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Inspired by Nature
No full text“Inspired by Nature” is an installation of the students’ work developed by two seminar classes at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles) and one course at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano). Each class, starting from a common quest, analyzed and developed a unique relationship with the natural world exploring design at different scales to provide a variety of interpretations and design proposals. The installation will be exhibited at NABA during the 2010 Fuori Salone (April 12-16) in Milan. The show will then travel to other locations during the following months.
Synthetic Visual Study Seminar at SCI-Arc (Instructor Elena Manferdini with the collaboration of Anna Maria Manferdini). The work of this seminar aims to extend the potential of architectural surfaces to produce effect through the invention of new breeds of artificial matter. Students investigated the ability of synthetic materiality to produce sensuality, tactility and visual novelty. Through the semester both analogical and digital procedures have been used as agents of design innovation. Modulation of texture, relief and colors derived by 3d scanned materials have been adopted as primary design source. Students used the textural qualities scanned from the animal and vegetal skins to develop new methodologies for highly articulated surfaces through the use of several experimental software technologies (Z-brush) and fabrication (CNC milling).
Biomimetic envelopes Applied Study Seminar at SCI-Arc (Instructor Ilaria Mazzoleni). The seminar finds inspiration from the animal world and, through the analysis and understanding of specific animal skin examples, translates the learned principles into the built environment. The ways in which the environment shapes the behavior and physiological evolution and adaptation of animals is an interesting question for many of us. How to translate the lessons learned from the analysis and observation of the animal world is the design learning experience proposed to students. The resulting architectural building envelopes perform and respond; they take into consideration various dynamic local environmental conditions and resources, enhancing and supporting them rather than exploiting them, creating a more sustainable way of building and living.
Minimal living Design Studio at NABA (Instructor Luca Poncellini). The aim of the course is to investigate the possibility of developing a complex task of interior and architectural design along a timeline, through the integration of dynamic schemes of organization, structures, and processes. Conceptual references for the project are derived from the observation of nature: natural phenomena, behaviors, strategies of organization and/or evolution, feedbacks loops. The analysis leads to the definition of an operational matrix of relations in space and time, adopted as a base for the project.
The tree different scales of design were chosen to support the pedagogical goals of “Design Is One”, a parallel on-going investigation that Elena Manferdini and Ilaria Mazzoleni have been conducting for the past three years. Focus of this research is the understanding of the disciplines of design and architecture within their historical and geographical context in Southern California and Northern Italy and the discovery of design fields through a series of site visits to world leading Italian and American designer studios that shaped the design field at large in the past century. This installation wants to promote the cultural exchange and the collaboration between the two institutions of NABA and SCI-Arc
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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