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New light on some artists impressions of a visit to St Paul's Grotto in the 17th century
Full text linkThe cult of St Paul in Malta derives from the Apostle s shipwreck (Acts of the
Apostles, Chapters 27 and 28) which gained specific shape and interpretation through
oral and written interpretations and accounts over the centuries. The centre of this cult
was 'La Grotta di S. Paolo' in Rabat (Malta). The Counter Reformation programme with
its efforts to renovate and re-establish concrete objects of veneration and Malta's
increasing prosperity and her economic 'opening' towards Europe after 1530 were crucial
factors in the history of this cult. The focus of this paper is directed on three distinguished
artists' visit to the grotto in the 17'" century, and its echoes in their works and writings.
The comments on the shrine by Joachim von Sandrarf, Willem Schellinkx, and Lambert
Friedrich Corfey have, until now, escaped the attention of scholars.peer-reviewe
The ‘unequalled artist and architect Senior Anthonio, il maltese’, pioneer of Renaissance architecture and military engineering in Europe
Full text linkIn the 1530s and 1540s the Maltese architect and military engineer Antonio
(‘Fauczun’, ‘Anthoni Faissant’) signed responsible for the construction of several
prestigious fortifications, fortresses, public edifices, and palaces in the German towns
of Nuremberg, Lichtenau, Lauf, Hiltpoltsein, and Hersbruck, and most likely also in
Heidelberg and Brzeg in Silesia (today in Poland). Most of these constructions were part
of the avant-garde of early-sixteenth-century fortification technique and architecture
and very much praised by the contemporaries. Until now the name of Antonio Falzon
has escaped Maltese researchers and this paper aims to draw attention to this eminent
architect and military engineer who apparently also was active as artisan and designer.peer-reviewe
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
Count Georg Albrecht I of Erbach and Malta in 1617 - a story of facts, half-truth and missing information
Full text linkThe National Library of Malta houses a book entitled The Adventures of Count George Albert of Erbach. A true story (l 890). It is a translation from the German by Beatrice of Battenberg, the youngest daughter of Prince Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha who spent a great part of her youth at Malta. The German original was published three years before under the title Abenteuer des Grafen Georg Albrecht zu Erbach. Eine wahre Geschichte. Its author was the archivist in the services of the Counts of Erbach zu Erbach, Emil Kraus. Kraus describes in detail the journey by the young Count Georg Albrecht I of Erbach to Malta in early 1617, his sojourn and observations on the island and his subsequent captivity in Tunisia.peer-reviewe
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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