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The "shape" of post-modernity and contemporary art: pedagogical reflections and didactic suggestions
No full textRiassunto: Questo articolo si propone di evidenziare la significatività del contributo dell’arte contemporanea in ordine alla comprensione e alla possibile risoluzione di determinati temi e problemi educativi propri della complessità postmoderna, sia sotto il profilo della riflessione pedagogica sia sotto quello dell’agire didattico. Nello specifico, nei primi due paragrafi si fa leva sull’arte contemporanea quale mezzo ermeneutico privilegiato per
chiarire la centralità del concetto di “forma” nella postmodernità, insieme ai suoi risvolti identitari, comunicativi ed esperienziali; nel terzo paragrafo
si concentra l’attenzione sulla carica mediativa delle opere d’arte contemporanea e, quindi, sui vantaggi derivanti da un'eventuale interazione proficua tra la didattica dell’arte contemporanea e la didattica in generale, specie
quella costruttivista; nel quarto paragrafo, infine, si prende in considerazione il rapporto tra arte contemporanea, intersoggettività e formazione di personalità critiche rispetto all’espansione del “tecnologismo”.
Abstract: The aim of this article is to highlight the importance of contemporary art in understanding and potentially resolving particular educational issues and problems arising within the post-modern complexity, both in
terms of pedagogical reflection and teaching practice. In particular, in the first two sections we consider contemporary art as a privileged hermeneutical means for clarifying the centrality of the concept of “form” in postmodernity, alongside its identity-forming, communicative and experiential implications. In the third section we focus on the mediative power of contemporary
art works and on the potential benefits to be had by fostering interaction between the teaching of contemporary art and teaching in general, especially within a constructivist framework. Finally, in the fourth section
we consider the relationship between contemporary art, intersubjectivity and the development of critical thinking in the light of “technologism” expansion
Interleukin-1beta and glutamate activate the NF-kappaB/Rel binding site from the regulatory region of the Amyloid Precursor Protein gene in primary neuronal cultures
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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
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
Concealed behind Transparencies. A Closer Look at Architecture’s Hidden Performativity through the Barcelona Pavilion
No full textFollowing Andres Jaque’s influential reading of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion (PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society, 2012–2013), this chapter makes a case for a performative vision of architecture. Just like gender for Judith Butler, architectures are performative inasmuch as they keep reproducing themselves over time: their appearance as unchanging entities is the result of an ongoing process that, quite paradoxically, hides its mechanisms by repeating itself. A wide range of maintenance activities is crucial to counter the Pavilion’s aging, yet such actions are kept hidden. Architecture, thus, presents itself as the “art of space” by removing time from sight. This image of timeless architecture is continuously reperformed in the field of knowledge production in how hegemonic architectural narratives, deeply imbued with Western metaphysics, keep looking at buildings as ageless artworks, excluding the spatial and temporal framework in which they are inscribed. The everchanging ways in which they are acted out by their users, the role that other actors, besides the architect, play in their production and reproduction over time. This chapter sheds light upon the aesthetic and political potential of such acts of unfolding
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
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