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La guarigione, tra significato e partecipazione
No full textLa grande varietà dei modi in cui gli appartenenti a diverse tradizioni culturali concepiscono e affrontano i mali che li affliggono e cercano di rimediarvi rende difficile trattare il tema della guarigione in termini generali. Ogni caso di malattia è vissuto dai soggetti che lo sperimentano attraverso i modelli culturali appresi dal gruppo al cui interno si sono formati e gli habitus che nel tempo hanno profondamente incorporato e da cui la loro esperienza è plasmata. Di conseguenza, inevitabilmente plurali e storicamente e geograficamente variabili saranno i modi di concepire, denominare, spiegare e rispondere pragmaticamente alla malattia; così come analogamente mutevoli saranno le concezioni di quella “salute” verso cui tendono gli atti terapeutici. Cionondimeno, l’antropologia fornisce anche gli strumenti analitici per individuare alcune costanti rinvenibili al di sotto della varietà delle forme, alcune logiche ricorrenti che consentono la comparazione e il tentativo di spiegare la possibile efficacia di idee e pratiche tra loro tanto disparate. Nell’articolo si cerca di delineare alcuni tratti ricorrenti che sembrano caratterizzare idee e azioni diffusamente connessi alla guarigione.The great variety of ways in which people pertaining to different cultural traditions conceive of, deal with, and take steps to remedy human ailments makes it difficult to treat the topic of healing in general terms. Cases of illness are experienced by every single patient through the cultural patterns they have learned from the group in which they were formed and the habitus they have deeply incorporated over time and by which their experience is shaped. Therefore, the ways of conceiving, naming, explaining, and pragmatically responding to illness are inevitably plural and historically and geographically variable. Equally variable are the ways in which health – the aim of every therapeutic act – is conceived. However, anthropology also provides us with the analytical tools to identify some constants that can be found beneath the variety of forms, as well as some recurring logics that allow for comparison, and allow us to attempt an explanation of how such disparate ideas and practices can reach their efficacy. In this paper, the author tries to outline some recurring features that seem to characterize concepts and actions diffusely related to healing
Alessandro Naso, La Tomba dei Denti di lupo a Cerveteri
No full textBouloumié Bernard. Alessandro Naso, La Tomba dei Denti di lupo a Cerveteri. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 62, 1993. p. 560
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
Scanless optical feedback imaging principle by single-pixel compressed sensing
No full textOptical feedback in lasers is being used for unconventional imaging of fluid dynamics, pressure fields, material properties, and free-carrier distribution, especially in spectral regions where two-dimensional detectors are not yet available. As this technique requires scanning the laser spot across the target, the resulting image contrast is often hampered by the speckle effect. Compressed sensing is becoming a workhorse technique for signal analysis, allowing the reconstruction of complex images from a relatively small number of integrated (single-pixel) measurements, and is being efficiently adapted to a number of single-pixel detector cameras. We applied compressed sensing algorithms to the inherently single-pixel optical feedback in a semiconductor diode laser, demonstrating for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, scanless and detectorless speckle-free imaging of a simple binary object
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