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Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games 2026 : exploiting the NPF approach to enhance its organization.
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALELe Olimpiadi sono ampiamente considerate come uno degli eventi più significativi del mondo per la loro popolarità e versatilità. Le Olimpiadi generano diversi effetti di breve e lungo periodo sulle condizioni economiche, sociali, ambientali e politiche delle comunità ospitanti. Considerando l'importanza di questi eventi e il fatto che le imminenti Olimpiadi invernali del 2026 si terranno nelle città italiane di Milano e Cortina d'Ampezzo, questa tesi fornisce ai lettori alcuni utili spunti di riflessione su come ottimizzare gli impatti dell’evento sulla comunità ospitante. Queste riflessioni potranno essere anche utilizzate per migliorare la futura organizzazione delle Olimpiadi. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, in primo luogo, la tesi esamina gli studi esistenti sugli impatti delle precedenti Olimpiadi su città e sui paesi ospitanti. I principali impatti individuati nella letteratura vengono poi classificati quattro gruppi: impatti socioeconomici, socioculturali, fisici e politici. Poiché molti impatti negativi non sono solitamente discussi nelle narrazioni delle autorità prima degli eventi, nella fase successiva la tesi adotta un approccio proattivo. Utilizzando il Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) e i suoi elementi principali - tra cui ambientazione, personaggi, trama e morale - la tesi analizza le narrazioni contrapposte dei sostenitori e degli oppositori delle Olimpiadi invernali del 2026. L’utilizzo dell’NPF permette di articolare in maniera sistematica i potenziali impatti dell’evento dal punto di vista di ciascuna parte. Gli effetti positivi più probabili e fondamentali menzionati nelle narrazioni dei proponenti sono stati il miglioramento del turismo, l’incremento degli investimenti e dell’offerta di lavoro per gli abitanti della regione – nonché l’incoraggiamento implicito a fare sport e a seguire uno stile di vita più sano. D'altra parte, gli impatti negativi più importanti e prevedibili nella narrazione degli oppositori includono danni irreparabili al prezioso ambiente montano, nonché l'abuso di fondi pubblici locali. Questo studio rappresenta uno un utile strumento per assistere le parti interessate nell'organizzazione della prossima Olimpiade invernale in modo tale da ridurre al minimo gli impatti negativi, fornendo al contempo soluzioni per massimizzare gli impatti positivi collettivi.The Olympics are widely regarded as one of the world's most significant festivals because of their popularity and versatility. They have several short-term and long-term effects on the economic, social, environmental, and political conditions of the participating societies, and especially on the host community. Considering the importance of these events and the fact that the upcoming 2026 winter Olympics will be held in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, I wrote this dissertation to provide readers with some useful insight into how to make this glorious festival an enjoyable experience for the host society in a way that can also be used to improve future Olympics organization. To achieve this goal, I firstly reviewed former studies regarding the impacts of the previous Olympics on the host cities and countries to have open eyes for the organization of the following Olympics. Then, I categorized the results into four general groups including socio-economic, socio-cultural, physical, and political impacts. Since many predictable negative impacts are not usually mentioned in the authorities’ narrations prior to the events, I, in next step, adopted a proactive approach using the narrative policy framework and its main elements including setting, character, plot and moral. After studying contradictory narratives of the proponents and opponents of the 2026 winter Olympics, we extracted the potential key implications of this event from the perspective of each party. The most probable and pivotal positive effects mentioned in the narrations of the proponents were improvement of tourism, provision of capital and job for the people of the region, and encouragement of people to do sports and follow a healthier lifestyle. On the other hand, the most important and expectable negative impacts in the narration of the opponents include irreparable damages to the precious mountainous environment as well as the abuse of public budget of locals of the mountains. This proposed study is a comprehensive tool to assist the relevant stakeholders in the organization of the upcoming winter Olympic in such a way that the pertinent negative impact is minimized while providing the best and optimum platforms to maximize the positive outcome
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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