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Sabaudia e le città nuove degli anni Trenta
No full textThe paper examines the foundation project of the city of Sabaudia, Italy, in
the 1930s. In order to better comprehend the project, the following text presents
a general overview on a wide range of new cities examples of the period: from
the other Fascist projects for Italy and Italian colonies in Libya, Somalia and
Eritrea, to the German company towns; from the Russian new cities massive
program to the American expansions or foundations in the English garden city
style. The author underlines similarities and differences among these urban
experiences, contextualizing them in the national and international geo–political
strategies.
During the first half of the XX century thousands of new towns were
designed and built worldwide. The reasons of the new foundations are mainly
economic and political: the urban projects played, indeed, a pivotal role in the
government propaganda and they were related both to domestic policies and
colonial expansions overseas.
Sabaudia is part of the Fascist project of reclamation of Agro Pontino, a
marshland in Lazio Region.
The Italian project of reclamation and foundation of new cities can be
easily compared to a similar plan in Holland: they both share a large scale
reclamation, as well as the intention to give a territorial and civic role to the
new towns. In both the plans, main cities and secondary towns are provided, the
latter considered as service centres for the rural homes spread in the agrarian
territory.
In Italy the new cities are designed as strongly independent urban towns.
This is due to the Fascist rhetoric which wanted each urban project invested by
a big amount of political meaning and heroic references.
The project of Sabaudia does not show a severe geometric plan, but the
urban shape is quite open. This is due to the will of Luigi Piccinato, the main
architect and urban designer of the city, to involve the landscape elements in its
plan by both physical and visual connections.
Aware of the territorial and civic role demanded to the city, Piccinato wrote:
« Sabaudia has to be considered strictly connected to its own territory. . . and
the most beautiful and exceptional views can go deep into the life of the city
centre »
Laicità possibili
No full textNel dibattito, sovente confuso, che ruota attorno al “simbolo linguistico” della laicità, questo contributo cerca di ridefinirne, sinteticamente, i contenuti e i contorni come parola, principio e prassi.
Il tentativo è quello di proporre un modello temperato e aperto, verso il quale possano convergere i fili diversi, e spesso contrapposti, di prospettive e orientamenti di cultura.
Ne scaturisce un’idea di laicità configurata, soprattutto, come uno stile e un metodo, fondati sull’esercizio sistematico del dubbio e cercando, costantemente, di “capire prima di discutere, discutere prima di condannare”, secondo la felice indicazione di Norberto Bobbio.
La riflessione mette in evidenza come sia plausibile e significativo parlare di laicità al plurale, sul piano culturale come su quello politico, evitando esclusioni rigide; allo stesso tempo, non si rinuncia al giudizio critico, puntando a riconoscere alcune “laicità possibili”, in particolare nell’orizzonte contemporaneo, italiano ed europeo.
Infine, un’attenzione del tutto peculiare è stata riservata al ruolo problematico della dimensione religiosa entro la dimensione pubblica, coniugandosi la consapevolezza e maturazione dell’esperienza religiosa con la complessità del nostro temp
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
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