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Global China. Uno sguardo interdisciplinare sulla Cina contemporanea
No full textLa Cina avanza sempre più sul piano economico e geopolitico grazie allo sviluppo tecnologico e militare; ma l'avanzata a livello globale avviene soprattutto poiché sul piano culturale la Cina ha gli strumenti per interpretare, comprendere, decostruire e risignificare le culture, le conoscenze e le tecnologie degli altri popoli.
Sta riprendendo vita e corpo, dopo un secolo di agonia, l'antica idea della centralità della cultura cinese nel mondo, da cui deriva il nome stesso della Cina: Zhong Guo, Paese del Centro, Paese “centrale”. Una nuova forma globale di etnocentrismo? Un neo-colonialismo cinese nascente? Senza semplificazioni di comodo, il contributo dei vari autori aiuta a leggere la situazione attuale e a rispondere in certa misura a tali domande, anche ponendone di nuove.China is growing at a fast pace from the economic and geopolitical points of view and this is due to its technological and military development. But China’s global progress is also a consequence of its culture; on the cultural level in fact China has the tools to interpret, understand, deconstruct and re-signify cultures, knowledge and technologies of other peoples.
The ancient concept of the central role of Chinese culture in the world has been revived after a century of uncertainty. Hence its name Zhong Guo which means “Central Country”. Is this a new form of ethnocentrism? A rising Chinese neo-colonialism? Regardless of useful over-simplifications, the contributions of various authors not only help to interpret the current situation and somewhat to answer the above questions, but also to formulate new ones
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
Tutor: Prof. Michele Marsonet Length: 119,512 words
No full textThis work is an historical analysis of the interface of logic, truth and time from Bolzano to the early Lvov-Warsaw School, dealing in particular with time-independent versus time-dependent truth theories. In the last decade research has cast light on the aspects of marked continuity from the socalled Austrian tradition to the Lvov-Warsaw School as regards theories of truth in the classical correspondentist approach in a broad sense (Woleński & Simons 1989). When the relationship between truth and time is taken into account, however, this seemingly homogeneous whole of theories divides into two: theories in which every truth-bearer is true or else false and so remains always and everywhere, and theories in which this is not the case. Bolzano’s, Twardowski’s and Leśniewski’s theories belong to the first group, Brentano’s, Kotarbiński’s and Łukasiewicz’s to the second. The historical relevance of the topic is apparent, as Łukasiewicz’s many-valued logics originated in connection with a criticism of time-independent truth and bivalence as paired off with a deterministic world-view. The theoretical relevance of the topic is also high: the analysis of the relationship between truth and time can be used, like semantic paradoxes, as a crash-test to distill interesting, and normally hidden, assumptions out of every theory of truth which has a satisfactor
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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