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A Support System for Memory Impaired Subjects
No full textIn the fields of psychology and physiology
there are studies that relate stress to the difficulty of
transferring information from short term memory to
medium term memory. This difficulty is often the root of a
reduction in personal everyday's efficiency as things to do
tend to come to mind unordered and unplanned. We claim
that this phenomenon could be greatly reduced by
providing to the users timely information about which of
his planned activities can be efficiently performed in his
current environment and position. In this paper we
describe a system capable of extracting hints of user needs
from the user speech, translate those needs into query to a
geographic information systems and provide timely prompt
to the user as soon as the user current environment
provides to the user the possibility to efficiently perform an
action that satisfies one of his needs
Immagini belliche dai provenzali ai siciliani
Full text linkConsiderata l’importanza della Scuola siciliana alle origini della tradizione lirica italiana, è parso utile tornare sulla questione del rapporto con gli antecedenti occitanici. Essi hanno rappresentato infatti un modello fondamentale, che però non porta necessariamente all’imitazione. Infatti, quegli stessi antecedenti sono anche il punto di partenza nella ricerca di autonomia, attraverso selezione, trasformazione ed appropriazione degli strumenti espressivi. Un principio cardine nelle scelte dei poeti federiciani è l’astrazione, come dimostra la riduzione del poetabile alla sola lirica amorosa. Per illustrare tali aspetti, e dunque il passaggio dall’esperienza trobadorica a quella della Scuola, si è rivelata efficace l’analisi del corposo sistema di immagini incentrato sulla violenza, ricco e al contempo omogeneo (guerra, battaglie, armi, inimicizia, resa, vittoria, costrizione, tormenti, fuoco e cosí via). Il presente contributo mira ad osservare le diverse strategie d’uso del medesimo campo semantico nelle due diverse realtà culturali di Provenzali e Siciliani.Given the importance of Sicilian poetry as the origin of the Italian lyric tradition, it seems useful to propose once more the problem of its connection to Occitanic models. These models represent a fundamental example, which anyway doesn’t necessarily lead the Sicilian poets towards imitation. They are also a starting point in the search for autonomy through selection, transformation and appropriation of expressive tools. A key principle in the stylistic choices of Sicilians is abstraction, as demonstrated by their exclusive limitation to the theme of love. The analysis of images centered on violence (war, battle, weapons, hostility, surrender, victory, constriction, agony, fire and so on) is useful in examining in depth these aspects, and in general the passage from troubadours’ to Sicilians’ experience. The present essay highlights the different strategies in the use of the same semantic area within the two different cultural realities of Occitans and Sicilians. </p
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
Prefazione
No full textI curatori presentano la nuova serie dei "Quaderni di Gargnano", che accoglie gli Atti dei Convegni internazionali di Letteratura italiana intitolati alla memoria di Gennaro Barbarisi e organizzati, con cadenza biennale, presso la sede di Palazzo Feltrinelli dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, a Gargnano del Garda. Forniscono inoltre una sintetica rassegna dei contributi del volume, dedicato al Foscolo critico.The Editors introduce the new series of the "Quaderni di Gargnano", which hosts the Proceedings of the International Conferences on Italian Literature named after Gennaro Barbarisi and held every two years in Gargnano del Garda (Feltrinelli Palace, University of Milan). They also introduce Volume nr. 1, dedicated to "Foscolo critico", offer a general overview of the matter and contents of the contributions, and provide information on the open access policy of the "Quaderni"
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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