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Aspects of Organisation of Macedonian Cemeteries from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Times
No full textOrganisation of cemeteries in ancient Macedonia: from the early iron age until the hellenistic period
No full textSubject of my dissertation is the study of the organization of ancient burial grounds of ancient Macedonia, during the 1st millennium B.C. More specifically, 77 cemeteries are presented and treated analytically, divided in eight geographical sub-regions (western Macedonia, Pieria, Bottiaia, Almopia, Axios area, Thermaic gulf area, Chalkidike, eastern Macedonia). Synthesis of the data is attempted in the context of four chronological periods (early iron age - early archaic (1000-600 B.C.), archaic (600-480 B.C.), classic (480-350 B.C.) and late classic – hellenistic (350-150 B.C.). Aim of this broad geographical and chronological focus is the formation of a representative picture for every region and period examined, with the identification of common traits and differences between the various regions, as well as for Macedonia as a whole. Basic themes are the incorporation of cemeteries in the broader landscape and their spatial relationship with the settlements, their size and period of use, intra-cemetery spatial arrangement of graves, the use of burial tumuli, orientation rules, demographical features, burial practices and typology, burial goods and marking of graves, as well as non-funeral structures inside cemeteries. Furthermore, among the broader themes examined are the existence of burial clusters with special character and limited access inside the broader cemeteries, the social roles and identities expressed through burial practices and the connection between the data emerging from the study of ancient burial grounds and social reality.Αντικείμενο της διατριβής αποτελεί η μελέτη της οργάνωσης των χώρων ταφής στην αρχαία Μακεδονία κατά την 1η χιλιετία π.Χ. Συγκεκριμένα, σε αυτή παρουσιάζονται και πραγματεύονται αναλυτικά 77 νεκροταφεία της Μακεδονίας, κατανεμημένα σε οκτώ επί μέρους γεωγραφικές υποενότητες (δυτική Μακεδονία, Πιερία, Βοττιαία, Αλμωπία, περιοχή Αξιού, περιοχή Θερμαϊκού κόλπου, Χαλκιδική, ανατολική Μακεδονία). Η σύνθεση των δεδομένων επιχειρείται ανά χρονολογική περίοδο (πρώιμη eποχή σιδήρου - πρώιμη αρχαϊκή (1000-600 π.Χ.), αρχαϊκή (600-480 π.Χ.), κλασική (480-350 π.Χ.) και ύστερη κλασική – ελληνιστική (350-150 π.Χ.). Στόχος της ευρείας αυτής γεωγραφικής και χρονολογικής προσέγγισης, είναι να προκύψει μια αντιπροσωπευτική εικόνα για κάθε επί μέρους εξεταζόμενη περιοχή και περίοδο, με παράλληλη ανίχνευση κοινών στοιχείων και διαφοροποιήσεων ανάμεσα στις εξεταζόμενες περιοχές, αλλά και για τον χώρο της Μακεδονίας στο σύνολο του. Οι βασικές θεματικές ενότητες που εξετάζονται είναι η ένταξη των νεκροταφείων στο ευρύτερο τοπίο και η χωρική τους σχέση με τους οικισμούς, το μέγεθος και η διάρκεια χρήσης τους, η διάταξη και ανάπτυξη των τάφων σε επίπεδο νεκροταφείου, η χρήση των ταφικών τύμβων,οι κανόνες προσανατολισμού, τα δημογραφικά στοιχεία, οι ταφικές πρακτικές και η τυπολογία, η κτέριση και σήμανση των τάφων, καθώς και οι μη ταφικές κατασκευές εντός των χώρων ταφής. Επιπρόσθετα, στα γενικότερα ζητήματα που εξετάζονται στα πλαίσια της μελέτης περιλαμβάνονται η ύπαρξη ταφικών συστάδων με διακριτό χαρακτήρα και περιορισμένη προσβασιμότητα εντός των ευρύτερων νεκροταφείων, οι κοινωνικοί ρόλοι και ιδιότητες που προβάλλονται μέσα από τις ταφικές πρακτικές και η σύνδεση των στοιχείων που προκύπτουν από τη μελέτη των χώρων ταφής με την εκάστοτε κοινωνική πραγματικότητα
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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