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Multimodalità futura e originaria
Multimodality is not a property of modern technological media, but a natural feature
of human communication. Speech in natural conditions entails audio-visual
integration and every verbal text is in fact a multidimensional product. Although
descriptions, narrations, arguments are surely imperishable text types, modern
multimedia development enhanced the use of different channels and modes of
communication that is not without consequences as far as the content and the
design of texts. Starting from these considerations, we focus on the relationship
between the dizzy growth of the communication technology and the necessary renewal
of textual theories and typology, concluding that the improvement of multichannel
and multimodal communications can turn out into a significant improvement
in the studies on the language type performance and representation
Curare con il ciboGli alimenti funzionali nella dietetica e nella dietoterapia
L'obiettivo è quello di fornire un aggiornamento scientifico agli operatori sanitari sugli alimenti funzionali (naturali o formulati attraverso l'uso di tecnologie alimentari) che possono essere utilizzati ai fini della optimal diet sia in ambito dietetico che dietoterapico
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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
Caravanserragli lungo le rotte commerciali del centro Iran
Contributo per la pubblicazione Prin 2007 - Coordinatore scientifico nazionale Prof. Massimo Giovannini, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria. Il saggio è il frutto di ricerche condotte in occasione di un viaggio-studio in Iran effettuato nel 2005. Attraverso il ridisegno di alcuni esempi di caravanserragli ancora esistenti, il saggio ripercorre le tipologie iraniane ricorrenti
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