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Landscapes’ functions and human health: incidence of environmental changes
No full textLandscape functions and
antrophical needs. In the multiplicity
of landscape functions
and from its complexity we can
derive functions potentially therapeutic
or, anyway, fundamental
for human well-being. To do this
it is necessary start again from
real human needs, which aren’t
only the physical or material
ones, which can be satisfied by
technological world, but which
concern to mind and ethic, the
only instrument which allow
us to take decisions stamped to
human species conservation and
not human-being conservation
in despite of community.The first step is to untie the knot “I do the damage then I
repair it” which help only to increase energetic needs
which are introduced into the system and determine
important changes on the environment till it won’t be
suitable for human life on the Earth.
Multifunctionality and artificialisation. It is
really important to respect the complex landscape
features also working on its therapeutic functions, in
order not to specialize in a too monofunctional way
parts of territory too wide and to respect original
features of the places, the limiting factors, their evolutionary
potentialities, also during transformation
processes. This is what keeps alive a landscape, on
the contrary, a plan finalised towards therapy may
have two effects: the resulting landscape will lose a
big part of its efficacy, in other words we replace a
functional autoregenerating unit with a high energetic
consume unit which has nothing to do with the place’s
potentialities. In this case we do nothing different
from the actions which take to artificial environment
(Figure 7). This second approach can’t solve the initial
paradox, but it exalts it. It is thus necessary think
again the cities as complex organisms constituted
by different and interactive parts, in which natural
functions enter and therapeutic gardens constitute
tesseras of an healthy well-constructed mosaic which
includes parts expressly finalised to therapeutic functions
towards some pathologies.Awareness and Nature. But there is an aspect
particularly critical: the detaching of “urban metropolitan
animal” by the nature, put him away from its
conscience, from processes which are at the base of
food production, of the food chain, of the processes
which happen without human intervention and problem’s
awareness. What we don’t know is generally
fear: the tendency is to keep at distance or to escape.
Urban generations which form themselves without
knowing the nature, without set up an also affective
relationship with it and with the land, won’t be able
to feel responsible for the environment when will be
their turn to make decisions which interact with the
environment. A quote which synthetize very well what
is written: “What does a condor extinction mean for a
children who never saw a wren?” (the naturalist Robert
Michael Pyle). Nature is out the cities, but the cities
are government places where ideas born and decisions
are made about the destinies of far places. How can
we decide reasonably about objects and, above all,unknown processes? So, contact with nature doesn’t
have the only meaning to contribute to psycho-physical
well-being of the human being or some communities.
It has a wider meaning of giving base for a sustainable
management of Earth system in the following years, so
it may guarantee the survival in environments suitable
for life of human beings, besides of the other animal
and vegetal species which have always constituted the
environment which allowed the evolution of human
species itself.
A change of trend seems unpostponable: care for
health, to a deeper and complete health may be the
incipit for a new cycle.
A new environmental accounting, which insert
indicatives of use of the metropolitan areas which
count direct, indirect and differed in time costs of the
rising infrastructures, savings due to favourable environments,
access to services, to places suitability, to
human well-being
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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