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Applicazione dei Rough Sets ai sistemi informativi geografici. Realizzazione di un nuovo modulo in GRASS
No full textSoil instability and agricultural management: an application using the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA)
No full textLand defense from hydrogeological instability is a very important topic, at both national
and international level. Every year these phenomena cause huge environmental, social and
economic damages. Human activities, especially in relation to land-use change and
intensification of agriculture, represent one of the main factors affecting the stability of the
soil. For a proper management of territory in terms of prevention and control of
hydrogeological instability, to use tools that combine support to public decision-makers
with spatial analysis is essential. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the utility of
integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with multicriteria analysis (MCDA) in
relation to a case study of the basin Menotre, in Umbria; in particular we propose the use of
the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach, developed in GRASS GIS 6
An evaluation of climate change effects on agricultural systems: the case of Trasimeno Lake
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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
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