promoted in 2022 a call for papers titled “For Nature / With Nature: new sustainable design scenarios”. The purpose was to collect and select unpublished papers addressed to the Springer Series in Design and Innovation (SSDI) directed by Prof. Francesca Tosi. Professors and researchers occupied in studies about the themes of innovation (technological/process/formal) and the latest developments on Product Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Communication Design have been invited to submit their contributions. All those who take part of disciplinary frameworks identified as 08 Architecture Area participated in the call, with scientific papers only connected to the features of the editorial series and call aims (https://www.springer.com/series/16270). More than 60 papers had been accepted after a double-blind peer review process
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
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