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Del Politecnico o dell’architettura della città
Full text linkIl saggio – sulla scorta dei rilievi e delle fonti d’archivio costituite principalmente dai disegni conservati presso l’Archivio Cosenza e presso il Polo delle Scienze e delle Tecnologie dell’Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’ – sviluppa una lettura critica dell’edificio sede della Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università di Napoli, progettato e realizzato da Luigi Cosenza tra il 1948 e il 1965. Nel Politecnico, architettura di un Cosenza maturo, si condensano tutti i temi portanti della sua opera costruita e del suo pensiero architettonico: l’unità architettura urbanistica, il rapporto con la città e con il territorio, l’elaborazione tipologica, il rapporto con la tradizione e con la storia, l’attenzione razionalista alla composizione architettonica che coniuga l’analiticità del moderno con la sintesi espressionista.
A proposito del rapporto tra architettura e urbanistica, nel saggio sono evidenziate le relazioni del progetto con altre architetture urbane dello stesso Cosenza e con piani da lui elaborati, ed in particolare con quello per la via Marittima, rispetto al quale la torre di ingegneria si pone come declinazione concreta dell’unità tipo-morfologica del piano, reiterata a costituire il water-front. Il rapporto con il territorio viene chiarito attraverso la lettura in parallelo dell’opera e della pressoché coeva fabbrica Olivetti a Pozzuoli, realizzata da Cosenza su commissione di Adriano Olivetti. Il ragionamento sulla tipologia conduce da un lato a rintracciare le matrici formali dello spazio collettivo nel layout delle domus pompeiane e dall’altro rimanda ai maestri del Movimento Moderno. L’analisi della composizione mette in evidenza un equilibrio formale fondato sull’individuazione di pezzi e parti tenuti insieme, con grande eleganza, da un sistema di geometrie e di forze capaci di deformare e dinamizzare espressivamente i volumi puri razionalisti
Serum osteoprotegerin correlates with age and bone mass in postmenopausal, but not in fertile age women
No full textOsteoprotegerin (OPG) and receptor activator of nuclear factor kappaB ligand (RANKL) are bone turnover modulators expressed by osteoblasts. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the circulating OPG/RANKL system, age and bone mass, in fertile age and postmenopausal women
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
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