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Landslide monitoring and maintenance plan along infrastructure: the example of the Maratea major rockfall (Southern Italy)
No full textOn the 30th of November 2022, a major rockfall event occurred in the Triassic dolostones of Castrocucco cliff (Maratea, Southern Italy), destroying the underlying SS18 national road with no fatalities or injuries. Successively, engineering works were applied to allow the restoration of the road, although the construction of a bypass tunnel to avoid the cliff was designed as the ideal solution. Before the tunnel can be completed, the critical importance of the road required its reopening with a high-resolution monitoring system that enables the timely road closure to the traffic in case of new failure. In this study, we describe the data collection and the reconstruction of the rockfall kinematics, as well as the susceptibility analysis carried out for the development of the monitoring system that allowed the reopening of the road. Such methodological approach and workflow could be applied to similar situations where critical road infrastructures lie in areas of high susceptibility to rockfall
An unusual unplanned complex suicide by arm cutting, poisoning, and self-immolation
Full text linkDifferent methods of suicide, when combined with contamination of the scene, increase the difficulty of interpreting the dynamics of an event. In the presented case, the discovery of a corpse with widespread burns, singed hair, an “X”-shaped cut on the arm with a weapon distant from the body, and the death scene significantly altered by subjects with psychiatric disorders raised the hypothesis of murder in the initial phase. However, the integration of the death scene investigation with medicolegal, toxicological, and radiological analyses allowed for the identification of an unusual unplanned complex suicide by arm cutting, poisoning, and self-immolation
Forest management for urban environment-nature connection
No full textIn the evolutionary history of the human species, the time spent living in industrialised cities much less than that spent in almost natural contexts. The concept of promoting the so-called regenerative environments is spreading. These are types of places that promote the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities. The wild natural environment itself is the proper regenerative environment. But people who are not used to spending time in nature cannot have the direct ability to come into contact with it. So, promoting the presence of natural elements urban contexts would be desirable. The first step is choosing wood as the primary building material. It constitutes a viable answer accepted by the scientific community to the issue of sustainable building as a renewable resource with the ability to store CO2. However, the use of this resource depends on the study of proper forest management, which is the only guarantee for obtaining a certified product to use in construction. South Italy has no managed forest areas, so it cannot have locally certified woods that are usable for structural purposes. In this scenario, this study aims at the dual objective of: (i) analyse and promote the short wood supply chain in South Italy (ii) propose an experimental case study, Euterpe (c), to be realised with wood species of South Italy. Euterpe (c) is an island/musical classroom, acoustically adequate and entirely autonomous, usable not only for teaching music in high schools but also to offer the opportunity to listen to natural sounds, recorded even during direct forest therapy practices. It is becoming, in effect, an indirect driving force to approach such practices
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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