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Joint ERT, SP and IP Investigations at Waste Dump of Savoia di Lucania (Southern Italy)
No full textThe aim of this work was the joint application of different electric geophysical methods for studying the landfill of Savoia di Lucania (Southern Italy). This landfill for its engineering features and small dimensions (70m x 30m x 6m) represents an optimal test site to assess a geophysical survey protocol survey for municipal solid waste landfills. However, the proposed protocol should be used in time lapse way to obtain a monitoring system for waste deposits. The landfill of Savoia di Lucania has been built with reinforced concrete material and coated with a High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) liner. Three Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), two Self Potential (SP) map surveys and one Induced Polarization (IP) section have been performed both in the surrounding area and inside the waste landfill. The geophysical investigations well defined the buried boundaries of the landfill basin and localized the leachate accumulation zones inside the dumpsite. The comparison of our results with other engineering and geological investigations could be the key for evaluating the integrity of the HDPE liner. Finally, the integration of the ERT, IP and SP methods seems to be a promising tool for studying and for designing new monitoring systems able to perform a time-lapse analysis of waste landfill geometry and integrity
Magnetic and ground penetrating radar for the research of Medieval buried structures in Marche Region
Full text linkA magnetic and Ground Penetrating Radar joint survey was carried out in the
framework of the R.I.M.E.M. project that has the aim of supporting the
archaeological prospections and drive the selection of the excavation areas
related to the Late Roman Period and Early Middle Ages in the Central and
Southern Italy. In particular, this papers deals with the magnetic surveys
acquired near "Madonna della Valle" and GPR and magnetic joint surveys
carried out in "Monastero"site. Most of magnetic maps carried out in
"Madonna della Valle" site shown the absence of structured magnetic
anomalies, despite of the presence of archaeological signs. Several
hypothesis were given to explain this evidence.
Joint interpretation performed in "Monastero" site shown more intense
magnetic anomalies related with shallower reflections due to probably to
buried pipes. Other reflections are related with magnetic anomalies
compatible with archaeological targets, but some significant reflections do
not correspond to any magnetic anomaly, indicating magnetic method could be
"blind" respect the archaeological target.
New field surveys including the electrical resistivity tomography could be
carried out in order to overcome these acquisition and interpretation
difficulties
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
Multidisciplinary investigations on the Roman aqueduct of Grumentum (Basilicata, Southern Italy)
Full text linkThe Romans built the ancient town of Grumentum during the 3rd century B.C. in the southern part of the Agri high Valley (Basilicata Region, Southern Italy) near the confluence of the Sciaura stream in the Agri River. Now it is one of the most important archaeological sites of Southern Italy. In fact, after a period of wars in this area between Romans and Carthaginians, a great deal of restoration was started in 57 B.C. These works affected the city walls, public buildings and finally endowed the Roman colony with important infrastructures, such as the new aqueduct. In this work, we attempt to reconstruct the ancient layout of the Roman aqueduct of Grumentum. As a starting point, we followed some descriptions from the 19th century, when the structure was still well preserved. Then, we performed a multidisciplinary geophysical approach to the best preserved remains of the aqueduct. In particular, the geophysical investigation started with the use of a portable GPS allowing us to acquire the co-ordinates of the outcropping rests of the ancient structure. Then, we used an optical pumping magnetometer to perform seven gradiometric maps over a broad area of about 8000 m2. From the literature descriptions, dating to the first part of the 19th century, we can deduce that the state of preservation of the Roman aqueduct was much better than the present one. Thus we can hypothesise as the cause of its fast involution the fact that it was located in the epicentral area of the large destructive earthquake which occurred in the Basilicata Region in 1857 (Mallet, 1862). To this aim, we performed a first attempt to correlate the state of preservation of the aqueduct remains with the local seismic amplification by means of the HVSR (Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio) technique. This survey allowed us to obtain the site amplification spectra along the aqueduct layout and assess the fundamental vibration frequency of the investigated structure. The possibility of landslides was ruled out by a careful geological survey. The relationship between aqueduct path and damage should then be attributed to closeness to earthquake seismogenic fault
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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