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La stanza del filosofo e il luogo del pensiero
No full textDespite all the banter about philosophy being a discipline in the Modernity, the question about the discursive and ontological boundaries remains, whether philosophy produces knowledge, or not, after the Cartesian’s model. In his discussion, Fimiani related Descartes’ philosophical speech act as an auto-representation too, and reads the Discours as a Tableau. Discussing Descartes’s picture, he reveals the ideological fields, rhetorical sources and morphological models of philosophical authorship as an extra-disciplinary moment in history of philosophy but in art history too. The architectural analogy of tabula rasa, destruction and reconstruction of the room of Cogito’s one's own, is interpreted as theological intentioned despite his atheist value. Keys for this reading are the critics of Paul Valéry, Paul Claudel and Michel Péguy’s writings on Descartes, and the genealogy of Nietzsche
Plasticità
No full textThe paper retraces the theory of the imaginary of Maurice Blanchot and his philosophical writings on art and image. Blanchot’s restrained presence in turn was not less decisive as a dialogue partner for French post-Heideggerian philosophy (Levinas, Derrida, Foucault). Fimiani shows how his writings are in a constant in dialogues not only with other literary and philosophical texts, both antique and modern–especially of Hegel, Lévinas and Heidegger, and of Bataille–, but with visual artworks too, namely the death mask and the sculpture.
The image will be outlined so as to bring forth the fundamental motif of these philosophical considerations: the image as the Latin imago, as a pictorial and iconic substitute, as a picture. The paper argues that the question of the image/picture thus enables us to approach the border which both unites and separates Blanchot and Levinas. This border between philosophy and literature, around which the writings of both revolve, is the question of exteriority, beyond any representational thinking or ethical turn of aesthetic, as in Levinas’ writings. The faint, but decisive difference is between laying patent and laying bare
Innovative technologies for NZEBs: an energy and economic analysis tool and a case study of a non-residential building in Mediterranean climate
No full textSeveral new technologies can be today implemented in buildings in order to achieve a NZEB. In this paper a novel computer model for predicting the energy demand of buildings integrating phase change materials, photovoltaic-thermal collectors, adjacent sunspaces and innovative daylighting control is presented. Through this tool, written in MatLab and conceived for research aims, the overall energy and economic performance of multi-zone NZEBs can be assessed. Both the active and passive influences of all the above mentioned technologies (even when simultaneously utilised) are taken into account since in the code they are modelled as building integrated. Parametric and sensitivity analyses, with a unique simulation run, can be carried out for research design purposes.
A novel relevant case study referred to a non-residential NZEB for Mediterranean climates is developed. For this building a suitable energy optimization analysis, was also carried out. For each use of the indoor space the optimal value of the pivotal design and operating parameters is calculated. Details about the optimal position of building PCMs and thermal insulation layers, also coupled to BIPV and/or BIPV/T systems are provided. For the obtained best configuration very low heating and cooling demands are achieved (1.6 and 2.9 kWh/m3y, respectively). Results about a simplified economic analysis carried out on the investigated energy saving technologies are reported. At last, new NZEB definition details and criteria are provided for non-residential buildings located in the southern European zones (Mediterranean climates)
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
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