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Ontologies for Interoperating Sustainable Manufacturing: New opportunities for the Automotive Sector
No full textSustainability is a key issue in every production activity. At the same time, interoperability of the production processes is almost crucial to the most advanced manufacturing processes, particularly for the automotive sector because of its incidence on overall impact on environment. A new question then arise, quite new indeed: how and to which extent the sustainability of processes can be assured in a more complex scenario of interoperating enterprises? The reason is the variety of regions and thus rules, habits and praxes that might be involved along the product life-cycle. In the paper, a possible solution to achieve sustainability of interoperating manufacturing processes is presented. The solution is based on the most advanced artificial intelligence tools: ontologies. The problem here faced is how to structure and design an ontology-based system for supporting decisions assuring sustainable solutions within an interoperability framework. The system devised as well as the consequent structure adopted are discussed by the grace of an example of a simple automotive component
Le riforme nelle Marche. Una ricerca sui risultati del decentramento nel settore Sanità, Servizi sociali, Formazione lavoro e Turismo
No full textNorthern voices: How far can a bottom-up 'new regionalism' go towards answering the English Question?
No full textEd Cox and Arianna Giovannini survey the new political parties that have emerged in the north of England advocating greater decentralisation to English regions. While electoral success may be some way off, this is a propitious time in UK politics for building democratic momentum behind a bold and positive vision of devolution
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
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