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    Characterization of Alkaline Basaltic Tuffs and Their Application in the Synthesis of Ceramic and Glass Ceramic Materials

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    Alkaline basaltic tuffs, BT, from southern Turkey were characterized and used to obtain cheap sintered glass-ceramic and ceramic materials. The chemical and mineralogical compositions were analyzed by fluourescene spectrometry and X-ray diffraction analyses, respectively. The phase formation were studied by DTA, while the sintering behavior – by differentional dilatometer. The structure of the sintered samples was evaluated by pycnometric techniques and observed by SEM. Due to its high porosity and low crystallinity the studied tuffs are appropriate for industrial applications. Ceramic material, based on 50 % BT and 50 % industrial clays, was obtained at 1150 °C, while glass ceramic was synthesized after re-melting of BT and densification at 1080 °C. It was also demonstrated that well sintered material may be produced directly from the milled tuffs after heat-treatment at 1120 °C

    Palinologia e microantracologia a Piano Locce (S. Stefano di Sessanio, L’Aquila)-diagramma del primo tratto (0-20 m) della carota PL

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    Il Piano Locce, nei pressi di S. Stefano di Sessanio - L’Aquila (1225-1240 m s.l.m., 42° 21'N, 13° 37' E) è una depressione tettono-carsica (polje) che si apre sul versante meridionaledelMassiccio del Gran Sasso d’Italia. I depositi di riempimento della conca sono per la maggiorparte materiali piroclastici, sedimentati in un ambiente limno-palustre che ha conosciutomomenti di emersione e conseguente pedogenesi, con limitati apporti fluvio-torrentizi daivicini e ripidi versanti e diffuse coltri detritiche a granulometria da grossolana a fine. Laconca appare come una grande prateria, di forma grossolanamente pentagonale e diametromedio di circa 1,1 km, circondata da cime montuose per lo più prive di copertura boscosa adeccezione di Monte Carpesco. Le praterie dell’area sono ritenute formazioni erbacee secondarie,succedutesi a vegetazioni forestali (querceto misto nelle fasce più basali, faggete nellepiù elevate), distrutte per azione antropica. A Piano Locce sono stati effettuati due sondaggiche hanno fornito le carote PL e PL1. La carota PL, prelevata nel 2003 nell’ambito del progettoMURST “Impatto antropico in una zona carsica di alta montagna”, è il risultato di unsondaggio che si è spinto fino ad 80 m senza incontrare il calcare di base ed a questa profonditàè datata, in base all’analisi chimica dettagliata di alcuni minerali vulcanici (Sulpizioe Zanchetta, dati inediti), 170.000-200.000 anni fa. Dalla carota PL sono stati prelevati circa70 campioni, ad intervalli di 30 cm fino a 1 m, che sono stati ritenuti utili all’analisi pollinicaper ottenere un inquadramento floristico vegetazionale poco dettagliato, comunque riferibileal periodo pleistocenico-olocenico. La carota PL1, prelevata nel 2008, è lunga 10 metri ed èstata sottocampionata in modo più completo (200 campioni), per ottenere una ricostruzionead alta risoluzione delle vicende floristico-vegetazionali/climatiche e dell’impatto antropicoavvenuti durante l’Olocene. Questo lavoro si riferisce alla carota PL e presenta i primi datidelle analisi pollinica e micro-antracologica di 19 livelli riguardanti i 20 m più superficiali.La maggior parte dei campioni è pollinifera con concentrazioni variabili (102-104 p/g) e buonostato di conservazione. La Flora è abbastanza ricca (ca. 80 taxa, 60 dei quali erbacei). Gli spettripollinici sono completamente dominati dalle erbe che, sempre superiori all’80%, scendonolievemente al di sotto solo nei campioni inferiori. Tra esse prevalgono largamente leGramineae (10-60%) e le Cichorioideae (15-65%) i cui rapporti passano dalla prevalenzadelle prime a alternanze e quindi alla prevalenza delle seconde. Tra i taxa di accompagnamentospiccano: Artemisia, Asteroideae, Caryophyllaceae, Cyperaceae, Liliaceae, Saxifraga.Gli alberi/arbusti sono molto scarsi (media ca. 10% da 3 a 25%; massimi in fondo; minimiintorno a 3 metri di profondità), ma diversificati con presenza di conifere (Abies, Picea, Pinusmugo, P. sylvestris, Juniperus) e numerose latifoglie (Alnus, Betula, Castanea, Corylus,Fagus, Fraxinus excelsior/oxycarpa, F. ornus, Quercus decidue, Salix, Tilia, Ulmus, ecc.). Glispettri pollinici suggeriscono che nell’area sia perdurata nel tempo una copertura erbacea diprateria che dal basso verso l’alto ha assunto carattere più spiccato di pascolo. Lungo il trattoesaminato, la vegetazione forestale è sempre rimasta lontana dalla conca e ha comportato alternanzetra conifere e latifoglie nei campioni inferiori e successivamente la prevalenza dellelatifoglie dei querceti. Segni di coltivazioni sono forniti da tracce di cereali nel campioni superiori.I microcarboni mostrano una notevole variabilità e segnalano talora fuochi locali (ades. a intorno a 5 m)

    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

    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

    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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