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Ciondol. Spazio per una comunità mobile
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEBorno è un borgo alpino della provincia di Brescia che per posizione geografica risulta isolato rispetto al suo contesto territoriale.
Se per molti borghi alpini questo causa un progressivo spopolamento, il forte radicamento dei bornesi nei confronti del paese natale porta la maggior parte di loro a preferire uno stile di vita mobile, impiegando fino a tre ore di viaggio per raggiungere quotidianamente il luogo di lavoro o di studio.
Attraverso un intenso lavoro di interviste semi-strutturate e un confronto diretto con i “bornesi mobili” è risultato evidente come questo stile di vita limiti il loro coinvolgimento nella quotidianità e socialità del paese.
Partendo dallo stato famigliare, dalla frequenza e dal motivo dello spostamento, e attraverso la ricostruzione delle diverse giornate tipo, sono stati identificati sette ritratti di persone mobili che differiscono per abitudini, pratiche, esigenze, spazi e tempi vissuti.
Gli elementi emersi dall’indagine qualitativa e sociologica hanno fornito le linee guida per il progetto di tesi, il quale si fonda sulla volontà di supportare e facilitare la quotidianità delle persone mobili.
Il cinema Pineta, abbandonato dalla metà degli anni Ottanta e situato sul limite tra il centro storico e la strada provinciale, è stato individuato come spazio idoneo per intercettare le traiettorie dei “bornesi mobili” e trasformare le loro esigenze in occasioni di incontro sociale. Inoltre, ripercorrendo la storia dell’edificio è emerso come questo rappresentasse una sorta di piazza coperta del paese, teatro di diverse iniziative comunitarie che hanno portato la popolazione a sviluppare un’affezione nei confronti dell’ex cinema, tutt’oggi viva nonostante il lungo disuso. Il progetto intende, dunque, risignificare il cinema come nuovo spazio pubblico per la popolazione bornese, in grado di rispondere alle esigenze contemporanee dei cittadini mobili. Da qui la scelta del nome “ciöndòl”, parola del dialetto bornese che sintetizza la duplice anima del progetto: “ciöndòl” è sia colui che fa avanti e indietro come un pendolo, sia colui che passa il tempo a ciondolare e chiacchierare per le vie del paese.Borno is an Alpine village in the province of Brescia that is isolated from its territorial context.
While for many Alpine villages this causes a progressive depopulation, the Bornesi’s strong sense of belonging towards their hometown leads most of them to prefer a mobile lifestyle, spending up to three hours to reach the workplace or study daily.
An intensive work of semi-structured interviews and direct confrontation with the commuters showed how this lifestyle limits their involvement in the daily life and sociality of the village.
Looking at the family status, the frequency and the reason for commuting, and through the reconstruction of the different typical days, seven portraits of mobile people were identified which differ in habits, practices, needs, spaces and times experienced.
The results emerged from the qualitative and sociological survey provided the guidelines for the thesis project, a project based on the desire to support and facilitate the daily life of mobile people.
The cinema Pineta, abandoned since the mid-1980s and located on the border between the old town and the provincial road, has been identified as a suitable space to intercept the commuters’ trajectories and transform their needs into opportunities for social encounter. In addition, retracing the history of the building, it emerged that the cinema represented a sort of covered square where several community initiatives were taking place; this led the population to develop an affection that still alive despite the long dismissal. Therefore the project aims to re-signify the cinema as a new public space for the people of Borno, a place able to respond to the contemporary needs of mobile citizens. Hence the choice of the name "ciöndòl", a word of the local dialect that sums up the dual soul of the project: "ciöndòl" is both the one who commutes every day and the one who spends time dangling and chatting on the streets of the village
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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