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Article: «Learning from nature to improve local architecture» (2023)
No full textAbdelwahab Messaitfa, Meriama Bencherif, Salah Eddine Sadine (2023)- Learning from nature to improve local architecture: nest soil analysis of Sceliphron (Sphecidae; Insecta) and earthen architecture samples from Algeria’s M’zab Valley, International Journal of Environmental Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2023.2296286 Abstract A thermally adapted building envelope relies on a stable balance between form, orientation, and material. The Ksour of Ghardaia and Melika are two of five Ksour that c..
SUSTAINABLE TOURIST REQUALIFICATION OF THE BARDO DISTRICT CONSTANTINE – ALGERIA
Get PDFTourism, long neglected by urban managers, is now recognized as a key sector for the attractiveness of cities. Today, urban planning can no longer ignore this sector, as cities attract visitors through the tourism opportunities and events they offer. Urban spaces are being designed to highlight activities, exchanges, and meetings, making tourism an important pillar of the city's development strategy.
This research aims to reintegrate the city of Constantine, particularly its historic center, into the development dynamic, focusing on the old town and its surroundings marked by the declining colonial fabric and the endangered Bardo district, considered "sites in need" of development and attractiveness. The challenge is to reintegrate them into a virtuous circle of value creation and regeneration.
Located in northeastern Algeria, Constantine had a population of over 80,000 in 2016. One of the oldest cities in North Africa, it plays a major role in Mediterranean history. Its strategic geographical location, at the intersection of major North-South (Skikda-Biskra) and East-West (Sétif-Annaba) axes, enables it to perform significant cultural and industrial functions.
Over the years, the city has transformed and expanded due to demographic and economic growth, the explosion of individual mobility, and competition for space. It is now necessary to restore meaning, coherence, and legibility to the territory, sometimes scattered, while addressing the consequences of a city disfigured by the dominance of cars and parking. The peripheral neighborhoods, just like the historic center, can become quality urban spaces and contribute to the city's attractiveness, as opposed to the undefined peripheral areas.
Thus, reclaiming struggling neighborhoods through their requalification can be a powerful lever for enhancing the city of Constantine. This offers residents access to modernity, improving quality of life and social cohesion, fostering a sense of belonging, and becoming a key element of the place's or community's identity.
Through this research, we seek to shed light on the issue of planning and promotion actions that accompany and reveal the ways of valorizing the city and its image, transforming it from an active city to a festive city, from a city of need to a city of desire. This transformation takes place through reflection on urbanity, culture, heritage, mobility, the reorganization of spaces and urban networks, and the places' capacity to accommodate. In this perspective, our efforts have focused on the originality of the approach, based on seeking innovation through the requalification of struggling peripheral neighborhoods and their integration into the surrounding urban fabric, through the creation of an urban park and cultural and tourist facilities, while respecting the criteria of sustainable development.
The image of the city of Constantine, reconciling its past with its future through sustainable tourism and heritage valorization, requires a more humanistic and coordinated urban policy. This policy favors soft, progressive requalifications, supported by public actions with strong symbolic significance, actively involving residents in the project and engaging a variety of private operators
The Contribution of Endemism in Biomimetic Eco-architecture Applied to Coastal Tourist Facilities: Case of Ben M’hidi ZET in Skikda Town, Algeria
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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
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