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L'ipotesi di "attrattiva della scelta". Una verifica mediante questionario
No full textRIASSUNTO: L’ipotesi di “attrattiva della scelta” sostiene che un soggetto, chiamato a scegliere tra due alternative di uguale utilità attesa, una semplice e l’altra composta da due sub-alternative, tende a preferire la seconda, e ciò perché questa consente una ulteriore opportunità di scelta, tra le due sub-alternative (donde il nome “attrattiva della scelta”). Abbiamo compiuto un esperimento per contribuire al controllo empirico di questa ipotesi. Il metodo è un questionario, somministrato ad un campione di oltre cento studenti universitari, e che si qualifica per la congruenza tra le situazioni di scelta prospettate nei singoli item e l’esperienza caratteristica di uno studente. I risultati depongono a favore dell’ipotesi e illustrano la generalità dell’effetto considerato.
--- TITLE: THE “LURE OF CHOICE” HYPOTHESIS.
A PROOF BY A QUESTIONNAIRE.
--- ABSTRACT: The “lure of choice” hypothesis purports that, when faced with a decision between two alternatives of equal expected utility, one simple and the other comprising two sub-alternatives, a subject inclines to prefer the latter, and this because it allows for one further choice, that between the two sub-alternatives (hence the name “the lure of choice”). An experiment was run to contribute to the empirical testing of this hypothesis. The method is a questionnaire which was administered to a sample of over one hundred university students and keeps congruence between choice situations figured in the items and ordinary experience of a student. Results lend support to the hypothesis and illustrate the generality of the surmised effect
La nuova Musa degli eroi. Dal mythos alla fiction, Atti degli Incontri di Studio per il Bicentenario del Liceo Classico ‘Antonio Canova’ (Treviso, 30 novembre 2007 - 8 febbraio 2008)
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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
Un imperatore controverso: Commodo tra fonti storiche e fiction cinematografica
No full textConfronto tra le fonti storiche riguardanti la figura dell'imperatore Commodo e le rivisitazioni cinematografiche della stessa, da "La caduta dell'impero romano" di A. Mann 1964) a "Gladiatore" di R. Scott (2000). Interpretazione parzialmente revisionista del personaggio, basata soprattutto su fonti cristiane quali l'anonimo anti-Montanist
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
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