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    Dante, Celestino e la Perdonanza: dalla Commedia al destination branding

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    Dante, Celestino and the Forgiveness: from the Comedy to a destination branding. – Despite references to Celestino V on the Divine Comedy are not clear, the lives of Dante Alighieri and the Pope are certainly intertwined. Dante’s expectations on a spiritual renewal of the Roman Church, disappointed by Celestino’s resignation, seem to find acknowledgment today in a series of actions devoted to promoting his main bequest, the Forgiveness, a new territorial brand that is also serving the purpose to help the territory of L’Aquila recover from the 2009 earthquake, especially in trying to fostering a tourism development around Celestino’s figure

    L’Avana tra riflessi del passato e riflessioni del Terzo Millennio = Havana at the Intersection between Past Heritage and Third Millennium Reflections

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    The Cuban capital has earned the reputation of «hermosa Habana» thanks to a peculiar fusion of multiple tangible and in- tangible heritage elements. The creation of a significant material architectural, historical, and cultural heritage (churches, palaces, artisanal forms, etc.) and the spread of an intangible heritage composed of indigenous, European, and African elements (visual arts, music, dances, cuisine, practices, and beliefs) have allowed the city to carve out a distinctive identity that sets it apart from many other capitals in the Americas, which were once under Spanish colonization and are now subject to chaotic and uncontrolled urbanization.La capitale cubana si è creata la fama di «hermosa Habana» grazie ad una peculiare fusione di più elementi patrimoniali materiali e immateriali. La costruzione, infatti, di un importante patrimonio architettonico, storico e culturale materiale (chiese, palazzi, forme artigianali, ecc.) e la diffusione di un patrimonio immateriale costituito da elementi autoctoni, europei e africani (arti figurative, musica, danze, cucina, pratiche e credenze) ha consentito alla città di ritagliarsi una sua specifica fisionomia che la distingue da molte altre capitali dell’America sottoposte, nel passato, alla colonizzazione spagnola e oggi preda di un’urbanizzazione disordinata e incontrollata

    Le politiche per rivitalizzare il tessuto socioeconomico, territoriale e culturale nell’Aquilano dopo il terremoto del 2009

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    La transizione a un’economia della conoscenza potrebbe offrire nuove opportunità di sviluppo alle aree interne italiane per contrastare i fenomeni di spopolamento. Un consistente intervento di rivitalizzazione territo riale sta interessando l’Abruzzo aquilano in seguito al terremoto del 2009, con l’idea di favorire una caratterizzazione dell’Aquila come città della conoscenza, smart, creativa, inclusiva e di valorizzarne il patrimonio per migliorare l’attrat tività turistica. Sebbene sia prematuro elaborare un report definitivo sull’impatto delle politiche sul territorio per una serie di fattori, è utile analizzare i risultati finora raggiunti per orientare le future scelte di policy-making e per aggiungere alla ricerca geografica sui territori marginali un caso di studio recente.The transition to an economy of knowledge may offer Italy’s inner areas new development paths to avoid depopulation. A significant intervention in territorial revitalization is regarding the L’Aquila area of Abruzzo, Central Italy, following an earthquake in 2009, in order to foster a development as a knowledge-driven, smart, creative and inclusive city and a valorisation of local heritage to enhance tourism attractiveness. Despite it is premature to elaborate a final report on the territorial impact of such policies, it is useful to analyze the results so far achieved to orientate future policy making and to add geographical research a recent case study on marginal areas

    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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