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Juvarra che non c’è: il processo creativo della Chiesa di San Filippo Neri a Torino e la Chiesa di Sant’Andrea a Chieri
No full textLo scopo di questo studio è analizzare e interpretare alcuni edifici attualmente non esistenti progettati dall’architetto Filippo Juvarra (1678, Messina -1736, Madrid), al fine di poterne ricostruire la spazialità attraverso la realizzazione di modelli tridimensionali.
La scelta è ricaduta su tre progetti in due edifici: due di essi sono stati selezionati tra le proposte elaborate per la chiesa della Congregazione dell’Oratorio del San Filippo Neri a Torino, a cui il messinese lavora in due fasi, tra il 1714 e il 1717 e tra il 1730 e il 1732 (la costruzione dell’edificio si trascinerà fino alla fine del XIX secolo). Per motivi legati alla maggior disponibilità di materiale, la scelta è caduta su due progetti della prima fase. Il terzo progetto ricostruito riguarda la chiesa del Monastero cistercense femminile dei Santi Maria e Andrea di Chieri, realizzata tra il 1728 e il 1733, e demolita nel contesto dell’occupazione francese del Piemonte a inizio XIX secolo. In questo caso, dunque, si trattava di ricostruire un edificio esistito, sulla base degli schizzi e disegni di progetto di Filippo Juvarra e delle poche rappresentazioni successive che ci sono pervenute.
Dall’attività di ricostruzione sono emerse una serie di peculiarità relative a questi progetti, oltre ad alcuni elementi che si prestano ad una lettura trasversale nel quadro dell’attività di Juvarra.
Nel contesto dello studio, è stato ritenuto necessario anche procedere ad una verifica delle fonti relativamente alla storia delle istituzioni coinvolte, soprattutto in merito al meno studiato Sant’Andrea e alla sua demolizione.In this thesis, two buildings, designed by Italian Architect Filippo Juvarra (1678, Messina – 1736, Madrid) but currently non-existing, are going to be analyzed and interpreted on the basis of the drawings pertaining to them, in order to investigate their spatial qualities via 3D reconstruction.
The choice fell on two churches, for a total of three distinct designs: two of the numerous unbuilt projects the Messinese architect developed for the Church of the Congregation of St. Filippo Neri’s Oratory, in Turin, first in 1714-1717 and then in 1730-1732 (the final building, however, would take until 1891 to complete); and the Church of the female Cistercian Monastery of Saints Maria and Andrea, in Chieri, built between 1728 and 1733, only to be destroyed during the French occupation at the dawn of the 19th Century. Both projects for St. Filippo were picked from the earlier design phase due to a greater availability of sources; whereas in the case of St. Andrea, the fact that the artifact had effectively existed at one point in time meant that there were also (very few) images of the building after construction, and thus the more recent depictions took precedence, in order to best approximate the feature of the built church.
The process of reconstruction and the challenges it posed, in and of themselves, highlighted a number of features unique to these projects, as well as opening possibilities for horizontal considerations on Juvarra’s body of work.
Moreover, as part of the process of acquiring information about the interrelation between these projects and the events surrounding them and their built complexes, it was deemed necessary to dive into the history of these two institutions. This was true, in particular, of St. Andrea, the less studied of the two
Neurologic improvement after peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in poems
No full textWe read with interest the recent article
by Kuwabara et al.1 describing the clinical and
electrophysiologic findings in 9 patients with polyneuropathy,
organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein,
and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome and treated
with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
(auto-PBSCT).
From May 2003 until September 2006, we treated 4
patients with POEMS syndrome with chemotherapy
and auto-PBSCT.2 There were 3 men and 1 woman
with a median age of 53 years (range 44–62). Three
patients had severe and rapidly progressive sensory–
motor peripheral neuropathy with predominant involvement
of the lower limbs leading to inability to walk,
reduced muscle strength of the upper limbs, absent
deep tendon reflexes, and distal sensory impairment
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
AB0 type does not affect platelet engraftment after autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant in a series of 249 hematologic patients
No full textkoamabayili/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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