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Grouping ceramic variability with pXRF for pottery trade and trends in early medieval Southern Tuscany. Preliminary results from the Vetricella case study (Grosseto, Italy)
Full text linkThe characterization of archaeological ceramics according to their chemical composition provides essential information about the production and distribution of specific pottery wares. If a correlation between compositional patterns and local production centers is assumed, pottery manufacturing and trade and, more generally, economic, political, as well as cultural relations between communities and regions can be investigated. In the present paper, the combined application of portable XRF and statistical analysis to the investigation of a large repertory of ceramic fragments allowed us to group the assemblage by identifying geochemical clusters. The results from the chemical and statistical analysis were then compared with reference ceramic samples from the same area, as well as with macroscopic and petrographic observations to confirm, coalesce or sub-divide putative sub-divisions. The study of 141 samples from different sites located within a wide area spanning across the Colline Metallifere and the coast (Monterotondo Marittimo, Roccastrada, Donoratico, and Vetricella) provided new clues for a new interpretive archaeological framework that suggests that there was a well-defined organization of pottery manufacturing and circulation across southern Tuscany during the early medieval period
Studio colorimetrico di un repertorio di ceramiche provenienti dal sito archeologico di Tell Barri (Siria)
No full textUno studio colorimetrico su una serie di manufatti ceramici provenienti dal sito archeologico di Tell Barri (Siria,) è stato condotto all’interno di un più ampio progetto di indagini archeometriche portato avanti nell’ambito del progetto TEMART (Tecniche avanzate per la conoscenza materica e la conservazione del patrimonio storico-artistico). I 36 frammenti analizzati, molto eterogenei per caratteristiche tessiturali, rappresentano una vasta gamma di produzioni ceramiche della Siria nord-orientale (dalla ceramica comune fino alla ceramica metallica e alle ceramiche di lusso) e abbracciano un vasto intervallo temporale, che va dal Bronzo Antico fino al Ferro III.
Lo studio sulle temperature di cottura dei manufatti è stato condotto attraverso misurazioni colorimetriche (spazio CIE L*a*b* e CIE L*C*h) sui campioni sottoposti a operazioni di ricottura a temperature crescenti e comprese fra 600°C e 1100°C. L’elaborazione dei risultati conseguiti ha inoltre permesso, per ogni campione, di realizzare curve colorimetriche sul piano a*b* e di studiare il comportamento di tinta e saturazione (spazio CIE L*C*h) al variare della temperatura di ricottura: questo ha consentito di suddividere i campioni in base alle analogie riscontrate negli andamenti delle curve ottenute e di poter stabilire dei rapporti anche fra campioni a prima vista molto diversi. Le classi ottenute hanno inoltre mostrato una notevole corrispondenza con quelle indicate dagli archeologi consentendo di ritenere che la tecnica analitica impiegata possa essere considerata un valido strumento nell’analisi di manufatti ceramici
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
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