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Re-enacting Community Belonging through Emotions and Memories: German Expellees’ and Italian Repatriates’ Circular Letters
No full textThe chapter deals with the maintenance of identity links among individuals belonging to diasporic communities. It investigates this theme by looking at the circulation of letters, which assumed an emotional meaning over time and were perceived by displaced people as emotional objects, capable of bridging those spatial and temporal distances that separated refugees emotionally, socially, and physically. The chapter highlights the consequences of the letters’ circulation by paying attention to the significant experiences of two groups of refugees, both displaced as the result of a forced migration, namely: Germans who fled or were expelled from Silesia after World War II, and Italians repatriated from Libya in 1970
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
Il sistema di pagamento
No full textIl capitolo si concentra sul concetto di "sistema di pagamento" muovendo dall'art. 1277 c.c. e dalle posizioni assunte dalla Corte di Cassazione in tema di adempimento delle obbligazioni pecuniarie. Il saggio muove dalla moneta legale agli strumenti alternativi di pagamento, per spiegare i rapporti di cooperazione tra gli intermediari finanziari del settore e la creazione delle imprese-sistemi di pagamento. A questo punto l'analisi si biforca nei due filoni della "concorrenza" e della "sorveglianza", focalizzando brevemente l'attenzione su autorità competenti, priorità di policy, strumenti di azione e problemi giuridici emersi
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