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Dal segno alla forma. Il disegno nei processi di Design
No full textQuesto libro intende raccogliere gli esiti e le considerazioni scaturite dalla ricerca “Dal Segno alla Forma”, una ricerca di base finanziata dal Dipartimento di Design del Politecnico di Milano, con appositi fondi di Ateneo (FARB: Fondi di Ateneo per la Ricerca di Base), il cui obiettivo è stato quello di fotografare la situazione della didattica per la rappresentazione di progetto, svolta nei corsi afferenti al Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) del Disegno (ICAR/17), all’interno dei corsi di laurea della Scuola del Design, analizzarla, confrontarla con altre realtà ed eventualmente proporne un adeguamento
Dalla Giulia alla Giulia
No full textAbout 50 years separate the marketing of two Alfa Romeo brand cars with the same name, Giulia: the first has been produced from 1962 to 1977; the second one is in production since 2016. They are just over 50 years, a space of time in which many things have obviously changed, not only in products made by car manufacturers, but also in the processes and tools of the project. Giulia came up in 1962 to replace Giulietta, from which it resumed the main mechanical scheme, summarized in the front engine with 4 cylinders of 1570 cm3 capable of delivering 92 HP and rear-wheel drive, typical for the sedan cars of that period. Giulia is back in 2016 to revive the tradition of the Alfa Romeo brand and is back once again with a 4-cylinder engine and rear-wheel drive. However, it's back, daughter of its time, 50 cm longer, 30 cm wider and with 110 HP more than its ancestor. Curiously, the two cars have the same height (4 mm only the difference).
However, this contribution does not intend to further deepen the technical, aesthetic and performance characteristics of the two cars, but rather to investigate, through the analysis of the project drawings, the different approach to the representation of the project in a field, that of car design, which is part of the tradition of industrial product design, but that has always run in an autonomous way, often anticipating the industrial innovations.
Looking at the drawings there are several evident differences in the used instruments, in the way of colouring, in the point of view choosen, but I believe the main difference is in the aim why the drawings have been produced, at the times of early sixties and just yesterday. The research started from this idea and looked back at the role of hand made drawings in the car design process and how it has changed in the last decades
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
Gaucher disease : long-term follow up and complications in patients treated with enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in a single centre
No full textDispelling 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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