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La musealizzazione di resti umani mummificati
No full textI resti umani mummificati (naturali e artificiali), reperti unici e fondamentali nell’ambito del patrimonio cul- turale dell’umanità, sono anche un prezioso archivio di informazioni paleobiologiche dal valore inestimabile. Il tema della loro conservazione, studio ed esposizione in contesti museali è indubbiamente delicato e complesso e richiede una scelta appropriata nelle modalità espositive e adeguata nei linguaggi da utilizzare. La musealizzazione di ogni resto umano è un processo molto complesso, che deve tener conto di una molte- plicità di fattori quali, ad esempio, la storia del resto umano stesso, il suo originario contesto di provenienza e anche il nuovo rapporto che esso instaura con gli altri reperti museali con cui è posto in relazione
Alcuni misuratori di Performance nella pianificazione del miglioramento della fruizione museale attraverso metodologie di Service design: il caso del Museo Universitario di Chieti-Pescara
Full text linkItL'autrice ha rilevato e messo in relazione alcuni parametri osservati nel Museo dell'Università "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti e Pescara nel periodo 2010-2023: (i) il numero di visitatori totali ed (ii) il numero di scolari, (iii) i chilometri percorsi dagli scolari, (iv) la durata delle visite e (v) l'incremento dell'offerta espositiva. A fronte di una sostanziale stabilità del numero dei visitatori – tanto totali quanto scolari – si è registrata una netta diminuzione dell'affluenza da parte delle scuole poste ad una maggiore distanza dal Museo. La ragione di questa riduzione è stata individuata nel fatto che il Museo ha triplicato la superficie espositiva ed aumentato le sezioni accessibili. Questo ha provocato un incremento ed una diversificazione del pubblico generale, ma ha causato contemporaneamente un allungamento importante del tempo necessario a compiere una visita completa. L'effetto di questo allungamento confligge con la ristrettezza dei tempi che le scolaresche possono dedicare alle escursioni esterne, essendo legate al rispetto degli orari di rientro in sede. Ciò ha causato una diminuzione significativa delle scolaresche poste ad una maggiore distanza dal Museo stesso. L'analisi di questo scenario con metodi di Service Design fa giungere alla formulazione di due proposte operative, in parte già realizzate: (i) l'organizzazione di visite parziali, a scelta da parte delle scolaresche ed in linea con le esigenze dei loro programmi didattici (già organizzata mediante uno specifico catalogo della "offerta formativa museale") e (ii) l'attivazione di un nuovo servizio di "visita giornaliera", il quale a sua volta necessita dell'attivazione di un punto–ristoro all'interno del Museo, così da proporre alle scolaresche più distanti di dilazionare il rientro, consentendo di allungare il tempo di visita.EnThe author has detected and correlated some parameters observed in the Museum of the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti and Pescara in the period 2010-2023: (i) the number of total visitors and (ii) the number of schoolchildren, (iii) the kilometers traveled by schoolchildren, (iv) the duration of visits and (v) the increase in the exhibition offer. In the face of a substantial stability in the number of visitors – both total and schoolchildren – there has been a clear decrease in the attendance of schools located at a greater distance from the Museum. The reason for this reduction has been identified in the fact that the Museum has tripled the exhibition surface and increased the accessible sections. This has caused an increase and diversification of the general public, but has simultaneously caused a significant lengthening of the time needed to complete a complete visit. The effect of this extension conflicts with the limited time that school groups can dedicate to external excursions, being tied to the respect of the times of return to the site. This has caused a significant decrease in school groups located at a greater distance from the Museum itself. The analysis of this scenario with Service Design methods leads to the formulation of two operational proposals, partly already implemented: (i) the organization of partial visits, chosen by school groups, in line with the needs of their educational programs (already organized through a specific catalog of the "museum's educational offer") and (ii) the activation of a new "daily visit" service, which in turn requires the activation of a refreshment point inside the Museum, so as to propose to the most distant school groups a postponed return, without compressing the travel time, allowing to extend the visit time
Giochi e giocattoli scientifici. Giocare, pensare e comunicare le scienze. Un esempio di educazione scientifica museale
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Playing, thinking and communicating sciences: museum scientific disclosure on ludodidactic and graphic basis
Full text linkItDa circa dieci anni, all'inizio del nuovo anno scolastico, il Museo universitario di Chieti offre agli insegnanti la possibilità di partecipare ad incontri di "ludo didattica scientifica" per implementare l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento delle scienze. Alla base di questi appuntamenti annuali dal titolo "Giocare, pensare e comunicare le scienze" vi sono esperimenti semplici, facilmente realizzabili dagli studenti con materiali da riciclo. Con il tempo, è nata l'esigenza di predisporre uno strumento didattico utile a tracciare le linee guida dei singoli esperimenti-giochi, quasi un "manuale di procedura" dedicato però, non solo agli insegnanti e agli adulti in generale, ma anche ad un pubblico di giovanissimi. Per tale ragione il Museo ha deciso di produrre un volume, con una veste editoriale volutamente pratica, frutto dell'esperienza e di un lungo lavoro di esperti di didattica museale e di disegnatori e grafici competenti per promuovere la costruzione del pensiero scientifico. Si tratta, in sintesi, del primo esperimento di didattica della scienza nel quale lo sforzo di grafica museale è stato sviluppato allo scopo di agevolare la comprensione e la fruizione di concetti scientifici in destinatari con esigenze così diverse tra loro (adulti e bambini).EnFor about ten years, at the beginning of each new school year, the University Museum of Chieti has offered to the teachers the possibility of using museum facilities and exhibitions to implement science teaching and learning in the public schools of "Primary and Secondary Education". At the base of these meetings of "scientific teaching ludo" there are simple experiments, easily achievable by students with recycled materials. With time, the need arose to set up a teaching tool useful for tracing the guidelines of the individual gameexperiments, almost a "procedure manual". For this reason the Museum has decided to produce a volume, with an intentionally operative editorial format, which represents the result of the experience and a long work of museum education experts and competent designers and graphic designers to promote the construction of thought in the user scientific. It is, in short, the first experiment in the teaching of science, directed at teachers, in which the effort of museum graphics has been developed with the aim of facilitating the use of selected final users (students and even their parents) other than those initials (teachers). The professional figures, that was used to design and create the book, started to developed the work from the dynamics at the base of the game, meant as participatory and emotional process of experience. The games outlined in the collection represent some ways to facilitate a "scientific attitude" to answer the natural questions that children have during their play. There are five macro-topics (acoustics, flotation, flight, motion and chemical transformations), each one developed through three playful activities proposed by different approaches. 1) The first activity (of each topic) is proposed with a "preconceived" modality: it is described entirely through indications to make a game or a toy with the assumption of always enhancing observation and causing that amazement needed to formulate some questions. 2) The second activities are described with a "half-conceived" method to support as much as possible the experimentation: in the description, useful variants to "try" stimulating the research for further questions are suggested to the user. In these activities the box "And if ..." appears, with the invitation to continue asking questions and trying experiments to find the answer(s) to the question(s) asked. 3) The third activity is of a "customable" type. Unlike the previous one the box "And if…" does not appear being the proposal already a problem solving. This is a cooperative challenge (without winners and defeated) to be carried out in autonomy or to be "led" (in the event that a support is needed), enhancing in this way children's skills and ideas. At the end of each playful activity, the basic scientific principles are indicated. The terminology of the text has been particularly handle: the language used, while remaining strictly scientific, shows a captivating, simple and understandable style. Furthermore, to facilitate the understanding of the logical steps in the experiment, the collaboration of an expert graphic designer was used who combined artistic ability of the drawing with meticulous and detailed research to give shape to complex and abstract concepts. Furthermore the graphic designer translated into illustrations the basic steps of the experiment to avoid unintentional misunderstandings and to make easier the acquisition of contents
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
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