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Reconstruction Of Late Pleistocene-Holocene Deglaciation History In The Central Italian Alps
No full textThe analysis and reconstruction of glacial fluctuations after the Last Glacial Maximum allow us to
better understand the environmental and climatic changes that have occurred since then but the
knowledge about their timing and extent in the mountain areas of the Alps is still limited.
Four study areas have been chosen in the Italian Central Alps to run the project: the Forni, the Gavia
Pass, the Stelvio Pass, and the Viola Pass Areas.
Multiple methods have been used in the areas in order to obtain deglaciation ages and past glacier
extents: the Iron Crystallinity Ratio (CRF) of podzols and the Schmidt’s Hammer R-values (SH) on
roches moutonneés and their calibration in absolute ages, the cosmogenic techniques dating, and the
analysis of peatland cores.
A multidisciplinary approach is suggested to reconstruct glacial events as both the CRF and the SH
have been demonstrated suitable methods for dating the glacial history. While CRF calibration may
be considered regional, the local variation in calibration for SH may be due to site-specific
temperature and precipitation.
Eleven glacial events have been identified before the LIA: 16.7-14.7ka, 13.7ka, 12.3-11.8ka, 11ka,
10.2-9.5ka, 9ka, 7.5ka, 5.5ka, 4.1ka, 3.2ka, and 1.9-1.5ka. These events were not ubiquitarian, and
happened differently in each different study area. Comparisons with other glaciers in the Alps showed
that the morphology of the catchments was more important than proximity in the glacial evolution
during the Holocene
Reconstruction of rock avalanche history in Val Viola, (Upper Valtellina, Italian Central Alps) through 10Be exposure ages, Schmidt Hammer R values, and surface roughness
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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
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