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Exploiting Diversity: Archaeological Site in the Ebla Region
No full textSince the beginning of the activities of the Italian
Archaeological Expedition in Syria (MAIS)
of the Sapienza University of Rome headed
by Paolo Matthiae, fifty years ago, only some
preliminary investigations were carried out to
study the archaeological landscape around Tell
Mardikh/Ebla. A new program of investigations
has therefore been deemed necessary to frame
the history of this major centre within its
surroundings. The data available from previous
surveys carried out in this region have been
combined here with those available through
remote sensing analyses (see also Galiatsatos and
Mantellini, in this volume) and topographical
maps, in order to provide a preliminary inventory
of the archaeological sites spread across the
Eblaite chora. This inventory allows a preliminary
analysis of the settlement patterns in the region
during the Early Bronze Age. A brief overview
then deals with the main datasets employed in
the detection of sites, according to an approach
employed in most of the other archaeological
regional surveys in the northern Levant (see
Mantellini, in this volume)
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
Shaping Social Dynamics in Early 3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Solid-Footed Goblets and the Politics of Drinking
No full textIt has long been recognized that access to food and beverages has strong political
as well as cultural implications in past and modern societies. Commensal events
are a “powerful form of ritual activity” that can be detected in the archaeological
record in part by studying the containers used for feasting. Feasting is also an
ideal setting for investigating social change through time.
This paper attempts to scrutinize the “proxemics” of drinking at the onset of
the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia via examining a particular type of drinking
vessel, the so-called solid-footed goblet. The first part of the paper deals with
chrono-stratigraphic and contextual distribution of drinking vessels, while the
second part links material culture and feasting behaviors in early 3rd millennium
BC Mesopotamia by using comparative and ethnoarchaeological analyses.
Frances Pinnock’s research focused on the visual and material culture of Syria
and Mesopotamia. Given her interest for the phenomenon of “banqueting” in
early Mesopotamian and Syrian imagery, it seems appropriate to dedicate this
essay to her
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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