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Innovare la valutazione di vulnerabilità attraverso il Backcasting Partecipativo. Accesso all’acqua delle comunità costiere di Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
Full text linkLa ricerca affronta il tema della pianificazione locale per l’adattamento al cambiamento climatico nei contesti ad elevata vulnerabilità, specificatamente nella città sub-Sahariana, focalizzandosi in particolare sull’impiego dei due principali approcci all’analisi di scenario, il Forecasting ed il Backcasting, come strumento di supporto ad una valutazione di vulnerabilità finalizzata ad un adattamento in ottica trasformativa. Negli ultimi anni, con il riconoscimento della stretta connessione tra adattamento al cambiamento climatico e sviluppo sostenibile, il dibattito scientifico sull’adattamento si è sempre più focalizzato sul tema della trasformazione dei sistemi attuali in risposta al cambiamento climatico, e più in generale ai molteplici cambiamenti economici, politici, ambientali e sociali a cui molte comunità e regioni debbono confrontarsi. La necessità di un adattamento in senso trasformativo, specialmente per i contesti ad elevata vulnerabilità, ha indotto la comunità scientifica a ricercare metodi di supporto alla decisione che siano complementari/alternativi rispetto ai più diffusi metodi di tipo climate proofing, oltreché capaci di diversificare ed ampliare le conoscenze necessarie per confrontarsi con la crescente incertezza futura e complessità dei Sistemi Socio-Ecologici. Con questo proposito, attraverso uno studio di caso esplorativo sviluppato a Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), la ricerca sperimenta in pratica l’uso del Bakcasting, un approccio all’analisi di scenario che, a differenza del Forecasting, non risulta ampiamente utilizzato per la pianificazione dell’adattamento locale, sebbene indicato in letteratura come teoricamente in grado di favorire il dispiegarsi di processi trasformativi. Nello specifico, attraverso lo sviluppo di un processo di valutazione della vulnerabilità che ha presupposto in una prima fase l’utilizzo di un metodo di Forecasting applicato analiticamente per studiare a livello urbano un fenomeno biofisico su cui può influire il cambiamento climatico (ossia l’intrusione marina nell’acquifero costiero), ed in una seconda fase l’utilizzo di un metodo di Backcasting Partecipativo applicato a livello comunitario per studiare una tematica di rilevanza sociale correlata al fenomeno biofisico in questione (cioè l’accesso all’acqua di una specifica comunità costiera peri-urbana di Dar es Salaam), la ricerca intende comprendere se il Backcasting Partecipativo possa contribuire a colmare le carenze del Forecasting in materia di aiuto alla decisione per la pianificazione dell’adattamento al cambiamento climatico in prospettiva trasformativa. L’analisi dei risultati ottenuti ha consentito la definizione di un quadro dei limiti e degli elementi conoscitivi che il Backcasting Partecipativo, applicato a livello comunitario, può apportare ad una valutazione di vulnerabilità finalizzata ad un adattamento trasformativo, oltre all’individuazione degli elementi di complementarietà nell’uso del Forecasting e del Backcasting Partecipativo per la pianificazione di un adattamento in ottica trasformativa. L’analisi svolta ha inoltre permesso di individuare una serie di elementi contestuali e processuali che un determinato metodo dovrebbe considerare ed introdurre nel processo di valutazione per favorire una rappresentazione alternativa della vulnerabilità e l’emergere di piattaforme di azione in senso trasformativo, oltre a definire una serie di possibili sviluppi futuri di ricerca. I risultati conseguiti dall’attività di ricerca hanno dunque concorso all’avanzamento delle conoscenze in merito all’utilizzo dell’analisi di scenario di tipo Backcasting Partecipativo per sostenere la pianificazione dell’adattamento in senso trasformativo a livello locale/comunitario nei contesti ad elevata vulnerabilità, in particolare nella città sub-Sahariana
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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