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TRANSFORMATION DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE TOURISM: A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND WELL-BEING IN DESTINATION
No full textThis paper addresses the need to reflect on how systems for implementing tourism practices should be redesigned to facilitate sustainable social transformation in destinations. Responsible tourism today is implemented on existing (unsustainable) tourism systems and is visible through the planning of sustainable actions influenced by the political agenda and applied individually by service providers, stakeholders and tourists. If we shift the observation perspective of the system, can there really exist a form of responsible tourism that has a positive impact on the territories and communities that host it? In this scenario, transformation design of tourism fosters the implementation of processes and approaches that involve local communities and stakeholders in the definition of a new systemic social, cultural and economic paradigm. The paper presents a model for co-designing responsible tourism services in destinations, shifting the focus from consumer perception to the actual sustainability implications within host communities. The framework is intended as a cue for critical reflection with a view to resizing the tourism offer by questioning the current model of mass tourism in favour of a tourism structure oriented towards the creation of social and cultural value. The theoretical framework intends to propose a perspective in which destination tourism systems are designed giving greater value to communities, territories and cultural resources. The research aims to reflect on the concept of sustainability as a premise on which to design participatory practices for responsible tourism reaching a systemic sustainable balance moving from an extractive to a generative economy for local communities in destination
Designing the proximity: Temporary exhibition of a research project's constellation
No full textCould reframing new contemporary constellations based on new declinations of proximity be possible? City is a multifaceted entity and a dense structure at the same time, including tangled nets of dynamic and self-organizing systems at different administrative, political, and technological scales, for the creation of more sustainable futures. While we are experiencing the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, we ask ourselves about many aspects of our lives, and above all we ask ourselves if some behaviors and habits will remain the same as in the past or if they will undergo transformations. The objective is also to establish a renewed relationship between citizens and the temporal dynamics of their cities, facilitating their reconnection with the spaces in closest proximity to them. In this panorama, the principal aim is to imagine future scenarios for our cities, for a different use of public spaces, more inclusive, which responds to the needs and desires of different urban populations: children, elderly, animals, non-human agents, etc. For this reason, this chapter explores the subject of proximity designing through an exhibition of 30 projects by the students from the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano, who offer different declinations of the term divided in 15 keywords
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
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