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Continuità e cambiamento nel paesaggio rurale di Aksum: dati archeologici, etnografici e ambientali
Gli archeosemi raccontano. L’uva e il vino della Sardegna nuragica
La vite è considerata fra le più importanti piante da frutto il cui interesse alimentare è documentato da oltre 10.000 anni. Le origini della sua domesticazione risalgono al IV- III millennio a.C. in Medio Oriente. Studi genetici suggeriscono che processi di domesticazione secondaria possono essersi verificati anche nel Mediterraneo occidentale, grazie alla presenza diffusa della vite selvatica. Di recente sono stati condotti studi di carattere morfocolorimetrico per discriminare le popolazioni selvatiche dalle cuhivar e dai semi archeologici; sono stati chiariti aspetti fondamentali sui rapporti di parentela tra piante di vite selvatica, coltivate e archeosemi rinvenuti in Sardegna.Vine is considered one of the most important fruit plants whose dietary importance has been documented for more than 10,000 years. The origins of domestication are traced back to the 4th-3rd millennium BC in the Middle East. Recent genetic research suggests that some native Sardinian vineyards share their genetic heritage with current wild populations that grow in the same regions. Recently studies have employed morphometric parameters to discriminate wild populations from the cultivars and archaeological pips, clarifying fundamental aspects of the relationship between wild, cultivated grapevine plants and the archaeological grapevines found in Sardinia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We 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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