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Il quadriportico del tempio maggiore : architettura e decorazione
No full textThe analyses and the new detailed surveys of the structures around the Temple of Hercules allow to update the architectural study of the porticus that surrounded the aedes, studied in its main phases of transformation.
During the 2nd half of the 2nd century BC, the area was surrounded by a colonnaded square with a suite of rooms aligned opposite to the temple. The wide courtyard (63 x 94,5 metres) refers to Hellenistic architectural models imported in Rome from the eastern Mediterranean in the same period and the columns, built by round bricks, reveal the use of updated construction techniques too. Moreover, the hypothetical interpretation of the external front of the complex as a porticus, suggests that the area outside the sanctuary was included in the monumental renovation too, confirmed by the pillared front of a second sanctuary (Area B) build close to the major one in this period.
In the 2nd phase, after the earthquake of 99 BC, the south rooms and the front of the complex were both transformed; the discovery of many terracotta fragments supports the hypothetical reconstruction of the porticus with Doric columns, wooden lintels covered by decorated revetment plaques and a single pitch roof with palmette antefixes.
Few transformations have to be attributed to the last phase (late 1st century BC-beginning 1st AD), included an exedra built in the south side of the complex.
Villa San Silvestro offers an interesting study case of a typical Italic-Hellenistic architecture built in the late Republic, located in a peripheral area but likely inspired by Rom
The Temple B in Pietrabbondante (Isernia, Italy) as a Case Study of Seismic Shield Properties of Roman-Italic Temple Foundations and Podiums
No full textThe Roman-Italic temples of central Italy, located along the Apennine ridge, an area of high seismic risk, have often been damaged by earthquakes and then reconstructed, as reported even in ancient sources. The Roman religious tradition prescribed that the temples be elevated on a podium, that acts as a sacred space, as the foundation, and as an architecturally defined above-the-ground element. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that combines a deep archaeological and architectural knowledge of ancient constructions with expertise in seismic engineering and the analysis of mechanical wave propagation, the contribution illustrates the current results on the ‘seismic shield’ of a selected case study, the Temple B of Pietrabbondante, whose foundation’s walls shape cellular compartments filled by layers of clay coming from the surrounding area. A three-dimensional, multiphysics, finite element, numerical model—taking into account either the geometry and the material of the foundations or the mechanical features of the soil between foundation walls—permits the simulation of the propagation of seismic waves towards the construction and the analysis of their impact on the foundation system. Underlying this working hypothesis is a recent field of research concerning ‘seismic metamaterials’, i.e. the introduction into foundation soils of suitable elements capable of deviating seismic waves, thus protecting constructions from earthquakes. The ‘seismic shield’ effect mostly depends on the geometric arrangement of the artificial aspects introduced into the soil: this led to thinking that colossal buildings, such as amphitheatres, have survived several seismic events over the centuries due to the particular cellular morphology of the foundations. It is a fascinating hypothesis, opening the way to new interpretations of the capacity of ancient monumental buildings to withstand earthquakes
Le prime fasi edilizie del tempio di Diana a Nemi
No full textIl periodo medio repubblicano (IV-III sec. a.C.) rappresenta uno dei periodi cruciali nella storia di Roma e del Lazio, ma anche uno dei meno conosciuti. Dopo la prima sintesi del 1973 compiuta con la mostra Roma medio repubblicana, e rimasta praticamente isolata, due convegni internazionali (Roma medio repubblicana. Dalla conquista di Veio alla battaglia di Zama e Oltre “Roma medio repubblicana”. Il Lazio fra i Galli e la battaglia di Zama) vogliono oggi affrontare di nuovo sia il tema della crescita e dei cambiamenti della città di Roma e del suo territorio, sia quello della ricostruzione del profilo complesso e articolato del Lazio antico fra gli inizi del IV e la fine del III secolo a.C., analizzando gli elementi fondamentali che ne possono restituire il quadro di insieme
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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