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Con occhi di straniero. Riscoprire il paesaggio attraverso immagini e racconti della Grande Guerra
No full textIl testo propone una riflessione sulla riscoperta dei paesaggi della prima guerra mondiale attraverso immagini e racconti. L'educazione a 'vedere' è considerata punto di partenza per un buon progetto. Riuscire a vedere comporta la necessità di mettere in relazione differenti livelli e tipi di lettura, al fine di riconoscere quanto e come “natura e cultura hanno interagito nei processi di costruzione del paesaggio e nelle pratiche sociali con le quali quel paesaggio è stato interpretato e utilizzato” e di individuare quali tecniche di rappresentazione consentano di restituire tale complessità. Le immagini costituiscono uno degli elementi che permettono di far emergere frammenti di verità, ma al contempo di suscitare stati d’animo. L’occhio strategico dell’architetto deve essere utilizzato nell’esercizio paziente del guardare, osservare e vedere per poter scoprire, immaginare, inventare e infine creare. Un lavoro di osservazione inteso come inizio e parte del lavoro progettuale, per accumulare esperienze alle quali potersi riferire nel progetto, per assimilare e appropriarsi di “frammenti di verità”, per allenare l’occhio e la mente
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
Transmigration of a mandibular canine: Case report
No full textBackground Transmigration of mandibular canine is an uncommon clinical condition in which impacted canine crosses the midline. The present study describes the case report of a transmigrated canine associated with a follicular cyst located near the inferior border of the mandible in a 15-year-old female patient. Case report Orthopantomography showed the presence of an included transmigrated canine, tooth 43, in a horizontal position, along the lower edge of the mandible, under the roots of the lower incisors, and, in addition, the presence of an attached cysts. CBCT showed type D2 bone quality, according to Misch’s classification, and that the medullary component was well represented, which allows a good healing of hard tissues thanks to an adequate vascularization. One week after the extraction of the transmigrated canine with the contemporary enucleation of the cyst, the removal of stitches was performed and excellent tissue healing was assessed. After six months the orthopantomography showed an optimal healing of the hard tissues. Conclusion Etiology of this phenomenon is unknown, but in some cases the presence of follicular cyst may be one of the causes. Canine transmigration is more prevalent in the mandible and women seem to be more affected than men. Mandibular canines play a crucial role in the oral cavity. Therefore, an early diagnosis is required, by the use of radiographs, especially orthopantomography or computed tomography. In case of transmigrated canine associated with follicular cyst, although several treatment options are described in literature, surgical extraction along with the enucleation of the cyst is the only treatment of choice
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
The effect of system usability and multitasking activities in distance learning
No full textIn this paper we describe a study in which we assessed the effects of the usability of a teaching system designed for distance learning in the context of different types of multitasking activities. The learning performance of six groups of students has been compared after their individual interaction with a system that was either usable or not, and in conditions of simple learning, sequential multitasking or concurrent multitasking. Results show that learning processes are negatively affected by the use of a system that is difficult to use. In addition, learning in multitasking conditions appears to be a difficult task only when students have to acquire new information while doing something else at the same time (concurrent multitasking). The usability levels of the system do not seem to interact with the multitasking modality of learning. © 2011 ACM
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