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Per un'analisi lessicometrica della rivista Urbanistica
No full textThe main aim of this contribution is to explore the evolution of the urban planning discipline from the post-war period to present, drawing on the privileged viewpoint of the journal of the National Urbanistic Institute, titled Urbanistica. For more than 70 years, with particular reference to Italy, the journal has been collecting the most interesting design and research experiences, as well as the most significant reflections on the role of urban planning. The study employs lexicometric analytical techniques (quantitative analyses for extraction of relevant statistical information from the normalised sample of texts, in particular: lexical extension, rank, frequency classes, etc.), applied here to the total occurrences and relations of the words in the 2,934 titles of the articles published in Urbanistica from 1949 to 2021. The contribution is organised into two sections, the first proposing an articulation of the articles published in Urbanistica in four time intervals, defined in relation to the editorial history of the journal and the evolution of the cultural and technical-scientific debate in Italy. The second section presents and discusses the results obtained from the lexicometric analyses on the titles of all the articles published between 1949 and 2021, with respect to rank and frequency classes. Among others, two of the most interesting results of the review are: - the development of the themes and insights collected by the journal, serving as a faithful mirror of the evolution of the discipline; - the aspects and interdisciplinary contents that most influenced Italian urban planning discipline (and not only) over the past 70 years
La sterilità: moderna impostazione sociale, diagnostica e terapeutica nell’ambito delle U.S.L. .
No full textEnhancing Inspection Methodology of Solar Power Plants Through Integrated Infrared Thermography and 3d Data Fusion
No full textInfrared thermography (IRT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that enables qualitative and quantitative temperature analysis. In some thermographic applications, geometry and spatial relationships are crucial for analyzing surfaces and localizing thermal defects. These include photovoltaic (PV) power generation systems, a rapidly expanding sector in response to the growing demand for renewable energy that requires fast and accurate monitoring technologies for maintenance operations. This research aims to develop a technology to monitor the operation of solar modules and possible anomalies by simultaneously acquiring aerial images by connecting optical and thermal infrared sensors to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), obtaining thermal orthoimages as output. Results indicate significant improvements in accuracy and reproducibility, making this methodological approach a promising option for rapid monitoring compared to other current alternatives, making consumer-grade thermal imaging cameras accessible for thermal orthoimage generation
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
Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Femicide–Suicide in Italy: An Ecological Approach.
No full textThe present study investigated the intimate partner femicide (IPF) and intimate partner femicide–suicide (IPFS) perpetrators’ individual, relational, and contextual characteristics by analyzing, within the ecological approach, femicide cases that occurred in Italy from 2010 to 2019. On the topic, to date, scant studies examined possible differences between IPF and IPFS risk factors, and no studies have analyzed these factors by adopting an ecological systems model perspective. To this aim, archival research was carried out. Of a total of 1.207 femicides, 409 were IPF, and 227 were IPFS. Perpetrators’ age, level of employment, law enforcement membership, mental and/or physical illnesses, use of psychoactive substances, previous crimes, previous violent relationships, presence of children, previous violence in the couple, inability to accept the end of the relationship, quarrels and conflict, jealousy and the psychophysical illnesses of both authors and victims, as well as the use of firearms and victim’s request for help were analyzed. The results underlined the existence of different risk factors contributing to the IPF perpetrators’ decision to commit suicide such as perpetrators’ age, law enforcement membership, and firearm availability. These findings stress the need for specific risk assessment and management strategies for IPFS perpetrators
The effect of a safety climate training on safety performance. A longitudinal study on the use of individual protective devises
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness on safety performance and particularly on the use of individual protective devises at work of a training concerning safety climate.
Safety climate and culture research developed successfully in the last decades, showing how safety climate is a robust predictor of safety subjective outcomes, such as safety behaviour, and of objective outcomes, such as accidents and injuries. Literature shows ambiguous findings on the effectiveness of safety training and interventions to improve safety performance of employees and highlights some methodological criticality.
The idea of the present study was to test the effect of a training focused on the improvement of safety climate with a longitudinal design. Data collection involved 1495 blue-collars from 6 Italian manufacturing companies. Two different types of safety climate trainings for supervisors were performed and in some cases no training was performed. A long training was scheduled in 6 weekly meetings of 4 hours each and a short one was scheduled in only one meeting of 3 hours. In 3 companies of the sample safety climate and safety performance were measured twice, one before the training and one about 12 months after it. In all the companies monitoring activities on the use of individual protective devises were conducted.
The research evidenced that safety climate training does not always help to reduce the number of unsafe behaviours, but a moderation effect of safety climate seems to inflect the relation between training and performance. Particularly, in work-groups with a high safety climate a positive effect of the training always was found
The Optimal Choice of Local Therapy for Stage IIIA-N2 NSCLC: Is Radiotherapy Inferior to Surgery?
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