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The plant landscape of the Sicilian archaeological areas through the iconographic documentation of travellers and naturalists
Get PDFThe landscape is commonly defined as the set of physical and historical-anthropological characters
expressed by a territory. Our re-elaboration defines the landscape as the set of perceivable characters
of a territory expressed in relation to the stratification of the occurred natural and cultural processes.
The Grand Tour reports are one of the most effective means to fix at least one stage of evolution from
the Sicilian landscape, before its further transformation. These reports provide often a stereotypical
image of the landscape of the Island, in particular as regards the major archaeological areas subjected
to particular attention by the cultured travellers.
The authors summarize the characters of the plant landscape of the main Sicilian archaeological
areas, through the analysis of both the rich documentation handed down by travellers, in particular
of the Grand Tour, and the descriptions of some naturalists who visited the region, between the second
half of the 18th and the whole 19th century portraying and /or describing the most expressive
places of its classicism.
In the landscape of these areas, the ruins are almost always framed by men in transit or in front of
the archaeological remains or in the surrounding area dedicated to the livestock care, with sparse trees
and bushes, sometimes constituted by exotic elements very incisive for the travellers,in majority
European from across the Alps; being unknown in the travellers’countriesthey represented very attractive
subjects. In fact, Opuntia ficus-indica, Agave americana and the historicized Phoenix dactylifera
are frequent. Among the indigenous elements we can recognize Olea europaea, Ceratonia siliqua,
Ficus carica and other species of leafy trees, partly survived and still present on the margins of the
ancient temples and theatres. Among these there would be Celtis australis, Fraxinus ornus, Quercus
ilex, Ulmus canescens. In the archaeological landscapes of the time, pines and cypresses are missing:
these trees were already introduced and widespread in Italy in Roman times but they appeared around
the Sicilian archaeological areas starting from the late nineteenth century.
The subject of this demonstration is presented by relating some photographic images of the places –
obviously later - beginning with the Alinari Archive (end of the 800s beginning of the 20th century),
with reproductions of iconographic documents by J.P.L.L. Houel (1782-87), P. Brydone (1806), R.
Saint-Non (1785), J.W. Goethe (1787) and other travellers (J.F. D'Ostervald, 1822-24; D.-D. Farjasse,
1835; C. A. Schneegans, 1890 and G. Vuillier, 1893). In this path of great utility was the reading of the
travel diaries of some naturalists, in particular C.S. Rafinesque Schmaltz (1810) and K. Presl (1817)
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
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
Contributi alla interpretazione, conservazione e restauro dei manufatti storico-artistici dell’Orto Botanico di Palermo: il Paride di Nunzio Morello
Get PDFContributions to the interpretation, conservation and restoration of the historical and artistic artifacts of the Botanical Garden of Palermo: the Paride by Nunzio Morello – Purely cognitive and conservative requirements of the historical-artistic heritage of the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo, have led the authors to present one of the most representative monuments of such Garden that is of great artistic and cultural value in the City of Palermo: the Paride Pensante, a marble sculpture made in 1839 by the Palermo sculptor Nunzio Morello - a pupil of the most famous artist Valerio Villareale - donated to his homeland and placed in the men- tioned Botanical Garden, in the square in front of the Serra “Carolina”. The sculpture is commented on in relation to the artistic addresses of the period in which it was realized and the mythical figure of the represented subject is discussed. Together with biographical notes on Morello, the cultural period in which he was formed and the artistic direction that distinguishes his work are recalled. Furthermore, information is given on the characteristics of the sculpture and on its conservation conditions. Finally, restoration interventions deemed necessary and not delayed are requested. In this regard, examined the current condition of the sculpture, which has been exposed to the deteriorating action of meteoric and biological agents for almost two centuries, measures aimed at recovering its integrity and readability are outlined. In particular, it is hypothesized should be, after restoration, the original sculpture placed in a suitable place for long-term ex situ conservation and a copy of a replacement already made by the management of the Botanical Garden should be placed in the previous site in order not to preclude its use at the site of origin
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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