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The exploitation of some minor varieties of the "Colline Pisane" as data of regional competitiveness
No full textIn 2001 the Department of Fruit Science and Plant Pro- tection of Woody Species drew up a research project to increase the value of less-known grapevine varieties cultivated in the Pisa province. The grapevine germplasm exploitation, in the Tuscan re- gion, is of paramount importance both to prevent the genetic erosion, and loose varieties endowed with specific qualities. Several varieties grown in the Colline Pisane were examined ‘Abrusco’, ‘Canina Nera’, Colombana di Peccioli’, ‘Colorino di Pisa’, ‘Giacomino’, ‘Grand Noir’,’Oliva’,’Santo Stefano’, and ‘Uva Vecchia’ with the aim to make varietal wines or to be joined to main Tuscan variety ‘Sangiovese’. In fact the ‘Sangiovese’ variety has been in existence in our area since last century. To find out the right time for the grape harvest, sam- plings and laboratory tests were carried on, to check the presence of different levels of sugar, acidity, pH, and polyphenols in the mean- while microvinification was also performed.
From their quality testing, the conclusion was that ‘Abrusco’ can acquire purity in wine-making, resulting as a product tied to its terri- tory, its traditions, and its typical dishes; besides, we can blend it to ‘Sangiovese, properly proportioned.‘Santo Stefano’ has got similar characteristics, even if, being less acid, must be joined to higher acid level vine. As far as ‘Giacomino’, its aroma seems to be proper for rosé or ’novello’ or young wines. ‘Canina Nera’, ’Oliva’, and ’Uva Vecchia’ could be used for rosé wines, thanks to their acidity. Finally
‘Colombana di Peccioli’ could be revalue to produce a sweet wine
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
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