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Social capital and plural identities in migrants and refugees: between diasporas and entrepreneurship
No full textResearches in the field of migration have highlighted the different roles played by the communities of origin and the ones of resettlement in the purpose of promoting newcomers’ social integration (Erikkson et al. 2018; Bereins et al. 2007; Calhoun 2010). In particular identity - defined as “the product of the relationship among different actors (people, organizations, artefacts, speeches) along axes of self and hetero-recognition and through various ontological dimensions (individual, professional, national and organizational ethnic” (Talamo, Roma, 2007 pp. 14) - is pivotal in the attempt of understanding how social capital is exploited in the integration process. Social relationships, distinguished on the basis of the social identity category, produce three types of social capital: the bonding, bridging and linking social capital (Putnam, 1999; Sretzer, Woolcock, 2004). The present study has involved migrant and refugee business people that, beside being part of national diasporas, have started enterprises aimed at fostering newcomers’ social capital. In order to explore participants’ plural identities, narrative interviews have been carried out together with a questionnaire aimed at analysing their (social) ego network. Preliminary results have shown that the experiences participants have made in the field of diasporas and entrepreneurship modulates the creation and exploitation of bonding, bridging and linking social capital. Results will be discussed according to the current theories on social capital and plural identities
Carta della distribuzione delle aree forestali vocate per il tartufo nero pregiato (Tuber melanosporum) del territorio della Comunità Montana di Camerino - Scala 1: 50.000
No full textLa realizzazione della “Carta della vocazionalità del territorio della Comunità Montana di Camerino per la coltivazione del tartufo nero pregiato (Tuber melanosporum)” e della “Carta della distribuzione delle aree forestali vocate per il tartufo nero pregiato (Tuber melanosporum) del territorio della Comunità Montana di Camerino” in scala 1: 50.000 si inserisce nell’ambito del progetto “Valorizzazione del tartufo della Marca di Camerino”, promosso dalla Camera di Commercio di Macerata e dalla Comunità Montana di Camerino e avviato nel 2008.Obiettivo centrale del progetto è la valorizzazione del tartufo autoctono quale prodotto tipico del territorio ed ha avuto come principali linee direttrici la realizzazione di un supporto scientifico per la predisposizione di modelli interpretativi e predittivi sulla vocazionalità del territorio per il tartufo nero pregiato e l’incentivazione dei settori economici legati alla produzione e commercializzazione del tartufo (produttivo, enogastronomico e turistico), attraverso il coinvolgimento attivo degli stakeholder locali per l’individuazione di strategie comuni finalizzate al miglioramento delle produzioni e alla loro valorizzazione.Per quanto riguarda la parte scientifica del progetto, nella prima fase si è provveduto a caratterizzare il territorio della Comunità Montana dal punto di vista ecologico, quale quadro indispensabile di riferimento per la definizione delle sue potenzialità produttive tartuficole. In particolare sono state effettuate analisi riguardanti il bioclima ed i paesaggi pedologici. La successiva definizione ad una scala di maggior dettaglio delle caratteristiche pedoclimatiche delle aree a vocate per il tartufo nero pregiato ha consentito la redazione dei due suddetti elaborati cartografici
REBUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CONFLICT ZONES. COMMUNITY AND TECNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES
No full textThe role of social capital in the development of community resilience has been widely reported in literature addressing community recovery after natural and man-made disasters. This article specifically addresses its configuration and function in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies and report the experience of a training for trainers project aimed at developing community resilience in Central African Republic. Through a training program on trauma management and psychosocial interventions in post-conflict societies, the project presented seeks to construct a solid network characterized by trustful and reciprocal relationships among people that are responsible for the promotion of community resilience in CAR. One of major challenges of this experience deals with the development of a digital infrastructure for supporting students at a distance in between different training sessions. To this aim we are introducing the techniques of Service Design Thinking. These techniques are indeed very useful in ICT4Dev especially since developing trustful digital services in high risks zones is very challenging due to the strong boundaries in actions that are in place at the same time both at the technological and human/community side. The talk will explore the main issues dealing with reconstruction of social capital and support offered by technologies in CHEs by using some example of the project under development in Central African Republic
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
I tartufi della Marca di Camerino tra paesaggio e gastronomia
No full textIl libro unisce, con finalità divulgative, gli aspetti ecologici ed ambientali del paesaggio in cui vegetano i tartufi appenninici, con le caratteristiche ecologiche d organolettiche dei tarufi più pregiati e comuni del territorio maceratese
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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