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    The lichen vegetation on the Cathedral of Orvieto (Central Italy)

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    The lichen vegetation of the Cathedral of Orvieto (Centrai ltaly) has been studied on the basis of 29 phytosociological releves carried out on different parts of the church, and on different substrates. The species by releves matrix has been submitted to classification and ordination to detect different community-types and to study possible ecological gradients. The ecology of the community-types has been studied by means of the ecological indices derived from Wirth (1980). The main causes of lichen growth in different parts of the church, the main aesthetic damages, and the possible measures for eliminating and preventing lichen growth are discussed.LA VEGETAZIONE LICHENlCA DEL DUOMO DI ORVIETO. La vegetazione lichenica del duomo di Orvieto è stata studiata sulla base di 29 rilievi fitosociologici effettuati in diverse parti della chiesa, e su diversi substrati. La matrice delle specie e dei rilievi è stata sottoposta a classificazione ed ordinamento al fine di individuare diversi tipi di vegetazione e di evidenziare possibili gradienti ecologici. L'ecologia dei diversi tipi di vegetazione è stata studiata utilizzando le diagnosi ecologiche proposte da Wirth (1980) per le singole specie. Vengono discussi le principali cause che determinano la crescita dei licheni nelle diversi parti del Duomo, i principali danni estetici da essi creati, e possibili misure di intervento per eliminare e prevenire la crescita dei licheni nella parti maggiormente colpite

    Affidabilità della VAS nella gestione del territorio. Bilancio dopo un quinquennio di applicazione della procedura in Regione Lombardia

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    La Valutazione Ambientale Strategica (VAS) è una procedura largamente utilizzata e diffusa, che ha un ruolo di prioritaria importanza nello sviluppo sostenibile del territorio. Scopo del presente lavoro è di fare alcune valutazioni dopo un primo periodo di applicazione in un ambito territoriale, quello della Regione Lombardia, caratterizzato da un’elevatissima concentrazione e densità di attività, urbanizzazione e interessi economici. Le considerazioni fatte mettono in luce una serie di criticità rispetto alle quali la funzionalità dello strumento e della procedura di VAS risulta menomata rispetto alla capacità che questa dimostra nel governare e nel determinare gli effetti attesi rispetto agli specifici obiettivi

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

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    “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

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    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
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