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Editorial. Temporalities II
No full textAs announced in the editorial of the previous issue, the 19th issue of ArchiDOCT presents a second collection of papers that explore the theme of ‘temporality’ in architecture and the built environment from a theoretical or an applied standpoint. Once more, a variety of approaches, insights, and opportunities for research that arise from considering time in its heterogeneous dimensions and manifestations such as time, speed, rhythm, sequence or horizon have been handled. [...
Metamorphoses in Paris: the fate of Samaritaine among preservation and innovation
No full textIn our times, cities regenerate by not only welcoming new and unprecedented activities but also reorganizing themselves from the morphological and social points of view. For
a long time, the historic centre has wrongfully been considered as a space crystallized over time - implemented through integral conservation - that has transformed the urban fabric into an enormous museum that is not coherent and no longer meets the needs of the contemporaneity. Today,finding a dialogue, however difficult, between tradition and innovation is essential to implement renewal actions that inevitably must and must increasingly involve the built heritage. A complex palimpsest in which traces of the history and life of man are imprinted and deserve to be read and respected within inescapable mutative processes. However, these processes should be implemented without violence or cancellation, in a planning vision, not limited to the achievement of economic well-being but also to the reinforcement of the cultural dimension of development. Focusing on the transformations that involve the very heart of Paris and, in particular, an iconic place of commerce such as La Samaritaine, this essay aims to analyze the complexity of planning strategies in which specific actions of restoration, renewal and reuse involve the entire city to reconfigure new images and urban spaces
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Teaching architecture in the time of stay-at-home order: the case of the Valencia School
No full textEl presente trabajo expone y analiza la situación vivida en las escuelas de arquitectura de España durante el confinamiento de la primavera de 2020, que supuso la inesperada y rápida implantación de docencia no presencial en todos sus planes de estudios. Utilizando como caso de estudio la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universitat Politècnica de València, se hace un repaso de las condiciones en las que se implantó la virtualidad, las variadas circunstancias a las que hicieron frente los distintos tipos de asignatura y las lecciones aprendidas de aquella experiencia que, sin duda, invitan a una reflexión sobre la docencia actual de la arquitectura que debe aprovechar los impredecibles hallazgos de este peculiar periodo.The present work sets out and analyses the situation experienced in the Spanish schools of architecture in the time of the stay-at-home order during the spring of 2020, which meant the unexpected and immediate implementation of online teaching in all CVs. Using the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia as case study, a thorough review of the conditions under which non face-to-face teaching was established and the varied circumstances faced by the different type of courses is performed. Lessons learned during that experience do invite to a reflection on nowadays teaching which should take advantage of the unforeseen findings of this peculiar period.Peer Reviewe
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