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    Reseña: Cappuccio, M.; T. Froese, T, eds. 2014. Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-making. Making Sense of Non-sense. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 317 pp.

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    Reseña de Cappuccio, M.; T. Froese, T, eds. 2014. Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-making. Making Sense of Non-sense. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 317 pp.</jats:p

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Los referéndums autonomicos en Italia

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    Il saggio ricostruisce l’istituto dei referendum regionali nell’ordinamento costituzionale italiano, in considerazione delle scelte compiute dai legislatori regionali con l’adozione degli statuti di seconda generazione e delle indicazioni fornite dalla giurisprudenza costituzionale e dalla principale dottrina. Dopo aver ricostruito i diversi tipi di referendum e averne fatto emergere le differenze con l’analogo istituto previsti in ambito statale, il lavoro tende a verificare i limiti entro cui le espressioni del voto referendario possono svolgersi. L’attenzione è dedicata ai referendum consultivi e alla possibilità che gli atti d’iniziativa legislativa, in special modo di rango costituzionale, delle Regioni siano preceduti da consultazioni popolari che ne rafforzino la carica politica. L’intero lavoro e le sue conclusioni, fondate sulle indicazioni che emergono dalla giurisprudenza della Corte costituzionale, pongono a raffronto l’esperienza italiana con i temi che sono attualmente presenti nel dibattito scientifico in Spagna, interrogandosi sulla possibilità, nell’ordinamento italiano, di un referendum che si proponesse di sollecitare il voto popolare su proposte che avessero come scopo la secessione o la disgregazione dell’unità e indivisibilità dell’ordinamento costituzionale e del suo territorio

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

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    We 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

    A PPP kinematic application on historical GPS data: the reprocessing of the ITASE98-99 Antarctica mission height profiles

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    The analysis of altimetric profiles in Antarctica and their evolution over the years is a sensitive topic for the scientific community since it helps understand the effects of climate change that the continent undergoes. Different geomatic techniques, including the GNSS technology, can be employed to obtain altimetric profiles. However, the GNSS differenced approaches, such as the Post Processing Kinematic, are hardly usable to define long profiles in Antarctica because of the low number of CORS stations. In these conditions, the Precise Point Positioning (PPP) approach is a valid alternative to avoid processing very long baselines. The aim of this article is to define a standard procedure for the processing of historical GPS data, thanks to the availability of a dataset from the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition, which took place between 1998 and 1999 (ITASE98-99). This expedition focused on mapping the Antarctic territory, subdividing it by nations of influence, using geophysical and geodetic technologies, including GPS. The altimetric profiles had already been calculated in 2002 by the Geomatics group of the University of Bologna using the Gipsy-OASIS II software. In this work, the new version of the JPL software, GipsyX, is used to apply the newly implemented models and reprocessed products. The calibration of the processing parameters leading to the final PPP solution is described in the paper, including details on the implementation of a post-processing filtering procedure. The average a posteriori elevation error is 4.6&nbsp;cm, while 99% of them are within 27&nbsp;cm. The comparison of the new results to both the previous processing and the REMA elevation model shown that about double the number of solutions are now available, meter-level elevation spikes have been avoided, and a half meter bias is now reduced to a few centimeters. Given the almost 15&nbsp;years difference between the 1999.0 expedition epoch and the REMA reference epoch, the obtained results can be used to study accumulation/erosion effects on the Antarctica ice sheet

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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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