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DESTRUCTION INTO FRAGMENTS THOUGHTS COLLECTED BY MEANS OF IMAGES
No full textAs in a continuous chain, each image in this new journal issue is figuratively linked to the following one, creating a dialogue and raising questions on the different facets of the destruction. Destruction and Construction stand for both the process and its result. However, if construction has a finality in the constructed form, destruction has no purpose and completes itself in the unfinished.
In this space and time between wholeness and fragmentation also lies the possibility of rediscovering the profound meaning of beauty or ‘the greatest pleasure’ of life as a fragment, paraphrasing the role of Thomas Bernard’s ‘Old Masters’. It is a beauty that resides in the narrative power of time, in the feeling of “the other”, in the curiosity of discovery, in the possibility of a horizon of meaning on which to be born again each time.
Snapshot of the loss (Milan, 1946), utopian city fragments (The New Babylon, 1969), imprints of book pages carried away by the flood (Florence, 1966), erased artistic memory (Artemisia Gentileschi painting, 1616-1618), chaos of formal beauty (Krasnojarsk, 2010), new perspectives for the contemporary city (Paris, 1975), unexpected wounds immediately sutured (Beirut, 2020). But also abandoned architecture as a symbol of lifeless power (L’Aquila, 2006), earthquakes theatricality (Naples, 1981), destruction that breeds monsters (Francesco Hayez painting, 1867), and exploding collapsed bridge (Genoa, 2019) are here the ‘images of thought’ (Denkbilder) of the same narrative
Hospitable Hospital
No full textHealthcare has been often described as the most complex human organization ever devised.The life of hospitals has been supplanted many times by an aseptic compliance with norms, regulations, procedures, protocols, and hyper technologies. Hence, there is no longer any trace of the old sacred enclosures, the Greek temples, the Roman valetudinaria, hospices, of the home of the sick, or cathedrals and abbeys equipped to host people in need. The hospital as an inflexible monument of civic pride was to remain until the second half of the twentieth century.We often perceive the hospital as a place adorned with hard light, bare corridors, with no personal or interesting features. As Mukherjee wrote in The Emperor of All Maladies, “Science begins with counting. To understand a phenomenon, a scientist must first describe it; to describe it objectively, he must first measure it.” Hence, to describe the future of healthcare is necessary to understand the forces shaping it.Aging and growing populations, greater prevalence of chronic diseases, and exponential advances in innovative—but costly—digital technologies are the developments that continue to increase demand and expenditure. The future of healthcare is also much less centered around institutions; it is rapidly becoming decentralized, dematerialized, demonetized, and, ultimately, democratized. As healthcare becomes more data-driven, it is also becoming more personalized.This is the story of families moving to Gibraltar. This is the story of a new hospital—the ultimate housing for births, souls, hopes, and dignity. This project proposes Gibraltar as a healthcare destination. In the tradition of Swiss mountain open-air sanatoria, it has a strategic location, boasting effective local healthcare legislation, economic incentives, and continued infrastructural development between southern Europe and youthful north Africa. It is isolated from chaotic cities, with a positive climate (300 days of sunshine a year), green slopes, sea views, fresh air, and quieter streets.Gibraltar is the perfect set because of the current and forecasted importance of healthcare in its economy. Based on Gibraltar's budget between 2017 and 2019, a forecast envisions a growing expenditure in the healthcare field. The forecast demographic increase suggests almost 30% of the new population will be composed of children under 18.In the peaceful ambience of the mighty Rock, only a short walking distance from the Royal Naval Hospital, a block of sheltered housing with primary health facilities (emergency, occupational therapy, and imaging departments) aspires to renovate, making the transition from home to hospital imperceptible. By all measures, in fact, the home is the future of healthcare. Specifically, the proposal focuses on the design of a long-term residential paediatric centre, targeting young patients and families who normally travel far from their homes to specialized hospitals. Hence, the design for Gibraltar's 2050 hospital envisions the city-state as a place for treatment, healing, and recovery, strengthening the economy by serving the population expansion and strengthening Gibraltar’s position as an attractive and pleasant place to live.Architecturally, the bottom-up complex provides an experiential journey from medical processes and foyers, common spaces, and a public healing garden (the Rock itself), to rest, healing, and independence. The new social and architectural melting-pot attempts to combine the notions of domesticity and hospitality in a secluded area on the Rock.In summation, this social-architectural project aims to reach a point of privacy and dignity, especially through its small, human scale. Families and residents of all ages and origins can enjoy much-needed breathing space, and carry on their normal and dignified lives.The Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Desig
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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