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Il riconoscimento dei volti: aspetti cognitivi, neuropsicologici e computazionali
No full textAnalisi critica delle teorie psicologiche, neurofisiologiche e computazionali sul riconoscimento dei volt
Seismic rehabilitation of residential buildings: An action plan for the urban centres in Val d’agri, Italy
No full textThe paper deals with a highly seismic area located in the SW of the Basilicata region (southern Italy), along the valley of the Agri River. This area has a strategic role for Italy because about 70% of the Italian oil extraction derives from local deposits. Large quantities of oil have been extracted since the 1990s, making available large resources deriving from royalties. These sums of money could be used for an extensive strengthening program able to reduce the impact of future earthquakes. To this end, an action plan for the seismic risk mitigation of the residential building stock of 18 villages located in the Agri Valley is outlined, and specifically applied to the village of Viggiano. Starting from the available building-by-building inventory of the typological characteristics collected during previous research activities, the seismic vulnerability of the whole building stock is studied and the expected losses deriving from an earthquake scenario are determined. Some directions for an action plan, essentially based on the reduction of seismic vulnerability of buildings, are proposed in terms of needed costs and implementation timetables
Spectral statistics of the triaxial rigid rotator:Semiclassical origin of their pathological behavior
No full textInfluence of motion on face recognition
No full textThe influence of motion information and temporal associations on recognition of non-familiar faces was investigated using two groups which performed a face recognition task. One group was presented with regular temporal sequences of face views designed to produce the impression of motion of the face rotating in depth, the other group with random sequences of the same views. In one condition, participants viewed the sequences of the views in rapid succession with a negligible interstimulus interval (ISI). This condition was characterized by three different presentation times. In another condition, participants were presented a sequence with a 1-sec. ISI among the views. That regular sequences of views with a negligible ISI and a shorter presentation time were hypothesized to give rise to better recognition, related to a stronger impression of face rotation. Analysis of data from 45 participants showed a shorter presentation time was associated with significantly better accuracy on the recognition task; however, differences between performances associated with regular and random sequences were not significant
Influence of motion on face recognition
No full textThe influence of motion information and temporal associations on recognition of non-familiar faces was investigated using two groups which performed a face recognition task. One group was presented with regular temporal sequences of face views designed to produce the impression of motion of the face rotating in depth, the other group with random sequences of the same views. In one condition, participants viewed the sequences of the views in rapid succession with a negligible interstimulus interval (ISI). This condition was characterized by three different presentation times. In another condition, participants were presented a sequence with a 1-sec. ISI among the views. That regular sequences of views with a negligible ISI and a shorter presentation time were hypothesized to give rise to better recognition, related to a stronger impression of face rotation. Analysis of data from 45 participants showed a shorter presentation time was associated with significantly better accuracy on the recognition task; however, differences between performances associated with regular and random sequences were not significant. © Psychological Reports 2012
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
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