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    Approcci semplificati per l’interpretazione delle misure in dighe in terra

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    L’articolo descrive i principali modelli di tipo semplificato disponibili per l’interpretazione delle misure realizzate su dighe in terra. Si discute il contributo che ciascuna grandezza fisica, tra quelle tipicamente osservate sulle dighe in terra (tensioni totali, pressioni interstiziali, portate filtranti, spostamenti), può dare alla caratterizzazione del comportamento meccanico della diga, analizzandone, inoltre, il grado di affidabilità e la rappresentatività. Alcuni schemi comportamentali sono derivati dalla conoscenza delle soluzioni di problemi al contorno tipici (flussi piani in regime stazionario o transitorio; sovrappressioni interstiziali indotte in condizioni non drenate dall’incremento delle tensioni totali; processi di consolidazione monodimensionali o piani). Altri da soluzioni di problemi al contorno che semplificano notevolmente la realtà o da soluzioni di modelli complessi, sintetizzate organicamente in opportune rappresentazioni. L’articolo organizza in forma disgiunta l’esame delle diverse categorie di misura. Mostra tuttavia progressivamente come, per l’interpretazione del comportamento meccanico e idraulico della diga, sia opportuna ed efficace un’interpretazione congiunta di tutte le misure disponibili.The paper presents a review of the principal simplified models available for the interpretation of data records of embankment dams. The representativeness of measurements normally monitored in earth dams is discussed, including vertical total stress, pore water pressure, settlements, total discharge. The analysis of measurements permits to investigate how a given measured quantity can be used to interpret the dam’s mechanical behavior. Some interpretative models derive from the simple, parametric solutions of boundary value problems such as: two-dimensional steady state seepage problems; excess pore water pressure produced in undrained conditions; one and two-dimensional consolidation problems. Other interpretative models are derived from the solution of realistic, complex boundary value problems. The paper examines separately the several type of measurements carried out on embankment dams, and shows that a comprehensive interpretation of of all the available measurements is necessary for a proper interpretation of the mechanical behaviour of the da

    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

    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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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