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Alcol e salute
No full textSecondo gli storici, il brindisi probabilmente ebbe origine dalle libagioni greche, in cui una parte della bevanda veniva versata in terra o su un altare in onore degli dei. La scoperta della distillazione diede avvio ad una serie di applicazioni “innovative” per l’alcol: lo sviluppo di farmaci ottenuti dall’estrazione su base alcolica di piante officinali da un lato e dall’altro la diffusione sul mercato di superalcolici per uso voluttuario dotati però di una maggiore efficaci psicotropa. Nel corso del 1900 i danni legati all’alcol sono stati descritti sempre con maggiore sistematicità, dopo aver trovato danni legati all’uso cronico di alcolici a carico del cuore e del fegato sono stati scoperti quelli a carico del sistema nervoso centrale
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
Niccolò D’Anastasio and his Scrittura doppia ridotta scienza
No full textThe aim of this work is to analyze the thought by Niccolò D’Anastasio, through his work, entitled “La scrittura doppia ridotta scienza” (The double-entry bookkeeping as a science) (D’Anastasio, 1803a; D’Anastasio, 1803b).
This inquiry has been performed by analyzing the Scholar’s slants, in relation to the historical time he lived in, and seeking to assess whether and how he contributed to the development of Accounting.
Indeed, the work by D’Anastasio displays many insights, which deserve to be highlighted as part of the cultural enrichment path of Accounting. This remark is based on the belief that in the evaluation of historical facts, final judgments do not exist and there is always room for further thoughts compared to prior stances (Canfora, 2017).
From a methodological perspective, we have put into context the Author in the geographical area and in the historical period he lived. So, we have analyzed D’Anastasio’s work, as a primary source, and the theoretical positions about him over time, as a secondary source.
We have followed a horizontal approach, insofar as the analyses on the Scholar was carried out with reference both to the hitherto scientific background and to the development of Bookkeeping.
Therefore, we have linked the thought by D’Anastasio with the theoretical stances immediately prior and subsequent to him, thus retracing the insights he provided with reference to either social and cultural events or bonds which had marked the development path of the accounting practice (Miller, Hopper and Laughlin, 1991; Giannessi, 1992; Keenan, 1998; Amaduzzi, 2004; Carmona, Ezzamel and Gutiérrez, 2004; Antonelli and D’Alessio, 2011).
It is worth noting that our inquiry has not provided any useful information about the life of the Scholar. Nothing new has emerged neither at the Venice State Archive nor at the Historical Library of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, although extensive investigations have been performed therein, as well as on biographical and bibliographical sources.
That said, from the structure of the work it can be inferred that D’Anastasio might not have been an academic scholar. Such a consideration emerges since he mentioned neither other accounting scholars nor he deepened the accounting thought at that time. So, this would be contradictory, insofar as the Author dwelled a great deal on the scientific side of his essay as well as on the purpose he envisaged, that is to set down a theoretic frame for the double-entry method.
Regardless of the rank of science by which D’Anastasio referenced his work, it is acknowledged by Accounting scholars that the early 19th century marks a fundamental recovery in accounting studies, thus setting the stage for the further upswing, in the second half of that century (Coronella, 2007, 119 ff.).
In this direction, the switching from stillness to the resumption of scientific outputs is precisely marked by D’Anastasio’s work, as is evident from his quotation in the preface: “My intention to break the almost universal silence in these theories seemed perhaps too daring” (D’Anastasio, 1803a, 5).
In the period immediately prior to the drafting of the work here discussed, along with the economic and social degradation, a significant decline in the quality of the works of Italian Accounting scholars rose (Bariola, 1897, 419-422; Brambilla, 1898, 4; Ceccherelli, 1915, 75-76; Melis, 1950, 714-715; Giannessi, 1979, 232-233; Masi, 1997, 233-234; Serra, 1999, 221-222; Privitera, 2003, 211-213).
The Italian Accounting authors of the 18th century, although numerous (Giuseppe Vergani, Sanpierdarena Nunzio Giuseppe Carlo Amato ed Urso, Giovanni Cavalà Pasini, Pellegrino Balugani, Vincenzo Maria Arena, Tommaso Domenico Breglia, Pietro Paolo Scali, Giacomo Della Gatta, Giuseppe Enea Marchi, Francescantonio Filonzi, Santi Giusti, Carl'Antonio Monti, Giovan-Domenico Bassaglia, Fererio Farghiscoc Antonino and Giuseppe Forni, as well as several Anonymous ones), did not have a great impact (Coronella, 2014, 132 -174). On the contrary, from the late 18th century and with considerable influence for much of the 19th century, scholars from other Countries, notably from France (in particular Edmond Dégrange) and UK (in precisely Edward Thomas Jones) virtually monopolized the European accounting culture, including the Italian one (Brown, 1905, 159-170; Reymondin, 1909, 48-53; Vlaemminck, 1956, 139-149). Their works were translated into numerous languages and, specifically, that by Dégrange was updated and reprinted over a span of more than a century.
In such a fruitless context for the Italian Accounting, the slants by D’Anastasio emerged. At the beginning of the 19th century, compared to the prior Italian “decadent” contribution, he introduced a series of prominent insights, which would have been a forerunner of the further improvements of the discipline
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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