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Architettura rurale nel Parco del Beigua. Guida alla manutenzione e al recupero.
No full textThe Guide, directly reffered to the site of the regional park f Beigua, face the vast and complex theme of the future destiny of rural architecture, which many studies have been devoted to, at least since a century, merging input from multiple disciplines. Recently there has been a renewed and growing interest in these kind of artifacts, associated with agricultural use, but a real consciousness on the complexity of the problem of its enhancement is still missing, even due to the lack of systematic studies, which date at the thirties and fifties of last century. The Guide is strongly pushing the attention of the user to the importance of the design process; the book intends to give advice without, in the meantime, interfering with specific proposals (case by case). The Guide has to be intended as an instrument that aims to define some questions and to provide possible answers, avoiding the definition of standardized detailed solutions. Authors prefer, in fact, to clarify the presence of different problems, connected together, each of which may be solved through different technical answers, chosen case by case by the Guide’s users.
The book is based on the knowledge that, before putting hand on an existing building, you must have investigated its materials, constructive methods, structural logic, state of conservation, reasons and causes which have led to structural desease. The text, therefore, suggests a path through the consistency of traditional rural architecture, highlighting values and defects, required new performances and constraints, aiming to preserve and enhance, as much as possible, a fragile inheritance, in balance with its surrounding landscape.
The Guide is divided into chapters, each relating to a specific part of the building (walls, roofs, floors ...) and preceded by an initial chapter on different building morphologies linked to the type of use and landscape. Each chapter follows the same structure: a description of the materials and constructive techniques, recurrent degradation phoenomena, structural desease and functional defects, performances required by new uses, information on preventive analyses to be performed. Following the description of the actual state of the building(s) or its part(s), is a description of general principles to achieve a “sustainable” recovery; this description is accompanied also by pictures and brief descriptions of some interventions considered as "critical". Once the chapter has clearly defined all the problems (defects) that afflict a buildings or one of its part and, in the meantime, what could be considered as a value to be preserved, there is a description, in text and graphic form, of different possible technical alternative measures related to the specific problems previously identified
Un metodo non invasivo per la misurazione delle propietà visco-elastiche della cute in soggetti sani e in soggetti affetti da sclerodermia.
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A non-invasive method for measuring the visco-elastic properties of the skin in healthy subjects and in subjects with scleroderma.
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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
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