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Centri storici tra città del mercato e città dei cittadini
No full textIn the last few years, historical centres have witnessed a new centrality both in scientific and political- administrative terms, not only as essential parts of the city, nor even as fundamental keys to understanding the broader urban and territorial dynamics, but above all because they constitute attractive "objects" for urban marketing strategies. The cities have long considered tourism as a fundamental opportunity for economic gain, and have particularly valued the historical centres in which a large majority of monuments and objects of greatest artistic and architectural interest are concentrated. The profound changes that have characterized the increasingly experiential tourist phenomenon have even reinforced the great interest which developed around historical centres. These places, in fact, also condense the very identity as well as the history of the cities and offer the tourist an unprecedented emotional charge, to which no other urban space compares. This sort of "concentration" of experience opportunities has not only made the historical centres an element of great tourist attraction, but has also forced them to always remain faithful to the image of themselves consolidated by tradition and by marketing so as not to betray the expectations of the tourists themselves. The result was a process of museization, freezing, but their reduction to a "theme park" (Amendola 2015), as the processes that characterize cities like Florence and Venice clearly show. The strategic use of collective imagination thus becomes a strength of the tourist strategies for the cities and, at the same time, a critical point of the urban and social development of the historical centres (Settis 2014). When history is reduced to an object to be sold on the market and therefore simplified to make it immediately usable, the city ends up coinciding with the image of itself and ceases to represent a field of experience for its citizens.
Hence, more than any other urban site, historical centres are divided and disputed between the city of market and that of citizens (Emerson, Smiley 2018), between the city that is redefined, rewrites itself or remains immobile to make itself attractive for its tourists, and what it knows and can be a place of growth and experience for its inhabitants. The historical centres ceases to be experienced by its historical residents, pushed out both by the disappearance of the nearby shops and by the traditional meeting points that they become under the weight of the tourist potential, and by the opportunity to transform the houses into more profitable B&Bs or even into luxury homes to sell to wealthy professionals or foreigners. The historical centres thus find themselves at the crossroads of a series of phenomena which, albeit contradictory like museization and gentrification, generate a dramatically coherent final effect, i.e. the acquisition of a strongly touristic section of the historical centre and at the same time the loss of its identity traits. This critical area is the space of urban regulation policies, where the possibility of a difficult and necessary mediation is played out between the needs of these different urban subjects who claim a legitimate right to the city (Lefebvre 1967)
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
Tourism development and the strategic role of transport infrastructures: evaluation tools. The case studies of Matera and of Wieliczka Salt Mine.
No full textThe paper is focused on the strategic role that transport infrastructures have on a cultural heritage area.
The perspective given to the cultural heritage is to consider it as a cultural capital, and, for this purpose,
economic and cultural evaluations have a preponderant role. The main idea is to identify and evaluate
two case studies that can be examples for the tourism development linked to the joint presence of
appreciable infrastructure endowments and a strategic cultural heritage
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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