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Segni e comprensione, n.108/2024
No full textA language, after all, is what let beings manifest themselves. Thinking so is the topos in which the gathering together of things and persons is thought. And many are the paths which thinking can take to articulate that gathering. In Austin Mbozi’s essay, Problematizing Western Reparations for Colonial Injustices: Clearing the Way for African Ubuntu, the focus is Western theories of material compensations and reparations for colonial injustices. The author highlights seven theoretical and practical problems associated with material compensations for Africa and he defends the African ethicists’ emphasis on restoring the dignity of victims, supported by the equal sacrifice principle. Mbozi then, finds the equal “sacrifice/dignity” restoration alliance a plausible focuses on the disposal of the dead which differs across cultures and times due to prevailing factors including traditional beliefs, normative worldviews, and resource availability. The paper seeks to explore the views of the Batswana regarding disposal of the dead through a case study of Ledumang Ward in Gaborone, Botswana. Frederick Njumferghai delves into a comparative analysis of the metaphysical concept of the human person in the Yoruba tradition versus Western philosophy. It explores the tripartite nature of human person in Yoruba culture, consisting of the body (ara), the soul (emi), and the significant element known as the inner head (ori). The Yoruba view emphasizes predetermined destiny through the ori, in contrast to the body-soul division commonly found in Western thought. John Mundua, in turn, focuses on that ontological conception which grounds an environmental ethics which is independent of any human ascription. According to such conceptual framework, he considers the African “cosmotheoandric” worldview as an ontology that implies intrinsic value of the environment. The main argument of his paper is that, from the African worldview, we can have an African extraction of environment ethics as a viable alternative for the care of the planet as the common home of humanity. Moses Muyuya’s essay, last but not least, is a case study, that is, an inquire on Amina Changwe’s situation through a counseling-client relationship by transference and counter-transference. After a clear examination of her case, the author moves onto mixed therapeutic measures which don’t exclude even pastoral counseling
Samia etiamnunc in esculentis laudantur (Pl., N.H. XXXV, 160-161). I vasi «aretini» a Roma
No full textGiorgio Rizzo, Samia etiamnunc in esculentis laudantur (PL, N.H. XXXV, 160-161). I vasi «aretini» a Roma, p. 799-848.
L'analisi dei vasi in terra sigillata italica provenienti da recenti scavi ancora in corso nel centro storico di Roma (aree della Meta Sudans, della Via Nova-Clivo Palatino, delle pendici settentrionali del Palatino e dell'antica Vigna Barberini) e databili tra il principato di Nerone e quello di Domiziano consente di ricostruire una nuova geografia della produzione di questa classe ceramica. Vasi di nuovo tipo, bolli di ceramisti mai prima attestati illustrano un panorama per alcuni versi alquanto diverso da quello conosciuto, in un'epoca, quella vespasianea, in cui le fornaci delle figlinae di Arezzo erano usualmente considerate ormai spente, ma che la nuova documentazione romana ci presenta ancora attive, in piena conformità con il tenore del passo pliniano.Rizzo Giorgio. Samia etiamnunc in esculentis laudantur (Pl., N.H. XXXV, 160-161). I vasi «aretini» a Roma. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité, tome 110, n°2. 1998. pp. 799-848
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
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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