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Progettare percezione e piena fruizione dei siti di interesse culturale da parte di persone con autismo
No full textAlthough there are no reliable data on the total number of people affected by autism spectrum disorders, recent estimates indicate that in Italy 1 child out of 77 is affected by these disorders, with a progressively increasing trend; the problem concerns about 500 thousand families and a total of 60 million people with DSA worldwide. Built environment full fruition for all is a key principle of the human right and international codes and standards about Cultural Heritage and Landscape state that promoting the knowledge of cultural heritage and ensuring the best conditions for its full enjoyment are central activities for the enhancement of cultural sites. Therefore cultural sites are actively called to offer adequate levels of accessibility, in physical and perceptive-cognitive terms, satisfying needs and requirements, expressed, implicit or special, of the widest range of vistors, regardless of temporary or permanent diversity and disability. On the basis of these premises, the paper proposes models of inclusive design for accessibility, use and physical, cognitive and emotional perception of cultural sites by people with autism, and presents two application cases of inclusive projects with “autism in mind” for a park and an archaeological museum, both in the province of Salerno (Campania, South Italy) In accordance with the testimonial value of the assets to be enhanced and based on users analysis, with the involvement of educators, architects and parents’ associations, the methodology was finalized to the redesign of full use conditions of the sites, both by persons with autism and for all visitors, focusing on material aspects (architectural and environmental dimension of access, orientation, seeing, listening, touching, stopping, etc.), as well as intangible aspects (educational and emotional dimensions)
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
On uncertainty quantification with different availability of data – the case of flood damage estimation for the 2002 flood in Lodi (northern Italy) with the INSYDE model
No full textFlood damage assessment is presently affected by significant levels of uncertainty, mainly due to a limited
capability of modelling complex damage processes and to the lack of data for models’ calibration and validation.
Uncertainty assessment of flood damage models is a key issue for effective flood risk management, as for
decision makers the choice of the most suitable damage model (to be trust) is driven by the need to minimize this
uncertainty to the level required to satisfy their objectives.
In this study, three approaches are considered to analyse uncertainty of flood damage assessments. The approaches
are implemented for the case study of the 2002 flood in the city of Lodi (Northern Italy). Damage estimation to the
residential sector is performed with INSYDE (IN-depth SYnthetic Model for Flood Damage Estimation, Dottori
et al., Nat Hazards Earth Syst Sci, 2016), a micro-scale damage model allowing for the consideration of several
damage explicative variables, both related to the hazard and to the vulnerability of affected items.
The three approaches, which mainly vary according to data availability for the analysis, consist respectively of:
1) the comparison between the simulated and the observed damage, in the presence of a micro-scale assessment
of both hazard and vulnerability features of affected items, 2) the comparison between the simulated and the
observed damage, in the presence of a micro-scale assessment of hazard features and a meso-scale assessment (i.e.
at the census level) of vulnerability features, and 3) the comparison between the damage simulated by INSYDE
and the damage simulated by other existing models.
The analysis provides crucial information for effective flood risk management: on the one hand, insights into the
uncertainty band width; on the other hand, it allows investigating the increase in model uncertainty due to different
level of knowledge of model input variables
A complete event scenario for the flood of Lodi (northern Italy) in 2002
No full textIn the last years, the need of a more integrated and standardised interpretation of flood events has been claimed
by both the researchers’ and the practitioners’ communities. Indeed, integrated interpretations of flood events are
fundamental to adapting and optimizing flood mitigation strategies on the basis of thorough forensic investigation
of each event; on the other hand, standardisation is required for the comparison among different events, supporting
both the prioritizing of investments in flood risk mitigation and the evaluation of their effectiveness.
Menoni et al. (Flood damage: a model for consistent, complete and multipurpose scenarios, Nat Hazards Earth
Syst Sci, 2016) proposed a model for the development of complete event scenarios, as the bases for both integrated
and standardised analyses of flood events. In this study, the model is applied to the flood that hit the city of Lodi
(Northern Italy) in 2002. The implementation of the model allows to investigate: (i) the damage occurred to the
different exposed sectors (i.e. population, infrastructures, public services, economic activities, private properties,
environmental and cultural heritage, and civil protection), (ii) physical as well as functional and systemic damage,
(iii) the spatial scales at which the different types of damage occur or manifest, (iv) the temporal evolution of
damage and finally (v) damage mechanisms and root causes. All this information is key for supporting and
improving risk management in the affected area
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
La risposta delle Amministrazioni comunali alla delibera regionale relativa agli oneri di urbanizzazione
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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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