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Preface
No full textThe proceedings collected in this on-line volume are just a part of the talks given at the 33rd Incontro, held in Bologna from 1st to 3rd March 2007. The talks there presented were numerous and ranged over a wide varieties of fields of research in grammar: not only those that could be called ‘traditional’ as phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, but also language acquisition and pathology have been taken into account
Sulle scienze matematiche a Modena nei secoli XIV e XV
No full textstoria delle scienze matematiche a Modena nei secoli 14 e 15
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
Transfer of the Antarctic diatom Nitzschia barbieri (Bacillariophyta) to the genus Fragilariopsis and emended descriptions of F. barbieri comb. nov. and F. peragallii
Full text linkFragilariopsis is a marine diatom genus that has a critical ecological role in Antarctic waters due to its high abundance and ubiquity in plankton and sea ice. Several species of Fragilariopsis are used extensively in paleoceanography due to their good preservation in marine sediments. Detailed morphological studies on Fragilariopsis species from Antarctic water and ice samples were thus performed. Nevertheless, some species of this genus still remain poorly studied. Based on close morphological similarity between the valve structure of the Antarctic diatom Nitzschia barbieri and the genus Fragilariopsis, we propose transferring N. barbieri to Fragilariopsis as Fragilariopsis barbieri comb. nov. The description of the two rarely reported species, F. barbieri and F. peragallii, were emended. The girdle structure and the formation of doublets in F. barbieri and F. peragallii are described and illustrated for the first time. The analyses were carried out by light and electron microscopy and complete the morphological description of the fourteen known extant taxa of Fragilariopsis from Antarctica. Relative abundance of Fragilariopsis species from sea ice is also presented.</p
Coconut fibre insulators: The hygrothermal behaviour in the case of green roofs
No full textCoconut fibre insulators represent an insulating material considered as ‘‘exotic”, which clashes with the
scepticism of his thermo-hygrometric behaviour, particularly in the case of covering technology such as
green roofs, which is a technological solution often adopted in the case of sustainable buildings or nearly
zero energy building. Green roofs represent a valid constructive solution with high thermal performances,
adopted both in existing and new buildings. The purpose of the research regards the study of
the thermo-hygrometric behaviour of the concrete (CLS) and Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) slabs, insulated
with coconut fibreboards (CF) such as an alternative of synthetic insulator, referred to 10 different
green roofs scenarios. The results show that coconut fibre insulations are equally comparable to natural
and synthetic materials, and the doubts for their applications, including the green roofs, are related to
technological solutions for the implementation in the market and their diffusion between the buildings
materials, rather than their hygrothermal features
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