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Oltre i confini: verso la regionalizzazione dell'urbano. W 1.2 Il paradigma bio-regionale per il progetto di ri-territorializzazione (re-embedding) dell'insediamento urbano
No full textIl capitolo rende conto di una rilettura ed interpretazione del paradigma bio-regionale come riferimento per pratiche interpretative, di governance e progetto di territorio finalizzate alla “ril-ocalizzazione” dell’insediamento umano nel suo milieu socio-culturale ed ambientale di prossimità. Il riferimento primario è all’ampio e polifonico movimento culturale bio-regionale sviluppatosi in particolare negli Stati Uniti tra la fine degli anni sessanta e l’inizio degli anni settanta del XX secolo
The Role of Sense of Place in the Recovery of Local Food Systems in Bioregional Contexts. Challenges and Opportunities
No full textRegenerating Local Food Systems (LFS) -– also known as City-Region Food Systems (CRFS) or foodsheds -– can bolster local socio-economic self-reliance and promote sense of belonging, place attachment, and stewardship among inhabitants of local communities. LFS are particularly effective within an urban bioregion framework which underpins and fosters the recovery of a co-evolutionary relationship between human settlements and the surrounding territory / ecosystem. LFS are key factors in reinterpreting global/local relationships and in referring to the food-production/consumption system as a viable tool for reclaiming the metabolic, cultural, and economic relationships between local societies, their inhabitants, and their resources. LFS sustain a sense of belonging and attachment to place values and to local heritage as underpinning elements for a fair and sustainable transition. We describe some initiatives in Tuscany, focusing on innovative, participative tools such as Food Communities and Organic Districts, –- institutionally established, but dependent on the commitment of inhabitants, consumers and stakeholders -– and on bottom-up, place-based, re-inhabiting practices, (Lucca Food Plain, SlowFood Presidia and Quality & Services (public catering service). In conclusion, we highlight key challenges to and potential benefits of LFS enhancing self-reliant, sustainable foodsheds in urban bioregions and stimulating innovative tools to integrate spatial planning and agri-food policy
Il paradigma bio-regionale per il progetto di ri-territorializzazione (re-embedding) dell’insediamento umano
No full textIl testo propone una rilettura ed interpretazione del paradigma bio-regionale come riferimento per pratiche interpretative, di governance e progetto di territorio finalizzate alla “rilocalizzazione” dell’insediamento umano nel suo milieu socio-culturale ed ambientale di prossimità. Il riferimento primario è all’ampio e polifonico movimento culturale bio-regionale sviluppatosi in particolare negli Stati Uniti tra la fine degli anni sessanta e l’inizio degli anni settanta del XX secolo. È in questo quadro che si costituisce progressivamente il tema del “bioregionalismo urbano” o della “bioregione urbana” come nodo concettuale intorno al quale ri-articolare il recupero di una relazione co-evolutiva fra dimensione urbana e rurale.The article reflects on the re-reading and interpretation of the bio-regional paradigm as a reference for interpretative practices, governance and territorial design aimed at the "relocation" of human settlement in its socio-cultural and environmental milieu of proximity. The primary reference is to the broad and polyphonic bio-regional cultural movement developed in particular in the United States between the late sixties and early seventies of the twentieth century. It is in this framework that the theme of "urban bioregionalism" or "urban bioregion" is progressively established as a conceptual node around which to re-articulate the recovery of a co-evolutionary relationship between the urban and rural dimensions
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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