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People enjoy metamorphic rocks: case histories from Tollegno and Fontainemore, Western Alps (Italy)
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Le rocce segrete di Tollegno - a spasso sulle rocce del Cervo
No full textGrazie ai risultati di una tesi di Laurea triennale di Marco Palmieri, si è ideato una serie di eventi per far scoprire agli appassionati del territorio di Biellese le migmatiti affioranti nel comune di Tollegno.
Il programma prevedeva:
Venerdì 18 giugno 2010 (cine-teatro Felix di Tollegno)
Ore 21 Conferenza “Le Migmatiti di Tollegno”
Sabato 19 giugno 2010 – Escursione: Le Migmatiti di Tollegno lungo il torrente Cervo
Domenica 20 giugno 2010 – Escursione: Alla scoperta del Plutone Tonalitico di Miagliano
Tutto il lungo week end geologico è stato seguito da più di 70 persone alla volta
Practical strategies to popularize metamorphic and volcanic rocks: case histories from Tollegno and Fontainemore, Western Alps (Italy)
No full textWhat about Early Astrophysics's Cradles Today?
No full textMany astronomical observatories where early astrophysical research was carried out have
lost their original site or have changed their use.
In Europe, the astrophysical observatories of Potsdam and Meudon are still used as
astrophysical observatories, but their historical heritage (instruments, books and archives) are
dispersed while the South Kensington Solar Observatory in London is no more extant, having
being embodied in the buildings of the Science Museum. In Italy, the two different cases of
Rome and Palermo observatories are here examined: the original site of the Collegio
Romano Observatory, where fr. Angelo Secchi carried out his remarkable studies on stellar
and solar spectroscopy, is now impossible to visit and its collections are splitted into two
parts, one being kept at the Copernican and Astronomical Museum and the other one at the
Monte Porzio Catone Observatory. The rooms of the Collegio Romano Observatory could be
used for educational purposes, remarking the importance of recovering the original site and
its historical importance. This has been done at the Palermo Observatory, still in use as an astrophysical observatory, where a historical museum has been installed in the original floor of the Observatory, keeping the instruments and the setting the nearest possible to their original arrangement
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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