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Al tempo di Canova
No full textAntonio Canova arrived in Rome in 1779 for a professional training that lasted until 1822, the year of his death. The Roman stay of the sculptor include a period full of changes, that are revealed in the artist’s growing and maturing process. The significant steps in Canova’s formative career concern, first, the study of classical antiquities, considered as an indispensable source of reference for his own, new sculptural works; then, the development and enhancement of technical skills in sculptural practice, both in terms of execution methods and project design and the comparison with well-known artists. The achievement of important commissions made Canova a protagonist in the cultural politics of the time. On August 10th, 1802, Pope Pius VII appointed him Ispettore generale alle Antichità e Belle Arti, a position due to Canova’s prestige as an artist, but it also implied that he was recognized as an expert in protecting and preserving the artistic Heritage of the Papal State. This role was confirmed to Canova within the new administrative structures imposed during the five years of the French Governorate. From 1809 to 1814, therefore, Canova promoted protection politics in the areas interested by the French excavations (foremost, the Forum, the Palatine and the Via Appia); he preserved the erratic materials, mostly fragmentary, and assembled a collection of marbles and terracottas that testifies very well to both the intention of the nascent archaeological science to giovare alle Belle Arti e convalidare la storia, and the new Romantic taste for unintegrated ruins
Modeling user personality traits from aesthetic preference on multiple images
Full text linkIn recent years, people have been spending more and more time on social media. Within the realm of multimedia contents used by platforms, the quantity of visuals is certainly growing in significance. Interaction data enables to know the users' favourite images. This information could be exploited to gain a deeper insight into their psychological profile, since the literature on automatic personality recognition suggests that personality traits may correlate with aesthetics. In this paper we explore the use of personal preference on multiple images to predict personality traits of users. Unlike previous works, we propose a model that exploits ResNet50, a Convolutional Neural Network, to automatically extract features from the images in the PsychoFlickr dataset. We then fit five independent linear regressors on these features to detect personality. In order to determine whether using more than one image leads to better results, we train the model multiple times, using one to five images as input, and we compare the performances. Our method seems to outperform the related state-of-The-Art works
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
Preliminary results on ex-vitro conversion of encapsulated somatic embryos of Citrus reticulata Blanco (cv. Mandarino Tardivo di Ciaculli)
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