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The effect of new urban design action on promoting the public space vitality in the inner city
Full text linkThe pedestrian movement across the public space is a key factor to investigate the increasing capability of growth of public space vitality, its interaction between people, land uses and economic activities in the inner city as a compact urban area. Vitality of the public space is based on how friendly and attractive an area is to walk; has an important role in Persian culture through the time and it reaches to highly importance when the social interfaces in the inner city mostly take place in spaces like Bazaar. For the Persian urban society, Bazaar is a place formed by covered and uncovered spaces work as a centre where public life transpires because of social-cultural and economic interactions. The Urmia Bazaar had played this substantial role as a place for daily/weekly interaction between different socioeconomic classes for centuries since the city was inside walls and through the new modernizations changes in inner city following the growth in 20th century. New urban planning movements in the beginning of last century following the rapid growth of the city and changes in the urban fabric of the inner city affect the uses of public space in both covered and uncovered spaces. This study tries to develop on one hand, comparing the pedestrian mobility based on the proportion of urban natural movement resulted by the urban network configuration as Hillier et al (1993) defined. On the other hand, it studies different periods of the inner city, surrounded by wall and after of the new changes in the layout of the city to analyses how these changes affects the pedestrian movement and the liveliness increase the vitality of the Bazaar and the surroundings public spaces. It allows to understand how new urban configuration affects the soft mobility and the vitality of the public space
VITALITY IN TIME: THE USE OF URMIA BAZAAR
No full textBazaar is the most liveable part of any city in middle east. Mostly covered (less uncovered
streets or Rastehes) public space which was the most interactive part of the city specially in
the past. Bazaar not only is as answer as economic centre in the city but also is the most
socio-cultural attractive space in the city to serve people in different levels of accessibility.
Spatial characteristic of Bazaar besides its role during the time in the inner city and how it
affects the socio-cultural aspects of public space; is one of the scopes recently interested
many researchers, professionals, and decision makers. Meanwhile, Urmia Bazaar among the
others is one of the samples in northwest of Iran, experiences various transformation
through the time mostly in last 100 years, specifically changes in inside and enclosed spaces
layout.
Pedestrian movement through the public space is a key issue to find out how they develop
and grow through the time the main spatial characteristic of the public space such as vitality
and socio- cultural-economic interaction in it.
This study developed with comparing the pedestrian natural movement as it was addressed
by Hillier (1993, 2012) with some syntactic and topological measures in different periods to
fulfil how streets were used through after and before changing in the layout of the public
space in one side. On the other hand, it tries to clarify how visual characteristic of the form
of the space can invite further participants to the space in different layouts for Urmia Bazaar
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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