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    From restauration manuals to historical architecture atlases: recognition, knowledge and awareness for the conservation

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    L’esigenza di superare il tracciato delineato dall’uso dei manuali di recupero, intesi quali cataloghi per soluzioni architettoniche di ripristino e ricostruzione, rende indispensabile una riflessione sul reale bisogno di questi strumenti e sulle loro ripercussioni operative. Se i manuali, molto spesso, esprimono una visione statica e totalizzante dell’edilizia storica, attraverso una ripetizione pericolosamente meccanica e pedissequa degli elementi raccolti e descritti, l’atlante dichiara una concezione dinamica e “sempre aperta”, in cui ogni elemento rilevato è caso a sé. L’atlante fa, quindi,  riferimento ad una concezione “geografica” in cui la catalogazione non è esaustiva e dogmatica ma, contrariamente da luogo ad un repertorio di casi criticamente analizzati nell’ottica della conoscenza e della conservazione

    The restoration and repair of Bolognese timber ceilings: material culture and decoration

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    Presentation of the research method about wooden historical ceilings during the period included between the XVth and the XVIIIth centuries. The method is based by the intersection of indirect sources with the analysis of 50 real cases of ceilings, chosen from the most significant inside some prestigious historical buildings in the city of Bologna. Moreover, this method has purposes to understand the several typologies, the historical evolution, the constructive vocabulary, the relationship between the techniques used and the decorative system for wooden historical ceilings. Analysis of indirect sources, with a particular focus on the Bolognese ancient price lists (Spinelli and Angelotti) and on their important contribute in order to define a typical constructive vocabulary. Panoramic classification of ceilings types present in Bologna deriving from the analysis of 50 real cases, accurately surveyed and studied into their main constituent parts, and from the comparison with historical indirect sources. Introduction of wooden ceiling finishings and decorations, studied in their temporal evolution and in their artistic and technological functions. A case of study, the reinforcement and restoration of ‘Serlio’s Style’ ceiling in Palazzo Fava

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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