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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
CBRN risks in maritime and land containers transport. Collected essays
Get PDFThe extraordinary diffusion of the employment of the containers has revolutionized the sectors of logistic and transports at a global level. Answering to standardization and efficiency requirements of international commerce, containers facilitated the growth of global trade and fostered a general reduction of transports-related costs. Each year about 108 million cargo containers are transported through seaports entailing the risks related to illicit trafficking and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazard (CBRN).
In order to face the threat of CBRN risks associated to the movement of containers, globally dedicated procedures aimed at collecting data, identifying risk sources and establishing of intervention are necessary.
This volume sets for itself the goal of facing technical, technological, regulatory, and political profiles connected to the movement of containers with the aim of increasing public awareness as well as offering effective instruments of comprehension and action in this sector
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Hybrid and Cyber Threats in Towns, Critical Infrastructures and Industrial Plants
No full textThe abstract proposes an innovative model to assess combined Hybrid and Cyber Threat in Towns, Critical Infrastructures and Industrial Facilities; the approach use innovative MS2G (Modeling, interoperable Simulation and Serious Game) paradigm in combination with AI to support risk assessment as well as design and reengineering of architecture and procedures to enhance resilience of complex systems
Strategic Engineering for Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness of Water Management Systems
No full textThe paper proposes the creation of an innovative strategic water management system based on Strategic Engineering approach through the combined use of Artificial Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation, Data Analytics in closed loop with data from the field in order to be able to reduce water waste on the entire water distribution network. In fact, despite the progress made in the field of sensors and data analysis, as well as the greater awareness from the users on the importance of reducing resources and water waste, losses on the water distribution network are still very high in many countries. Therefore, to turn be crucial to identify a new holistic approach based on trans-disciplinary technologies in order to identify most promising strategies for water management
Il danno esistenziale nell'ambito della tutela risarcitoria del danno non patrimoniale: evoluzione giurisprudenziale
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Alla luce delle sentenze a Sezioni Unite della Corte di Cassazione, gli autori ripercorrono l'evoluzione concettuale e giurisprudenziale del danno alla persona (nella figura
del danno biologico prima ed esistenziale poi) attraverso un excursus storico, al fine di focalizzare l'attenzione sul ruolo del medico legale nell'ambito della nuova concezione del danno non patrimoniale.S U M M A R Y
In the light of the judgements of the Court of Cassation's United Sectiones, the authors retrace the conceptual and jurisprudential evolution of harm to person (before in
the figure of the biological damage and then of the existential one), through a historical digression in order to focus attention on the role of the medical examiner in the range of
the new conception of no-property damage
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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