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Principi Unidroit dei contratti commerciali internazionali e un (progetto) di Quadro Comune di Riferimento: una tavola sinottica
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Characterization of electronic properties in complex molecular systems: modeling of a micropolarity probe
No full textQuantitative characterization of quantum states in complex molecular systems is a rather complicated task because of the necessity of maintaining the pure quantum definition of a state interacting with a configurationally complex molecular environment. Unfortunately, many of the "observables" that are of interest for a chemist, typically dealing with "complex objects", belong to the above class and their theoretical modeling may represent a hard task. In this respect, we have developed a new theoretical methodology, "perturbed matrix method", essentially based on the perturbation theory whose main aim is the characterization of the quantum states of a predefined portion of a complex molecular system, e.g., a solute, classically interacting with the environment, e.g., the solvent. This method has been used in this study to systematically characterize, for the first time and in conjunction with experimental observations, the intrinsic nature of pyrene whose vibrational and electronic states are highly sensitive to the nature of molecular environment. More precisely, pyrene shows a strong alteration of spectral intensities upon modification of polarity of the solvent. This property has been extensively used in many experimental studies and has been intepreted in the present study by characterizing pyrene electronic states as fluctuating states strictly connected to the polarity and the fluctuations of the surrounding medium. A correct theoretical modeling has been also obtained and commented for the vertical transitions in different media and also for the vibronic structure for the first transition in water
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
Le aree di cava della città di Caserta: dal dissesto geopedologico alla riqualificazione ambientale.
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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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