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Fashion-tech and growing materials: challenges and opportunities facing bacterial cellulose
No full textThe technological integration in the fashion industry is an issue that is gaining increasing relevance, driven by the renewed demands for sustainability, transparency, and ethical worthiness of consumers. Fabric is the raw material that has the priority role in the environmental impact of the textile sector, and in this context, growing materials - in particular bacterial cellulose - can act as substitutes to enable the achievement of sustainability, both in terms of resources and methodological approach to fashion production, with a holistic circularity perspective. Therefore, this contribution aims to investigate the possibilities of integration and contamination between technology and bacterial cellulose by mapping the opportunities arising from application in the fashion industry. Following an analysis of the reference context and the most relevant examples of biomaterial application in relation to both fashion and technological inclusion, the research focused on experimentation regarding the integration of the technology as much in the production phase as in the final product output. The contribution presents the development path and outcomes of three
applications of bacterial cellulose for the creation of an accessory for the fashion world following an optimization approach to resources and production processes. Starting from the evidence gathered, the conclusions outline development strategies for the realization of other effective and functional demonstrators
La rappresentazione del processo progettuale: dalla ricerca per immagini alla comunicazione visiva del progetto
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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
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