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The Second Life of Processed Materials. Reuse and Recycle of Plasterboard. The Case of the Italian Pavilion as a Plausible Scenario
Full text linkThe climate crisis is the most important challenge that human beings will face in the coming decades. This manuscript aims to explore the more relevant aspects of reuse of materials and circular metabolism, encouraging resilience and sustainability
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
PlayGrou
No full textPlayGrou è una declinazione effimera di un lungo processo di ricerca sugli spazi di apprendimento, ma allo stesso tempo è la prima materializzazione di una ricerca specifica sulla possibilità di costruire dispositivi spaziali e tecnologici per i servizi per l’infanzia. PlayGrou è infatti la prima installazione che racconta in mostra i principi chiave della ricerca e dello studio del dispositivo Grou, nato dal progetto di ricerca Infantes - servizi di" usi per l’infanzia in rete, il cui obiettivo è dare vita ad una rete di spazi a servizio dell’infanzia, altamente contestualizzati, progettati per favorire l’interazione e la collaborazione secondo un approccio educativo attivo, e, allo stesso tempo, capace di supportare la condivisione delle esperienze educative e l’interlocuzione fra strutture connesse.
Il catalogo ripercorre con testi e immagini l’esperienza dell’allestimento con particolare riferimento al contesto in cui nasce e al modo in cui è stato realizzato. In queste pagine, una speciale attenzione è riservata a documentare il modo in cui lo spazio è stato vissuto e “giocato” dai piccoli (e meno piccoli) utenti, punto di vista che offre importanti elementi di riflessione per gli sviluppi futuri della ricerca.PlayGrou is an ephemeral declination of a long research process on learning spaces
while at the same time being the first materialisation of a specific research on the
possibility of constructing spatial and technological devices for children’s services.
PlayGrou is the first installation to showcase the key principles of the research of and
study into the Grou device, resulting from the research project Infantes. Infantes is a
widespread network of childhood services that aims to give life to a network of spaces
at the service of childhood. They are highly contextualised, designed to favour interac
tion and collaboration according to an active educational approach and, at the same
time, are capable of supporting the sharing of educational experiences and the interlo
cution between connected structures.
The catalogue recalls, through the use of texts and images, the experience of the
exhibition with particular reference to the context in which it was created and how it was realised. In these pages, special attention is paid to documenting the way that the space was experienced and ‘played’ by the young (and not so young) users, a point of view that o ers important elements of reflection for future research developments
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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