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Back to the future: career transitions at the dawn of capitalism: the immigration of merchants from the Southern Netherlands to Amsterdam, 1578–1602
No full textThis paper investigates the conditions facilitating career transitions across dissimilar cultural contexts.
Particular attention is devoted to two critical obstacles faced by transitioners during cross-cultural
role reorientations. First, transitioners must make sense of the unspoken demands and requirements
ascribed to their work role in the new cultural context. Second, they must find ways to access and
mobilize context-specific resources and information in a context alien to them. Empirically, the histories
of 452 merchants emigrated from the southern provinces to Amsterdam during the period 1578–1602
are analyzed. The difference between Amsterdam’s merchant culture (based on open competition,
speculative and “depersonalized” financial investments) and that of the southern provinces (a wellprotected economic environment based on the guild system) required a reorientation from the role of
pre-modern merchants to that of capitalist entrepreneurs. A set of hypotheses predicting why some
immigrant merchants successfully completed this career transition while others did not is presented
and brought to tes
Evoluzione tettono-stratigrafica dell'avanfossa appenninica Marchigiano-Romagnola dal Miocene superiore al Pleistocene
No full textThe Colbordolo-Pesaro area of the Romagna-Marche foothill zone (Northern Italian Apennines): stratigraphic and structural study
No full textA detailed field survey, including structural and biostratigraphic analyses, has been integrated with sub-surface (seismic lines and well logs) data in order to reconstruct the stratigraphy, structure and tectonic evolution of the Colbordolo-Pesaro sector of the northern Apennines foothill zone (Marche region). The lithostratigraphic characters of the Miocene succession show a striking variability across three major (NW-SE elongated) structural ridges mapped within the study area. Major structures consist of faulted anticlines bounded by thrust ramps and backlimb backthrusts, separated by broader, open synclines, both involving a Mesozoic-Paleogene, mainly carbonate succession. The construction of a balanced and restored cross-section suggests that the complex shallow structures represent a geometrical requirement to the accommodation of the deep deformation
Plio-Quaternary depositional style of sedimentary basins along insular Tyrrhenian margins
No full textCrustal extension in the Ceraunius Fossae, Northern Tharsis Region, Mars
No full textWe investigated the Ceraunius Fossae area, Northern Tharsis, in order to obtain quantitative information on the tectonic extension affecting this area. Tectonic structures of the Ceraunius Fossae area have been previously described using Viking images and interpreted as extensional structures. Laser altimetry data (MOLA) can be used to quantitatively investigate these structures with a better resolution. We developed a method to obtain E-W oriented profiles (perpendicular to the main tectonic structures) with a sufficiently high resolution to analyze tectonic structures in spite of the low data density in this direction. We interpreted all the recognizable extensional structures along the profiles, and using a simplified structural model, we estimated tectonic extension along these transects. The extension calculated over the entire profiles is 36 km (e24 = (l1 - l0)/l0 = (910 km - 874 km)/874 km = 0.041) and 42 km (e26 = (730 km - 688 km)/688 km = 0.061) along profile 24 and profile 26, respectively. In the most deformed area, extension reaches the value of 22 km (emax = (l1 -l0)/l0 = (186 km - 164 km)/164 km = 0.134). Since the extension accounted by the topographic doming is negligible, a significant horizontal crustal motion is required to explain the observed extension
Bacini Sedimentari, ricerche geofisiche e di geologia marina nei mari italiani e nel Mediterraneo
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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
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