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Dante Bini e la rivoluzionaria sperimentazione dei gusci leggeri Dante Bini and the revolutionary experiments with thin-shell structures
No full textUN LIBRO SUI PRIMI PASSI DELLA RICERCA DI DANTE BINI, UN ARCHITETTO VISIONARIO CHE DA TOKYO ALLA LUNA HA PROGETTATO CUPOLE SOTTILI IN CAL- CESTRUZZO ARMATO, TRA CUI LA VILLA PER MICHE- LANGELO ANTONIONI A COSTA PARADISO. LA SPERI- MENTAZIONE AL MUSHROOM FIELD A SAN CESARIO SUL PANARO IN PROVINCIA DI MODENA RAPPRESEN- TA L’INIZIO DI UN’AVVENTURA CHE PORTERÀ ALLA REALIZZAZIONE DI MIGLIAIA DI CUPOLE IN TUTTO IL MONDO IN UN CLIMA CULTURALE CHE RESE PENSA- BILE VIVERE E ABITARE SOTTO UNA TENDA (O UNA CUPOLA), IN UN MOMENTO IN CUI SI FONDEVANO UTOPIA ED ESTREMO PRAGMATISMO. L’INNOVAZIO- NE DIVENNE BEN PRESTO UNA NUOVA VOCE ALL’IN- TERNO DELLA RICERCA SULLE STRUTTURE SOTTILI IN CALCESTRUZZO − ESITO FINALE DELL’EVOLU- ZIONE DELLE STRUTTURE VOLTATE − CHE TRA GLI ANNI CINQUANTA E GLI ANNI SETTANTA RAGGIUN- SE RISULTATI FORSE A OGGI ANCORA INSUPERATI
Construction Site of Prototypes of Binishells. From Innovation to Abandonment
No full textDuring nineteen fifties and sixties structural research, particularly into thin concrete
shells achieved results that are still unsurpassed. New materials, techniques and
methods of construction supported this typological and expressive innovation
characterized by a synthesis between structure and architectural expression. All
these researches adopted a highly pragmatic approach to the industrialization of
construction systems and optimal use of materials. This paper intends to investigate
the case of a construction site of prototypes realized between 1965 and 1967 by Dante
Bini in San Cesario sul Panaro near Modena in Italy. After the construction of the first
real scale prototypes of concrete thin shells in Crespellano, Pegola and Abano Terme,
Dante Bini tested his patents in this place called “Mushroom Field” by Mario Salvadori.
He built more than 10 concrete shells where he tested different patents of Binishells
system which will be used for thousands concrete shells all over the world. During
1990s the prototype site was turned into a dump and now it is a state of serious
abandonment. Even the local community has lost memory of the meanings of this
place that represents the innovation and experimentation of the Binishell systems (mix
designed, rebars, types of concrete, insulation, forms) and his research in the field of
industrialization of the construction process with pneumatic formworks. Highlighting
the values and meanings of these structures is the first step to avoid their loss and
demolition
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
“In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are.” Characters’ construction in Chernobyl
No full textThere are many different heroic and anti-heroic characters’ building strategies, in particular, when it comes to referring to historical events and their fictionalization. In this regard, the comparison between the different ways of constructing the protagonists’ figures in television series such as Chernobyl (HBO, 2019) and in the movie, Chernobyl 1986 (Netflix, 2021) directed by Danila Kozlovsky, is significant. Both products refer to historically occurred and documented events relating to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster; but the forms of representation of the same events in the two different audiovisual narrations diverge. While the TV series claims a supposed correspondence to occurred historical events, however without proposing the series as a documentary or a docu-fiction, in the case of the Russian film the intention of fictionalization is clearer. As a matter of fact, the movie is a ucronia in which one imagines that historical events have gone differently than in reality.
Therefore the questions are: how are the various heroic or anti-heroic identities constructed in the two narratives? Why are they represented in a particular way, and what is the function of these representations? Which cultural clash is taking place through these two different representations? And last but not least, which cultural representation can the viewer derive from the interaction of these two different narratives
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
Chernobyl: From nuclear disaster to the television series and beyond
No full textIn June 2019 Sky Atlantic presented the tv mini-series Chernobyl, based on the events which unfolded in April 1986. In it, the nuclear disaster is recounted by tracing back the initial unfolding of the event down to the trial of the people held accountable. The attention paid to the historical reconstruction of the facts, the use of witness-documents, the reference to names and people that had made decisions and led the different phases of rescue operation in the real event, together with a good script and direction, alongside an exceptional cast of actors, as in the best Complex Tv (Mittell, 2015) have all contributed to its success worldwide. In several passages, the docu-fiction is enriched by the use of archival materials, which contribute to convey the reality effect (Barthes, 1988) capable of rekindling the audience’s interest about the entire event. In its turn, the distance produced by the passing of time – and the tv screen - create an effect of reassurance in viewers: we are not there, 1986 is in the past, it is not our present.
The article aims to explore the effects that the tv series has had in today’s setting. In this research approach, the analysis of the narrative construction of the tv series is essential, together with the relevant sources being used, the features linked to the “anthropological shock” described by Beck in 1987, which have triggered recollections of that period in older generations. For everyone it turned out to be a reminder of an important event: the narration of an event which has become a real collective trauma
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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