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New Ways to Reappropriate Spaces ‘In Ruin’ in the Ancient Center of Naples
No full textThe Acropolis-agorà, core of ancient Naples, is a place in slow abandonment, where ancient complexes, archaeological fragments, war ruins and urban voids shape a complicated, multiform and unitary spatial system at different levels. The abandonment is often partial, it is due to several causes and it develops in different times and ways. Although it is a ‘space in ruin’, the Acropolis-agorà keeps the role of one of the most representative places of the city and for those who live there. Here, heterogeneous overlapping, unchanged traces, not finished, presence of concurrent times create a highly identifiable space. Despite this condition, it is possible to think of these spaces in terms of innovative design, breaking the gap between public and private spaces, between monuments and contexts and thinking of a unitary architecture to be read and used in different ways. The proposed design strategy for Acropolis-agorà consists of a spatial re-interpretation and a consequent functional re-organization. The spatial re-interpretation involves the creation of a system on several levels, the archaeological level, the courts level and that of the roofs, which will hold together, in one spatial sequence, these different elements. The result is a new layer, that we can define as ‘connective’, that is able to build an interconnected space through specific architectural interventions. The consequent functional re-organization aims to hold together fragments of existing functions, that are residential, hospital, university, museum, shopping and crafts, creating a new organization within the three main layers, that gives life to different uses of places. Through these operations, it is possible to fight against dynamics of abandonment and to re-appropriate spaces ‘in ruin’, breaking the contrast between public and private space and getting a change of sense that highlights innovative potential of ancient spaces and new ways to live and perceive them
The Incurables Hospital complex in the Ancient Center of Naples: a project between layers
No full textThe Incurables Hospital complex, defined as “the most articulated complex of the ancient center of Naples”, is an exemplary case of how signs of time can accumulate on them-selves, creating unitary spaces. Bombings, which in 1943 destroyed some parts of the complex, led to operations of demolitions and re-construction that permanently altered its relation with the ancient city walls. The traces of the walls, the “wound” of the ruined front, the new configurations brought by post-war re-construction are all pieces of a hard-ly transformable space, but a space of great interest for a contemporary architectural pro-ject. The proposed design strategy provides a spatial re-interpretation of different “layers” that characterize the complex stratified architectural “mass”: the underground level, the level of gardens and the level of terraces. In overlapped layers of historic city lies the op-portunity to recover a continuity of connections, “re-discovering” significant forgotten spaces and creating a continuous path
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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