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    Interaction of national and corporate culture: linguistic aspects

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    The article attempts to show that the basis of business and personal success is the understanding of their own national culture, as well as the idea of a culture. An approach is revealed in the consideration of the linguistic aspect of the problem of interaction between the national and corporate cultures. Presents conclusions about the relevance of the study

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    The relationship between pedagogy and architecture for an innovative school in Italy during the twentieth century

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    Il presente contributo riguarda un tema affrontato recentemente nelle mie ricerche, relativo al rapporto tra architettura e pedagogia. Si intende qui dimostrare come in alcuni momenti cruciali, di fronte a nuove richieste di cambiamento, come agli albori del secolo scorso, nell’immediato secondo dopoguerra e con l’inizio degli anni Sessanta, si avverta la necessità di avviare una riflessione sull’importanza degli spazi educativi, un’esigenza che ancor oggi si rivela più che mai attuale di fronte alle pressanti emergenze che investono la scuola italiana. Nella prima parte dell’articolo si considera come, con l’avvento del secolo scorso, si pensi alla progettazione di spazi e ambienti adeguati allo sviluppo della personalità infantile, in controtendenza rispetto a quelli della scuola tradizionale. Si riscontra proprio con l’inizio del Novecento in alcune teorie ed esperienze educative la centralità assunta dall’architettura e dagli arredi scolastici al livello estetico-pedagogico. Si vedrà poi, nella seconda parte, che tale filo conduttore anima, nel secondo dopoguerra, in Italia, il dibattito tra architetti, urbanisti e pedagogisti, convinti che, dopo la tragica esperienza della guerra e della dittatura, occorra realizzare un modello di pedagogia comunitaria, ispirato all’ideale socratico di scuola-agorà, in contrapposizione alle tante scuole-caserme esistenti. Infine, si mostra come, partire dai primi anni Sessanta, di fronte alle mutate esigenze della società italiana, si avverta la necessità di rinnovare la scuola tramite un ripensamento dei suoi spazi

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

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