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LONDON CALLING. OFF-SITE BUILDING STRATEGIES FOR HOUSING DEMAND: THE UK CASE
No full textToday, a strong re-proposal of building prefabrication is at the basis of the new housing policies that can be detected in main evolved industrial contexts. Off-Site is the word through which the theme of prefabrication seems to recur under new auspices. Among the Countries of the European continent more involved in this new challenge, Great Britain offers several insights, considering its consolidated culture in the field of urban development and its historically dynamic real estate market. Great Britain and its capital, in particular, represent an ideal point of view to understand the potentialities and the criticalities of this new building culture, in the UK explicitly supported by specific housing policies. Starting from the author consolidated interest for technological innovation applied to housing issues and coherently with the historical attention that the same author has over the years perpetrated for the British social, economic and productive context (considered as an advanced context), the paper critically illustrates an innovative housing program underway in the City of London (based on the application of Off-Site production principles), questioning about new prefab housing potentialit
Innovazione tecnologica di sistemi, componenti e materiali = Technological innovation of systems, components and materials
No full textSUSTAINABLE PRODUCT-SERVICE FOR CHILDREN’S SOFT MOBILITY. FLURRY, THE INDOOR-OUTDOOR BIKE
No full textThe Imitation Game. The game as experience of a sustainable project
No full textFor a long time now, the game has been proposed as a way of interaction between designers, planners, citizens and public administrations to facilitate shared choices in the processes of transformation of the built environment.
The Imitation Game research, funded through a competitive call for tenders within the Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, for the assignment of the Fondo di Ateneo per la Ricerca di Base (formerly FARB), deepens and applies this approach to the specific topic actions on the territory oriented towards deep sustainability objectives, where the framework of environmental resources available is clear by applying the logic of role-playing and simulation games and verifying their effectiveness for sharing sustainability design choices that require significant changes to lifestyle of the players.
The research, still in its initial phases, allowed a first definition of the areas of interest and a survey on the state of the art of the Serious Games
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
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