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Spatial-functional patterns in the European urban system: metropolitan functions in small and medium-sized towns
No full text<p>The paper deals with spatial-functional patterns in the European urban system. Special attention is paid to metropolitan functions in small and medium-sized towns. Based on the assumption that metropolitan functions can also be found outside large cities, the location of metropolitan functions in three town size classes (small towns, small medium-sized towns and large towns) is examined. The results confirm the assumption that settlement size and the location of metropolitan functions are positively related: the larger the town or city, the stronger the metropolitan functions. The range of metropolitan functions is also more extensive in medium-sized towns than in small towns. In addition to the size of the town or city, its location also influences the expression of metropolitan functions. In small and medium-sized towns in spatial proximity to large urban centres, some functions can benefit from the spatial proximity to a large market and thus accommodate functions that would be expected in larger cities instead of in small and medium-sized towns. These borrowing-size effects can be observed for the two metropolitan subfunctions science and transport. </p><p>The paper is published by the <a href="https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/"><strong>European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD)</strong></a></p>
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Polyzentrale Stadtregionen - die Region als planerischer Handlungsraum
No full text"Polyzentrale Stadtregionen sind kein gänzlich neues Feld in planerischen Diskussionen, wurden aber in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt in den Fokus gerückt. Zunehmend werden Fragen und Perspektiven polyzentraler Stadtregionen für die Raumplanung sowohl als morphologische Raumstruktur wie auch als planerisches Konzept diskutiert und der Blick wird ausgedehnt bis zu polyzentralen Verwaltungs- und Governance- Strukturen. Hierzu haben nicht zuletzt Jahrzehnte der Suburbanisierung und der Globalisierung geführt. Dieser Artikel blickt auf Basis von Veränderungen im Verhältnis von Stadt und Umland sowie sich daraus ergebenden aktuellen Herausforderungen auf laufende planerische Diskussionen zu polyzentralen Stadtregionen, wie sie auf der Tagung des Jungen Forums 2011 der ARL in Dortmund aufgegriffen wurden. " (Autorenreferat)"Polycentric city regions are not an entirely new field for planning discussions but are increasingly pushed towards a central role. Questions and perspectives of polycentric city regions for spatial planning are equally discussed either as morphological structure or as planning concept as far as to polycentric administrative and governance structures. Not least, decades of suburbanisation and globalisation have contributed to this. This article looks at contemporary planning discussions on polycentric city regions on the basis of changes in the relation between core city and hinterland and arising new challenges for spatial planning. These questions have been picked up at the 2011 conference of the ARL Young Professional’s Forum in Dortmund." (author's abstract
Wirtschaft, Wissen, Raum: Regionalisierung ökonomischer Funktionen
No full textGlobalisation of economic activities and the rise of a knowledge-based economy lead to an uncoupling of spatial and functional structures. This process can especially be observed in polycentric city regions. At the same time, the rise of new economic centres and new patterns of interaction within city regions leads to a discrepancy between the relational integration of firms and actors and the territorial reference of planning and politics. The comparison of spatial and network structures is focused on in this article.Im Zusammenhang mit der Globalisierung von Wirtschaftsstrukturen und der Herausbildung einer stark auf Wissen basierenden Ökonomie entkoppeln sich räumliche von funktionalen Strukturen. Dieser Prozess kann in polyzentralen Stadtregionen besonders gut beobachtet werden. Zugleich führt die Herausbildung von neuen Zentren und Interaktionsmustern in Stadtregionen zu einer Diskrepanz zwischen der relationalen Einbindung von Unternehmen und Personen und dem territorialen Bezugsraum von Politiken. Die Gegenüberstellung von räumlichen Strukturen und Netzwerkstrukturen steht im Zentrum des Beitrags
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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