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Diplomazia, finanza ed imperialismo nella formazione della Banca del Marocco: la partecipazione italiana
No full textLa partecipazione italiana alla gestione e alla capitalizzazione della Banca del Marocco è stata fino ad oggi poco analizzata. Formata a seguito dell’Atto di Algésiras nel 1906, tale istituto di credito rispecchiava gli interessi della finanza e della politica francese nel debito pubblico, nel commercio e nell’industria marocchina. La Banca, quale istituto espressione di interessi pubblici e privati europei nel paese nord africano, venne concepita come strumento di controllo delle finanze pubbliche del Marocco specialmente da parte della Francia. La partecipazione italiana sotto il coordinamento della Banca d’Italia, annoverava vari investitori privati tra cui il Banco di Roma, il Credito Italiano e la Banca Commerciale di Milano. Come in casi simili nei paesi del Mediterraneo, la partecipazione italiana non fu espressione di chiari e propositivi interessi privati, bensì emanazione di interessi politici da parte del Governo di Roma. Gli interessi finanziari italiani quindi non possono essere messi in secondo piano rispetto a quelli politici durante l’epoca classica dell’imperialismo. La ricerca condotta negli archivi storici della Banca d’Italia, del Banco di Roma e del Credito Italiano, nonché del Foreign Office di Londra vuole mettere in evidenza il ruolo italiano nella formazione di un istituto bancario, espressione di una politica imperialista tipicamente europea
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
L'utilita' delle biopsie protocollari nel trapianto di rene: pro e contro.[The usefulness of protocol biopsies after kidney transplant: pros and cons]
No full textVariations 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
Ties of Solidarity: Charity in Rural Communities in the Prince-Bishopric of Trent (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
No full textThe purpose of the chapter is to examine the welfare support networks in rural communities in the territory of the episcopal principality of Trent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which have peculiar characteristics compared to those found in urban settings. In these modest communities, men and women used to leave each member of the community a donative. Benefiting from the generosity of the testators, therefore, were not particular categories of the needy, such as widows, the elderly, and the incapacitated, but rather all the inhabitants of the community according to a logic of egalitarian charity. Another noteworthy element is the fact that the collective charities were managed by community representatives, who were responsible for keeping records, distributing the charities to the inhabitants, and ordering requiem masses arranged by the testator. The solidaristic and inclusive dimension of community charities is also manifested in the type of donations. Most of them were food items, such as bread, oil, and salt. These items had a strong religious and symbolic significance and represented valuable material aid for people living in a subsistence economy. Collective charities can, therefore, be considered an example of both social and religious practices of integration and redistribution of resources within communities
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