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Fig. 222: Gortina, Pretorio. Ipotesi di ricostruzione 3D della colonna del portico del ginnasio ellenistico
No full textFig. 223: Gortina, Pretorio. Ipotesi di ricostruzione 3D dell’aula triabsidata del ginnasio ellenistico
No full textPORTICUS AEMILIA: RESTORATION AND ENHANCHMENT OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL URBAN AREA
No full textWithin the archaeological research coordinated by the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, a project of archaeological restoration and enhancement of the monumental rests of the Porticus Aemilia has been elaborated. The building, dating back to the Republican Period and whose function probably was related to the activities of the port of Tiber river, is situated on a large area (about 487 × 60 m) and it is visible only thanks to three great wall remains, that visually and historically interact with the tall modern buildings of Testaccio district. The critical point of the project, therefore, is to re-establish both the physical, vertical and functional relationships of the archaeological remains with the modern urban fabric. The theme of the restoration and the preservation of ruins has, in fact, substantially interacted with the perceptual and social aspects regarding the use of the place and restitution of its historical fragments to the community. Different reflections on the possible ways of planning came to light from the thoroughly investigation of ancient buildings, the analysis of architectural stratifications, the study of the bibliographic and archival sources, the identification of degradation phenomena and the laboratory investigations.
The first matter referred to the critical choice on the structures resulting from the dig: that choice has been made according to a conservation intervention, that means covering the Imperial and Late Ancient buildings since the possibility to transform the area in a museum centre would have involved problems of conservation and maintenance that the collectivity would not have been able to afford.
Another step for sustainability results from the active citizens involvement in the archaeological findings and the exploitation of the place through the organization of visits to the excavations and a photographic exhibition in that area. On the other hand, the most ambitious purpose of the project is to allow citizens to be able to use this place again both as a public space of the district and the city and as museum area rich of monuments. In order to ensure the maximum access to citizens, the enclosure have been removed and the original routes have been restored. In addition, the ancient monument has been composed in a way to underline and identify its forms and to be more comprehensible to the autonomous visitors. Such planning purpose, apart from being economically sustainable, makes the citizens aware of the knowledge, the use and the respect of the ancient buildings assuring therefore its preservation.
The project would therefore propose interpretation keys of the remains producing the fruition of cultural heritage which both is able to narrate the history, without overlapping to it, and can revive the relationship of the residents with the historical memory of the place. Such exploitation strategy, if it is conveniently arranged, could represent an economic investment on the unrecognizable cultural heritage which are increasingly exposed to degradation
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
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