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Re-design Geography of spaces. Widen the edges
Get PDFLandscape project always works with nature: something perpetually transforming, expanding and retracting, without any rigid limits; it gives thickness to the edges, and looks at the "uncertainty" as one of the conditions in which the future scenarios can be prefigured. The contemporary territory has been described by features of complexity and uncertainty; a place where edges and internal limits are undefined, dynamic, and porous. Therefore, assuming the way of thinking of a landscape architect, it can be useful to understand and design that kind of places (Corner, 2006). The main characteristic of contemporary city is to be fragmented, that means lack of relations among places, and presence of many "other spaces" (Foucault, 2001): heterotopics, utopian and empty ones. Therefore, this kind of situation has led to disorientation, and it causes deprivation of the landscape. A paradigm shift is required (Ricci, 2012): new ecological continuity and public uses must to be implemented among fragments
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
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
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
Unfolding The Peri-Urban Landscape Design. Towards the definition of a Peri-Urban Lexicon for Catalytic Scenarios
No full textThis thesis presents research regarding the peri-urban territory and what it could become.
The peri-urban appears as an uncertain spatial condition, linked to the phenomena of urban sprawl and the consequent loss of local ecological and cultural identity. There is no single definition of what constitutes the peri-urban; it is something of an enigma in urban design history and theory. Moreover, although etymologically linked to a condition of subordination to a single center (peri = around, urbs = city), the contemporary urban model is complicated by polycentricity and the growth of cities into megaregions.
The peri-urban of the Neapolitan post-metropolis in Italy is used as fieldwork location in the thesis. Over the years, the process of peri-urbanization in the inner Neapolitan areas, mostly illegal, has profoundly changed the character of the territory. It has shifted from a predominantly agricultural and wooded landscape to one which is inconsistent, fragmented, and lacking in legible spatial and ecological qualities.
The thesis, in line with the UN sustainable development goals and recent European research, considers the hybrid, disordered, fragmented character of the peri-urban and the coexistence of ecological, urban, social, and economic factors as an opportunity to rethink this space as a reconfiguration of environmental systems.
Starting from an interpretation of the peri-urban as an active palimpsest, in continuous transformation, the research aims to provide a way of reading the peri-urban and unlocking its design potential. The study shows that a transdisciplinary approach, which finds synthesis in the landscape, can provide the basis for understanding the peri-urban and define design scenarios tailored to specific territorial features. The narrative takes place through a mixed-method, in which images, in support of the theory, play an essential role in the epiphanic process.
From this study, it emerges that, once the characteristics of the territory and its potential are understood, it is necessary to begin from acupunctural interventions. These can act as catalysts to reveal the most suitable spatiality for the specific territory, starting a creative process of a peri-urban design. The European research project REPAiR has been an opportunity to test this process and to imagine the activation of catalytic processes of landscape reconfiguration within a specific peri-urban sample in Naples. From this experiment, the thesis lays the foundation for creating a specific lexicon and handbook of key elements and design techniques that relate specifically to the peri-urban. As a synthesis of what emerged from this thesis, the lexicon does not pretend to be exhaustive. Still, it provides a basis for future research that could be useful to researchers and designers and represent an innovation in the current research on peri-urban
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
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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