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Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces Dialectics of an Exhibition
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2021.This thesis chronicles the logic and layout of Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces exhibition, curated by Dr Salvatore Settis and Dr Carlo Gasparri, and mounted at the Capitoline Museums, in 2020. The exhibition presents a long-awaited view of the highpoints in Roman sculpture, as collected by one of the great princely families of caput mundi. It is the result of decades of research. Its popular appeal, yet rigorous scholarly methods are presented with utmost subtlety, and complex visual and expository techniques. The exhibition’s resolution of distinct, and often contradictory, concerns lies in the precise use of historical curatorial methods. These methods, recast under an ahistorical tendency, are used pragmatically to construct visual statements dealing with restoration, collection practices, taste and meaning of classics. The exhibition is an emblematic example of curatorial practice of the twenty-first century and offers a practical and historical guide to construction of taste in relation to antiquities. To understand the language of the exhibition, syntactical, historical and semantic formulations are put under investigation. In that regard, this paper takes the Torlonia Exhibition as a case study and investigates the dialectic and linguistic foundations of curatorial practice, taking a look at our contemporary situation
Aristotelian Philosophy of Language and its Relation on Philosophy of Mind
Get PDFThesis (B.A. in Classics, Minor in Philosophy)--John Cabot University, Spring 2019.Aristotle is often attributed to have initiated the systematic study of fields of logic, physics,biology, mind and many others. Commonly this list does not include language. Surely, there areremarks, deep ones for that matter, in the Organon, but sensu stricto the study of language inAristotle does not go beyond a curiosity and at best; in secondary literature, at most, he receivesa vague reference that credits the so-called similitude theory of meaning. The theory is primitiveand not well-developed but the tools provided by contemporary philosophy of language are away to understand Aristotle’s project in its full extent. The methods of theoretical reductionismhave been applied to modern theories of language in relation to mind and the results are fruitful.Similarly, contemporary philosophical tradition enjoys a great analytic advantage, havingdivided the analysis of language into those of extension, intention, convention, psychology, &c.These categories, though not conceived by Aristotle in his time, can be used to investigate whatan Aristotelian theory of language can be, and more importantly, in which regards would it relateto the mind. For Aristotle admits in De Interpretatione that there are linguistic and psychologicalaspects to the study of meaning and that can be referred to De Anima for a more elaboratediscussion on psychology. A deeper inquiry into the relation between language and mind showsthat theory of language is formally prior to theory of mind. Similarly, the key vocabulary of themind, in particular the notoriously ambiguous notion of phantasma, is also reducible to thevocabulary of language, viz. pathéma
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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