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Scripta manent. Dieci lezioni sulla scrittura argomentativa
No full textDa secoli diciamo che le parole “volano” e solo quelle scritte restano. Scrivere correttamente, perciò, è di fondamentale importanza nello studio e nella vita professionale e sociale. Il volume si propone come utile punto di riferimento per chi si cimenti nella scrittura argomentativa e voglia redigere testi chiari, corretti ed efficaci. Si rivolge in particolare a studenti e studentesse che stiano intraprendendo un percorso di studi universitario e che necessitino di una guida pratica e completa nella scrittura. Il suo linguaggio accessibile lo rende, comunque, uno strumento adeguato a chiunque voglia migliorare le proprie competenze di italiano scritto.
Nato dall’esperienza decennale delle autrici, docenti di corsi di scrittura presso le Università di Cagliari e Roma Tre, il libro ha il pregio di mettere insieme conoscenze di grammatica, argomentazione e comunicazione efficace, anche attraverso esempi legati alla vita professionale e quotidiana
Does Asymmetric Signification Rely on Conventional Rules? Two Answers from Ancient Indian and Greek Sources
Full text linkThe topic of dissymmetry between the semantic and the phono-morphological levels of language emerges very early in Indian technical and speculative reflections as it also does in pre-Socratic Greek thought. Such a linguistic phenomenon is generally considered as a problematic exception of the one-to-one principle of correspondence between words and the objects they denoted. This well established relation seems to have been presupposed for each analysis of the signification long before its earliest statement - which to the best of my knowledge dates back to a couple of Kātyāyana’s vārttikas (3rd c. BCE), i.e. aphorisms commenting on a quarter of the grammatical rules enunciated by Pāṇini (5th c. BCE).
The present paper aims at shedding light on two different patterns of tackling the mentioned problem, which were already testified in some Brāhmaṇa- and Upaniṣad-passages attributed to the 9th-6th c. BCE, and later developed in more thoroughly philosophical or linguistic works (5th-2nd c. BCE). In short, the first approach sees dissymmetry as an exception to the regular correspondence between language and reality, whereas the second approach considers language in itself, as a conceptualisation which does not faithfully represent reality. In the latter case, dissymmetry is no longer an exception, but the rule
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
Gli effetti dell’interferenza fonologica e visuo-spaziale nel calcolo mentale in età scolare
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