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Geremia Francesco
No full textSi indaga la produzione artistica di Geremia Francesco, argentiere palermitano documentato nel XVIII secolo in SiciliaWe investigate the artistic production of Geremia Francesco, a Palermo silversmith documented in Sicily in the 18th centur
Environmental geology applied to geoconservation in the interaction between geosites and linear infrastructures in south-eastern Italy.
No full textSouthern Italy includes a large variety of geological environments represented by sedimentary, metamorphic and volcanic rocks. The understanding of the complex geological historyleading to the present-day setting of Southern Italyhas been achieved through a great number of geological studies performed on key localities which show geological features of elevated scientific interest. Often, these key outcrops orgeosites,fall into highly sensitive and vulnerable areas, especially wherelinear infrastructures occur,represented inmost cases by railways, roads and bridges.The main aim of this paper is to analyze the interaction between some significant geosites and linear infrastructures. Therefore, the study takes into account the guidelines provided by ISPRA (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research)and the experience arising from a series of activities and projects carried out by the SIGEA (Italian Society of Environmental Geology).As a first step, we have linked the principles and applications of the "Environmental Geology"with the concept of "Geoconservation". .Two case-studies have been selected and described. The first case concerns the interaction between the Lagonegro Calabro-Lucanarailway bridge (Basilicata Region, Southern Italy) and a Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (DSGSD) affecting the bridge. Thus the landslide activity is recorded by the progressive deformation of the bridge. The second case is represented by the interaction between the Torre di Lesco cave(Apulia Region, Southern Italy) and theRoad n. 96 (Altamura-Bari) where the construction for the widening the road led to the discovery of an impressive, hitherto unknown, karstic cave
Relationality: between environmental awareness and societal challenges. International meeting, Budapest (Hungary) 27-29 May, 2016
No full textSiamo parte di un pianeta in continua evoluzione. Da una prospettiva fisica ed evolutiva, e dal punto di vista dello sviluppo umano e sociale, si stanno manifestando collegamenti fondamentali tra evoluzione biologica e culturale. Oggi, più che mai, stiamo assistendo alla relazionalità fondamentale tra gli stili di vita individuali, le relazioni tra le persone come membri della società e l’ambiente in cui viviamo. Di fronte alla nostra attuale crisi ecologica, sono urgentemente necessarie soluzioni integrate e complete che considerino queste relazioni tra sistemi naturali e sociali. Quali sono i valori chiave e le sfide che ci attendono per sviluppare queste soluzioni e assicurare una maggiore consapevolezza ambientale come individui società? Siamo pienamente consapevoli delle implicazioni delle relazioni di reciprocità e di dialogo in quanto influenzano e promuovono iniziative ecologiche? Questo volume spera di iniziare un dialogo aperto e transdisciplinare attorno a queste domande
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
A Geological Itinerary Through the Southern Apennine Thrust Belt (Basilicata—Southern Italy)
Full text linkThe proposed geological itinerary connects a series of impressive outcrops distributed between the front and the inner portion of the Southern Apennine thrust belt. It offers the opportunity to visit some of the most interesting and best- exposed Southern Apennine geosites, inserted within land- scapes typical of the different sectors of the thrust belt, in order to illustrate its geological evolution. The itinerary has been designed in such a way as to intersect different stacked tecton- ic units and a great variety of sedimentary successions whose age ranges from Triassic to Pleistocene. Each of the chosen geosite contains multidisciplinary geological information that may be of interest for researchers, but may be also appreciated by a general public interested in geology. In particular, the stratigraphy, the structural geology and the geomorphology are the most recurrently treated topics. Most of these outcrops extend for many hundreds or thousands of metres and include villages or mountain reliefs. Therefore, every single site can be considered as an areal geosite containing particular geolog- ical features. However, the largest geosite can also be ob- served in a panoramic view from suitable locations. Thus, each of these sites provides different evidence and when com- bined together provides an opportunity to understand the com- plex geological history of the Southern Apennines. The moti- vation for establishing this itinerary mostly resides in the great
* Giuseppe Palladino [email protected]
scientific interest of the chosen outcrops; this will hopefully facilitate their conservation and the development of geotourism
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
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