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Adaptogenic and stamina improving activities of Rubia peregrina and Aparagus acutifolius
No full textLA SOSTENIBILITÀ NELL'EDIFICARE: L'ESEMPIO DEL CQ2 DI CARBONIA
No full textThe paper describes an integrated planning project carried out in the city of Carbonia (in Sardinia) and is referred to a public housing building complex.
Such a project was developed within a wider requalification plan - involving both the social and urban planning sectors - with the final goal of achieving high energy performance levels (in this case 30% higher than the current law limits).
At this purpose, on the one hand opportune energy saving measures were adopted (such as bioclimatic and passive strategies), and on the other hand - recalling the public and social features of this project – a low maintenance demand and an easy operating level were attaine
The designing of Virtual Learning Environments for authentic proficiency enhancement in Arabic
No full textThe Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) conceives language proficiency as the ability to cope with different tasks referring to real-life situations in ways that emulate native speakers' behavior. In the case of Arabic the accomplishment of those tasks by native speakers may require the resort to Standard Arabic (SA) alone, to Colloquial Arabic (CA) alone, or to a mixture of SA and CA.
Our contribution illustrates how this complex linguistic reality can be reproduced inside the classroom by creating a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that enables authentic proficiency enhancement and assessment in Arabic and ultimately allows the application of CEFR guidelines to the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL)
Plantas usadas en la practica etnoveterinaria en el Nuorese (Cerdena, Italia)
Full text linkNowadays, the use of traditional herbal remedies in Veterinary medicine is very small in Europe,
mainly due to the shift to the synthetic pharmaceutical compounds. In spite of the fact that these traditional practices persist in the Mediterranean area, they have been not much studied. In this paper, the authors study for the first time the natural remedies that are still used in the central zone of Sardinia (Nuorese region) as dietary supplements for livestock, in order to ameliorate the quality of the ovine, bovine and porcine meat, as well as the quality of the milk of ovine and bovine livestock.En la actualidad la aplicación de remedios tradicionales en veterinaria es muy poco frecuente en Europa, al haber sido desplazada por los productos farmacéuticos de síntesis. A pesar de que estas prácticas perduran en el entorno mediterráneo, han sido poco estudiadas. En este artículo se analizan por primera vez los remedios naturales que se siguen utilizando en el centro de Cerdeña (región del Nuorese) como complemento de la dieta de animales para mejorar la calidad de la carne ovina, bovina y porcina, así como de la leche de ovinos y bovinos
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
Dislexia e línguas estrangeiras: perspectivas de análise e de intervenção inclusiva
No full textIl saggio mette in evidenza lo stato dell'arte degli studi su "dislessia e lingue straniere" e mette in evidenza le maggiori criticità e le possibili strategie di intervento in una ottica inclusiva
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
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