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New Perspectives for the Understanding of Extra-Urban Architecture in the Roman Cisalpine Area
No full textVille e fattorie nell'Italia settentrionale in epoca romana (II sec. a.C. - V sec. d.C.): architettura, economia e società
Get PDFThe aim of this Ph.D research is to provide a representative framework of the forms and role of extraurban farms and villas in Northern Italy, on the basis of accidental findings.
The research project included the systematic census of the sites starting from the publishing documentation. The data have been entered into a relational database, adapted and constantly optimized by taking into account the different features of the data needing to manage.
At the same time a GIS has been developed: it allow to compare results on a geographical basis as well.
Finally, 203 sites have been selected and catalogued, they are divided by modern regions Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, and they can be ascribed to the chronological period between second century B.C.E. and fifth century C.E.
The first part of the thesis aims to provide a consistent framework of the argument and to present the project, clarifying the criteria used, the limits and the innovative aspects.
The collected documents was then processed through the computer tool (i.e. relational database), forming the basis for further analyses.
First of all, typological features have been investigated: the analysis of the sites allowed to formulate some reconstructive hypotheses concerning the general organization of the buildings and the arrangement of the different areas or functional spaces within them. For this purpose, the data have been supported by precise comparisons with better known cases.
Once the objective features of the sites were analyzed and identified by their forms and models, it has been proceeded into a critical analysis of their functional role, which helped to identify the functional Types, distinguished on the basis of clear evaluation criteria. The conclusion is that the territory must have been occupied by a widespread hierarchical system of isolated complexes, generally developed since the Augustan age and characterized by a long continuity of frequentation, which lasted until the V-VI century CE, with renovations, plan variations and internal divisions.
The research will then provide a complete synthesis of the published data about isolated and extra-urban sites in Northern Italy, constituting a solid basis for future studies on the topic
Le ville romane nel territorio di Aquileia: alcune considerazioni in merito all'articolazione e all'uso degli spazi
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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