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IL RUOLO GEOPOLITICO DELLA DIPLOMAZIA E DEI CONSOLATI. LA CODIFICA ASBURGICA NEL MANUALE PISKUR.
No full textThe Restoration of the Osteological Primate Collection of the Natural History Museum of the University of Pavia.
No full textSome years ago, the University of Pavia started a project aimed to restore the numerous collections of the Natural History Museum, established by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1771. The samples of the collections were in a rather bad state of conservation, due to either an insufficient maintenance or the inadequacy of the rooms in which the samples were stored.
The present report deals with the restoration and re-establishment of the primate osteological collection, belonging to the collections of the Institute of Comparative Anatomy, which, in 1875, became an independent section of the Museum, under the direction of Leopoldo Maggi.
Since 1960, the collections of the Natural History Museum have been moved to the garret of the Visconti Castle of Pavia, except for a small amount of specimens which were left in the Botta Palace, just for educational and research purposes.
As to primates, it was possible to bring skeletons and skulls to their ancient condition and this allowed the realization of a digital catalogue, never published till now.
At present, the osteological collection includes 59 skulls and 63 skeletons, most of them belonging to catarrhine monkeys (94 samples); there are also samples from 7 strepsirrhines and 21 platyrrhines. Among the catarrhines, 30 samples are from Asian and African apes.
Therefore, the primate osteological collection of the Pavia Natural History Museum is of great historical and scientific value, and, surely, it is one of the most important collections in Italy as the number of specimens and their representativeness of primate species are concerned.
Key words: Lazzaro Spallanzani collections ∙ Restoration ∙ Primate skeletons ∙ Primate skulls
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
Velimir Chlebnikov, My i doma <1914-1915>: lo “spettro” di una visione utopica nell’architettura russa d’avanguardia
Get PDFL'obiettivo del presente intervento è verificare l’esistenza di una relazione tra alcune delle ricerche sperimentali in campo architettonico elaborate nell'Unione Sovietica degli anni Venti, le cui manifestazioni più estreme sfociano in utopia o addirittura nella fantascienza, e l'opera di Velimir Chlebnikov, poeta avanguardista generalmente ascritto al gruppo dei cubo-futuristi. Ci serviamo del termine “spettro” in una sua accezione metaforica, mutuata dall’etimologia (dal lat. Specĕre, “guardare, vedere”), per mostrare da un lato come il clima culturale dell'epoca abbia favorito le reciproche influenze tra arti apparentemente così distanti, dall'altro come il trionfo della superficie trasparente e del volume puro e i progetti di “città volanti” dei costruttivisti si intreccino con la particolare ricerca poetica chlebnikoviana, che manifesta la necessità di un radicale mutamento del tessuto architettonico della città
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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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