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Groin vaults-scaled by 3d printers: Seismic behavior with shaking table tests
No full textThis paper presents some preliminary results from a shaking table experimental campaign on a scaled model of a groin pointed vault, executed at the Earthquake and Large Structures (EQUALS) Laboratory at the University of Bristol, (UK) under the auspices of a H2020 SERA project (SEBESMOVA3D)
Late Completion of Cologne and St-Vitus Cathedral
No full textAbstract
Completions of Cathedrals were, in some cases (e.g. Sagrada Familia in
Barcelona) still are large scale and unique projects which were carried out
across Europe at the end of the 19th and even during the course of the 20th
century.
The aim of this dissertation is a comparison of the late completion of St. Vitus
Cathedral in Prague (1344 - 1929) and Cologne Cathedral (1248 - 1880) on
the background of the Neo-Gothic Revival, finding the elements which the
cathedrals and subsequently the completions have in common.
The dissertation concern is also to describe the 19th century political, religious
and historical background behind the completions and the influence of the
freshly established Conservation Movement..
The historical comparison will include the medieval origin of building
cathedrals and the religious influence on its design, the impact of French
cathedral builders to the Northern and the Central Europe and the Parler's
medieval master-masons family involvement in both projects as the leading late
gothic builders family in the German speaking lands.
The importance of Gothic drawings in the medieval times as the medium to
spread the knowledge of cathedral design and also how the discovery of the
very same drawings led to the successful completion.
The contemporary view on larger scale projects like completions to be
investigated together with analysis of the current phase of the Conservation
Movement development
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
Nineteenth-century housing preventive conservation in Edinburgh and its Western European context
Full text linkPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how comprehensive the management of common repairs in the nineteenth-century urban housing in Edinburgh is in the European context. The city experienced a variety of approaches since the 1970s to repairs of exposed decorative elements and the envelope, whose condition is exacerbated by inappropriate interventions and climate change.Design/methodology/approachThe debate is framed in practice in Western Europe where economy, administration and conservation cultures have been similar since the 1970s: property manager (Glasgow), role of housing agency (Venice), Monumentenwacht’s periodical inspections for subscribers (Flanders), tax incentives (France, Italy, Spain), linking management and procurement (Libretto Casa, Rome) and the emerging concept of preventive conservation.FindingsEdinburgh has a holistic and technically rich management experience, with a strong educational focus, which shows the immense volume of work required, hampered by the fragmentation of ownership and the small size of the repair industry. Practice can improve in Edinburgh and Europe through increased awareness, tax incentives, regular inspections, legal recognition of the need for maintenance and stepping-up the debate at national, European and political level, towards preventive conservation approaches.Research limitations/implicationsThe study profited from direct knowledge of the approach in Edinburgh and other areas, but little has been published on each area outside the local level, so appraisal depended on language knowledge.Originality/valueThis first reading of practice at the European level may be of value to the national agencies referred to, for policy development or European initiatives
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