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The Politics of Screen Translation
No full textThe chapter presents a sociolinguistic angle proposing an overview of the real issues of choosing, or preferring one form of rendering over others. Particularly significant in this contribution is the socio-political stance addressed,: using one tool may already be viewed as an 'a priori' political choice. This stance and the collection of real data from the perspctive of viewers or users of audiovisual translations set out the premises for the debate
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
On the translation fallout of defeated languages: Translation and change of function of dialect in Romagna
No full textHaving in mind the need for preserving linguistic diversity [Hagège 2000] and the importance of the notion of prestige [Lafont 1976; Hagège 2000; Terracini 1996] in the image-building [Tessarolo 1990] of the so-called “defeated” languages [Nadiani 2006] among their speakers, this paper will illustrate in what way translating Romagnolo literary works (mainly poetry and drama) into the major languages –among which the national one- can play a major part in a broader public acknowledgment of the language Romagnolo authors chose to write in. Such translation work appears to foster the image of such language among both more and less educated speakers as well as among the younger generations of “non-speakers”, bringing about a somewhat slowdown in the so-called patoisement process [Lafont 1976]. A definition such as translation fallout on linguistic awareness may sound unfitting –bearing in mind the fact that linguistic awareness is not to be considered as opposing other varieties, but is rather to be seen as the expression of a complex cultural stratification of local identities facing the strict, be it regional or national, monolingual ideology. Yet, the translation work undoubtedly plays a major role in such acknowledgment, which has brought about a number of public and private initiatives [Bellosi 2004], namely a regional law for the fostering of the Emilia-Romagna dialects, an agreement between the provinces of Romagna about initiatives aiming at supporting dialects as well as related publishing and promotional activities (research, audio recordings, conferences, school classes, etc.), besides an intense work carried out by cultural associations through journals, play stagings, etc. Moreover, a new generation of authors is showing a strong creative impulse in different sectors, namely literature –in both its traditional and innovative forms-, drama, cabaret and cinema (with films subtitled in the main vehicular languages), and, last but not least, in the translation of classic and contemporary works (mainly drama) into Romagnolo. This translation issue seems to be an essential path for a defeated language to walk [Cronin 2003; 2006; Nadiani 2006]
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
Modalità di diffusione dei farmaci per patologie del segmento posteriore: basi storiche e prospettive future
No full textLa modalità di diffusione dei farmaci sta diventando un importante filone di ricerca in espansione. Gli avanzamenti in questo campo mirano a scoprire nuovi meccanismi per il trattamento di patologie oculari con l’utilizzo di nuove modalità come gli anticorpi e gli aptameri. Questi nuvi metodi di diffusione possono agire con un’azine prolungata, una minore invasività, più alta efficacia e migliore sicurezza. I sistemi iniettabili o impiantabili ad azione prolungata possono garantire l’adesione dei pazienti alla terapia. Maggiori passi avanti tecnologici sono necessari prima che la teoria si realizzi. Sono in atto numerosi avanzamenti tecnologici e scientifici che stanno guidando il processo in questo campo. Le ricerche sono volte alla nanotecnologia e ai biomateriali che potranno in modo particolare raggiungere nuove tecnologie per aumentare la diffusione dei farmaci intraoculari
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
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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