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New contents on the convents of the Franciscan Observance in Umbria (Italy): examples from an ongoing research on the historical archival documentation
No full textThis essay sets out the results of research conducted in the main historical archives of Umbria, starting with that of San Francesco del Monte in Perugia (Monteripido) and espe- cially the Historical Archive of the Patriarchal Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi. The latter preserves, in addition to the papers of the Basilica and the Portiuncula, extensive documentation relating to a number of Franciscan Observance monasteries, including the Hermitage of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Assisi, the monasteries of Santissima Annunzi- ata in Gualdo Tadino, Santissima Annunziata in Amelia, San Bartolomeo in Foligno, Mon- teluco, Sacro Speco in Narni and San Francesco in Stroncone. These documentary bodies – very fragmentary and incomplete, not always ordered and catalogued and therefore, often difficult to consult – consists of correspondence, minutes of sacred canonical visits, patrimo- nial and accounting notes, entries and exits, convent chronicles and memoirs, and concern various aspects of the history and life of the Osservanza convents. Among them, those consid- ered most significant have been selected in order to document some fundamental episodes of the architectural complexes chosen as case studies (such as the construction, renovation and expansion works of the buildings), with the relations established, since their foundation, with the territory and the landscape in which they are set, regarding in particular the use of resources (mainly water and springs, woods and pastures, agrarian spaces), communication routes and urban settlements, in a period between the 17th and 20th centuries
Ecosystem project for silk production and regeneration of the heritage of the convent of san Francesco d’Assisi in Tursi
No full textThe convent of San Francesco is located on the hill overlooking the ancient city of Tursi, and its position provides a lesson in harmony between the orography and the settlement structure. These places have been waiting for redemption for a long time since the 1980 earthquake. Forty years later, there are still no strategic lines that represent real solutions capable of overcoming this serious isolation. A series of safety measures, occasional consolidations, and restorations have been carried out in the absence of a unified project and coherent approaches to enhancement. The architectural project assumes protection and valorization as a form of advancing knowledge, imagines and composes new spaces, and takes ‘care’ of historical, technical and social, material, and immaterial values, restoring identity to this heritage. The spaces built by the Franciscan Order have been relocated within the theme of restoration and regeneration and contribute in terms of circular sustainability with productive future visions
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
Retinal nerve fibre layer measurements and optic nerve head analysis in multiple sclerosis patients
No full textTo verify whether scanning laser polarimeter with the new variable corneal compensation algorithm (GDx VCC) and scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT)) allow measuring retinal ganglion cell loss in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).We enrolled 23 MS patients with a history of previous demyelinating monocular optic neuritis. Examination included visual evoked potentials (VEPs), scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and scanning laser polarimeter. HRT was performed to assess optic nerve head (ONH) shape, while GDx VCC was used to evaluate the retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFLt) around the ONH. Statistical analysis was performed comparing results obtained for each eye with the available normative database and with the unaffected fellow eye.When the affected eye group was compared to the fellow-eye group, a significant (P<0.05) difference was found for few GDx VCC parameters. In contrast, no significant correlation was observed between clinical assessment and imaging techniques when the normal database of HRT and GDx VCC was used. A significant association was observed between VEP latency and some GDx VCC parameters.Our results suggested that scanning laser polarimetry could detect loss of ganglion cells following demyelinating optic neuritis, but further studies are needed
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