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VENTO. La Rivoluzione leggera a colpi di pedale e paesaggio
No full textQuesto libro racconta la storia del progetto VENTO, una dorsale cicloturistica da VENezia a TOrino lungo il fiume Po. Un nuovo paradigma culturale per vivere in modo diverso gli spazi aperti e il loro mutamento. Un progetto di rianimazione del paesaggio capace di proporre nuova occupazione ed economie diffuse per lo sviluppo sostenibile delle aree interne del Paes
Regenerating small and medium sized stations in Italian inland areas by the opportunity of the cycle tourism, as territorial infrastructure
Full text linkThis study aims at demonstrating how cycle tourism could activate a regeneration of small and medium sized stations
in inland areas, able to involve also territorial and urban areas hosting these stations. Starting point of this research is
the issue of the small and medium sized Italian stations, mostly unused even if they are still active as rail service. Since
control of trains’ traffic is organized only in bigger railway yards, small stations are gradually becoming empty containers:
ghost stations, without any railway personnel. Thanks to the potentiality of the cycle tourism, riding slow through
landscapes, it becomes possible to valorize and safeguard this heritage, not only exploiting its potentiality as shiftnode
between train and bike, but also imaging a systemic strategy triggering urban, territorial and social reactivation.
Main challenge was to experiment how another model of mobility, the cycle tourism, able to promote a territorial
project preferring to pass slowly through the inland areas, avoided by the fast infrastructural lines, could contribute in
such regeneration process. In order to validate this intuition, it was carried out a project of four stations in proximity
of the cycle tourist path VENTO, along the Po River. These stations were transformed in “green mobility hubs”, where
shifting from train to bicycle and vice versa. This becomes the occasion to imagining new functions hosted in empty
spaces of stations (both internal and external): they will provide cycle tourists with territorial info and specific services,
such as repair areas and bikes and baggage safekeeping and both tourists and local inhabitants with social activities
in order to bring them to live again station’s area. These functions want to generate an expectation, both in tourists
and local people, to rediscover the territory around: in this way stations reassume their role of urban and territorial
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ReLambro. Il fiume nuova infrastruttura ecologica della metropoli milanese
Full text linkLo studio raccoglie gli esiti di tre anni di progetto per la rete ecologica del Lambro Milanese cofinanziato da Fondazione Cariplo, con partner Politecnico di Milano, Ersaf (capofila), Legambiente Lombardia, PLIS Media Valle Lambro. Sviluppato in forma multidisciplinare come un documento di ricerca e azione, si propone con un vero e proprio documento di riferimento per tutti i soggetti che vogliono operare sul Lambro, o più in generale in ambiti fluviali in contesti urbani, fornendo uno strumento pratico da utilizzare per le azioni di riqualificazione fluviale e ambientale, nell’ottica di migliorare la funzionalità eco-sistemica del territorio e costruire e rafforzare la connessione ecologica a tutela della biodiversità
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
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