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Visual guidance in car-following tasks
No full textWe investigated visual control of braking in the situation of decelerating behind a lead vehicle under normal driving conditions, without asking the subjects to make soft collisions with encountered obstacles. According to our research hypothesis – extending Fajen's (Fajen, B.R., 2005, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(5), 1107-1123) model for braking – both preferred headway and ideal deceleration are controlled during car-following. When moving obstacles are encountered , headway – final time gap from vehicle ahead at the ending of deceleration – is controlled, but when static obstacles are encountered, headway information is discarded, as it does not provide salient information for future collision avoidance. Subjects performed a simulated driving task in which subject vehicle absolute speed, lead vehicle size, and subject/lead vehicle relative speed were independently manipulated. Analysis focused on ideal deceleration at the onset of braking, and headway an the end of braking. A first account of optic variables used to specify preferred headway is presented, including distance, optical angle, expansion rate, and global optic flow rate (GOFR)
Italy and “The problem of the unconscious”: the first Italian translation of a book by C. G. Jung
No full textIl problema dell’inconscio nella psicologia moderna [The problem of the unconscious in modern psychology], published in 1942, was the first of Jung’s books translated into Italian. The original German title was Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart [Soul’s problems of the future], a collection of previously-issued short essays. The present paper reconstructs the story of how the book was chosen and eventually published, describing the historical and personal context surrounding the protagonists (translators and publisher) of the volume. The political and cultural situation of the time in Italy is presented: the country was dominated by Catholic culture and Idealism, both obstacles to the spread of psychology. The condition of Italy is compared with that of Germany with respect to the possibility of Freud’s and Jung’s ideas circulating. Then the paper describes the specific context in which Giovanni Bollea, who had the idea of translating Jung’s book in Italy, worked. The role of Bollea’s wife, Renata Jesi, is also highlighted. Bollea’s relationship with the Einaudi publishing house and with Jung is also explained. Finally, an attempt is made to show the relevance of this episode in the history of Italian culture and its consequences
A GERMAN CHRISTIAN JEW IN ROME: ERNST BERNHARD AND THE FIRST YEARS OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN ITALY
No full textErnst Bernhard, the first analytic psychologist in Italy, was a sui generis
student of Jung and became the leader of Italian analytic psychology
almost in spite of himself. His story is indicative of a period dense with
complex choices and paradoxical fates for psychotherapists of Jewish
descent forced into exile. After the advent of Nazism, Bernhard tried
in vain to move to Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Italy was a
third choice. Here he initially seemed to be able to begin a fruitful
exchange with fellow Freudian analysts, but racial laws forced him to
stop his work. During the war he was forced first into confinement,
then into hiding. In the second half of the 1940s, however, he was able
to undertake an intense activity as an analyst, popularizer and trainer
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
Casva Satellite/2. Fotografare gli archivi. Lo studio De Pas D’Urbino Lomazzi. Un progetto fotografico di Alberto Lagomaggiore
No full textTra i materiali più preziosi del CASVA conservati all’interno di alcuni spazi celati negli interrati del Castello Sforzesco c’è l’archivio dello studio degli architetti Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino e Paolo Lomazzi, che, per la qualità e l’innovazione della ricerca nei loro lavori nel 2018 sono stati insigniti del premio Compasso d’Oro alla carriera.La prima donazione dell’archivio DDL risale al 2009, integrata poi da una seconda donazione avvenuta prima della definitiva dismissione dello Studio di Corso XXII Marzo. Il CASVA nel 2016 ha quindi attivato una campagna fotografica per documentare questo luogo, affidando a Alberto Lagomaggiore il compito di realizzare un progetto fotografico che ci accompagni all’interno degli spazi di lavoro dello Studio DDL. Alberto Lagomaggiore ha usato la fotografia - come dice lui stesso - “come una delle più attente forme di trascrizione delle attività dell’uomo e della natura”. Da questo progetto è nata l'idea di condividere il senso di meraviglia e una incontenibile curiosità che si attivano nel poter trovare, attraverso gli scatti fotografici, una puntuale testimonianza del luogo dell’ingegno creativo dei progettisti che vi hanno operato dal 1966 fino al 2017 e che ancora permeava gli ambienti dello studio. Il senso della mostra è sopratutto questo: realizzare una mostra di fotografia per mostrare come anche l’archivio abbia nuove inesplorate potenzialità da esprimere e come da istituto conservativo possa dimostrare a buon diritto di essere un generatore infinito di possibilità
Happy Blow Day, una mostra in un gesto
No full textLa poltrona Blow in PVC, progetto dello Studio DDL di Jonathan de Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi e Carla Scolari, ha compiuto cinquant’anni.La mostra organizzata alla Scuola di Architettura Urbanistica e Ingegneria delle Costruzioni del Politecnico di Milano, nell’ambito degli eventi del Fuori Salone 2018, è stata il risultato di un lavoro di ricerca che, oltre allo studio del materiale d’archivio, ha visto collaborare, in stretta sinergia, un collaudato gruppo di ricercatori, grafici, restauratori e non ultima la preziosa partecipazione degli stessi progettisti. un prototipo della Blow è stato oggetto di ulteriore studio e “preso in carico” dal gruppo di ricerca CESMAR 7, un'associazione senza scopo di lucro che ha al suo interno specialisti nello studio e nel restauro dei materiali plastici, che ha effettuato, con ammirevole attenzione tutte le fasi di pulizia e gonfiaggio della poltrona e anche una piccola riparazione, puntualmente rimossa dopo lo sgonfiaggio al termine dell’esposizione e al suo nuovo ricovero in archivio. Un allestimento in divenire, ma soprattutto un progetto che ha visto nel corso della sua realizzazione un notevole arricchimento, dando ancora maggior senso alla mostra, facendo comprendere a noi “curatori” la vera ricchezza dell’archivio e dei materiali che conserva, e cioè quella di poter disporre di un materiale assolutamente prezioso ed unico, in cui è stato possibile mettere in valore e ricostruire il processo creativo e tecnico che ha portato alla sua realizzazione e farlo rivivere al presente all’interno di una nuova narrazione, che ha ancora nella potenzialità della ricerca in più ambiti e differenti approfondimenti il suo elemento centrale
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