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Frontiers of Green Architecture / Frontierele arhitecturii „green“
No full textDesigning in an ecologically responsible manner requires a fundamentally different perspective on our relationships and our position in the natural environment; it is necessary to start from the limits of current sciences and the social, political and economical context that implicitly acknowledge human activities as dominant over an essentially independent nature.
The awareness of the complexity of projects and the intricacy of the construction systems available nowadays, in combination with the functional and formal relationships established between spaces and components, dealing with the updating and innovation of techniques, with the needs of comfort, usability and security, is fully expressed through the issues of environmental sustainability. Architecture can make this truth obvious and it can allow us to express it at a deeper level (Van der Ryn, 2005).
Through the analysis of the architectural elements, construction techniques and landscape integration, while underlining the importance of green in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Agenda 2030 (United Nations, 2015), the paper brings out new perspectives and strategies useful to support new lifestyles that aim at improving the quality of the environment and reducing the impact on resource consumption, focusing not only on green intended as vegetation, but also on a more complex significance of sustainability, since ecological design requires attention and understanding of the environment as a functioning natural system. It is compulsory to apprehend the relation between natural and artificial, between people and technologies, in order to evolve and reveal the possibilities that the present world offers with respect to the environment. New tools of ecological design need to be defined in order to configure self-adaptive organisms that can be applied at various scales, from the urban one until that of architectural components
INvisibleKNOW. Modelli polisensoriali per l’interazione e l’esplorazione del patrimonio invisibile
No full textIl contributo illustra i risultati del lavoro
di ricerca sulla configurazione di nuovi
modelli per il trasferimento della conoscenza
dei beni celati, combinando percezione
e sperimentazioni spaziali, allo scopo di
integrare l’esperienza culturale con la
fruizione interattiva polisensoriale.
Attualmente i depositi dei siti archeologici
non sono accessibili dagli utenti e vengono
interpretati spesso come spazi secondari,
trascurandone la significativa rilevanza. La
finalit dell’attivit di ricerca interpretare
e comprendere le esigenze e le specificit
dell’utenza per configurare percorsi
alternativi di fruizione dei depositi dei siti
archeologici. Il progetto, realizzato in sinergia
con il Parco Archeologico di Paestum &
Velia, fondato sull’utilizzo di tecnologie per
il tracciamento e l’analisi fisico-dimensionale,
comportamentale ed emotiva del visitatore,
tali da coinvolgerlo in una nuova esperienza
fisico-cognitiva, attiva-ta da input costanti
che arricchiscono la fruizione museale
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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